One of the disadvantages of having a full time job and a handful of clients is that you have no time. Time you could spend watching TV or trying to complete GTA:SA you are in front of the computer doing something productive.
Being productive gives you a lot of confidence, but it can also be a bit boring being so productive. As in once you are productive, what else is there to achive? I'm thinking about making a mess so I have interesting to do.
Back on Internets
YAY! After a few days without internet, I am now back online. Not that this is really exciting news to anyone, but it is to me. Of course having a desk job enables recreational internet usage anyway. So I wasn't completely deprived of precious internet.
Normal programing will now resume
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Normal programing will now resume
NEEEWWAAWWAWAWAWAWAWAWAW [GOTO 10 MIND CONTL]
Pay Day
Today was my first pay packet. Was quite exciting thinking about all the stuff I still cant afford. But non the less it is good to have money. Dont have to save up for 6 months just to buy something... However it is also a little scary, as in what to do with this money?
Of course I still have to buy some more shirts so, I will most likely hold off any major purchases until I have enough clothes to wear for work.
Of course I still have to buy some more shirts so, I will most likely hold off any major purchases until I have enough clothes to wear for work.
No More Centrelink
Today was the last day I will ever have to hand in a form with centrelink. I was a little anxious, but overall it was quite a liberating experience. Walking out the glass sliding doors, was like stepping into a new world, not necessarily a better or worse world, just a new one. I have also noticed having time limits on things makes time not seem as long, at Butter Beats there is no time limit for lunch, yet, I mange to decide what to eat, procure food, eat it and still have 30 mins to walk around. For some reason, having an hour for lunch now seems shorter. It could be because I have been unable to straighten my arms for the past 1.5 days. Which is very weird and annoying because I cant reach stuff. And it hurts.
Day One
My first day of full time paid employment is complete. Got to finish 10 mins early. Everyone was very happy about that. Apart from doing some auditing, I also got to do some data entry/bookkeeping. Supposedly this is more exciting than auditing. After doing bookkeeping for 2+years, I am just a little over it.
In my lunch break I rang centrelink about my new job. They were happy, but still want me to hand in my form so they can finalise it officially. But I can fax it in. YAY!
In my lunch break I rang centrelink about my new job. They were happy, but still want me to hand in my form so they can finalise it officially. But I can fax it in. YAY!
Trivial Update
Life as me seems to be getting better. I bought, what is probably my favorite movie of all time for $12. I also got a job interview. And now I have work experience this Friday. This is despite stuffing up in the interview and saying I have no experience. Which proves that if they really need someone they will hire you. Not that I have the job yet, but its looking good.
In other news I bought a headset, why I don't know. But it was cheap and I didn't feel like buying any Telstra Shares. They turned out the be the most uncomfortable headphones I have every placed on my head. They just sit on your head, the back of the cups don't close, plus because the cans are square (I thought this was some kind of genius new design), turns out my ears arnt square. So they dont fit properly.
It does have a decent microphone, so it will be good to use them for making internet phone calls.
WHOA!
I got an idea. Start a podcast... I can just talk and wont have to use ten digits to type away on an ill designed keyboard, resulting in costly corrective RSI surgery.
In other news I bought a headset, why I don't know. But it was cheap and I didn't feel like buying any Telstra Shares. They turned out the be the most uncomfortable headphones I have every placed on my head. They just sit on your head, the back of the cups don't close, plus because the cans are square (I thought this was some kind of genius new design), turns out my ears arnt square. So they dont fit properly.
It does have a decent microphone, so it will be good to use them for making internet phone calls.
WHOA!
I got an idea. Start a podcast... I can just talk and wont have to use ten digits to type away on an ill designed keyboard, resulting in costly corrective RSI surgery.
How to run a successfull small business. Start off with a Medium sized business and watch it go down the drain.
Kingdom Come
Finished reading J G Ballards latest book, Kingdom Come. It continues the theme of looking at middle England. The book is well paced and assumes the reader is capable of filling in the gaps. Over all the book was pretty good, you wanted to know how far it could really be pushed, and pushed it got. The premise for this book is a mans farther is killed in a shopping centre. He doesn't know his farther very well so he goes to this place to see if he can find out something about him. But instead he ends up looking for the killer as the police are incompetent or in on it... so why kill an old man?
The store centres around the shopping centre and its very patriotic citizens. In a way its a futuristic book in today's setting. Its also probably a good indication of what might happen in the future, which is quite scary.
Consumerism is bad.
The store centres around the shopping centre and its very patriotic citizens. In a way its a futuristic book in today's setting. Its also probably a good indication of what might happen in the future, which is quite scary.
Consumerism is bad.
New Dealer
I bought my first moleskine about 1 month ago. Its a pocket squared moleskine. I got it from Boarders. They didn't have much a selection, A lot of chasiers, which upon closer inspection is really a waste of money since the quality of the paper isn't as good and the cover is just a heavier stock paper. Sure u get 3 but I could make one for less that the $10 they are asking, and still have change left over. The main problem is the crappy paper...
The squared notebook, is really nice. Small, portable, lots of pages, the paper is a nice off white creamy colour. So its nice to read from. I do have a problem with the paper not taking up the ink from my uni-ball. Probably because its quite smooth. I have to let it dry before I close it or I get bleed onto the opposite facing page. And it smudges easily. So I have to find a new pen to write with. Probably a roller ball of some kind. I was hoping to use a fountain pen, but if the uni-ball wont stick I doubt the fountain pen will.
The new quest is now a smooth pen, that has a nice rich colour and I find comfortable writing with. I guess the main advantage of the uni-ball is that its a decent pen, nice rich colour, smooth AND has a nice size barrel which I can hold onto. I really don't like skinny pens. Pencils and automatic pencils mostly come in the skinny variety, however I have found the Lamy Scribble, which is a fat mechanical pencil. Its a little pricey for what is essentially a pencil. I need a pen. The pencil can wait.
So, Boarders is switching around their notebook/journal section, and have moved the moleskines near the magazines in the 'gift book' section, and now have a special section for girly notebooks. However, they have forgotten to actually stock a variety of moleskines, meaning the ones people don't want, eg the squared large cashiers etc, are hanging around. I thought they may have got some new stuff in, since they have the diaries.
So, there was basically no place to get moleskines in Brisbane, subsequent searches of the internet showed that there were other places to get moleskines from, meaning I didn't have to fork out for shipping, hurray.
Its lunch time and I decided to go try something completely different, and eat in a different location. I end up at the Queens Plaza food court, for such a fancy mall, there seems a lack of quality food vendors... basically its got the same stuff as in the other food courts at any other shopping centre. And then I pass by a paper store, with a big sign that says "mmmm delicious paper". How could I resist, then, all of a sudden, through the trendy white displays I notice rows of moleskines. Its dark cover drawing me in like a black hole about to destroy a solar system. With the full selection of moleskines on offer, I regressed back to my tried and tested "I cant decide". But these days I have a plan, I call it, come back later.
After work I went in picked up a large squared moleskine, and I still had time to catch the bus. Why I bought the large squared. I'm not sure, I probably should have gotten the lined one, now that I think about it, but the squared one means it should be easier to line stuff up, and do my little diagrams and graphs while I try to explain something to my self.
The squared notebook, is really nice. Small, portable, lots of pages, the paper is a nice off white creamy colour. So its nice to read from. I do have a problem with the paper not taking up the ink from my uni-ball. Probably because its quite smooth. I have to let it dry before I close it or I get bleed onto the opposite facing page. And it smudges easily. So I have to find a new pen to write with. Probably a roller ball of some kind. I was hoping to use a fountain pen, but if the uni-ball wont stick I doubt the fountain pen will.
The new quest is now a smooth pen, that has a nice rich colour and I find comfortable writing with. I guess the main advantage of the uni-ball is that its a decent pen, nice rich colour, smooth AND has a nice size barrel which I can hold onto. I really don't like skinny pens. Pencils and automatic pencils mostly come in the skinny variety, however I have found the Lamy Scribble, which is a fat mechanical pencil. Its a little pricey for what is essentially a pencil. I need a pen. The pencil can wait.
So, Boarders is switching around their notebook/journal section, and have moved the moleskines near the magazines in the 'gift book' section, and now have a special section for girly notebooks. However, they have forgotten to actually stock a variety of moleskines, meaning the ones people don't want, eg the squared large cashiers etc, are hanging around. I thought they may have got some new stuff in, since they have the diaries.
So, there was basically no place to get moleskines in Brisbane, subsequent searches of the internet showed that there were other places to get moleskines from, meaning I didn't have to fork out for shipping, hurray.
Its lunch time and I decided to go try something completely different, and eat in a different location. I end up at the Queens Plaza food court, for such a fancy mall, there seems a lack of quality food vendors... basically its got the same stuff as in the other food courts at any other shopping centre. And then I pass by a paper store, with a big sign that says "mmmm delicious paper". How could I resist, then, all of a sudden, through the trendy white displays I notice rows of moleskines. Its dark cover drawing me in like a black hole about to destroy a solar system. With the full selection of moleskines on offer, I regressed back to my tried and tested "I cant decide". But these days I have a plan, I call it, come back later.
After work I went in picked up a large squared moleskine, and I still had time to catch the bus. Why I bought the large squared. I'm not sure, I probably should have gotten the lined one, now that I think about it, but the squared one means it should be easier to line stuff up, and do my little diagrams and graphs while I try to explain something to my self.
Glider Mission
For the past 12 months I have been trying to crack this stupid glider mission on Ratchet & Clank 2: Locked & Loaded. Mainly because I am crap at all flight missions/games. But it is a releif to finnaly be able to move on. The next mission is in space so I have a feeling thats going to suck as well, but theres shooting so that should break up the monotony.... A similar thing happened in GTA:SA, where you have to get your flight license. Its the circle the airstrip mission. After about 6 months of trying to get past that I just reset the game.
Blogging is hard work. And since I'm trying to blog regularly/everyday, its even harder. Why is it hard? Its just words.... True the typing and bulk of the post is probably the easy part. But getting started, the initial idea is the hardest part.
Ideas, you need an idea of something, anything, then you can start writting. Well thats not entirely true. But unless you want the standard mumbling blog about nothing its not even worth trying. Even rants need a good idea to rant about. You need that purpose, to drive your words towards some conclusion.
I found a cool article which had 5 steps on how to write etc. Basicly you have to have an idea. Then you have to write it down and think about what you are going to write. Then you should let it 'incubate', so you can develop more ideas. Then you can start writting. And if you get stuck, you can always fall back on the incubation.
Ideas for blog posts:
Ideas, you need an idea of something, anything, then you can start writting. Well thats not entirely true. But unless you want the standard mumbling blog about nothing its not even worth trying. Even rants need a good idea to rant about. You need that purpose, to drive your words towards some conclusion.
I found a cool article which had 5 steps on how to write etc. Basicly you have to have an idea. Then you have to write it down and think about what you are going to write. Then you should let it 'incubate', so you can develop more ideas. Then you can start writting. And if you get stuck, you can always fall back on the incubation.
Ideas for blog posts:
- None
- None
- None
- None
Today has been a good day, applied for six jobs. And I quite frankly don't care anymore. Its not my problem. I apply. That's it. I'm not really sure why I'm so happy, I only got paid $40 in the past 2 weeks and I still got my gambling debts to pay...
It could be because I'm not coughing up chunks of my diseased lungs every 2 minutes. I also managed to get Scarface out on DVD. It's never in so I went to another video store... but I got it and I will watch it tomorrow.
I was also lucky at boarders where I got the new book, 'Kingdom Come' by Ballard. Its the fourth book in the series that lets the middle class implode. Millennium People was great, so I'm expecting this to be similar. Super Cannes and Cocaine Nights, I haven't even seen at the store. Hopefully by the time I finish this book they will have them back in stock.
HAHAHAH turns out Kingdom Come isn't available on Amazon yet.
It could be because I'm not coughing up chunks of my diseased lungs every 2 minutes. I also managed to get Scarface out on DVD. It's never in so I went to another video store... but I got it and I will watch it tomorrow.
I was also lucky at boarders where I got the new book, 'Kingdom Come' by Ballard. Its the fourth book in the series that lets the middle class implode. Millennium People was great, so I'm expecting this to be similar. Super Cannes and Cocaine Nights, I haven't even seen at the store. Hopefully by the time I finish this book they will have them back in stock.
HAHAHAH turns out Kingdom Come isn't available on Amazon yet.
South Park - Scientology
They just showed the infamous scientology episode of south park. The episode that made Chef quit. Tom Cruise wouldn't 'come out of the closet'. At the end everyone from scientology was going to sue Stan because he said they scientology was not real religion. Which is what happened to Matt and Trey (Tom Cruise tried to have the episode banned). So everyone on the credits was either John Smith or Jane Smith.
The episode was also nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program. Which it didnt win.
During the show there is an explination of what scientology is about and is based on actaully what happens, which makes it even more funny. With a big disclimer on screen saying:
"THIS IS WHAT SCIENTOLOGISTS ACTUALLY BELIEVE"
More can be found on wikipedia.
Evil Sickness
I think I am becoming sick. I feel realy weak and I'm coughing a lot. So not good. I was actually looking forward to going to work this week as I was ahead on most of my projects, which is a nice feeling...
ugh
ugh
Soap
Snakes on a plane, is everything you would want it to be. The title is the plot. Samuel L Jackson says the famous words
"Enough is enough! I have had it with these muthafuckin' snakes on this muthafuckin' plane!"
That is gold and it seemed like everyone really enjoyed the movie. Especially with the open clapping/cheering throughout the movie normally reserved for more art house type movies at premiers etc, you know the exclusive stuff. I'm pretty sure there weren't many 'movie aficionados' in the theater, so I am going to have a wild stab here and say it was mainly blogger/iPeople (iPeople = people from the internet). If you have experienced either of those you will hopefully understand what I am trying very hard to explain. Enough of this ...
Just in case it needs clarifying, this is a high quality B-grade horror flick. So many unbelievable things happen its justnot funny. Therefore its not to be taken seriously. As long as you realise that you are about to be entertained, you will very much enjoy this film. Definitely a movie to go see at the cinema. It truely lived up to the hype. And if you follow the hype, soap is payday.
"Enough is enough! I have had it with these muthafuckin' snakes on this muthafuckin' plane!"
That is gold and it seemed like everyone really enjoyed the movie. Especially with the open clapping/cheering throughout the movie normally reserved for more art house type movies at premiers etc, you know the exclusive stuff. I'm pretty sure there weren't many 'movie aficionados' in the theater, so I am going to have a wild stab here and say it was mainly blogger/iPeople (iPeople = people from the internet). If you have experienced either of those you will hopefully understand what I am trying very hard to explain. Enough of this ...
Just in case it needs clarifying, this is a high quality B-grade horror flick. So many unbelievable things happen its just
Fun Fridays
Fridays are great. But today seemed extra awesome. Why? Because I actually got work done, and still had time for PlayStation and watch Bill Hicks - Sane Man.
Applying for jobs seems to get more fun the less you care about it/take it seriously.
Centrelink thinks that applying for 10 jobs a fortnight will get you a job. I'm not sure that one job per working day is really enough. So just to show I am actually trying to get a job I have been applying for 4 jobs a day (not including days I get paid to do work). Because I have applied for so many jobs I now have a huge bank of cover letter on which to call upon and even then I find it quicker to just type one up. But on average it takes me about 2 hours to apply for a job.
I would like to think of this as a short period of time, as I do have pretty established process that I go through in applying for a job. But I do have a feeling some people get through applications a lot quicker. In any case, a good quality application is more likely to get you an interview. Right?
Applying for jobs seems to get more fun the less you care about it/take it seriously.
Hint: The quicker you realise that actually applying for jobs wont actually get you a job, the more fun you will have.Because it literally doesn't matter. Even if you do have a kick ass education, experience and are a generally accepted nice guy. You still aren't going to get a job. I can take a hint. And after 8 months of intensively applying for jobs, writing custom cover letter, pages of selection criteria and reams of wasted paper I have Finlay got the message.
- Does content matter? - No
- What about how you say it? - No
- Method of application? - No
- Have you tried using gold stars or purple paper to stand out from the crowd? - NO!
- What about word art? - No
- Have you got a job yet? - No
- Does you think anyone read these resumes? - Only people looking to get out of their current shit job (No one that matters).
Centrelink thinks that applying for 10 jobs a fortnight will get you a job. I'm not sure that one job per working day is really enough. So just to show I am actually trying to get a job I have been applying for 4 jobs a day (not including days I get paid to do work). Because I have applied for so many jobs I now have a huge bank of cover letter on which to call upon and even then I find it quicker to just type one up. But on average it takes me about 2 hours to apply for a job.
I would like to think of this as a short period of time, as I do have pretty established process that I go through in applying for a job. But I do have a feeling some people get through applications a lot quicker. In any case, a good quality application is more likely to get you an interview. Right?
Millions of Pains
There are many kinds and types of pain. I have millions of pains. This special type of pain is where your entire body is in pain. The reason for all of this pain is rocks. Lots and lots of rocks, millions of rocks...
In the space of about 3 hours I moved one cubic meter of rocks. One cubic meter may not seem like much. But just imagine one meter, now imagine another meter at 90 degrees now imagine another meter up in the air. That's one cubic meter. I guess its more a matter of the weight, than the sheer volume. Especially considering I have moved 3 cubic meters in a day before, but that was just (yeah, just...) mud. Which is a lot lighter.
Even typing is labouring...
In the space of about 3 hours I moved one cubic meter of rocks. One cubic meter may not seem like much. But just imagine one meter, now imagine another meter at 90 degrees now imagine another meter up in the air. That's one cubic meter. I guess its more a matter of the weight, than the sheer volume. Especially considering I have moved 3 cubic meters in a day before, but that was just (yeah, just...) mud. Which is a lot lighter.
Even typing is labouring...
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