Moose Musings

11:22pm: But that's not my fault, I had an update all ready to go last night actually, but when I went to submit it, the internet decided to have a fit and not be connected so it didn't post! Then when I went back the update page nothing had been saved like it usually is and by that point it was nearly midnight and I didn't have enough time.

No need to despair though you didn't miss much, unless you think my tale of driving on a nearly empty fuel tank exciting. :OP It did get super low though! Of course, today as expected petrol prices had fallen, grumble grumble. so rude! Sometimes I feel like I should advertise when I get petrol because I can guarantee the very next day it'll be cheaper.

Anyway, moving on, not much excitement this week, in fact less exciting than usual because alas the time difference between here and Italy - where the last Junior Grand Prix event is been held means I haven't been able to watch any of it yet. Which is a huge shame because one of Plushy's students is there! I found out today that Plushy himself isn't there because he's with another student, but the skater in question, a young man, did totally awesome in the short program and is currently in the first! Apparently, he was thinking of quitting at the end of last season because he wasn't skating well and having problems with his jumps, but I certainly didn't see any evidence of that. How cool for Plushy and his team, you go, man!

So yeah, you know you've got an unexciting life when you have to write about someone else's LOL.

Oh, well, I did decided to make use of my fitness app to see how my eating habits are, since I've been gaining weight recently, unsurprisingly I've been eating too much, do'h! Not a lot, but enough so adds up. Guess I have a choc chip cookie eating problem, LOL. Hopefully I can figure out some healthier snack options, because I do get hungry.

Anywaaay, I better wrap this up because time is moving on and I do feel a bit sleepy, need to get the zzzs!

Hopefully I'll have something more exciting to report this weekend LOL.

But wait I almost forgot! This evening had some excitement so to speak - I was meant to meet Mum and Dad for dinner at the Golf Club for their cheap Friday eats. I ended up going to the parental house first to help Mum with purchasing something from E-bay where I found out poor Dad had gone to the Eye Hospital in the city because he was having vision issues! D:

Mum and I ended up going to the club - although it turned out it wasn't cheap fish and chip night, but we shared a regular priced one, LOL - during this time Mum called Dad and found out that his retinas are OK, although apparently he has to keep an eye (no pun intended!) on any further symptoms. He had to leave his car near the Mall and catch the bus into the city, so I drove Mum over to the car and Dad got the bus back so she could drive him back.

I meanwhile headed home, and who should pull up next to me, but my little bro going...somewhere. LOL this is like the first time I've ever randomly gone past him - and at first I didn't recognise him and thought some weirdo was waving at me from his car. But nope! Pretty neat, I must remember to mention that to the parental units.

Goodnight all!

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9:50pm: I'm still alive, I've just been laid low by a cold the last few days. It all started on Saturday when I woke up with a slightly sore throat and a bit sniffling, bad enough that I didn't go ice skating - and thus didn't get my beanie (apparently it's still waiting at Macquarie for me, but I need to get it sooner rather than later!).

By the time I woke up on Sunday I felt terrible and had to make the call to the library saying I wouldn't be able to come in. I had to leave a message actually so I was worried they wouldn't get the message, but fortunately I got an SMS back confirming it.

So I spent most of the day in bed, except for when I got up and drove over to Mum and Dad's house because I didn't feel like being by myself when I felt so gross. Although it was a bit of a gamble so to speak because though I'd also sent an SMS to Mrs S asking if it was possible for the other carer to fill in for me on Monday I hadn't heard back yet and I wasn't sure I'd be able to drive even the small distance. Fortunately, that worked out too!

As it happened I couldn't stay in bed all day Monday because the internet still wasn't working properly over at Newtown so in a last ditch effort to solve it Dad and I drove over there with my laptop and spare router that I bought before I realised I didn't actually have a phone line at my Granny Flat. The modem that was all ready over there was apparently working again after one of the tenant's fixed the cable, but of course, I'd instructed Dad to reset it so all the connection info was wiped off! I decided to change over the modems anyway though, since the one there was old and didn't make it easy to figure out the name and password for it.

Anyway, I was able to sort everything out, hooray! Although I did discover something's happened to my Box Thing, namely, it's padlocks have disappeared! WTF?! There was also a box not inside it when Dad and I arrived. To be honest I'm surprised said box hadn't been thrown out you're not supposed to leave things in the car park, I put it back in the Box, but the thing is still unlocked! Hopefully, no-one breaks in...at least I don't have any comics for them to steal hmpf!

I stayed over at Mum and Dad's last night as well, which Dad approved of since there's central heating here so I don't have to worry about temperature changes. Which M thought was a good idea as well when I called up to cancel (regrettably) today's Canasta game.

Which brings us today, to my great relief, the sore throat and congested nasal passage portion of the cold seems to have ended - cross fingers!!! - although I've got a bit of a cough and my ears are blocked, boo. However, I'm well enough to go to work at Mrs S's tomorrow, and considering I have to get there a bit earlier than normal I better wrap this up and get my butt to bed.

And on a final note, the land lord finally fixed the tap...except...he's installed a completely different tap, so now I have two mismatched ones! LOL. It looks quite unattractive, but hey at least there's no dripping! I know this because I have popped back to the Granny Flat twice in these last few days, on Monday to get the router and today to get my work clothes. The kitchen looks good if I do say so myself. :O)

Right, better be off now. I hope all my USA pals enjoyed the Solar eclipse (the cosmic ballet goes on :OP).

Goodnight all!

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10:17pm: Well, I've finally heard back from the Office of State Revenue regarding the ticket I got for driving unregistered and they basically told me "Tough shit, pay up".

Fuck me...$650 down the drain. That's basically the cost of flying to Japan, seeing Plushy at a show (in a good seat no less!) and the flight back!

Not to mention like three weeks worth of savings for the apartment stamp duty and two and a half weeks rent. So yeah this is money I can totally spare.

They really need to put this shit on a sliding scale, because this a HUGE amount of money for me, whereas for someone else it'd be a bit of an inconvenience...I get that it's supposed to be a fine and everything, but they could be reasonable. :O/

The one saving grace of this whole mess is that at least the cop was nice enough not to give me a fine for being uninsured as well, otherwise I'd be looking at having to pay over $1000!!!

Fucking sucks.

In other news I'm feeling a bit glum because I've just discovered that one of my Tumblr friends now hates Yuri on Ice aka the figure skating anime. And now I'm a bit uncomfortable because I still love it and repost lots of fan-art of it on my Tumblr...I kind of want to say something to her over Twitter about it, but I have no idea what to say. I mean...I hope she doesn't look down on me for still liking it, but I don't even know? Plus she seems to have like valid reasons for not liking it...so now I'm questioning my own taste? But I don't know.

Well, we both still like birds and Plushy so I should stop being so dramatic, perhaps. :OP

And then there's been a huge blow-out in the real life figure skating fandom, which has caused a mass exodus of fans of a particular skater from the forum I visit every day. Man, I've never been involved in a fandom breakdown before. Not a pretty sight, let me tell you. It didn't involve Plushy though! (Although...I am reminded how I find out ages after the fact how the original Plushy fandom kind of imploded way back in 2006 when some of his original fans decided to be jerkasses and ended up hating the very person they once idolised! It was total BS...and way worse since you know, they were is actual "fans" rather than haters).

That was an unnecessary ramble there...

On the upside, I got my flu shot today! My arm is a bit sore, but the doctor was very nice and when I told him I was a disability worker arranged for me to get the shot for free! Also, I got my new script for my anti-depressant, except...they always give you five repeats...so I'm not going to need one when I go and see my psychiatrist later, which will no doubt cause all sorts of confusion.

Anyway, I better be off now, since I got up earlier than usual today. Poor Mrs S though, the bathroom issue at her house has caused a lot of trouble, the original builders of the place seem to not want to take responsibilty for screwing up with construction of the bathroom.

I sure hope that sort of shit doesn't happen in my apartment when (if?) it finally happens?

So yes, on that note, goodnight!

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11:40pm: So, I need to get to bed so I better make this quick.

Anyway, the point to my subject title is...my poor IBS decided to act up today, but it was my own fault for not having a proper breakfast...or lunch for that matter. I was just so excited for the last episode of the figure skating anime that I neglected to do it and by the time I thought about it, it was kind of too late.

Suffice to say things came to a head while I was volunteering at the library, ugh, it really sucked, I almost had a full-on panic attack and as it was I had trouble properly concentrating on the work I was given. I think I did all right though, except I left early and thus didn't get my usual two hours in.

But I did at least fell OK enough to get to the War Vets home to meet my parents at the Chapel there. They wanted to talk to the people there about playing music for the 4pm Christmas vigil. Apparently there wasn't going to be any actual music, just recordings so the people there were happy to have Mum and Dad there. So that's what will be happening Saturday afternoon, although I'm not sure how I'm going to play Canasta with M if I'm doing that.

Finally, I was watching the Russian Figure Skating Nationals online, but the internet suddenly decided to be a butt and I can't seem to load any streams. Booo. At least I saw the men's event! The ladies are on tomorrow so hopefully the net will be going again so I can see it.

But now I must go! I had a dream last night I was late for work with Mrs S and I don't want that to happen for real!

So I say goodnight!

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10:14pm: I'm trying to upload the videos I took of that epic Christmas lights house that I went to see on Saturday night and promised to show you all, but it's taking a whole damn hour to upload a one minute video to YouTube! Seriously, what the Hell? It's the beginning of the month so I can't have run out of bandwidth and as a general rule the internet is fast enough here, I mean I can watch live TV (although it's not of the best quality).

The only other thing I can think of is the fact I'm downloading from my external hard drive, although it's USB 3.0 which I've been led to understand is quite speedy when it comes to transferring stuff. I guess the only way to find out if that's true is to load the second of the videos onto my actual laptop and upload it from there. but I'll have to wait and see if that can be done...the current video still has 16 minutes to go!

Anywho, what else to report? Well, it was damn hot today! Which was why when Mum said she was going swimming late this afternoon I left my house to go back to the parental place to do so. And before that I've had my air-con running, which I'm relieved to say has been working at keeping me cool. I also went shopping after working at Mrs S's today, incidentally I was surprised they didn't have their air-con on, I actually considered asking them if they could! But it might have just been the nature of the work I do - stuff with the sliding sheet, making the bed etc.

I wonder what it will be like tomorrow? We ended up having quite the thunderstorm as I was driving home from Mum and Dad's bolts of lightning was arcing across the sky. I'm not a big fan of lightning so I was a little but worried, but thankfully I didn't get rained on, although apparently there was quite a storm in these parts, I got an email saying that Mona Vale Library had lost all power! Yikes. Actually, I think it might be raining right now...

I've just checked my phone and apparently it's only going to be 24 degrees tomorrow, which is hardly short weather (although I might do so anyway, since the weather is weird this time of year) and also cloudy, which is not good news for me because I bought some new solar lights, sadly they're not like my Santa lights, which don't seem to exist anymore, but they're super cute! They're called silhoelette lights and as you can see there is a Santa included. However, I can't see if they look like that because there wasn't enough sun today to power the solar battery, bummer.

Anyway, I have to head off soon as Mrs S needs me to come in tomorrow morning and a bit earlier than usual as well and you know what that means, I gotta go to bed earlier.

( But before I head off, let's have a Meme or two )

Okedoke, it's past 11 now so off to bed!

Tomorrow I'll hopefully have those videos and I'll link to some of the pages I've coloured from the Pusheen colouring book.

Goodnight all!

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10:39pm: So today was the interview and I have to say...I don't think I did so well. Obviously I didn't prepare enough for it, because they were the same sort of questions I've had at such interviews before, but that didn't stop me from basically "uming" and "uhing" my whole way through. They told me to expect an answer back in about two weeks, but like I said I don't hold out a lot of hope. Damn shame because it's actually a full-time job with weekday hours so I'd be like a proper employed person.

In other news before I headed out to the interview the landlord came by to give me a letter and check that the smoke alarm was working, which it was. I also showed him the dripping tap, but unfortunately it doesn't look like he's all that sure how to get the top of the taps off either. Damn, should have got that plumber in here after all.

Huh, interesting I'm watching a doco called Body Hack and have just found out that you don't even have to be French to get in the French Foreign Legion. Not that I'm going to join, I'd last approximately point one millisecond, meanwhile the guy doing the doco is like "I'm so old compared to these guys..." which he is, but damn doesn't mean he's not fit since he ends up surviving the course and would have made the legion!

Also, Duolingo is being a bit of a pain here, I'm not sure if it's due to my phone running out of space or the storm that's outside. Maybe a bit of both? Very annoying. Especially since I'm still trying to get to bed at 11:18pm as advised by my UP app.

And also, I was going to do some memes, but Friday5 doesn't seem to be working, but I guess I'll just do the other Friday Five.

The (Other) Friday Five

15/7/16

1.How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are? Uh...like how old do I feel? I guess like 16? Which is like half my age which is kinda sad.

2.Which is worse, failing or never trying? Never trying I suppose, although failing sucks rather hard :OP

3.If life is so short, why do we do so many things we don’t like and like so many things we don’t do? Because you gotta eat, man and most people's dream jobs aren't really profitable.

4.When it’s all said and done, will you have said more than you’ve done? With how much I talk definitely the former!

5.What is the one thing you’d most like to change about the world? The inequality, it sucks that so little of us have so much. :O(

29/7/16

1.Do you believe in reincarnation? Nah.

2.Have you ever felt that you knew someone the first time you met them? Not that I recall.

3.Have you ever visited a foreign country or city for the first time and found that you knew exactly where things were? Pft, I barely know where things are in the place I live in all the damn time, so no.

4.Have you ever looked in the mirror and 'seen' a different face? Nope, although I have looked at photos of my niece and I think she looks a Hell of a lot like my mother's baby photos. Except...I don't remember seeing photos of my mother as a baby. Weird.

5.Is the belief in UFOs, aliens, physic powers, etc, growing because the belief in religion is dying? I dunno if it's actually growing, it's probably about the same it's just more noticible because of the internet.

Right, better be off now otherwise I won't make my bed time, which is more important than ever because I didn't sleep too well last night, I think I was nervous about the job interview, hmpf!

Goodnight!

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11:47pm: Regarding the internet, it's one confusing muddle. I didn't update yesterday, but basically the landlord came by not long after I got home - before I headed for the library - to ask if I'd sorted it all out. I asked him if the agent had called him and was a bit surprised when he said no because setting up a meeting between us all was how this was meant to be decided. Anywho, I decided to tell him about the possibilities I'd come up with, the $300 (plus?) new phone line installation was not a winner, but the suggestion I get an ADSL +2 line set up on his phone line under my name but with the router in his house went over even worse! Now admittedly, I didn't really explain the "in my name" part all that well, but I got the idea that I was getting into bad territory here. Like, my lease might not get renewed in February kind of idea, so I told him not to worry about the phone line I'd just deal.

Of course, this thoroughly sucks, I mean, I think I can get by on my phone like I mentioned last time I updated, but it would mean sacrificing regular visits to Tumblr or watching ice skating etc and it seems kind of...primitive to not have access to internet in this day and age.

So, I did what I usually do in this situation and called Mum, because I also wanted to tell her that we shouldn't go ahead with the awning idea, because the landlord probably wouldn't want people messing with his property. However, Mum pointed out that when she bought that idea up with him a few weeks back he was all for it, also she mentioned the important reason for getting it, for the summer time, because the way the Granny Flat faces means that the sun will shine in during then like nobody's business. Sure, I don't pay the electricity and I've got an air-con in here, but as Mum pointed out the landlord probably won't be thrilled when/if his electricity bill goes through the roof because I need to run the air-con all day!

She asked me if I'd called the agent to remind her that she was supposed to be setting up a meeting to discuss it, but I was hesitant. Although as Mum pointed out, the agent will be talking from a business prospective and would surely be better at convincing the landlord of the importance of having a phone line - especially if we - or rather I - offered to pay for it. Which, you know, I didn't want to do because it's expensive, but what can you do? I might be living in this place for quite a while, so....

Anyway, it'll still be a while before I find out what happens, especially since I got an email tonight saying that a new agent is taking over this property - which I hope doesn't complicate shit too much.

On a final note, I have to get my butt to bed because I need to get up early to meet Mum at Aldi to buy some awnings (they're actually the ones you put on the side of caravans) so I have to get up early (yuk).

So on that note I bid you all goodnight!

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10:47pm: No sign of the internet, I've given up on trying to conserve my data and am just using my mobile as a hotspot. $15 a GB is the cheapest I'm gonna get even if I try to buy a 'dongle' so there's not much else I can do. I'm most displeased by all this. It seems that nothing is going to be done until the 28th August because apparently that's when this "Mass Disruption" thing is going to end, and because companies are cheap bastards they don't have enough technicians to help fix the lines - which apparently got damaged in the big storms from a few months back - and set up phone/internet lines for new customers like myself. At least I hope that's the case, because if it's TPG screwing me around I'm going to have to complain to someone official, I want my money back and my account canceled with those guys.

Honestly, is getting the internet connected so hard? Or am just having bad luck? Because this is on a 12 month contract and if - God forbid - I have to move again I don't want to go through this bullshit again!

In other news, there was a hugely ironic occurance for me today - I didn't have to go to work for Mrs S because the new person was doing some more training. This is ironic because I had to call in sick last week, which was quite stressful because there was no-one to cover for me - although Mrs S managed to get the other girl to come in (under some protest). Colds have no respect.

Right, I don't actually have that much more to say, I could catch up on Memes, but I need to get to bed because it's back to work tomorrow morning and it's going to be a busy day because there's not only volunteering but also going to the doctor (I really need to get my ears checked, I think they need a clean or something....).

So on that note, I shall be off!

Goodnight all!

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9:28pm: Unfortunately, I'm not talking about the internet which is still missing in action, but the gymnastics, I'm finally watching it! I might have mentioned this before by bloody Channel 7 neglects to list exactly what sports they're showing on their channels in the TV Guide which makes it pretty much impossible to know if you're missing something important. I guess this is their way of making you watch all the time, but I got things to do.

Of course, life decided to be an asshat and there was a replay of the women's individual all-round final on last nights Today in Rio that I recorded, but because Channel 7 also breaks its programing into blocks when you press the record button it sometimes stops right in the middle of something. Which it did for that replay! As you can imagine I was rather pissed about that.

In fact it happened just now with the men's all-round, but fortunately since I'm watching I was able to press record again, although I did miss the end of some guy's high bar routine, boooo.

Anyway, not much else to report, although Mum came over for lunch today because on Thursday's a cleaner comes to their house and sefeels they clean better if she's out of the house and not in their way. Fortunately, I've been keeping the place relatively clean so she wasn't disappointed in me. We also watched some of the Olympics and got to see our Aussie win the 200m Freestyle over the US Nathan Adrian! Whoo! Go, Aus!

What else to report? Well, in the realm of the internet I've been trying to cancel my account with the TPG people, but I have to talk to a Case Manager and wouldn't you know it? They're always busy, they were supposed to call me back at 6:30pm yesterday, but instead they called me at 9:30 this morning, when I'm working. But I let them know - after 10 minutes of waiting - that I can't be contacted until after noon.

However, I'm still waiting on Spintel to get back to me, although I've just remembered that the support person did tell me to call to let them know I'd emailed the required information. Dang, I'll have to wait for tomorrow to do that.

Right, it's getting to the pointy end of the gymnastics so I need to concentrate on this...I also wanted to say the shirts the Ukrainian coaches are wearing are just hilarious...my eyes! :OP

And now, goodnight!

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11:02pm: And it sure sucks for those who get diagnosed with his syndrome too!

I speak of Dr Hans Asperger, sadly pronounced "ASS-berger" instead of "As-pergers" like you think it would. Honestly, been on the autism spectrum is hard enough without having to put up with those shenanigans m

Although I guess you can't blame a person for how their name is pronounced.

Anywho, I'm updating this on my phone so I can keep a tight rein on my data usage. Because I got last month's mobile bill and man, it's ugly, were talking about $20 more than usual, ugh!

To further my distraction from the net I've been playing The Sims 3, whoo! I'm playing Doc's father and he's just arrived at university, exciting times. I should start updating my Sims journal...or maybe get a Tumblr for it. Hmmm, what say you?

Right, I still have to do my Russian so I better haul.

Goodnight all!