God damn it cat, now look what you've made me do.

Dear old bitch who keyed my car, when I see you again it will take every inch of restraint in my body not to knock you the fuck out, how dare you scratch my car because you couldn't park in your parking bay straight and had the front end hanging over my side. And just cause you are an old fat bitch that can't fit in your car because YOU can't park any straighter doesn't give you the right to key my front door, hell I feel like getting angry and damaging other peoples property all the time but I NEVER do it! Although perhaps the next time I see you or your car I might just make an exception.

If any of you ever see a blue excel, with Vic plates of OCP-766 feel free to give the old bag inside the finger.

Great, now I have a sore ear which is causing all sorts of small balance problems at the moment and hurts when I chew food. Grr!

Man I just can't get over how inconsiderate people are around this block of flats, some joker is watching some movie really fucking loudly just down and over from us. At first I thought the dude had his balcony door open or his windows or something however I just walked out onto our balcony and I can see the TV going but everything is closed up tight, so this fucker just has everything up really fucking loud. It is 1:30am people on a Wednesday night, THINK ABOUT IT! Would it kill you to just turn the volume down a few notches?

I guess I should be thankful that this guy isn't watching an action movie I guess.

Sometimes living here makes me feel like I am trapped in some kind of tolerence cell, I swear.

In other news I feel depressed, I think it is safe to say I don't really like working to midnight anymore, it just has too much of an affect on the rest of my life. I basically only eat two big meals a day interspersed with the occasional junk food snack. I end up getting to sleep around 3 or 4am most days, I don't do any exercise and I can feel myself getting weaker, I think I am getting RSI in my wrists from all the typing/mousing I do at work and THEN at home, seriously I would use a computer for 10+ hours a day easily. The worst part of all this is that I don't get to spend any quality time with astro and we are always fighting a race against time to have a good day together on our only day off, it just sucks.

More soon.

I wish there was a feature in blogger that when someone comments on a post, every comment after that could be emailed to them so they don't have to go trawling back through a blog just so they might see a reply. I guess a sort of "subscribe to this thread" type function is what I want.

ANYWAY, replying to a comment....

"Today I had one of those guys that used monosyllabic words, and proceeded to tell me I was lying to him and didn't know how our network worked:
"Tell me where my modem is NOW. I know you can do it. TELL ME NOW" "Sorry sir we cannot do that, we can only see which of our towers is currently serving your modem" "YOU'RE LYING".

"I'm in IT" should be made into a t-shirt.
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Posted by Sorge to serpserpserp at 9/25/2006 02:10:55 AM"

Do you just love dudes like that? I just love people that call up and refuse to believe that I CAN'T see what is on their computer and I CAN'T see what they are doing on the screen RIGHT NOW.

Argh I ate so much sugar when I came home (thanks to astro's lovely Sydney gifts!) that I can't sleep. Well, I am feeling sleepy now and I am going to bed, but you know what I mean.

I other news, work has been fair, I got my quality results the other day, I got 50%, I saw that and thought "Fark I really suck, they must have quality listened (QL) every bad call I got" and then I felt pretty down about things, then after my TM came and went through the results with me I found out that 50% is a good score as the top score for the call centre is only a touch over 70% and only about 4 people got over 60%, half of the staff got under 40%. Sounds shocking I know, but supposedly if you score 75% overall you have pretty much made perfect calls in your QL except for 1 minor mistake (like saying "yep" instead of "yes" for a verbal nod), one minor mistake takes you down 25%, yeah it is that ruthless.
So after that I felt better, supposedly crossing that with the amount of calls I take an hours and I am right up there with all those self proclaimed "call centre daddies". I have realised recently that on average I take around 40 calls a day, 200 calls a week, over 850 calls a month, that is a lot of morons to deal with.

Hmm I just broke that down into how many dollars I get in the hand for each moron I deal with, it sure isn't a lot! Great now I am going to be thinking when I am on a call to a moron that the x amount of dollars I get for dealing with this guy sure isn't worth it.

Bitch bitch bitch. I know.

I other news, I sure am playing a DEFCON and enjoying it, runs like a dog on my laptop and the AI really owns me a when their are two of them but I sure do love nuking the crap out of the U S of A. Hmmm, hope that post doesn't get me monitored by some spy agency or something :P

I just read a really interesting point:

"Another good example of a person who didn’t heed the naysayers—according to folklore, Fred Smith—the founder of FedEx—originally created the business model for his company in a term paper he wrote as a grad student. Smith got a ‘C’ on that paper and received comments from his professor that the idea wasn’t feasible…"

I love hearing things like this.

Dear all my Snake II fans,

I broke my high score mark! And not only that I flogged it by a good few hundred points with a score of 3756! I totally rule.

Below is a picture just before I died, still a little room there but I am getting closer to filling the whole screen.

Things I don't want to hear when you call me up at work:

1. "But my computer/unsupported modem/Anti Virus/Firewall has been working fine for X months/years/yesterday" <--- Yeah well it ain't working now is it? No matter how much you tell me this I am not going to turn around and say "Oh my mistake! There is nothing wrong with your setup I just turned the internerd off! Please wait while I turned it back on!" If I tell you I need to uninstall some software or check some settings in the computer just DO IT!! Arguing with me will not get it working quicker, I'm not trying to swindle you out of your life savings, I am trying to HELP you. Do you want the internet working or not!?!

2. "I know what I am doing, I work in I.T" <--- Good for you buddy, you may very well work in I.T but if you can't get your internet to work and their is no outages on our end then I would keep your trap shut because quite frankly I'm likely to be holding down the mute button and saying "You're a fucking moron" to myself and chuckling because dispite all your fantastic wisdom you still haven't learnt how to use the 'ping' command and follow the simple instruction in your modem manual.

3. If I am being nice as pie to you and trying to help you fix your problem do say "Don't take this personally but... Scream Scream Bitch Bitch Swear etc." <--- How else would you like me to take your verbal abuse? You wouldn't be saying this to me if I was sitting infront of you, do you really think abusing me is going to make the company help you?

4. In the same vein as 1. "But my filter/double adapter/phone extension cord has been working fine up until now..." <--- If we have just sat on the phone for 30 minutes and we have been able to find that there is truly a hardware fault, just believe me! Things do just break one day you know! That is right, one second they are working and then the next they aren't, yes even simple things like double adapters can break just like that! Christ you don't see me walking around telling everyone "but it was working yesterday" when my lightbulb blows or my car breaks down, shit happens, deal with it and be glad you are replacing a $5 piece of plastic instead of paying $400 like my last car repair cost.

I know all this shit is nit picky, I am just blowing off steam here.

Don't take it personally...

Today someone stole astros stuff from my car, I had to see police (although these ladies were very nice), I felt out of it and couldn't concentrate on anything, have really bad flaky skin around my hair line which is driving me crazy and oh yeah and I had to work today. What a crappy day.

Then to top it all off I get home and Commando is finishing, what a jib.

Without over analysing the whole young-doctors-are-working-to-much-and-thus-committing-suicide thing, you would think that the answer is pretty simple to resolve:

1. Train more doctors
2. Put more money back into the public health system

I could go into rights I think doctors should have working in hospitals but I guess it would be perceived as grandstanding and bias, which is usually the response I get from people when I go about defending doctors rights.

Anyway in other news, I sure don't want to go to work tomorrow, shocking news I know!

You have probably all seen this 6 years in 6 minutes video of a dude taking a photo of himeself every day for 6 years, but what I wanna know is do any of you know of any other piano pieces that sound similar to the music used in that clip? I'd really like to seek out some other emotive piano pieces in that style, so head me in the right direction!

I might try to hunt down an mp3 of it tomorrow, I guess at worst I'll just rip it from the video anyway.

Today I totally bumped into shrike in the middle of the CBD, that is pretty freaky, Melbourne is a big place and both of us never really go to QV that often, so to run into each other there is some long long odds.
Lately I've been thinking how I never see any of my friends and I always think "Man I should go see Shrike", I should go see Shrike more, cause pretty soon I won't be able to just get up and go see him at all!

Anyway it was good to see J too, seems like forever seen I saw her too.

So right, so dude in some car just did the most loudest and annoying burnout in the back alley near our flats, I swear to god I live in some sort of noob Need For Speed Underground kindergarden patch, god damn these crackers, just fuck off to illegal street drags and wreck your cars already.

"Very little of the anti-intellectual hot air blown about this week has been about what Germaine Greer may or may not have thought about Steve Irwin. It had everything to do with a dominant male power-base telling women to be seen and not heard. Of marginalising a particular kind of woman and reducing us to condition and circumstance. Of reminding those of us who like to speak our mind to watch our step, to remember our place and to shut up and agree with the menfolk. We are all a lot poorer for the unsightly fallout."

Tracee Hutchison is an idiot.

This would be totally rad to get for my camera, even though you can already get my camera to do this stuff with a laptop nearby, I guess the portability of this device would make it possible to do more regularly.

Not that I actually use my camera with any regularity, I should really do something about that.

So which one are you? Metrosexual, Pomosexual, Ubersexual, Retrosexual or Technosexual?

Who the hell comes up with this stuff?

Steve Erwin dying makes me really sad, being a Queensland boy and know what he was working to save in his conservation activities up there makes me feel really sad in my heart. People might not have liked him because he wasn't a typical reserved media personality, but the guy love what he did with his life, what he was doing was good for this world, and he died doing what he loved (in a way I bet he would find highly ironic). I hope his legacy will live on with his wife and children.

Also in everything I am reading about him I see no mention of how much money he was worth/made, sorta rams home that quote I posted the other day.

Man, why do crackers get really drunk and make hella noise right outside our flat? Some moron was yelling into his mobile phone paceing up and down outside asking where some woman was, which he had on speaker, which was so loud I could hear the person on the other end. Then when she arrived they decided to crash around with the wheelie bins and laugh like drunken screaming banshees, what a bunch of cocks! This has been happening over the last 90 minutes or so, so usually they do something and then as soon as it is quiet and i'm falling back to sleep...
Now I had get out of bed and take painkillers for this insane pain I have inside my ankle, I don't know why it is there but basically lying in bed makes it hurt for some reason.
Work was pretty good today, the call queue was the deadest I've ever seen it and I think I took 2 calls in the last 90 minutes, awesome but boring :)

I'm awake and blogging because I was lying in bed all hot and bothered, sneezing and choking on my own snot and had to get up to sort myself out, delicious.

I just saw this watch on a website and I want it bad, how cool is it? I think it could be improved to include a possible date/month visual but maybe that would clutter things a bit too much.

I'm not sure that watch is really worth 250 USD though, not too sure on the build quality when you take a look at the other type of watches they have.

I'd really like a wristwatch with a temperature gauge, than when I am actually sitting around at work going "It is really cold in here, it must be under 15 degrees" I can look at my watch and go "yep, it is".

And yes, I constantly think about what the exact temperature is in the call centre, I am that lame.

PS - Graphic Designers/Typography nerds do not make funny apparel.

Ok maybe I was a bit harsh, but it is still groan worthy.

Whoops found one I like.