Went home for lunch, and there was a letter from the uni offering me a fully funded (well it says 'RTS Place') position to do my phd.. yay!... Im not sure what the words 'RTS Place' mean, so i wrote a little email asking them to verify what exactly its means, i think it means fully funded by the uni, so i shouldnt have to pay the outragous costs to do it.

So im waiting to hear back about that.

*yawn* - its friday arvo, and the day is going slow. Going for a few 'drinks' with a few people i work with at 5, one of the dudes is leaving, but i think i covered that in an earlier blog.

This weekend should be good, I think ill go see "john q' somtime, its looks ok... While i was cheching out the times i noticed that teh StarWars episode 2 movies times were already up, its on here on the 17th may, but for some reason there are session times allocated at 12:01am EVERYDAY!, thats cool... That would be the best time to check it out... Im going to go sometime when theres not many people.

I hate crowded cinemas...

bah... i no longer have a phone at home again... I tripped on the extension cord last night and ripped the socket out of the wall. I had a bit of a look at it and the way it was put on is really dodgy, i mean i didnt even trip on it tht much, just a little yank, and the whole thing came out...
Anyway i rang primus, and after a bit of waiting got some really nice dude, who got it orgnised to be fixed and set it up so i wouldnt have to pay! yay!.. the bad thing is that it wont be fixed until the 7th May, which is a few days away... Makes me wonder how busy they really are.. or maybe how understaffed they are, one of the 2. it just seems like a long time to wait to me, especially for a phone.

Ive got a bit of a headache today, i need to have a sleep. Im off to a frewell type thingy this afternoon, somone else is leaving the company i work for *surprise surprise*...
I also might be going to a little LAN thingy as well on sunday, which would be cool. I havent played LAN games in ages, and i need to get my Q3, UT, RTCW, starcraft, etc, skills into shape again...

My boss is coming up next week as well, so i will finally get my review done, and hopefully get my backpay in my next pay...

hrmm, righto, im going to read some stuff i think, got a cool book about Gallipoli im reading, its pretty good, i thought it would be boring to start with, but its not! :)

Just got back from watching "we were soldiers". It was really good, graphical but good. Im a sucker for those 'based on true story' movies. They make me think a lot, I guess im just a girly-man he he.. Those types of movies just grab me and make me realise how cool everything is and makes me start pondering about stuff. I get all clogged in the throat way more then i used to, i put that down to past 'life lessons' *yep, life lessons is the perfect way to describe it*... In a way its good, but in a way its weird, i dunno why.

I need to start finding out stuff about my relatives, like my Pop. I got thinking (after the movie), and really i know nothing about pop in the past. I could write eveything i know on one page, and i think thats bad. I know he fought in WW2, I know he has a diary he kept, but after that all i know is the old man that sits in the chair and peers out the window or stares blankly at the tv. Really i want to know about stuff, and i realised that im up here, 900km away, and he is sitting at home doing nothing. I thought somthing really crazy about going back home at some stage and just sitting while he talks and typing/writing everything. I think he would probably be a bit slow to start with but i reckon if he knew i was interested he share it.. maybe, maybe not, but really ill never know if i dont try. But the fact is that no-ones getting any younger.

My crazy mad side tells me to just go and do it, but my more conservative thingking side tells me to think about it :) lol

hrmmm, i dunno... I see it as a legacy item, somthing to keep and hand on down, the world changes so fast and by the time i have kids, stories about pop will be unbelievable to them i think, since everything will be so different. I guess ill just sit on it for a while, and think about it. But like eveything, i already know the answer...but is it the right anwer

grrrrr bleh i hate that :)

The nights lately have been absolutly amazing, totally clear sky, the type i can just peer into and wonder what the hell goes on out there. Perfect weather to be lying on the grass looking at the stars...

Most things i worry about are really insignificant and not really that important... but i guess everyone is like that at some stage. And i think at some stage most people are selfish in some sense... I dunno... i just get this feeling in the middle of my stomach at times that tells me im meant to be doing somthing more then i am, somthing more significant, but then somthing else jumps in and tells me to wait... wait for the right moment, wait and it will happen... damn i hate that too... he he :)

The more i think about it, the more i KNOW im meant to be working on my own, kinda like in my own business... start out small then eventually ill have more people as well... hrrrmf... ok im getting silly now ha ha, really though, i totally cannot see myself doing this current job for the rest of my life, At this stage i see myself doing somthing to help people/teach people while also working on stuff on the side. I know its going to happen soon. For startes it will be a bit hard i think, but it will pan out and be good... i just have to bide my time and it will happen...

*ponder ponder ponder* - ha ha, its cool...

well i think ill go look at the stairs... once again its 12:30 and i am not tired... i think ive mentioned that in an earlier blog.. but its true, 11pm i get active and want to do stuff... bleh bleh...

*wanders off to peer deeply into the mass of blackness called night*

hrrrrrrm de hrm hrm... Im cooking up a BIG tub of mincy/spicy/saucy stuff... I get in moods to cook up stuff, and i end uup just throwing stuff in and in the end it doesnt taste too bad. The good thing about BIG tubs of food is that i dont have to worry about cooking for a few days.. he he, i like that..

Started marking for the uni courses, its cool!.. i like it. and the money is good. I have to write up a new resume for them, i found out that they throw them all out at the end of each year, so if you want to mark and stuff you have to resubmit a resume... So im gunna do it, i might even get a few tutes to run... that would be cool.

Work is really.. ummm... i dunno the word to describe it... but im not doing much 'work', instead in reading a lot, and studying mac stuff, and also some crystal reports and VS stuff. I guess in a sense it is 'work' stuff... hmmmmm.

Im feeling good. Got some mail for my ex today, made me wonder what shes doing, apparently she is in Brisbane with her new bloke, which is good for her. I hope she works herself out and its all good... stuffs me why she doesnt change her damn address though... the mail was for her superannuation..which is pretty important.. I guess i just do the old 'RETURN TO SENDER' trick.

ok, im going to eat some of the 'mush' i cooked up. he he... yummy mush i should say :)

Found a little bug with my sortsdraw app tonight.. NOTE: using an insert method instead of a replace method for an array can cause serious problems. But its working now. Ive got it outputting to the console at the moment, im a bit undecided how to display the results.. its basically like this:

Round 1
a Vs b
c Vs d
e has a bye

etc etc... I was thinking of useing an NSTableView and seeing what i can do, but as yet im undecided. hrmmm

I cleaned up my table today, it had stuff all over it..., now it has stuff all over it but its in neat piles :)
I was looking at an airport base station today, second hand at the apple shop here for $400 (australian), but i think its a bit expensive for the first model base station.

oh well... ooo!, ROVE is back on!! gotta go!

damn, ive spent all night trying to rip some of my cds to mp3, and you wouldnt believe the trouble ive had... Out of 3 programs i couldnt find one that did it all. I tried audiocatalyst but when i got the track names from cddb and tried to rip it, it gave me some weird arse error. So i tried 2 other ones i downloaded off tucows, but neither of them connected to the cddb properly, so the track names wouldnt list. I even tried Windows media Player... and the damn thing listed the cd as the totally wrong one, with the track names all screwed up...

bleh....

OOOh!!!, Apple have released a new powerbook and a sexy eMac, apparently the eMac is only for education or somthing, but its got a sweet sweet sweet 17inch flatscreen... *sigh* if only i had a spare $8000, id get me one of dem powerbooks...

Worked some more on my app today, linked the UI to the code with the actions and outlets and coded most of the basic button actions. Im almost around to porting the complicated C++ algorithm i wrote that actually creates the draw. Which should be ok. Im getting a little excited, seeing it coming together. As i said before, ive got the room in there to grow, ive included the basic class definitions for eveything. So its just a matter of slowly adding to it. Ill definately put a copy on my webpage soon, the 'first' version, that just does the basic input/spit out the draw...

anyway... its time for bed i think... it was raining this morning and i soo didnt want to wake up... but i like the rain, hope its stays around for a while...

hrmm... well its 12am... that means ive gotta sleep dammit...

I need a job where i can work at night... or someway of not having to sleep :)
hrmmmm, oh well, until that happens i guess ive just gotta deal with it..



As blackboard off Mr Squiggle would say "humpf... double humpf"

Im kinda restless tonight... i get the feeling im not where im meant to be in concern with my current job. Dunno why, i just cant see myself doing what im doing for the rest of my life. Its time to incestigate all those other avenues.

Did some grouting today, tiling is done. Its taken a while, doing it over weekends, but its as good as done and it looks good.

Its weird but i get most motivated at this time of night, but it pisses me off cause i need to go to sleep cause i have to wake up and go to work in the morning. Thats why i dont think im doing what i should be, i finish work and get home and dont feel like ive done enough for the day. I get motivated late and cant do anything. hrmmm, i dunno.... ill work it out...

yay!, i just made a 7 storey playing card castle!... how impressive.... while other people are out on saturday nights getting pissed and trying to get onto fugly chicks, im at the uni downloading mp3's and building impressive card castles... if only i had my camera... *sigh*

damn im a geek.... but gee its fun! *looks at card castle again - sigh*