hrmm, played some LAN games today. Start at around 10:30 and went through till about 7pm. Was great fun, played Warcraft 3, BattleField 1942, Quake 3, UT 2003, etc etc. Also copied a few MP3's off a mate, he has like 11gig of them on his drive, so i went through and copied what i wanted. Now ive got a heap of new tunes to listen to. yay!

Going down to yepoon again tomorrow, gunna help my mate tile his shower. Should be ok, im thikning if i get down there early we can make a bit of a dint in it.

Ive got contract work running out my butt at the moment, so much of it. Marking, Unit coordination, Exam paper writing, Mac programing... geez i could go on and on. Should be good when the money starts coming in.

I found a neat little app for OS X that lets you chaneg teh color of the doc background. Its really neat. At the moment i have it set to a transparent yellow color and i like it.. Now they just need to randomise / automate the process so that it cycles every so often. that would be cool.

The final season of the X-Files started tonight. Only 9 weeks till it ends. Hrmmm. Ive already read a bit of what happens and apparently it is a bit of a let down, well not a let down, but most people will be expecting a lot more from it. Either way, i dont mind, i think its great. Gotta start collecting the DVD sets.. the first series box sets are getting kinda scarce round here. I should lash out the $100 and snap one up before it gets impossible.

Bought the new silverchair album - "Diorama" yesterday, also got Monsters INC on dvd, damn that movie cracks me up. Im a sucker for computer generated stuff... *sigh* plus its got some real neat features on the DVD about Pixar.

Righto, i think ill finish this and go listen to some tunes.

over and out.

:P

damn i was tired today, i dunno why. I need to get to bed early and get back into the swing of things.

Sent an email to the lecturer i was marking exams for saying it took me about 10mins each to mark the exams, anyway, he sent one back telling me that it takes about 20mins each and he will make a contract for that.. sweet! so i get about double the money.. damn that is cool

I have been working on a new website, but i cant make up my mind what to do. Its hard, i need a host that supports php or somthing to make it database driven. Its too hard.. *sigh* hrmmm i guess i should just stop whinging and do it..

Ive almost got the VPN program ready.. and ive already got ideas for the next version which will make it a heap better. I figure i will get this first version done with the basics for the uni, then put the next version out as a generic thing. So i get the credit for it and stuff, that way i can use it.

Im looking at nitro cars again at the moment, man i want one still. $800 they cost, and would be great fun i reckon. Im just wondering if i should just lash out and buy it or whether its going to be one of those phases... hrmmm I hate being one of those people that thinks deeply about every decision... grrrrr

Went out for a feed of thai food last night. My thai friend came back up with me from sydney when i came back last. He is going to help me do the webpage project that we did a proposal for (if they ever let us know when to start). Anyway, a friend of his that i had net when i was at uni was down from Mackay for the weekend, so we all went out. Wasnt too bad, had a bit of everything and it was neat.
The person that owns the restaurant was good friends with them all so we went around there again for lunch today, and once again it was great. Makes me hungry again thinking about it.

Anyway.... I need to find more work. I kinda feel like im wasting my time with the phd now. I mean its going to take 8 years to do, and ultimately wont make a difference at all. Im starting to think i should put it on hold and concentrate on getting a decent job, one that i want to do. hrmmm damn i hate that... now im starting to wonder what im doing..

I just get a feeling that i should be working now, getting myself some experience and getting around, not jsut sitting back at Rocky doing my phd and working part time. At the moment i cant see what the point of it is... I need to think long and hard about it...

Damn i feel like ice cream... hrmm i think i might go get some and go by the uni to print some stuff out... yeah, that will do, driving is good for thinking.

going going gone....