Life in the geek lane

random ramblings.....

28.11.02

*whew* Well i think it is finally done. The certification cutoff date for results was today, and after working flatout from 8am i managed to get them uplaoded at around 2pm... damn.. talk about hectic. I had calls from Sydney and all over today asking when/if they would be up in time after the masive stuff ups that have happened and i think they were pretty happy when i sent the email saying it had been done.

Got a fat pay from the uni today, gunna pay off my credit card and a few bills and things will be good. Also should go alright next month after claiming for the massive hours ive been doing getting the results uploaded.

Walking to uni isnt too bad. Its pretty nice, and only takes about 10mins. So far ive been able to scrape a lift home every afternoon, but it wouldnt worry me having to walk, the afternoons are nice and there is usually a bit of a breeze.
Im not too sure what im going to do over christmas yet, uni is closing for 2 weeks i think, so maybe ill head south again - but im not sure...

My car got towed away to be fixed yesterday, they reckon it will be back within a week so ill wait and see. Will be good if it is.

I got asked to go to thailand with some friends, but i had to decline the offer. Got some stuff to do at uni for next semester. Im looking after another subject and moderating some other stuff as well, should keep me busy.

bleh... righto, im off... its too hot to be sitting here...

25.11.02

wow... its been a hectic few weeks.

Went down to Newcastle for my sisters 21st birthday, it was cool. Also got to go to the computer markets and bought myself some new bits... AMD XP 2200+ CPU, Asus A7V8X mboard, Radeon 9700 pro vid card, and 512 mb PC3200 ddr ram... very sweet... the radeon gets some kickarse frame rates.

The iPod kicked arse all the way down and back. I got a car charger on my way out of town on Thursday after i had to take it back to the shop cause it had some weird disk problem. But they ran nortojn over it and fixed it up. I actually think it was from using EphPod under windows and not 'syncing' it before closing... hrmmm anyway, I also found a cheap arse mobile phote holder that sticks in the air con vent and the iPod fits perfectly!.. cost me like $3 bargain!
So yeah, it went well... easy to use when driving as well.

The trip back from Brisbane was bring... played some tunes and just drove. Got to about 100kms out of Rockhampton and hit a damn kangaroo... here i am sitting on around 90km as it was just on sunset and hard to see.. anyway there are people flying past me and over taking then next thing BANG! my car headbutted a kangaroo... damn thing. Luckily enough the motor and radiator were fine. I kept driving after checking it out and eveything was ok. Unfortunately the bonnet and lights are stuffed. So ive gotta get insurance to fix that, got the quote today and its gunna cost around $3200 to fix! dang!

Uni work has been going nuts!! There was a problem with an exam solution that was written really dodgy, obviously the peron just copied and pasted and didnt check it. So the past week i have been running around fixing problems caused by that. Ive also been collating the results for both subjects nd uploading in to the student database. Took me friggen ages to chase down the results form markers, do deferred exam appications and also do special consideration applications... *sigh* and in my spare time ive been busy writing assignments and solutions for an0other subject.

I got an email today asking me if i could do some moderation of exams and assignments next term.. also got told that if i wanted more work to just let them know. Its good. the work is good and the time is good, i can basically do it whenever i want as long as it gets done. So im going to do as much as i can.

I havnt had much of a chance to give my new PC a spin... but it will get a work out a bit later on.

I dunno what im going to do at christmas time, i kinda feel like going somewhere but i might be too busy at uni and work and so forth.. i might also not have a car if it isnt fixed, but hopefully it will be.

*yawn* damn im tired. *sigh* my fingers are tired from typing...

im going to have a shower... bleh