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Sep. 27th, 2003 10:12 pmLessee...
Friday day: Did various stuff in the morning, chased up some service calls etc. In the afternoon tho, Apple/Winthrop had a presentation on at the Weatherburn LT, which is right by EE, so it would have been a shame not to go ;) Arrived early and had lots of pizza (Thanks Winthrop! I still think you're a buncha of complacent tools, but hey, you give free pizza, which is all good :) Poor Garner from Apple did a 90 minute demo on the wonders of G5s, and had stacks of Apple hardware there, showing it off. He seemed to convert a couple of people who were there, so that's good.
Friday night: Went to UCC, was bored after a bit, went to UniSFA and erm.. helped.. get ready for their 25th. Well, threw balloons around the room. It's all good. Went down and actually did more helping get the tavern ready with decorations and displays and stuff, and figured that I should probably actually join. So yes, I'm now an official member, and the presidential penguin won't do unplesant things to me for excessive attendance, and I get to borrow their books, when I get around to it. Stuck around the festivities until the end, helped clean up and then got a lift home with Cameron, who I went to school with maaany years ago.
Today: Got up far too early, had shower, went out garden stuff shopping with mum. We bought lots of stuff, but it' all getting delivered next week. Nifty. got three sets of table and chairs (2 x 4 place settings, 1 x 2 place), 16 bags of potting mix, 12 pots and some other stuff. Saw Toivo shopping for a VCR or something. Came home, had a nap, went out for birthday dinner with the campbells at Red Rock Noodle Bar in claremont.. mmm very nice. I had sizzling Udon noodles with chicken for mains and fried banana + ice cream for dessert. Niiice.
Also recently, i've been coveting a 12 inch powerbook, especially since seeing on in the flesh on friday :) Mmm. For $3436 I can get a 12 inch/1ghz/Superdrive/256MB/80GB/AirportExtreme... mmm. I'd get more RAM from Zytech of course.. so another $240 for that.. hmm. But the thing is, I'd get it as a salary sacrifice.. so it would reduce my taxable income, and if I sold the 15 inch powerbook, I'd even make a profit! :D
and yeah yeah, I know.. my new years resolution. My new years resolution can now officially bite me. I've had the current powerbook for more than 12 months.. which is the longest I've gone without buying a new mac since 2000 :P It's also starting to get a bit of cosmetic damage.. :/ Stupid Apple. I mean, sure, paint the bit of the mac which gets the most handling! Sure! But don't make it out of fricken black plastic and paint it WHITE.. make it out of WHITE plastic then paint it if you want :P Bleh. I guess I could see if Apple would warranty it ;) Another plus for the new 12s! They're not painted. A minus however is how long it would take to arrive :P I think if I ordered now, i'd be lucky to have it by christmas.. tho apple says 2-3 weeks.. yeah right :)
The moving thing doesn't look like it's happening just yet either, due to one of the people being listed in some database as being someone not to rent a house to. Feh. I don't think I'd want to be the only full time worker in a house. The Grahame/Stephie/Davyd/Paul combination was cool. I hope we can work something else out, but it's not going to be as imminent as the Megalong property was. Which sucks, but yeah, not much we can do about it. Bit of a pain about that, but there ya go.
Tomorrow.. hmm dunno, movie with Betsy? Monday royal Show with Penny and Kim. Excellent :D also excellent, I found out we still have access to some tickets to the show! Yay for not having to pay a $17 entry fee ;)
Friday day: Did various stuff in the morning, chased up some service calls etc. In the afternoon tho, Apple/Winthrop had a presentation on at the Weatherburn LT, which is right by EE, so it would have been a shame not to go ;) Arrived early and had lots of pizza (Thanks Winthrop! I still think you're a buncha of complacent tools, but hey, you give free pizza, which is all good :) Poor Garner from Apple did a 90 minute demo on the wonders of G5s, and had stacks of Apple hardware there, showing it off. He seemed to convert a couple of people who were there, so that's good.
Friday night: Went to UCC, was bored after a bit, went to UniSFA and erm.. helped.. get ready for their 25th. Well, threw balloons around the room. It's all good. Went down and actually did more helping get the tavern ready with decorations and displays and stuff, and figured that I should probably actually join. So yes, I'm now an official member, and the presidential penguin won't do unplesant things to me for excessive attendance, and I get to borrow their books, when I get around to it. Stuck around the festivities until the end, helped clean up and then got a lift home with Cameron, who I went to school with maaany years ago.
Today: Got up far too early, had shower, went out garden stuff shopping with mum. We bought lots of stuff, but it' all getting delivered next week. Nifty. got three sets of table and chairs (2 x 4 place settings, 1 x 2 place), 16 bags of potting mix, 12 pots and some other stuff. Saw Toivo shopping for a VCR or something. Came home, had a nap, went out for birthday dinner with the campbells at Red Rock Noodle Bar in claremont.. mmm very nice. I had sizzling Udon noodles with chicken for mains and fried banana + ice cream for dessert. Niiice.
Also recently, i've been coveting a 12 inch powerbook, especially since seeing on in the flesh on friday :) Mmm. For $3436 I can get a 12 inch/1ghz/Superdrive/256MB/80GB/AirportExtreme... mmm. I'd get more RAM from Zytech of course.. so another $240 for that.. hmm. But the thing is, I'd get it as a salary sacrifice.. so it would reduce my taxable income, and if I sold the 15 inch powerbook, I'd even make a profit! :D
and yeah yeah, I know.. my new years resolution. My new years resolution can now officially bite me. I've had the current powerbook for more than 12 months.. which is the longest I've gone without buying a new mac since 2000 :P It's also starting to get a bit of cosmetic damage.. :/ Stupid Apple. I mean, sure, paint the bit of the mac which gets the most handling! Sure! But don't make it out of fricken black plastic and paint it WHITE.. make it out of WHITE plastic then paint it if you want :P Bleh. I guess I could see if Apple would warranty it ;) Another plus for the new 12s! They're not painted. A minus however is how long it would take to arrive :P I think if I ordered now, i'd be lucky to have it by christmas.. tho apple says 2-3 weeks.. yeah right :)
The moving thing doesn't look like it's happening just yet either, due to one of the people being listed in some database as being someone not to rent a house to. Feh. I don't think I'd want to be the only full time worker in a house. The Grahame/Stephie/Davyd/Paul combination was cool. I hope we can work something else out, but it's not going to be as imminent as the Megalong property was. Which sucks, but yeah, not much we can do about it. Bit of a pain about that, but there ya go.
Tomorrow.. hmm dunno, movie with Betsy? Monday royal Show with Penny and Kim. Excellent :D also excellent, I found out we still have access to some tickets to the show! Yay for not having to pay a $17 entry fee ;)
