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Friday, July 10, 2009
2:26PM - Grace will be out in August
Ok those who don't want to read about Grace will have moved onto the next entry.
We've booked tickets and Grace will be in Australia on the 22nd August on flight QF575 into Perth at aprox 11:15 if all goes well; and there's no reason why it shouldn't.
If anyone wants to come to the airport to help me pick her up (i'll be asking others about this also) or wants to meet her once she arrives after this date you're welcome, get in touch with me.
I'm scared sure, aprehensive and very nervice.
On the flip side, i'm excited, in love and absolutely dying to meet this wonderful girl who I have gotten to know in the past 7 months.
I'm sure we'll have our tething problems and our ups and downs; but I know i'll give this relationship the best chance I can and I am hopeful for the future.
Only a bit over 6 weeks to go. I'll try not to count down the days.
Do I miss Gemma? Sure I do. She's allways welcome to talk to me or spend time in the unit, once things have settled if she chooses to do so.
Slogging through this stuff should get easier in time and i've still got a lot of stuff to work through.
I love you Grace and am looking forward to the time when you are with me.
Monday, July 6, 2009
5:39PM - So what do you think?
Now that Gemma and I have separated, if there's anything you want to tell me that you think I should know; here's an opportunity to do so. Obviously comments are screened. Anyone who wants to catch up with me is also welcome to drop a comment as I have far more time on my hands these days at least for the next month.
Comment anonymously if you don't want me to talk to you about any issues you raise. Comment as a logged in user or provide a request for contact if you want to open a discussion. It's about time I started again and learnt a little along the way.
Friday, June 26, 2009
6:48PM - What not to post.
I have found it sad to see a couple of people dropping off my friends list of late, and I wonder how many more will go now that Gemma and I are separated. It's not something I intend to document online in this journal as the decision to separate and devide property is personal and between us two.
The fact that we are to be parted quite probably indefinitely hurts me more than I can express in words, and my grief and pain are mine alone to Bare.
In time I pray this will lessen, however my solace is that the many happy memories we shared will make the hard times a little easier to handle.
I hope that a change of surroundings and lifestyle allow Gemma to regain a quality of life that she has not enjoyed here in recent months.
It has broken my heart to see her struggle with her health, and whilst I tried my best there were times when I had to face my own limits and humanity.
Whilst "sorry" does not absolve me of my responsibilities, it gives me pause to reflect on my actions and reactions hoping to learn from them in future.
People with the drive and ability to try as hard as Gemma has are rare indeed. I will miss sharing this house with the woman who shared our journey for the last 5 and a half years.
We don't know what the future holds for us indevidually or collectively, and I pray that our friendship will whether the storm in time.
Comments are screened. There's no more that I can write on this right now.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
6:08PM - End of an Era
Gemma and I are separating, problems in our marriage that are too difficult to resolve.
We're not sure how much of her condition is my fault, how much of it is the environment and the surroundings and how much is this unit.
I love her very much and will miss her terribly but I pray this is for the best.
Any of my friends are welcome to keep me company when they can in the next few weeks.
Comments screened.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
5:32PM - The mysterious cities of gold
I have in my possession the box set to "The mysterious cities of gold."
This should result in a little light viewing. *bounce*
6 dvds worth.
It's strange watching a show I saw in 1988 again.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
6:50PM - time to build new servers
Ok below is some ravings on building new servers so scroll on past if it doesn't interest you.
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Monday, May 11, 2009
6:40PM - Farewell Anthony Rumble
From a Journal I can't spell the name of I hear today of the passing of an old Friend, Anthony Rumble.
I met Anthony in 1993 when I first became involved with APANA Sydney. I remember the excitement of having my mx record delogated as gotss1.apana.org.au and beeing one of the first kids on the block with the internet.
Anthony gave me an uucp account on supoz.apana.org.au and I used to call in once a night to pick up my pending email.
Friends sent me Linux cds and I migrated from my dos-based uucp system *shudder* to a shiny new Linux box running kernel 0.99p5 on my 486dx/33 with 8 megs of ram and 212meg hard drive.
It's 2009 now I almost typed gig instead of meg, how things have changed.
I spoke to Anthony on the phone, and via talk, and he helped me with a couple of Linux problems I had and saw me for what I was, a promising blind indevidual.
Anthony had known Yvonne who was also blind and knew that just because someone couldn't see too good didn't mean they couldn't be a dab hand at computers.
I continued to learn, explore and get bettter at Linux. I sometimes caught Anthony on ICQ and we caught up on the usual goss.
In 1999 Anthony needed someone who knew Linux to look after the office of everythinglinux.com.au and Yvonne and I were it.
I met his then wife laura, and caught up with Yvonne again.
I was allowed to hook up my speech synth and dos box, was given shells on the Linux boxes and the assurance if I needed the root passwords to just call and explain.
ELX ran from his house, and Yvonne fielded calls from the people who had got their free redhat 6.2 cds from PCIT99.
I remember doing tech support from the bath, and was assured that this was fine as long as I didn't drop the chordless phone.
Great work, 5-6 calls a day, a huge music collection to go through and to do whatever I wanted in the house within reason. (Sadly this did not include Yvonne as she was engaged to be married ah well I guess you can't have it all).
They introduced me to nandoes chicken and i've been adicted ever since.
At the end of the week I was given cash for my work and thanked for my help in the office. I probably could have had a job if i'd wanted to move to Sydney but at that point I didn't want to go.
I also got 30 rh6.2 cds for my class and a couple of things from the elx shop for my trouble including idiot outside and penguin case badges.
Anthony saw that I knew what I was on about and gave me consulting hours to work for his business helping people with their Linux problems.
It was good money that I needed at the time. I met Kyle and spent many happy (well paid) hours on the phone helping him at $10 for $15 minutes.
this was $40 an hour and back in 99 on my income was solid gold.
I got involved with wetwetwetsurf and ended up working for them.
When Anthony gave me no more consulting hours my clients took me with them; stating they needed the support and would continue to pay.
That experience was invaluable in kicking my career on as both a teacher and a unix admin.
Anthony was a good bloke and will be missed by his friends and family. I'm sad we never caught up since 99 but sometimes that is how the world works.
Strangely I was talking about him yesterday for no reason I can discern, press play on the twilight zone music.
Thanks Anthony for the impact you had on my life, and the opportunities you gave me, whilst having faith in my intelligence and ability; it means a lot to me.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
9:08AM - Today's funny situation
The 2 girls that talk to me on the way to work D and S met me at Perth station.
We boarded the train and had a good chat on the way to Vic Park.
When getting off the train, S asked me,
"Are you doing me or d?"
I blushed, she realized her mistake and tried to correct her phrasing.
D replied, "I thought you'd do both of us?"
I complained I was a little tired and was informed there are drugs to help with that.
We all laughed and wandered across to the association.
I allways have a chuckle when people don't get the words quite right.
Makes you wonder what she was thinking about.
Friday, April 10, 2009
10:04PM - General update
It's rare that I get to updating this thing and I suppose I should put some general stuff here.
It's easter and we have 2 weeks break from lectures. this should finally give me the time to get back to fixing the remote bundle at work and sorting out other technical stuff.
I managed to get some easter eggs from my students so we have a fridge full of chocolate.
Down to Southlake on Sunday and i'll get to catch up with the parent's in law and the dogs.
We're having cowswear soup although i'm sure that is not spelt correctly.
I'm not fond of mixing the gram, the dolly molly and the soup; although the chicken component is ok.
Gemma is going down tomorrow and i'll get a cab down on Sunday so only down for a day or so.
It will be good to get out of the house and have some other social interaction.
The 3 other eeeboxes turned up so we now have the full compliment of 4. 1 runs the PABX but I haven't got to setting that up completely. the second has windows XP on it and I have used grml and ntfs-clone to image it up.
The 3rd one is hooked up ready to have stuff loaded onto it will get loaded tomorrow.
Managed to get another MSI Wind from Scott for $500 with 2gb ram in it a bargain.
We also managed to get an LG vacuum cleaner off catch of the day.
It's quiet, it has multiple speeds, and all the attachments are cool.
The razor I also got seems nice enough but runs off batteries so that's not cool.
Picked up a couple of self-help courses, one on manifesting success and another called 4 keys to sexual exstacy. Looking forward to listening to that one, and the music that has apparently got the ability to break up patterns.
Gemma has been working on her c# most of the week and finally got her assessment in today although she did not get as much work done on it as she would like.
Sadly yesterday she succeeded in bundling up her N70 in the fitted sheet and the phone went through the wash. Simm and storage card is ok but phone is dead, beeps when you put battery in even after it was dried out. We're looking for new phone. she's using the Jasjar but the interface is a bit clunky and awful so I think she'll get a symbian phone again.
Been having fun helping Grace to set up openvpn under Vista, think we almost have it sorted.
Sent back dlink storage box to my friend, and will get a refund. I have also downloaded and am trialing wayfinder access on my mobile phone. It's a bit expensive to run because it needs gprs internet but I got 300 meg on an allways win promotion so that was handy for the trial.
We are also messing with mobile Geo which has maps on the pda itself. It looks like it has a nice interface but has a steep learning curve.
That should do as an update for now.
Saturday, April 4, 2009
6:33PM - Tell me what you think
It's been awhile since I did this so here goes again.
If you have the mind to, tell me anything you like about me or something you think I should know. Comment anonymously if you wish, all comments screened.
If you do not remain anonymous, your comment will remain a secret between you and myself unless you state otherwise.
You can repost this in your journal if you like, the choice is yours.
I'm perfectly happy if I am the only person who re-does this meme.
I'll be mildly disappointed if nobody comments but i'll live.
Monday, March 9, 2009
11:01AM - the ups and downs of power protection
Well having stable power for computers definitely has its ups and downs. The upses aren't so bad, it's the downs that are annoying ( Read more... )
Sunday, March 8, 2009
3:42PM - Twitter, I have done it
Well I am now khoath on twitter. I have no idea whether or not this will be useful or not but time will tell; i'm so over facebook.
I am going to try out jawter and also twidge a command-line Linux client; that's my sort of interface. Feel free to follow me if you want, not many updates will show initally.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
8:18AM - missed hard barbage
Noticed a truck going along our street this morning just before I left for work.
Looks like I missed hard garbage, notice was probably buried in the junkmail that I didn't scan.
I'll just have to take the servers apart and drop them in the regular rubbish instead. Next year i'll look on the swan website and make sure I know when it is.
We only have 1 bulk garbage collection a year.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
8:14PM - Money money money
Ok here's a post on money and where it goes and the like. Money is such a fleeting thing... ( Read more... )
Thursday, February 26, 2009
9:19PM - general update
Ok time for a General update me thinks.
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Monday, February 23, 2009
8:09PM - cooking food for 2
Genral update no need to ( Read more... )
5:00PM - raid array rebuild fun fun fun
Looks like one of the drives in Will has gone flakey. I am not sure which one yet, however now the array is rebuilding onto the spare (USB I might add)
Will wait for the rebuild then boot the system in single user mode once I know which drive has gone down.
grrrrr. OH well, guess I had nothing more pressing to do at the moment.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
1:17AM - power wibbles
Thank you universe for picking the time my wife is on holidays to give me a power blip that results in the music server not coming back up.
This is Linux, I will repair this on Monday.
If anyone wants to know where all the music went the nfs mount is down until I repair things Monday. Doubt i'll get to it tomorrow.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
10:43PM - The stuff I miss
This is a post for me to get stuff out of my system. It's the stuff I miss when Gemma is not around. ( Read more... )
12:58PM - Gemma is at her parents' for a few days
Gemma has gone down to her Parents' place as of Thursday morning.
She's having a break from here, the responsibilities and the like, and we hope the rest will help her.
I'm home alone so anyone that wants my company is welcome to drop in or book me up for something, or even just drop me a message or im me.
There's plenty of food here although I have been up the road for dinner the past 2 nights so not a lot of cooking going on here.
Gemma's brain foo is still giving her trouble and whilst she is receiving treatment, I was getting to the point where the care responsibilities were draining me. I'm missing Gemma terribly but enjoying the break none the less.
It's good to recharge the batteries a bit.
On the one hand i'm happy that she and I are having time out, on the other hand I look forward to seeing her again whenever that is.
I'm back to work Wednesday, and nothing solid planned except for possibly the birthday party tomorrow.
Now to try and get motivated to do stuff rather than sitting around the house listening to Graphic Audio dramas with the senheisers on.
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