Hurrah! I am better!

Since my last post I was struck down with a gastric flu. It was yuck. Hence my fitness and diet plans got shelved while I sniffled and perspired on the couch wrapped in blankets and demanded all manner of fried and chocolatey comfort foods from my beloved with the excuse, "I'm siiiiiiiick!" Of course, I'm not sure how much some of those foods count as I had a bit of difficulty keeping them down...

Anyway, it was all remarkably unpleasant and expensive as I missed a lot of work, but I'm better bar a slight sniffle now! Yay! So, back on the horse, say I!

( Food and Fitness )

We now have a backyard full off branches chopped off our trees. All branches quite thin, would be good for kindling, let me know if you're interested and I won't throw them all out.

http://lost.net.au/vic/?p=768

My friend Polly’s use of 20 exclamation marks in her text about the new Lanvin resort runway show pretty much sums up how I feel about it too. HEAVEN!

[via style.com]

a man who is ludicrously proud of his GIANT i-phone.

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Find out what Spoz really thought of our last show here:Clickety Click!

http://myhousesmellslikevanilla.blogspot.com/2009/07/wantage-and-todoage.html

I am big enough to work out the difference between "need" and "want" so here is a list of things I want (and won't go out of my way to buy but keep coming back to wanting):

• Knitpicks interchangeable needles - I have some Denises but I dislike them as the plastic flexes when you use them
• Jigsaw so I can cut things up - I have a heap of mdf that I want to make things out of.
• Steam mop for the floor of doom (big house = lots of floors).
• SLR camera
• cutting board for sewing
• overlocker
• body form
• this pattern:
  

Things to do around the house:

• Decorate the purple table some more. I'm working with Eve to develop some decals for the table and it is so exciting!
• Make some new curtains for the back area.
  The walls are painted in Pantaloon which is a yellow based paint and the curtains are a revolting gold colour and they clash and they are BORING so I want to update
• Make some foot pooffs for the placing of feet on. Chez Larsson has inspired me to change some of our milk crates into foot stools.
• Tie backs for the curtains in the kitchen. This will involve improving my crocheting skills though.
  
  
• Sort out superannuation
• Harrass the gym to refund my personal trainer $$
• Go to Hobart, Melbourne and Bendigo!!!! Which is where I am at the moment btw...
  
• Organise the spare room for our housesitter
• Paint the chest of drawers that currently hold my stash
• Finish Sabrina
• Paint the little chest of drawers that holds our IT stuff
• Paint the mdf bookcase that I've had for since 19mumblemumble - I'm thinking white
  

http://twitter.com/jasonbstanding/statuses/2639342968

jasonbstanding: A better name for this band would be Masturba Tree.

http://twitter.com/jasonbstanding/statuses/2638875868

jasonbstanding: Just found out I can't write "boobies" on my iPhone calculator cos the fucking accelerometer doesn't let you turn it upside down. FAIL.

http://twitter.com/jasonbstanding/statuses/2638409794

jasonbstanding: Of Montreal should have chosen a more accurate band name. I'd have recommended "Shit Sandwich".

http://twitter.com/jasonbstanding/statuses/2634812826

jasonbstanding: @eyetie Come on, make your mind up...

... a works party. Yes I know. Works party, on a Tuesday.. crazyness! Still, I get ahead of myself as I still have not recounted the full weekend.

Saturday was a day of doing some shtuffs, nothing important. The evening involved getting out to Soho to supposedly meet up with deathboy and crew to help him come to terms with a life of servitudecelebrate his upcoming nuptials. Got to pub, looked around pub, didn't find anyone. Phoned his mobile to be met with an automessage saying that if you hear the automessage then it means that his phone's battery had died and to phone his really good mate, Kweilo. So, I phoned that number and got nothing. Shortly after, get a call back to say that Deathboy had gone off bumming passing strangers for food and Kweilo didn't know where he was. Oh well, I'd planned on it only being a brief visit so I carried on with Phase 2.

This involved getting down to Reptile and this time I was early (for me). Got there about 10:30pm, paid in and found the place really empty. Oh crap, don't say that they've clashed with some major band playing a gig just up the road or something. Oh well, get booze and a place to sit (it wasn't too difficult at that time). Then, sometime probably about 11, the place really filled up. Had a chat with glenndm and stompyfairy about their forthcoming relocate to DullsvilleBasingstoke. Various others turned up, and after a while there was a very nicely populated space. I'd been good and had a probiotic early in the day so this time the wine did not affect me adversely. Stayed a while and later cadged a lift back Northwards from flavius_m.

Sunday, work with the heavy metallers! \m/. Met up with saucy_goth in the afternoon to help her through an application form she had to fill out for a job. This lead to wandering around sCamden while she looked atfor shoes. We ended up with the metallers then took a walk and got chinese from the markets. Nice way to spend a Sunday.

Monday was a day of bleughh. It really wasn't up to much. Hadn't helped that I didn't get to sleep until about 2am in the morning because of.. well.. I just couldn't find the impetus to go to bed.

Which leads to today. Today has been a fairly sterling day. I finally got the Franken-code setup of open source apache and PHP built against coolstack MySQL working(the trick, it seems is to build against an open source MySQLd and then just run the finished code against the coolstack one! Who wudda thunk it?). Simple solution really, kicking myself for thinking too deeply about it and not abstracting the model back to the interface level, oh well.

Then the day ends and I am reminded that we have the works party. So I hung around for half hour, grabbed my ticket from the desk and went to partayyy! Oh ok, went for free boozes, conversation, free burgers and some outstandingly stunning cheesecake.

So, it's been a pretty good last few days all in. More of that, please? :)