It's been an interesting week or so ...
Feb. 6th, 2008 08:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabet_the_redIn the last couple of weeks, interesting stuff has happened.
At personal training on Friday 18th, I busted my right wrist. This sucked, for a variety of reasons. I couldn't drive, couldn't type, definitely couldn't use a mouse, reading was problematic.
Saw a doctor for an unrelated issue on Tuesday 22nd - apparently, she has no idea what's wrong with me, exactly, only that something is. Sigh. We have a tentative course of treatment, sort of a try-this-and-see-what-happens thing. Blah.
Wednesday, I could type, so I did work.
Thursday morning drew took me out for coffee and a drive, which was awesome. Then my shiny new laptop arrived at 2pm! I ordered this on Wednesday 16th, so that was awesome quick. It's a Dell XPS M1330, with red, nvidia card, big hdd, lots of ram, blah. Available with ubuntu preinstalled in UK, US and Germany, but not australia, sigh. So I spent half an hour installing Ubuntu, figured out I'd screwed up the partitioning, and reinstalled. Spent most of the evening transferring my home directory and such over, making sure I had the programs I'm used to using installed, updating, blah. Oh, and transferring my music collection. And tweaking the pretty.
Friday was fairly uneventful, aside from packing and such, and then there was Saturday morning. The flight to Melbourne left at 6am, which was .... challenging, really. I'm not much of a morning person. However, we arrived in melbourne safe and sound by 9am local time, and after some misadventures arrived at a friends' place, where we were staying.
The rest of the day involved food, walking around, and a nap. That evening, more food, and some delicious booze was had.
Sunday steve went to see his brother and family - I didn't go, because I really wasn't up to dealing wtih children. The depressive funk plus travel left me with a short fuse. Spent some time wandering around the Vic Markets, didn't find a coat. Bummer. Oh well.
Monday dawned - we were up early to get to linux.conf.au by 7.30am or something like that. Early, anyway. Registered, got my redsleeves, and ran around helping with random stuff. Felt a bit ... antisocial by the end of the day though. Went out with some people from the conf for dinner at a pub. It was good. At one point during the day, I was standing around talking to people, and mentioned that I hadn't managed to get suspend working on my shiny new laptop, only to have a guy grab it out of my hands and proceed to fix it. Turns out, guy in question is Matthew Garret, Suspend dude extrodinaire. Hooray for awesome shiny people at linux.conf.au!
Tuesday was interesting. More running around, got to see one of the linuxchix talks, and catch up with a couple of people. Went to the Speakers' Dinner. Food tasted alright, wine was good, ended up in yet another pub having drinks afterwards. Went home ... stuff was not so shiny. Turns out that the chicken was prepared incorrectly, and I had my first ever case of food poisoning. Since I didn't know I was going to be sick, I had had sufficient to drink to leave me with a mild headache in the morning. This plus the other meant I had a very, very rough night.
Wednesday I made it to the keynote, but had to leave because I was feeling amazingly ill. After the keynote ended I asked to be taken to the hospital, as I couldn't keep water down and was getting increasingly nauseous and dehydrated (not good signs). At the hospital, they chided me for drinking too much, and gave me an IV with a couple litres of saline and some anti-nausea stuff. Meh. Yes, I know I drank alcohol, but I didn't overindulge that much - in fact I drank less than at any given night of OSDC. I am aware of my limits, thanks. However, I hadn't expected the food poisoning. Anyway, rant over. After being pumped full of saline, I was sent home, with the instructions to rest, drink water, and eat. I slept a lot, and tried to eat. But when evening came, and I hadn't managed to quite eat more than two mouthfuls of a slice of bread ... yeah. I was *that* tired. I missed the penguin dinner, held at the night markets. I am really really sad about that - I'd been looking forward to it for ages :( But given that I couldn't quite muster the energy to eat, the chances of me being able to shower, dress, make myself look presentable then walk ... well, not good. Sigh. C'est la vie and all that. Steve did procure some really nice (if sweet) yoghurt for me, though - I was able to eat that over the course of a couple of hours. I slept pretty well that night, despite having slept most of the day.
Thursday I didn't make it to the keynote. When I did get to the conf, I couldn't find anything to really do (organiser-wise), so I hung out with people (really cool people!) and visted the bookshop. I had a killer headache, but didn't take anything for it - given how extensively my system had managed to fuck itself up, I didn't want to take any chances. So I just dealt. That evening, Steve and I went to the google student party to chat and whatnot before we went out with the twisted crew - tjs, hypatia, spiv and jml for dinner. It was a good evening, although we ended up doing a lot of walking. I was very tired by the end of it - I got home and crashed.
Friday the headache was gone, I felt like my usual self, and managed to make it to the keynote - Anthony Baxter talking about the upcoming python releases. I almost feel like trying to get involved with the py3k development again. I'm more interested in programming a language than writing programs in a language, go figure. It was a good day - I got to a couple more talks, hung out a bit more, spent some time alone. Went to the Google conf party that evening, which had decent food, not a lot of booze (which I wasn't really going to drink much of anyway). Talked to more awesome people. Went home early again, as I was a bit tired.
Saturday was open day. After breakfast, we wandered up to open day. I had fun playing DDR at the gaming miniconf stand, and looked at the other exhibits. Talked to more cool people. Left midafternoon to visit lygon street, home of awesome cafes and gelato. Had an affogato to die for followed by gelati - cinnamon, hazelnut, and mint choc chip. mmmmmmmmmm. Dinner was at a semi-random resturant, good food. We retired to Rrose's, whereupon I had an awesome cocktail, called a 'Berry Strudel'. Very good. They called last drinks at 11pm, and we went home, to drink some damn fine scotch and sleep. Somewhere in there I spent some time working.
The next morning was a bit rushed - we got moving late, and got to the airport just on time. I left my wedding rings at the friends' place we were staying ... sigh. Theyre back now though. Oh well. Other than that, the trip home was uneventful, I spent it fiddling with my dev environment and reading.
After getting home, we unpacked, and tried to visit afk, which was shut. We went to the geekhouse (after stopping for a bite to eat) and met up with various peoples. A good evening of moving pictures and talk was had, then home for more sleep.
Monday was, as mondays often are, unexciting. Personal training (where I did not bust anything). Work, where I finally managed to get my dev environment up and running (Imagemagick, why must you be so hard?). The day looked up with our regular Mahjongg night with Arjen. The night ended early, though, because I fell asleep on the couch and took that as a sign I should consider going to bed.
Tuesday was a coast day. Heavy, driving rain all the way down from Brisbane. Despite minimal traffic, the highway was under speed most of the way - unsuprisingly. Fortunately, I left at 6.30am, so it wasn't really light enough for full-on whiteout (unlike some previous occasions). Spent the morning wrestling with x and nvidia to get it to deal with two screens of vastly differing proportions. Was told about afk's closure, sadface. I discovered that some delinquent had made off with my icecream, so purchased some more. Had to go knock on someone's door at about midnight to tell them to pretty please turn the tv down so I could sleep, dammit.
Today - so far I"ve discovered that someone's been making off with my bodywash. Sigh. I think it's time for some politely-worded notes under doors. I don't mind if they use my stuff, really, so long as they replace it with precisely the same item. Oh well, such is life. Also, the state of the kitchen is disgusting.
That's what's occured. Other things ...
Considering a move to Melbourne sometime in the next 12-24 months. Only for a year or two, just to get the feel of another city. And so we can see our friends down there on something like a regular basis. I'd need a cashmere allowance, though - Melbourne is really, really cold. And dry. I actually enjoyed the weather Sunday/Monday when I got back, heat and humidity and all.
I'm enjoying my shiny new laptop.
... and that pretty much covers it, I think.
At personal training on Friday 18th, I busted my right wrist. This sucked, for a variety of reasons. I couldn't drive, couldn't type, definitely couldn't use a mouse, reading was problematic.
Saw a doctor for an unrelated issue on Tuesday 22nd - apparently, she has no idea what's wrong with me, exactly, only that something is. Sigh. We have a tentative course of treatment, sort of a try-this-and-see-what-happens thing. Blah.
Wednesday, I could type, so I did work.
Thursday morning drew took me out for coffee and a drive, which was awesome. Then my shiny new laptop arrived at 2pm! I ordered this on Wednesday 16th, so that was awesome quick. It's a Dell XPS M1330, with red, nvidia card, big hdd, lots of ram, blah. Available with ubuntu preinstalled in UK, US and Germany, but not australia, sigh. So I spent half an hour installing Ubuntu, figured out I'd screwed up the partitioning, and reinstalled. Spent most of the evening transferring my home directory and such over, making sure I had the programs I'm used to using installed, updating, blah. Oh, and transferring my music collection. And tweaking the pretty.
Friday was fairly uneventful, aside from packing and such, and then there was Saturday morning. The flight to Melbourne left at 6am, which was .... challenging, really. I'm not much of a morning person. However, we arrived in melbourne safe and sound by 9am local time, and after some misadventures arrived at a friends' place, where we were staying.
The rest of the day involved food, walking around, and a nap. That evening, more food, and some delicious booze was had.
Sunday steve went to see his brother and family - I didn't go, because I really wasn't up to dealing wtih children. The depressive funk plus travel left me with a short fuse. Spent some time wandering around the Vic Markets, didn't find a coat. Bummer. Oh well.
Monday dawned - we were up early to get to linux.conf.au by 7.30am or something like that. Early, anyway. Registered, got my redsleeves, and ran around helping with random stuff. Felt a bit ... antisocial by the end of the day though. Went out with some people from the conf for dinner at a pub. It was good. At one point during the day, I was standing around talking to people, and mentioned that I hadn't managed to get suspend working on my shiny new laptop, only to have a guy grab it out of my hands and proceed to fix it. Turns out, guy in question is Matthew Garret, Suspend dude extrodinaire. Hooray for awesome shiny people at linux.conf.au!
Tuesday was interesting. More running around, got to see one of the linuxchix talks, and catch up with a couple of people. Went to the Speakers' Dinner. Food tasted alright, wine was good, ended up in yet another pub having drinks afterwards. Went home ... stuff was not so shiny. Turns out that the chicken was prepared incorrectly, and I had my first ever case of food poisoning. Since I didn't know I was going to be sick, I had had sufficient to drink to leave me with a mild headache in the morning. This plus the other meant I had a very, very rough night.
Wednesday I made it to the keynote, but had to leave because I was feeling amazingly ill. After the keynote ended I asked to be taken to the hospital, as I couldn't keep water down and was getting increasingly nauseous and dehydrated (not good signs). At the hospital, they chided me for drinking too much, and gave me an IV with a couple litres of saline and some anti-nausea stuff. Meh. Yes, I know I drank alcohol, but I didn't overindulge that much - in fact I drank less than at any given night of OSDC. I am aware of my limits, thanks. However, I hadn't expected the food poisoning. Anyway, rant over. After being pumped full of saline, I was sent home, with the instructions to rest, drink water, and eat. I slept a lot, and tried to eat. But when evening came, and I hadn't managed to quite eat more than two mouthfuls of a slice of bread ... yeah. I was *that* tired. I missed the penguin dinner, held at the night markets. I am really really sad about that - I'd been looking forward to it for ages :( But given that I couldn't quite muster the energy to eat, the chances of me being able to shower, dress, make myself look presentable then walk ... well, not good. Sigh. C'est la vie and all that. Steve did procure some really nice (if sweet) yoghurt for me, though - I was able to eat that over the course of a couple of hours. I slept pretty well that night, despite having slept most of the day.
Thursday I didn't make it to the keynote. When I did get to the conf, I couldn't find anything to really do (organiser-wise), so I hung out with people (really cool people!) and visted the bookshop. I had a killer headache, but didn't take anything for it - given how extensively my system had managed to fuck itself up, I didn't want to take any chances. So I just dealt. That evening, Steve and I went to the google student party to chat and whatnot before we went out with the twisted crew - tjs, hypatia, spiv and jml for dinner. It was a good evening, although we ended up doing a lot of walking. I was very tired by the end of it - I got home and crashed.
Friday the headache was gone, I felt like my usual self, and managed to make it to the keynote - Anthony Baxter talking about the upcoming python releases. I almost feel like trying to get involved with the py3k development again. I'm more interested in programming a language than writing programs in a language, go figure. It was a good day - I got to a couple more talks, hung out a bit more, spent some time alone. Went to the Google conf party that evening, which had decent food, not a lot of booze (which I wasn't really going to drink much of anyway). Talked to more awesome people. Went home early again, as I was a bit tired.
Saturday was open day. After breakfast, we wandered up to open day. I had fun playing DDR at the gaming miniconf stand, and looked at the other exhibits. Talked to more cool people. Left midafternoon to visit lygon street, home of awesome cafes and gelato. Had an affogato to die for followed by gelati - cinnamon, hazelnut, and mint choc chip. mmmmmmmmmm. Dinner was at a semi-random resturant, good food. We retired to Rrose's, whereupon I had an awesome cocktail, called a 'Berry Strudel'. Very good. They called last drinks at 11pm, and we went home, to drink some damn fine scotch and sleep. Somewhere in there I spent some time working.
The next morning was a bit rushed - we got moving late, and got to the airport just on time. I left my wedding rings at the friends' place we were staying ... sigh. Theyre back now though. Oh well. Other than that, the trip home was uneventful, I spent it fiddling with my dev environment and reading.
After getting home, we unpacked, and tried to visit afk, which was shut. We went to the geekhouse (after stopping for a bite to eat) and met up with various peoples. A good evening of moving pictures and talk was had, then home for more sleep.
Monday was, as mondays often are, unexciting. Personal training (where I did not bust anything). Work, where I finally managed to get my dev environment up and running (Imagemagick, why must you be so hard?). The day looked up with our regular Mahjongg night with Arjen. The night ended early, though, because I fell asleep on the couch and took that as a sign I should consider going to bed.
Tuesday was a coast day. Heavy, driving rain all the way down from Brisbane. Despite minimal traffic, the highway was under speed most of the way - unsuprisingly. Fortunately, I left at 6.30am, so it wasn't really light enough for full-on whiteout (unlike some previous occasions). Spent the morning wrestling with x and nvidia to get it to deal with two screens of vastly differing proportions. Was told about afk's closure, sadface. I discovered that some delinquent had made off with my icecream, so purchased some more. Had to go knock on someone's door at about midnight to tell them to pretty please turn the tv down so I could sleep, dammit.
Today - so far I"ve discovered that someone's been making off with my bodywash. Sigh. I think it's time for some politely-worded notes under doors. I don't mind if they use my stuff, really, so long as they replace it with precisely the same item. Oh well, such is life. Also, the state of the kitchen is disgusting.
That's what's occured. Other things ...
Considering a move to Melbourne sometime in the next 12-24 months. Only for a year or two, just to get the feel of another city. And so we can see our friends down there on something like a regular basis. I'd need a cashmere allowance, though - Melbourne is really, really cold. And dry. I actually enjoyed the weather Sunday/Monday when I got back, heat and humidity and all.
I'm enjoying my shiny new laptop.
... and that pretty much covers it, I think.
