God help me…. 
What’s a pirates second favourite mode of transportation?
A CARRGGHH!
What’s a pirates first favorite mode of transportation?
A ship. Duh.
What disease do pirates dread most?
SARRRRRRRRRS
What are the pirate’s favourite instruments?
HAARRP and GUITAARRGH. (and trombone)
What’s the pirate say when he screws up?
DAAAARN
What does the pirate say when he hears these jokes?
HAARRRDY HARR HARR
Make it stop please god make it stop!
NEVAARRRGGGHHHH
If you indicate to your manager (who the work that you do, and wants your career to progress), that you want to be conscientious and ‘take the next step’ with your work/career/soul-selling-lifestyle …. beware……
What you’ll get is a $500k+ project of company-wide visibility, 2 years worth or client desires and millions of revenue at stake.
Oh yeah, boy am I the fucktard today…
Regards
A
I think I need a holiday. No, make that I definitely need a holiday, and a challenge.
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Took the girl out to dinner, here. Had an absolutely amazing time. Relaxed and had fun and smiled more than I have in a significant amount of time.
The weekend takes us here for various quantities of alcoholic beverages, yahoo-behaviour and general chatter.
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Betwen the start and finish of this post i’ve booked two weeks worth of holidays. One week here and another week at a holiday house here.
I feel better already.
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Got an e-mail from Dan, which makes me miss Brisbane, and particularly the two boys. It was great hanging out with them on the weekends and I can’t begin to tell you how much I miss seeing them on a regular basis.
However, to alleviate this i’m taking initial steps for us to go to here in 2005.
All in all i’m getting there.
Loving all your work
A
It’s the girls birthday today, and now more than ever i’m realising how bummed out i’m feeling about a few things that have been going on lately. (no, none of them include the girl!).
My work is starting to pull at me in directions i’m otherwise not entirely happy about. Whilst I love the people that I work with and what I do, i’m sure that not all of my colleagues enjoy the same enthusiasm or support for what i’m doing or what I stand for.
It’s basically a ‘forest for the trees’ situation. I’ve seen so much of the day-to-days with the trees, that there ain’t no forest anymore. Next refuge (ie holiday) won’t be until at least early next year and i’ve started losing focus on the bigger picture, what i’m here for and what I represent. This (thankfully) isn’t just with me, but with the entire team.
I’m taking some time out for training in the next month or so which should be positive, but I think I need more of it (challenges) to keep me interested and focussed on where I want/need to be.
And, I still need to work on that personality of mine
Loving all your work
A
I remember when I was about 8 years old and I was involved in a theatre production that required us tiddly-wink boys not to wear any shirts. This was, of course, fine until I realised that at the end of the day that I had lost my shirt and needed to take the bus home.
I can remember the pain and humiliation of travelling the 35 minutes with other kids taunting me for not being dressed, I remember how I felt when I was helpless and scared and trapped in a corner.
Thankfully one of the older kids lent me a jacket for some of the journey home. I remember getting home and crying because I was terrified of not only the loss of my shirt, but of my dignity.
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Next time you see me frantically scampering around because I can’t remember where something is, or desperate because something isn’t perfect, this may help you to understand one of my inadequacies.
The past few days update:
- Bought the girls present, v. nice (if I do say so myself!)
- Went to an ‘uber-wanky’ charity dinner, but had an absolutely fantastic time, waking up with a decent hangover but looking forward to the day
- Continuing to enjoy the unit, the home-life
- Parents have finally started travelling (or in the next fortnight) and will be down for a week which i’m looking forward to
- Ironed out some more work-related ’stuff’, which is always good, generally making progress on all fronts
I’m actually pretty content, though to my distress i’ve learnt that Belle is shutting down her site, whilst Eve is locking hers, never to be seen by the light of day again. I understand the motivations for both, financial, career and personal. When I consider the impact that this website has to my life on a day-to-day basis, I wonder why I even bother. Though time and time again i’m pulled back to the premise that I did this as a whole-of-life concept: a breakdown of the who’s, what’s, when’s, where’s and hows of my world and an opportunity for me to express some of the pain (and joy) i’ve enjoyed while on the journey…
Back to your regularly scheduled bullet-point posting…
- My website links page needs a serious update
- I need to spend some money on a developer to update the things I have not the time, nor the patience for
- I downloaded ‘Skype’, though I realise that by being a total fuck you don’t have anyone left who wants to talk to you anymore!
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What’s there to say really. Work is good, coffee is good, girl is good, apartment is good, career is good. It’s actually times like this that I feel the worst though. The chaos in my head has an incredibly difficult time contemplating that things are OK. They’re not fantastic or fabulous (debt-free, no rich… very rich, would be much better), but i’m happy. I’m just not sure how to react to it all that well.
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I think that’s all I have to say today… ta-ta!
Loving all your work
A
Howdy-ho peoples,
Well this is the third (and hopefully) final test to ensure that the
mail-to-blog script is working correctly. If it does then i’ll be a
generous soul and will load up a decent ‘how-to’ file on configuring
this beast for all my brudda’s at Bloghosts to see. **
Only thing I need to be sure of is that the post doesn’t include any
references back to my beloved-company, my associates or my illegimate
child in Bangladesh.*
The weekend bought many great things. Alcohol, sex and Yum-Cha
(yum-cha virgin here folks.. sad I know). So generally great food,
great alcohol, great partner, great times. How could I possibly ask
for more than that?
Other than that things have been moving along well, and I’m suprised
(and happy!) to say that things have become a little less stressful of
late. Have the significant other’s present to buy, but that’s
essentially in the bag.
Restaurant is booked, tables are ready and we’re gearing up to three
weeks of girl-dom with various parties to celebrate her coming of age
(30).
Hope this all reaches you well (more importantly I hope it doesn’t get
eaten up by the server) and you’re keeping busy.
Regards,
A
* Found out that it *does* add all sorts of crap to my post… *sigh*
** Please note the ‘brudda’s’ reference was weak-hearted at best. Have
no idea why I wrote it. More importantly I have no idea why I wrote it
but then took the time to write a disclaimer… *sigh*….
When I think about myself over the past few months, and what i’ve started to become, i’m overwhelmed with a feeling that i’m inevitably heading towards the path of expensive rental properties (check), live-in girlfriends (check) and 24/7 suit-cladden attire (definite check).
I took my earring out, I started dressing more snappily, I’m swimming every day to help replenish my phsyique. I run meetings and start teleconferences, I authorise cash expenditures.
I feel like a total wanker, and my friends are making it clear that i’m becoming one.
Friday Night: Here … Well not the university, but the city…. (it’s the best link I could come up with on zero notice…)
Saturday Morning: Nieces 1st b’day. Cute.
Saturday Night: Dinner. V. Nice
Saturday Night Mk II: Good Film
Sunday: Chick Flick - Not too bad
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And to add to the excitement:
- Cleaning
- Sleeping
- Eating
- Muchos Music
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I am removing a link for Eve’s website (ironically I can’t link it in this post.. *sigh*) at her request. Eve and I are friends, though because of past history and current events (ie my living arrangement), she doesn’t feel comfortable with my link to her page.
I’m notably pissed because a 5-second Google search will bring up both of our pages. You have a public page, you take the risk.
Concurrent to her statement, I know that I have toned down what I say at sciron.org and I now make my references ordinarily generic.
If anyone from work was to read this and pass it on, well they’d know I talk about my life, but nothing more than they couldn’t know without asking me in person. Frustrating, definitely, though realistic and such I live with it.
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Happy Father’s Day …. To all the Dad’s out there, you’re a special part of the world, and one day I hope to join you in the adventure. (just not yet!)
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