I'm getting Old

Bah humbug!

Plus my elbow hurts

Engineering Enterprise and Environmental and Sanitation Engineering exams this week and then my STD* test on the 24th...


And then Fallout 3!
*STD = Steel and Timber Design

It's Alive! Now to work on my shoulders...

That is, my shoulders feel dead

So, being bored enough to actually check out Mike Paget's blog has in a roundabout way led me back here. I wish I knew what to write...

Sailing started about 2 months ago. It's been going ok. 3 wins in 5 races. I did manage to trash my centreboard hitting a rock. That was fun. Insurance thankfully paid for a replacement but I'm glad the hull didn't break.

I've also gotten into a bad habit of hitting Greg lately. One time it was my (stupid ratchet block's) fault and the other was a miscommunication but still...
I seem to have lost a lot of speed upwind lately and I'm not sure why. I think I need to actually go out and do a bit of practice but I don't have the time or motivation.

Speaking of motivation, I've been losing a lot of it with uni. I just can't be bothered to do my work and with 2 assessments and 3 exams left for this year I should be more motivated. Sigh...

Penguins, Revisited (and Reinstalled)

So I've had to reinstall my Lappy over the weekend. It just crashed for some reason. Ah well. Fun times. I've got it set up how I like it again, which is good. It involved a lot of cussing, which is not so good.

I'm discovering that the more I spend using Linux the more I hate how uncustomisable Windows is. I've got custom shortcuts galore in Linux (half of which are the windows way of doing things, it's called reflex actions) and I really miss them in XP.

Plus non-wobbly windows are just boring!

Anyway, I have to be up relatively early tomorrow so I can get more work done on (yay...) Metals Lab report.

Bed time...

Yay.... (extreme sarcasm)

20 knot southerly for Saturday

Sigh

MARINERS!!

One more win to go!!

MARINERS!!




Confused?

And now for something completely different

The Dalai Lama is apparently a huge fan of Star Trek.

Go figure...

Wind!

Seabreeze still saying heavy winds. The only good thing is that Fort Denison seems to be reading 5 knots less than the forecast does, so possibly in the harbour it's going to be about 10 to 15.

Penguins!

Well, after talking about it for the last, like, 3 or 4 months, I have finally added (more) penguin-ness to my life.

Thats right, I'm finally outing myself as a geek.


I've installed Linux



And it looks HOT!
No, really...


The final straw was XP's Media Centre crashing almost every time I started the TV. Plus a whole bunch of other niggling little things (damn Norton). So anyway, still dual-booting with XP because I refuse to be without my precious(sss... Gollum.. Gollum..) games. i.e, gaming still sucks on Linux. I think. I have yet to try out any of the native Linux games out there and probably wont be until I can get to uni and get the wireless running so I have ridiculously fast download speeds. For that I'll probably be needing Eh, Steve's help. Sigh

On the other hand, Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 works perfectly in Linux...



As to why I'm up at this hour, um, I blame..., um...

Ah, I'm waiting for Seabreeze to give me its 4am update for tomorrow's wind strength. Going sailing tomorrow. Sailing's started again. Maybe I should get some sleep...


A final thought, just to get this out there. As a result of my (starting to become a bit infamous, at least to Kylie) random internet wanderings, I came across Date to Save. Visit at own risk. This site is what happens when early teen American girls get their hands on a Bible and a dictionary and start to notice boys. Well at least, I'm assuming it's teenagers. I'd hate to think adults in America can be like that.

A quote:

Doesn't God look down on missionary dating and tells us to not be "yoked with unbelievers"?
I (like) looked up (like) yoked, and (like) the dictionary says it's (like) a "A crossbar with (like) two U-shaped pieces that (like) encircle the necks of a pair of oxen or other (like) draft animals working together.(like whatever!)" I would (like) never encourage anybody to do this on a date... (like totally)



In case you hadn't noticed, I've gone and added the words which like totally should be there...
And it gets worse.

Truly scary place. And in a way, quite sad also. Sigh


Well anyway, forecast says 14 to 15 knot nor-easter from 2 til 3.30 (rough race time). Sigh. might drop. It was predicting 11 to 13 just twenty minutes ago. I'll check it again tomorrow morning.

Anyways, bed time for me.

Tom*