I know alot about home phones, since my work does the whole home phone thing, but it’s kinda scary because their training material is a little lacking in da info. I’ve done up a flow chart for what happens when a customer calls and wants a new home phone added etc, or to become a home phone customer. I am going to flow chart it and then get feedback for it. The ATL training me said she’d be interested in a copy and maybe use it for training the next lot of homephonies.

I ended up doing an external relocation request today! How cool is that? I can move your home phone service to another house! Muahahahahaha

I had a weird dream last night. I dreamt that I forgot how to kiss. Not sure how that works, but it wasn’t that good. I have to figure out the meaning of that dream. Does anyone have any suggestions? Not lewd or crude please :P~

edited: OOPs! I needed to remove some info from that post. all fixed now!

So it’s one of those days today. I didn’t really feel like taking calls of people whinging about their phones, but I did it with grace, and then I started getting DUI calls (dial up internet) I realised how much i didn’t know about activations with codes and dealer CDs and all that BS. I have managed to get through 2 activations, and these people had to call back *sigh* for further help. I helped others by.. *drumroll* rebooting their computer!!! oh and adding *44 in front of the dialup number so they could switch off call waiting. Stops them from getting DC’d off the net when they are online.

I’ve had alot more energy to do stuff, so yesterday I did a bucket load of housework. I cleaned the dining room, lounge, entry room, my office, 2 toilets and half the bathroom and then i did the cobwebbing in some of those rooms. I haven’t finished yet. It will have to wait till I get home after work this week for me to complete some of these tasks, such as the bathroom, which is swept, but nothing has been cleaned.

Geekgirl lori has managed to get Wine working. I was asking M for help for stuff, but he’s been busy cleaning out his office and re-organising it. So I have been installing all sorts of things to try and get them fixed. In the process, I got Wine working which has let me use my IRC application mIRC. mIRC is a windows’ app. I’ve been having trouble getting to grips with Xchat. I am still going to persevere, it looks like TCL is something I can work with, heaven knows how anyone can understand perl.. I am not one of them. I am definitely not a programmer, and my scripting skills really aren’t anything to write home about - but I get by, and I can understand vaguely how TCL works.

I couldn’t sleep last night. I lay awake thinking about my relationship with M - our anniversary came and went and it wasn’t marked. Last year was the same. I don’t know what we can do about that, but I guess something needs to happen - 11 years together isn’t something to be sneezed at.

I sent these pictures to myself from work the other day.. They made me smile.. So I thought I’d share them here!

Hi there Blog..

Nice to talk to you once again. I know I have been neglecting you, I have been sleeping, and working. Bust it’s ok, I am here now, and you don’t need to worry anymore.

I went to the blog meeting today. I loved it. It was a social group of people who are slowly getting to know each other as real flesh and blood people and not just names on a screen. David from Staypuff is off to Korea next week and yes, I am jealous. I hung around too long as usual, and I was very tired, but when i got home, we had a DVD ready - Michael Moore’s 9/11. It has made me feel, very uncomfortable, and makes me concerned about a whole pile of things, including the Iraq invasion. Maybe I cried a bit.

My love affair with Fedora continues. I think I have been lucky with the install, no problems at all, but I do have some issues with my headset not working properly, so I’ll have to fix that.

I purchased a 4gig MP3 player today for $339 - a Creative Muvo - not an Ipod.. I have resisted it, even tho.. deep down, I crave an Ipod and be one of the cool kids, well maybe not crave.. but I do wanna be cool. Instead, I was thrifty and saved money. Heh, I think Frugal Bastard
would approve!

I am going to bed finally. I’ve been up 22 hours. I miss my best friend whilst he’s gallivanting around the place. I also am ashamed to mention that I forgot my anniversary with M. He forgot too, so I stayed up with him tonight to watch DVDs… but now I sleep.

I moved everything over to Linux, and I have discovered something! There are linux snobs out there! “you’re using redhat? use debian!” was one comment. Sure I could do that, I could use other flavours of *nix but I chose Fedora.. Why? Because a non linux ween0r like myself could install it, and actually find that it works! I didn’t need half a dozen files after installing it, just to get the mouse working, or the sound card, or the network card. I didn’t feel the need to demonstrate my |337ness to the world by installing a brand of linux so complex I need an IQ of 200.

Sure windows has its place in the world, but I for one and sick and tired of using Microsoft products and having my firewall alert me saying that Microsoft is trying to connect to the internet. If I wanted my software to report to microsoft everything I type, then I would have kept Microsoft on my computer. I guess I suffer a lack of trust I more or less had the firewall in place to keep information in my computer and stop it leaving my computer, not actually to keep intruders out!

I am learning some linux commands, I used to hoon around in DOS alot before Win95 was invented, and getting back to my command line roots makes me feel safe! like I am in control. I am definitely in the I am dangerous to my operating system stage at the moment, I install things, click on other things and ask that dreaded question around the world, “what does this do?” before trying it. The post is early today because I have work starting at 5.30am.. *sigh*

I am missing one of my friends too! He’s on holidays and send me SMS at each stage till he got to his destination nice and safe. I hope he has a great time, he’s visiting Canaidia! Be nice any canooks reading this!

I went out even tho I was still sick to meet a friend and managed to have lunch, but had to rush home and be sick again - but it was a nice lunch, and not all of it came back up. *note to self: no lunches at DimSum restaurants* So on the way home I began to think about MP3 players, and I think I am infected with Ipod syndrome. Everyone I know has one, and I feel the unconcious pull of peer pressure to get one. However it is warring with my GenX’ness and I am wanting to avoid what everyone else gets because we’re told it’s cool. It’s hard being me. I told M I need to get an MP3 player next week, we’re getting one, but damn it, it is NOT going to be an Ipod, if I get one, then I have failed my Gen-X roots!

I am going to convert my laptop to a linux laptop this weekend. I have a second computer which is a PC (XP) so if things break, I have backups of everything. I am thinking that the flavour of linux will be something basic which makes hardcore geeks wince - Redhat. However it’s going to be Fedora. I’ve looked up compatability charts around the place to make sure that my Toshiba Laptop doesn’t have any issues, and it looks like that RedHat9.0 and Fedora install quite nicely. For further info about Fedora… click here

I already use mostly non microsoft products: OpenOffice, Thunderbird, Sunbird, FireFox - however I want to make that conversion complete - but I do have to mention one thing, I need MSN my friends use MSN to chat to me (non IRC friends) So I will need to install WINE aswell, or I can use a AMSN product which is I think Version 6.0 platform. Not sure if it will be compatible with my friends’ who need to have the same version to chat to me, which in that case.. I’d need WINE to then run MSN6.2

So much geek blog stuff. if I got an Apple laptop and an Ipod, I’d be part of the in-crowd that did the perth blog nite

I’m home sick.. I am watching young and the restless..

Catherine and Jull are mother and daughter apparently, and Catherine has a drinking problem.. *duh* - More people are dying on the show.. I tell ya, who wants live with these people? It’s like.. people die if they know the Chancellor’s or a member of Victor’s family. Then something happened at new years, and Victor’s son and his wife discuss the fact she was involved in a murder, but she didn’t murder the man she thought she did at all, and looks like she was duped.

Yesterday it was:

“He blackedmailed me to have sex with him”
“he did what?!”
“I went back a second time”
“Again? what for?”
“to beg him to stop blackmailing me, but he just wanted more sex, he tried to rape me!”
“what the hell did you go for? why didn’t you ask for help?”
“I didn’t want you to hate me, we struggled, I hit him with a bottle of the head.. I thought he was dead”
-silence-
“why didn’t you go to the police?!”
“I was scared”

So today..

“before the snow thawed i went to move it, i drove around and around and around with it in my trunk”
“You did what?how long did you have this body in the trunk of your car for?”
“I don’t know.. it disappeared”
“You lost a body of a person you killed?”
“Yes, but it’s not the man I killed!”
“What? you mean you killed a man still alive now?”
“Yes!”
“Why didn’t you tell someone?”
“I didn’t want people to think I killed him!”
“But you did!”
“Then I found the body in a park and threw it in a sewer”
“why??”
“I didn’t want anyone thinking I did it, Please don’t tell anyone… I promise I’ll be better”
“Who else knows?!”
“Your mother.. who else could I turn to?”
“You told my MOTHER?”
“Yes”
“what happened then?”
“Well, we went to the sewer to look for it”
“You went down the sewers to look for the body of a man, who isn’t the man you thought you killed, with my mother?”
“Yes, and it was disgusting, the water had washed it deeper into the system, and when we got there, it was covered with rats and his face was unrecognisable”
“he’s unrecognisable? You never thought to go to the police? What the hell have you been thinking these last few months!??! You involved my mother!!”
“He came back”
“yes, who would have thought he would be so diabolical, his schemes are so evil”
“Why is he trying to drive me crazy?”
“yes, that’s a good question, Why..?”

This is like.. so lame. at least with Passions they know that it’s a lame show and pay themselves out.

Some of the blogs I have been reading have been soaplike too. Robert Corr is classic, with all his reporting of the blog fiasco’s and young rabid liberals, it was natural of course that eventually things would turn around and bite him back.. or try to. Not sure it’s really been that necessary to report everything the way it has been done. I’ll tell you what it reminds me of.. primary school, he said she said. It’s very juvenile, and I know Robert won’t descend to their levels, but dude, seriously, leave these young fanatical liberals to rip themselves apart and make fools of themselves. It’ll be amusing in a few years time to have this come back when they’re running for federal politics, and we can produce their blogs and say..”look at your future leaders!! Do you really want these people as your representatives?” What happened to being dignified!

Being female sucks at times.

I’ve lost some more weight *celebrate* but right now I feel crap. It’s my sister’s birthday today so I need to call her. I don’t have the energy to rant. I saw someone make a comment on some blog somewhere they won’t believe Yasser Arafat is dead till they see a picture with a wooden stake in his chest. I think on one hand, my sense of humour giggled, but on the other hand, it’s not a nice thing to say. Just wait till Howard dies, there’ll be alot of crap remembered about him for all the wrong reasons and not the ones he wants to be remembered for. Shame on him for being nasty about Arafat, not very statesman like at all! I shall survive!