A few days ago, some computers appeared for sale on the intranet at work, so I picked up for $75 a Tang PIII 450; 64 megs of ram; 4Gig HDD; 40X CDRom; floppy disk; 15″ monitor; keyboard and assortment of cables. I commandeered some of my friends during our “lunch” break at 4.00pm and dumped the lot in my car, and when I got home, told dad I had purchased a computer to put together something decent for my sister. She needs a basic system for her work.

So, yesterday we dug up some ram to throw into the machine and bugger, it only takes slow SDRam *sigh* but that’s ok. We also found an obsolete copy of Win2k and installed it on the machine and I did the service pack thing, and then installed on it non windows bits. All things mozilla, and open office. Basically it was to ensure my sister had something that ran well and not too sluggish. It has been a success. She has a computer that works - mostly thanks to me! *struts*

What the hell kinda country do we live in?

We’re allowing the US to test their weapons in this country? They’re the same size country as us.. a few thousand square meters bigger than us according to CIA - They can throw the stupid bombs around in their own back yard. It’s kind of imperialistic, bit like the english in the montebello islands, and nuke testing @ Maralinga in South Australia.

Who think’s we’re now a bigger target for terrorism?

and Tony Abbott can keep his rosaries off my ovaries thanks. He’s a moron if he thinks women have abortions at the drop of a hat. We don’t have abortion rates which are horrible, of course.. his recent chat with the ArchBishop prior to the Catholic Churches declaration that Howard is the man, and now after the election “abortion” becomes the topic ? Coincidence? I think not.

Right winged fascists!

The news today..

My internal alarm bells are ringing, is anyone elses?

Govt wants to Centralise Uni’s
Govt wants to remove rights of staff to have their unions negotiate
Govt wants to legislate abortion.

The 14 Defining Characteristics Of Fascism; by Dr. Lawrence Britt

I think Australia meets most of that criteria, if not all of it.

Well not sure what happened to my post I sent from work, but it’s not arrived here and now I have to sit and remember it for all it’s glory.

M has always said that I spoil surprises and have a natural instinct for it. I think perhaps he is right after today.

I was going through my schedule for work after being notified i was going to be doing DUI training, I already have training this week for my CertIII in Telecommunications, but the DUI side is so I can talk to people wanting to hook up their internet service and needing help if things break.

I also noticed that I had some “other duties” listed during that week, and no entry saying what they were.. So being the curious creature I am, I emailed my TL - she replied saying she had no idea and to ask the OTL. This made me suspicious. He was not there at the desk having gone home.

A small bell went off in the back of my mind, and I started searching for an email about the presentation of the quarterly awards. If you remember, a couple of weeks ago I mentioned I had first won the team award for the month for Best Customer Service, and I then won the Team award for the quarter for Teamwork. So this award presentation is for the overall winner in Customer Care for the last Quarter.

So I dig out the email and look at the time and date, they match. Bingo! Then comes the rush of excitement, I must have won something, the email says “winners have had time scheduled to be at the award” I have had time scheduled. Now my next thought is, what have I won.. is it me or a cruel joke? do I get first, second or third place?

So there I was typing up my post, which was supposed to be alot better than this one grinning like a cheshire cat, and the guy next to me says “what are you grinning about?” *EEK* “nothing!” says I, hiding the blog post, “just making an entry into my diary” He nods and the phone rings - thank god. Discussion diverted, and I email the missing post.

I am going to look like such a goob if it turns out I am not a winner in this quarterly prize thingy. Then I’ll be a loser instead. Heh.