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100th Entry - now with house!

And now the real reason for my frequent updates becomes apparent - I wanted to hit 100 posts on the day of settlement. (And I love you guys, and want to keep you informed of my exciting and dynamic life, obviously. ;)

So - to everyone who reads these entries, happy hundredth post. I hope that there's an occasional nugget of something interesting, useful or amusing. I'm pretty sure my rate of posting will slow down now that I've reached this milestone, so readers may one day look back at this time as a Golden Age. Or possibly a Dark Age of Far Too Many Posts To Read, who can say... :)

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Walked through the house as an owner for the first time today. Weird feeling. I checked in the shed and garage - no, wait, I checked in my shed and my garage... huh. Still weird. Anyway, checked in those places on the off-chance there was a ladder so I could get into the ceiling, but no dice, so I wandered down to Mitre 10 and bought one - the first permanent thing that I bought for the house, I guess. (I've just realised that I left the light on in the attic. First time for that too, I guess. ;)

Before leaving, I set off borer bombs, and watched through the door to see the cool fumes - which meant I was still around when the security system went off. Luckily, I'd talked to the monitoring guys, but it was really annoying, because I thought I'd dealt with this when I deliberately disconnected the fire alarm. Anyway, I dived into the thickening fumes, poked ineffectually at the keypad, gave up, went to the kitchen, went outside, tried to work out from the manual how to turn off the shrieking siren, went back in, poked at the keyboard some more until I happened on the appropriate combo to turn it off, and then got out as soon as poss.

So - still a weird feeling, but how much of that is the aftermath of borer bomb fumes, I really can't say. :)

I was going to be playing in a game with Jenni and others tonight (henchmen of a Bond-style villain), but Jenni isn't feeling up to snuff, so I'll do house stuff instead. Nothing big, since the furniture will be arriving on Thursday - but I loaded the car and the van in anticipation of doing something like this last night, so I should be able to shift a fair amount. I keep telling myself - every box I deal with now is one I won't have to deal with later.

Actually, if I can manage to move my matress, I could even move in tonight. Exciting!

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"It was pragmatic!"
"It awasn't pragmatic, it was sloppy and lazy!"
"It was pragmatic - it was a work-around for a bug in my brain-code!"
- justification for making a tonne of machine-name aliases, so the person in question doesn't have to remember which way around a two-part name went.

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I've recommended Hitherby Dragons before, but I just wanted to share this awesome quote of optimism with you from Ms Bergstrom's replies to her comments:

"We live in an age of miracles and fuckheads, and the secret truth is, the fuckheads have always been there, and the miracles haven't."

This is a sentiment that I'm totally in sympathy with.

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Called TelstraClear today, to find out what my phone number is. As it turns out, the guy who booked me to be connected up on Thursday was only shifting my cable modem - I wasn't going to get the phone or TV then, and they couldn't tack activation of them onto the Thursday visit. So I won't actually get a phone or tuner until March 1st, though I'll get the important one (cable modem) much sooner. I guess it's good I'll be able to work from home that day while I wait for the mythical Saturn guy to appear.

In a way, it's reassuring - it helps fill up my quota of stupid little annoying things that I have to deal with.

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When will I have a housewarming? This is a good question. Not this weekend, definitely - maybe the 4th of March? Maybe I'll have flatmates by then. :)

Posted by svend at February 15, 2005 11:21 AM