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Fast Forward - greetings from 2017

Thursday, 1 March 2012 @ 9:33pm

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Kate of kate says stuff did a “Fast Forward” manifestation type post where she projected herself into 2017 and wrote about life as she would like it to be then. I’m giving it a go, partially because it sounds amusing and partially because I currently have trouble thinking past later in the day never mind any further.

Not on track. Don't panic.

Sunday, 26 February 2012 @ 5:10pm

The scripts are still done (it’s been months and I still haven’t changed/edited).

I don’t know if I’m on track to be able to start animating by the end of the year. Just thought about the amount of work involved, there’s sound and voice actors and…I have a low level panic attack happening in the back of my brain somewhere which is making me think about hyperventilating but up here on the surface I’m calm and all is well and I just keep plugging and thinking about writing reviews for Lightwave 11 (I got a free upgrade because I bought 10 a couple of months ago which I thought was very awesome of NewTek) and gIMP.

Life and !schooling in 2012

Sunday, 19 February 2012 @ 12:11am

Apparently there was a bit of a kerfuffle in the moderator department, which meant I completely forgot about the moderation until the new moderator rocked up on my door towards the end of my work period. Oops. Fortunately I work from home and can make up hours easy, and I hadn’t gone out to pick up my shiny new computer yet, though I had gotten dressed to do so. So all she saw was that my place is a mess, which is about normal and I don’t clean up for anyone!

Massive Christmas Island photopost

Sunday, 12 February 2012 @ 10:44pm

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Everything that happened after the dangers of parking your ship next to a cliff, which I would have posted if my sites hadn’t been playing silly buggers. Everything is okay now, which means I’ll be posting about as much as I was inclined to post before.

Spider

Weird looking spider

Playing catchup

Tuesday, 7 February 2012 @ 3:41pm

I am all over the joint! So what else is new.

Now according to the provider the backup malarky was caused by me having a duplicate account on another server, probably from when I got my ssl certificate and needed to be moved to a server that could handle that. The duplicate has been removed and miscellaneous fallout resulting from that dealt with. Unfortunately it means November posts and users from here, Red Planet and WANLN are now completely gone. I can repair the blog thanks to the Artician feed, can’t do anything about lost blog comments or the other two and that makes me very sad.

The dangers of parking your ship next to a cliff

Sunday, 8 January 2012 @ 1:10pm

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If a storm rolls in unexpectedly (or just unexpectedly fast), it could get battered quite severely.

Ship getting battered into a cliff by waves during a storm

This was taken a bit earlier today by JJ who raced down with his camera as soon as my parents came back from church and informed us that the waves at the Cove were knocking the cargo ship that was in about the place. Rumour has it the storm rolled in quicker than they could move the ship or possibly one of the moorings snapped. Either way there is/was concern for the cantilever (if it breaks, we can’t load phosphate anymore til it’s fixed, and that thing would take ages to rebuild plus has been there forever).

Family themed photos and miscellaneous ramblings

Saturday, 7 January 2012 @ 7:44pm

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Yesterday, we went out for a drive. Christmas Island isn’t the biggest island in the world, if you point the car’s nose down the road and drive without stopping along any major track you’ll end up back where you started in about half an hour.

We went out in an exploratory mood and took many photos. Of course all the photos JJ took while we were out and about were with Kerchunk and nothing on Snap so there’s nothing I can post. We’ll just have to go out again and take more when the battery charger arrives.

New age, new year, not new resolutions, and photos

Sunday, 1 January 2012 @ 4:28pm

Happy new year everyone! gleki ninyna’anunsla if you speak lojban :)

Somehow, from somewhere, I have this 7 year old.

kids getting ready for cake

The Little Big Boy turned 7. He requested and got a chocolate cake which my mum made. It was very tasty. The “oldies” were commenting on how fast he turned 7. I’m trying to work out how he survived that long ;)

Christmas shenanigans and everything else

Monday, 26 December 2011 @ 4:19pm

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I’m home! And damn it feels good.

Christmas shenanigans

Christmas Eve: Sprat wanted me to help wrap the last of the presents. I asked if she was sure she wanted MY help. Apparently she was. So we settled down to wrap. First thing I did was accidentally tear the wrapping paper. She then suggested I cut sticky tape as we had run out of tape dispenser tape. I cut a few strips and then broke the sticky tape.

Backup malarky and prelimary theAbysmal scripts

Sunday, 18 December 2011 @ 3:17pm

If this post disappears, it’s entirely my fault as I told the provider that this site could just be rolled back to the last backup (assuming the last backup he had was more recent than the one I had).

What happened with the backups? It’s a long and sordid story.

Actually it’s not that long, just slightly confusing. See the provider does scheduled backups as all decent providers should. But last month and earlier this month something very strange happened. Three of my sites (this one, Red Planet and WANLN) lost a month’s worth of posts. It’s entirely possible the other ones rolled back as well but these ones were the most noticable as they get updated constantly.