You're doing it wrong

Here was supposed to be yet another whingepost about how I’m doing everything wrong and there is now nothing that I “can” drop. So I’m going to see if I can somehow write myself into doing “it” right.

The computer room is a f***ing mess

There is more crap than there should be on the desk. Most of it is paper that needs to be filed or recycled, and I have just been too damn lazy to process them into the appropriate location.

Obvious point of view shift?

Last night’s bizarro dream is probably going to prompt interpretations of changing points of view or something to that effect. It was my first thought when I finally managed to peel my eyes open this morning.

I was in what appears to be my room at Crazy Dog House (big room, always same layout, sometimes differently decorated, though the bed appears built in or extremely heavy as it doesn’t appear to move or change), I found some old contacts (which I have never owned never mind seen before) in crazy colours. I got it into my head to try them on.

Not quiet on the !schooling front

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I just haven’t been writing about it.

Last week, 6yo drew a picture of Venom from Spiderman with black whiteboard marker on paper, including sounding out the name and checking with JJ after writing it out.

This week just gone has been crazy.

Is [this] a [that] killer?

I hang around on LinkedIN. With Google+ in its invite-only “field trial” stage and people writing blog posts raving about it, LI’s Questions have been inundated (or maybe people just aren’t reading before posting, how unusual) with “Is Google+ a Facebook killer?” style questions.

Same question all over teh interwebz by anyone who cares to write a blog post about it.

Other similar ones that pop up are “Is [this shiny new Blackberry|Android thing] an iPhone killer”?

Back to the house on the cliff

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The vege garden was a freaking mess. I noticed it when we arrived at the house. We hadn’t needed the excessive driveway down the side so had converted it into a slightly wider than driveway half acre long vege strip. And there were weeds and elephant ear ferns growing all through it.

I informed JJ that I was going to get rid of the weeds. I intended my gloves into existance (I didn’t go get them, they just appeared in my hands and I put them on) and got to work. A few weeds later the patch was not only clear, it was also thriving with many veges not far off harvest.

World has problems. Quit the rhetoric and fix it.

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[I was leeching a bunch of images which have since vanished]

What I love best about my current job is the inclination of the supervisor to tend towards wanting to “get shit done”. As with all large projects (and it is a decent sized Drupal project we’re working on), you want to plan it as best you can to try to minimise stuff-ups and associated explosions down the track.

Wacky wednesday

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Yesterday, it seemed like it was going to rain just enough to be annoying for walking to the shops down the road (but not for the dams, more rain is good for dams), so I decided to drive to Carousel and let the kids have a play at the playground before grabbing snacks and doing the top up shopping.

Review: Wacom Cintiq 12WX

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I’ve been lusting after one of these since shortly after they first came out. This year, I finally had to retire my beloved Intuos3, partly because it was getting laggy and jittery in its old age after much use (it was a wedding present, wedding was 6 years ago), and partly because my toddler walked off with the pen and I haven’t seen it since. Following was angst over whether I should take the cheap simple upgrade to the Intuos4 or splash out and be broke for a while getting a Cintiq.

Itsa meeee, ryivhnn!

Self portrait. Don’t be fooled by my expression, I have none (literally, haven’t done face morphs yet, I am just in t-pose and the mouth is slightly open because it’s easier to model and pick points when they’re not just about overlapping as happens with closed mouths). I also have no hair to speak of, need a bump map on my lips, my earrings, tattoos and minute freckle splash are missing, and I’m not convinced my eyes are that accurate (I was however too lazy to go look in the mirror for that long). I am wearing my favourite shirt (which has an odd red border around the top which I need to figure out how to get rid of) and my pants of power (which look dodgy, but I kind of figured out how to do camo :).

Review: The Naked Butcher

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Earlier today, we went on a mini road trip to Mundaring to visit The Naked Butcher , on the offchance that they had meat I could eat. As it is round the back of the small shopping complex it’s in, we managed to completely miss it and ended up in Sawyer’s Valley before we realised we’d gone too far and doubled back.