Ding

Well so i have finally dinged level 60. Got my druid there on Sunday evening.

I was a little concerned at first though, i got pretty close before i had to leave off and go run around abit and chase a Frisbee, but when i got home it looked like the realm was busted….AGAIN. So i get home and try login, no dice. ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH no i have 30k to go that is like 20 minutes you cannot do this to me. But i got in =) The ding was pretty arb though, handed the last bit of a chain quest and was still shy, so i am off to kill random mobs to level. Just need one, poor skelington it was not his day. Prowl……wait for energy……..GANKAGE……..level 60.

I feel no different though and this was my second greatest accomplishment this holiday season. (first being hanging my painting) To be honest i just feel tired. The last 10 levels have not been fun. Up till about 50 its fine you can pretty much do it by yourself, but from 51 onwards it starts getting a bit tricky. Even if the help that you have is simply guys keeping the horde from blowing smokey large holes in you with cranked up pyroblasts.

Anyway done finished klaar kaput and i quit (again).

On to far more exciting news. I turn 30 next week Wednesday and i have organised a dinner at my place for like 14 people….oooops my flat barely holds 4 happily. Oh well cosy night i reckon. Chicken, pat salad and maybe something green in nature =) Should be a hoot, might have to book of the next day like i normaly do after dinners at my flat >)

I also watched quite a few dvd’s this break too (i know i know should have been power levelling, sheeesh) Anyway most memorable was The Island (yikes the scene with the big guy on the operating table and then crawling around with a FRIKKING HOLE in his chest), The Brothers Grimm (no oscar there, but it was great fun) and A Scanner Darkly (erm, nice pictures)

I also watched Sin City (CARPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP)(Sorry Holey that is still funny) and watched The Departed last night (violent, but Dickaprio does well) and lastly on movies, saw the trailer for 300, a very special take on the Spartan stand at Thermopylae. By the same guy that did Sin City and guess what it looks massively violent and comicy.  Also the trailer for Silent Hill…..OMG.  Hey you sleep walk and say strange things in your sleep lets take you too the place of your NIGHTMARES and see how it helps, oh yeah and the place is called Silent Hill, cool name huh.  Here i know, this is a loaded gun and the safety is off. Play with it you should be fine. IDIOTS.  It does have the pilot from Pitch Black in it.

Survivor tonight….go Terry it’s your immunity day, go Terry it’s your immunity day. That man is not human, i believe he is the latest generation of cyborg fighter pilots. Shane must die (or at least get of the island, who tattoo’s their sons name on their chest. I don’t care how bonded you are)</concludes rant)

Ain’t that the truth

Secure your pockets

It would probably help if i new anything about this system, but somehow with my track record on these things i am going to go with “not good” here. being called resentful and a pickpocket can’t be right. I am not always sure with anime style characters but i also think that is a girl. Struck out again!!!!!!

 

Why do i continue to do this to myself ??

Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
Final Fantasy

 

In a more traditional vein. LEVEL 52 wooooooot !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
55 by Xmas =)

You can just see the staff house coming up in the background. Check out the crane, 1st job i have worked on with a crane. eeeeeeeeeeeeep (click to see the full picture)

The Angle is not very good on this picture, but it does give you a certain sense of how long the side of the house is.
Also the pool is about the same length again away from the end of the house. (click to see the full picture)

and here is the staff house, well the service portion of it anyway. These are garages, genny room, PABX, alarm, satellite etc.
Also possibly a computer operated irrigation system (and when i say computer i mean like the desktop system you are looking at now.)
It is going to be so clever that it can measure the water content of the ground and decide whether or not to switch itself on.
Also be able to calculate rainfall figures and weather patterns and all that stuff. Very cool tech.

Here you can see the latest in site fashion. Necessity is the mother of all invention and it seems that isoboard lends itself to hats.
It was scorching on the site this week

Here are some of the team. Site manager on the left, QS in the middle and me on the right. See hats pretty much all round. Like i said it was hot.
We are getting to the point of appointing a aircon contractor just so we can get a window shaker installed in the site office.
Be damned that the AC budget is double what it is supposed to be.

I couldn’t resist

A polar bear walks into a bar and says to
the bartender: “I’ll have a Brandy………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. and coke.”

The bartender asks:

“What’s with the big pause?”

The bear responds: “I dunno… I’ve always had them.”

Not my weekend…

Looks like my horse was just not in a running mood this weekend, figurativley speaking of course.

I found my couch. This couch is exactly what i want, it was perfect and i even liked the colour.  It would have look so awesome in…well THE AWESOME tm. (as dubbed by stv, not me although i agree completely)  Now i know you are all waiting for me to put some HUGE price tag on this couch and thus my reason i can’t have it.  Well i guess no price is still a price tag.  Expensive i could have handled, you know something to work towards, strive for even.  Something that would make the days in the office seem worth while.  Although if i do buy and expensive couch then HoleyCrusader is going to sell it so i can afford to go away next year.  Apparently i AM going away, no questions.  May have to hock my other kidney.  Anyway back to the unobtainable dream.  I walk over to a friendly and kind looking sales person and politely ask how much the couch is.  Waiting for the inevitable that will require me to sit down on said couch and take a deep breath, but no…..  His reply “sorry sir that is not for sale, it is a display item”, my response “so where do you guys get them” SR “we had it made, cause we used to sell them”  aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrggggggh curses and a pox on that store.  I will not go quietly into the night though. Someone made it and they will be found and told to make it again…

For consolation of not getting my couch i was looking forward to a grand Sunday of WoW.  Not likely.  Picked up the humongous patch from Holey and started the install only to be confronted with <you need 4Gb of free space you have 885Mb>  so i start culling everything.  This is when i realise that i actually don’t have enough space on that partition even if i took everything off.  Man XP is huge.  So i reinstalled after carefully securing all the previous patches so as to not download them again.  Woot of i go.  Of course i would be missing one patch wouldn’t I.  Yeah only the last big bastard that came through Drums of war i think it was called.  It is only like 456Mb big *sigh* *scream* BLAST.  Anyway it is almost finished 92% at the moment. (only been running since 1600 this afternoon)

Anyway i went to watch Casino Royale instead.  I am unconvinced… I do think that Mr Craig will make a good bond though. (certainly better than that other guy they had.)  He had a tough 1st time out too, so we shall wait and withhold comment at this time.

I have been eating the lemon glass cake from Nantalith all weekend to console myself about the couch. mmmmmh gooooooooooooooooooooooooood *oink oink* i did give some to my boss =)

PS: if you suck a mickey mouse long enough his ears come off too.

This guy is a menace

All of these are courtesy of George W. Bush !!!

“The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country. “

“If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure. “

“One word sums up probably the responsibility of any Governor, and that one word is ‘ to be prepared’. “

” I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.”

” The future will be better tomorrow. “
“We’re going to have the best educated American people in the world. “

” I stand by all the misstatements that I’ve made.”

” We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe We are a part of Europe.”

” Public speaking is very easy.”

“A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls. “?

“We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur. “

“For NASA, space is still a high priority. “

” Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children. “

” It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it. ”

“It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system. “

Nothing like

watching Black Hawk Down to put life into perspective…

OMG Never ever again !!!!!!!!!

Moving sucks, even if you have to move to the house next door. It still sucks.  Moving from Pringle Bay to Pinelands is like 1000 times worse, it is a 190 kilometers odd round trip and with blasted Sunday drivers on the coast road it is a nightmare.  I actually got flack from a cyclist when i overtook somebody.  I felt compelled to give him the bird.

Now add the fact that they are working in the N2 in too the mix, it takes about 30 minutes to get from this side of the power station to the other-side and this was on a Saturday afternoon.   I am not too phased about the fact that they are closing lanes and working in the road (go expansion and infrastructure improvements) but the don;t have enough control of the traffic get shrunk from 3 lanes to 1.  They need more points men directing. As most Safo’s are completely incapable of grasping the one for one system.

My Mom and sister got held up on Saturday with the first load through…..THANK GOD, cause i was wrecked from going out to Oblivion on Friday night with J&W and Bast.  The place was going off like a frog in a sock.  Mad Mad Mad.  I was in bad shape.  But anyway we soldiered on with the move and after racing backwards and forwards 3 times on Saturday my Mom and sister finally came through with the second to last load at about 2100 on Saturday night.  Let me tell Kauai food is good at the best of times, but at that time of night after waking up with a sore head, nothing compares. “THE HEALER” now has new meaning for me.

My sis and i finished of the last load on sunday morning, but we still had to use two cars.  HOWEVER we are done and my mom is nicely ensconced in her new place =))))))))))

On a sad note though we had to say good bye to my sister last night =((((( she need to be back at work today so it was a very short visit. It was good to have her out her and see her again.*

back to the grind stone…

*Note for stv if you read this, she LOVED the scarves.  Gonna use the silky embroidered one as a throw thingy or table runner though. Said it was far to nice to muck up in London.

Something from the ladies…..

Inside every older person is a younger person — wondering what the hell happened.
-Cora Harvey Armstrong-

Inside me lives a skinny woman crying to get out.  But I can usually shut the bitch up with cookies.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
-Helen Hayes (at 73)-

I refuse to think of them as chin hairs.  I think of them as stray eyebrows.
-Janette Barber-

Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
-Lily Tomlin-

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who never owned a car.
-Carrie Snow-

Laugh and the world laughs with you.  Cry and you cry with your girlfriends.
-Laurie Kuslansky-

My second favorite household chore is ironing.  My first being, hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
-Erma Bombeck-

Old age ain’t no place for sissies.
-Bette Davis-

A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do.  A woman must do what he can’t.
-Rhonda Hansome-

The phrase “working mother” is redundant.
-Jane Sellman-

Every time I close the door on reality, it comes in through the windows.
-Jennifer Unlimited-

Whatever women must do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good.  Luckily, this is not difficult.
-Charlotte Whitton-

Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.
-Caryn Leschen-

I try to take one day at a time — but sometimes several days attack me at once.
-Jennifer Unlimited-

If you can’t be a good example — then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning.
-Catherine-

When I was young, I was put in a school for retarded kids for two years before they realized I actually had a hearing loss.  And they called ME slow!
-Kathy Buckley-

I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb — and I’m also not blonde.
-Dolly Parton-

If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them.
-Sue Grafton-

I’m not going to vacuum ’til Sears makes one you can ride on.
-Roseanne Barr-

When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country.
-Elayne Boosler-

Behind every successful man is a surprised woman.
-Maryon Pearson-

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man.  If you want anything done, ask a woman.
-Margaret Thatcher-

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
-Gloria Steinem-

I am a marvelous housekeeper.  Every time I leave a man, I keep his house.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor-

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
-Eleanor Roosevelt-