Inverted Reality

My mum (mom for the rest of the world) knit me a woolen sweater for christmas, it’s really nice, I love it. There’s just something nice about wearing something made of wool. Funny considering when I was a kid I hated the itchiness and scratchiness of wool. Perhaps you learn to appreciate the natural feel of wool with age. (and I don’t mean the wool is aging, *sigh*)

Anyway, wool might look nice and feel nice, but it needs to be well kept and maintained. YOU CANT throw it in your washing machine! *gasp*

Here’s instructions on how to care for your woolen garment so it lasts, as written in an email from my mum!

wash them like this:
1. in the laundry basin in luke warm water with a squirt of baby shampoo
2. squeeze it out
3. rinse it off in luke warm clean water
4. put it in a pillow case and throw it in the washing machine in the ’spin’ cycle for a few minutes.
5. lay out a towel on your coffee table, or floor, and lay out the sweater to dry.

Perhaps if there’s enough demand I’ll model the sweater for ya’s hahaha

urgh! I don’t know how else to explain how my body feels right now. I’m too old for parties and constant drinking! Melissa and I went to a party last night, it was fun, we had BBQ, and tequila jelly shots. Enough said.

The last couple of weeks off work has been great. My mother came from the UK, we went down south to Margaret River and stayed in a lovely cottage on 5 acres (same one we stayed in for christmas ‘05). What a nice break away. The wine was GREAT this year.

Melissa is 29 weeks pregnant now, coming along nicely! I’m very excited about being a dad and have lots of work around the house on the go, in preparation.

I’m going to try and get fitter this year. At least walk the dog more, and do some sit ups or something. Beer gut is nasty! I also want to landscape the front and back yards, make more money with my own business, learn something completely new, get a pay rise at work (no chance, govn jobs, urgh), get a phat new monitor for my desk at home (when my own business makes more money!), and just be a good father to my little girl when she comes into my life.

I’ve had a terrible ebay experience over the last couple of months. I bought a pocket bike off ebay (those little 49cc mini bikes). I thought it would be fun to ride around with some mates who have them. It still hasn’t arrived after paying for it in mid-Nov. I’ve raised a dispute on ebay, and hope the seller gets my bike or money back to me really soon. I’ve heard some great excuses! anyway….

The in-laws are finally going to buy a MAC. We’ve convinced them. Yay for that. No more viruses and spyware to kill their machine. We’re going to get them the top-model 20″ iMac. I have no doubt they will just love it!

My websites are going okay, not much has progressed on a lot of them. My popular site leopardtricks.com is doing fairly well, and has over 11,000 subscribers. I did have almost 13,000 just before Christmas! Amazing! I expect to have a lot more visitors during January as people get Mac’s or Leopard for Christmas.

I’ve got two websites to build for a client. I’ve already started on one. Thats good. All of my sites and clients sites were down the other day for over a day. Thats bad. My server seems fine, but my host/provider had some kind of network issues *sigh*. Lucky I don’t have any super critical web sites on my server!

Anyway, it’s 9:30 AM now, enough dribble. Have a great 2008 (that rhymes!) and smile!

I’ve neglected the lawn at my place for some time now. I think it’s the follow-on from the winter season. Winter means no need to water the garden and lawn, it gets neglected and left, the weeds go crazy, it’s not nice. A few days ago I bit the bullet and bought a lawn mower and edger. Both old school used items (The best kind). a Scott Bonnar 17″ reel mower with a 3hp Briggs and Stratton strapped to it. And a big three-wheel edger with a kawasaki 4-stroke attached. Hammer time.

I took to the lawns and edges like a wild man with ants in his pants. The result is pleasing, despite bringing to my attention that the lawn needs some real care. I’ve been researching lawn care a little lately. Fertilising, etc. Hopefully by Christmas my lawn and gardens look absolutely sensational! we shall see! my back hurts.

Today I installed Fedora 8, things went smoothly and it didn’t take long. I’ve not had a chance to put the OS through it’s paces, but it’s looking good and I’ve not come across any issues!

www.fedoraproject.org

Today I upgraded the site to wordpress 2.3, is was fairly painless, requiring just some copying of my old theme/plugs/content and config file from my old wordpress install to the new one.

I’m taking tomorrow off work to prepare things for the 30th party that Melissa and I are having (joint party)

It’s mostly sorted but there’s still things to do! It’s fancy dress as a movie character. I’m sure it will be a crack up, I’ll be sure to get plenty of photos!

I’ve convinced a mate of mine to write the occasional post on my blog! So welcome Alex to Inverted Reality!

I’ve changed the site theme a little, and will be working on it more and more as time goes on….

now excuse me while I go have a cup’a'noodles

So a couple of weeks ago, Melissa and I went to the cinema to check out Transformers, with some mates.

I watched transformers as a child (cartoon), but can’t say that I was heavily into it, so I was unsure what to expect. Let me just say the special effects were mind blowing, the entire movie is just action packed. You just cant look away! I think Michael Bay has a winner here…. Oh, speaking of Directors, I’m sick of people saying “wow, what a great spielburg movie”… Can I just say that spieburg was a producter, not a director for this film. No doubt he had something to do with the movie, but lets just give Michael Bay the credit he deserves!

On another note, the latest Harry Potter film is due out this week. Exciting times indeed. Can I say that J.K.Rowling is really RAKING IN THE MONEY RIGHT NOW!? damn. Everyone knows she already has more wealth than the Queen of England. hah. Bullcrap aside, I’m looking forward to the latest film, despite not being a real Potter-fan.. I’ve not read any of the books, but the movies are pretty cool. (I’m not a book guy).

This saturday I’ll be cranking up all of the potter films on my home cinema, back to back. Marathon style. Following this we will probably go watch the latest movie at the cinema on Sunday. bring it!

If only we could have a Ghostbusters 3, Goonies 2, etc… I’m an 80’s adventure movie junkie! I guess it’s what I grew up with!

How much do I like Fridays? A LOT. Let me tell you, there’s no better feeling than FRIDAY.

This week feels like it’s taken a while, I think it’s because I haven’t really done anything important, special or fun.

Whats the go for the weekend? Well tonight, nothing, relax time! might watch a movie. Tommorow it’s all go, car to wash, and a trip to prep. I’m heading to Bunbury on Sunday morning (early) for some off-road r/c racing! It’s the WAORMA Bunbury Interclub! I’ll be running 4WD 1/10 Electric. fun stuff.

Enjoy your weekend!