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Miscellany
I met up with my friend Jaimie and his boy Justin the week before last. They were in Australia for a family gathering that monopolised much of their time, but we got to catch up 
Jaimie's looking good. He's got himself a beard now, and with the long hair he's looking something of a cross between George Michael, Michael Hutchence and The Highlander. I kept expecting him to stand up with a sword and bellow "There can be only one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!". 
)" alt=")" class="middle" width="15" height="15" /> We forgot all about the jetlag/time difference and I'm pretty sure I kept them out way past their bedtime. Sorry guys. 
I've been riding to work the last couple weeks, two or three times a week. I ride into town, catch the train either to Rocklea or Oxley, and ride to work from there. It's working for me so far. I have what I think is good news about the bird I hit the other day. I rode past that section of path a day or two later and found no trace of a bird corpse or detached bird wing. So I think the bird is OK.
I've been particpating in a fun little thing held by the Team Estrogen forums, what's been called the Bicycle Mystery Tour. Basically, a trinket (in this case, a small doll) is sent from member to member, and each of us takes photos of the doll in interesting locations. I received the doll a couple weeks ago, and took her to Stradbroke Island for a bit of fun in the sun. I had fun too 
I've brought my PC upstairs from downstair's dungeon. In hindsight, I've no idea why I did this. I haven't used the PC in over a year, so everything on it is out of date. The room downstairs is much bigger, has much more room to put the PC's various bits and pieces, has airconditioning, for crying out loud.. why would I rather sit up here in the heat than in that room? Anyway, having brought the machine up here and set it all up, I'm finding that I don't like it anymore. I actually don't like this machine anymore. Granted, it's missed out on all the customisations I've made to the laptop in terms of software setup, configuration etc, so maybe once that's all sorted, I'll be happier. Meanwhile, I trialled a bookmark synchronisation program called XMarks. My advice to you: don't bother. It managed to completely screw up the bookmarks on the PC's browser. It tried to merge my laptop's bookmarks and the PC's bookmarks (my objective being that both PC and laptop would end up with identical merged copies of same), but it made a complete hash of it. I'm just going to bite the bullet and screw around manually importing the laptop's bookmarks to the PC. Bear in mind I'm not convinced I'm going to keep using the PC. I played a bit of Red Alert 3 on it the other day and it just wasn't fun anymore. I don't know what's wrong with me!
I finally finished entering in all of Games Depot's transactions into the accounting software. I couldn't be fucked doing the BAS or tax return or any of that crap, so I've handed it off to the accountant to do. I don't care how much it costs to finalise the books, I just want it out of my life.
Anyway, there's a braindump for the last couple weeks. Only a week and a bit until work shuts down for the xmas break. I can't wait!