..oops

It seems that rashly declaring I was back and blogging at a time when I am busier and more unsettled than I have been for years was.. well.. rash.

So.

Seems like I will be resuming my usual modus craperandi of irregular and erratic updates with little content or interest.

Start as you intend to continue I say!

In an attempt to be slightly less shite here's a brief recap of recent events:

I'm working in a new job (still for the Attoney General's Dept tho) which is good and challenging, although at the moment it mostly involves reviewing functional specification documents. More than a thousand pages all up I'd say. My eyes are beginning to crust over..

My long-term relationship has broken down (I did the breaking, truth be told).

Finding accomodation in inner Sydney sucks big fat hairy arses. But I've got a place to move into on the 27th Nov, so things are progressing - albeit slowly. Now all I have to do is buy everything all over again.

The stress of recent events has caused me to lose somewhere between 5 and 7 kgs (my bathroom scales are as erratic as me) and I'm only now getting my appetite back. Everyone keeps telling me I look great tho - which, oddly, makes me feel worse. I don't recommend it as a weight-loss strategy.

Emotional trauma and my general fucked-upness has so far managed to turn me into a hypersensitive asshole, irreparably damaging at least one friendship. Let alone losing the person I've been closest to for years.

I've seen more of Sydney in the last few months and been out & about more than the previous couple of years. The upside of being alone and having to find my own fun/occupy my overworked brain.

I'm sure there are more things I've done in the last year or so but, obviously, my mind is still focussed primarily on the events of the last couple of months.

More to come, hopefully. Fear it.

it's alive!

..ish

After judicious application of magical electricity to the essential areas...

My nipples are still smoking.

I'll be easing back into this so be gentle with me...

...with a whimper not a bang

Or more precisely a 'meh'.

I think it's time to draw a line under this blog and call it done.

It's lasted 5 years and has pretty obviously run it's course. I barely update it, almost never say anything personal, pertinent or insightful and just don't really have the interest in it anymore. Hell, I haven't checked my site stats for months.

I've no regrets: although losing the anonymity was a blow I didn't get fired, lose friends or get cut out of anyone's will (so far as I know..). And I've met some wonderful, weird and wonderfully weird people - some of whom I've been lucky enough to meet in person too.

I'm loathe to say I'll never be back (concocting blog-posts in my head is something I still do) but this is my official retirement.

It's been fun people. Thank you all for your comments, links, email, chat, etc. And thank you to those people whose blogs inspired me to do this - especially those sites I still visit with pleasure (and envy *s*).

Ciao.

let the day come soon...

My wealth is measured in terabytes of lolcats.

truly outrageous

historic

the biggest game in town

What am I going to do in two weeks when this is all over?

So. Much. Fun.

Even dead former Presidents are jumping on the bandwagon.

Also great for people who love stats and maps and history.

Oh yeah, NZ is having their own game. It's certainly more relevant to me, but doesn't appear to be as much fun - either NZ doesn't have as many batshit crazies or they're just hiding well.

For all the kiwis - check out what they think of us in the US:

New Zealanders do not want Americans to know that their country is a sleeping giant. A sleeping giant that will wake when B. Hussein Obama is elected and destroy our great, beautiful, brave, freedom-loving country.

Their prime minister's middle name is Al Qaeda. She has Kim Jong Il on speed dial. And they are ready and waiting to connect the greatest force of terror ever imaginable.

and

You've never been to New Zealand. I have. I've lived there. It is definitely a Muslim country. And it wants war with the US. New Zealanders hate Americans. They will invade if McCain gets in. They're ready and waiting and they have nuclear weapons.

Vote McCain - Save The World God Condemn New Zealand.

God I love America.

nixnet

I have no access to the internets at home. My computer has bricked and the lappy I've borrowed is fritzing also.

So updates/replies are going to be delayed and sporadic.

I doubt anyone will actually notice the difference but I thought I'd give a head's-up to anyone who was getting annoyed.

For once the problem is not (just) my general ennui and lethargy!

things I never knew

And I'm glad I didn't at the time - the eary 80s cold war was a nervous time to grow up in. But this is how one man, Stanislav Petrov, prevented World War III.

Not doing something can be incredibly heroic.

snippet

Yesterday I gardened. Today, the tips of my fingers are sore.

In less important news the LHC is offline for a couple of months, averting the end of the world. Well, postponing it. More time to max out your credit cards!