Went out tonight for a bit with some old aquaintances. After a few hours I was bored as hell so I pretended my girlfriend (hehe) called me on my mobile and I left. ...and went home.

My computer is giving me the shits. It takes so long to load on a 5400RPM drive so I grabbed the two 20gig I had spare and slapped them onto the fastrack66 raid card. Which meant a reinstall so I did. It worked a lot faster but when on the new install I added the drivers for the fastrack-on-board card the whole thing shit itself. Tried a bit of different stuff for an hour (drivers, etc) and then gave up and put the old drive back in. Promise's world-renowned SHIT drivers. See, the on board raid has two 40 gig 7200 drives attached to it, but being an on board 'lite' fast track card it only supports 1 device per channel. Hence two drives only. The FT66 card I've had since 1998 i think and it can have two devices per channel. So I figured I'd disable the on board and use all the drives on the one card. Except the cables won't reach. Damn UDMA 300mm cable limit. gagh.

Anyways I scored a new (old) burner from work that does 24x which rocks compared to my old 6x burner.

It seems I'm not going to Sydney for work anymore coz they say they can make do with the one person. Which means less effort for me although I wouldn't have minded a junket. waaa etc.

Superb rain on Friday. Garden nice and soggy. Oh yeah, Friday night the power went off so I had to use tea candles for about 2 hours. Thank god for the laptop (batteries) or else I'd have been totally without anything geekable. waaaa etc.

I am totally broke after a $240 internet bill, $150 electricity and $220 phone bill all due on the same day. I need to get mum a pressie for mothers day on the 9th too. Shizen and waaaa etc.

My parents are coming down on the 22nd to bring my garden shed (hehe). I was gonna get a wall/tv unit the same weekend coz they have a station wagon (it won't fit in my car) but I don't know if I can scrimp together the money now. It's not important anyway. I really need to do something about my spare room as theres like computer shit everywhere (as Matthew will testify) and it's really ugly. Thats another thing that needs money though.

I had tearoom duty on Friday so I made my cheesecake again. And some sausage rolls. They always go over well. I don't accept praise well though. Heh. I find it hard to be gracious. Guess thats coz I'm hella selfish.

Actually, it's getting hard to remember who I'm 'out' to and who not. It's like when you tell a lie to someone, but other people know the truth. Thats exactly what it is. I'm a long way from any declaration of intent though. I know mum would be ok with it (dad probably too) but I can't imagine my grandparents understanding. We're not that close anyway. Then theres work. Theres already two people there (female) but as I've started with a lie it's hard to decide to break. Actually it's none of their damn business anyway. But when I get invited to those big affairs with 'Lachlan and partner' do I go stag (and be bored to death) or what. Most of those things would be too sophisticated for Ty anyway. Damn that makes me sound evil but he is rather immature. Again, selfish mee. Whenever I start getting close to other people (guys) I pull away though coz I get this self-deprecating thing like I have nothing to offer and shit. Never had much self confidence. Thank got for my stint at Woolworths tho or else I'd be a hermit or something. That place pulled me out of my shell heaps. Yes, I was worse.

I hate this time of year when the leaves fall off the vines etc. The grounds at work look fucking fantastic as they have all the big deciduous trees that change color. My garden is a uniform green. :( I learnt heaps in the 8 months I've been here though and if I were to start again (nope) I could really produce a stunning garden. However in weather like we've been having I'm glad I don't work outside.

Yeah what the fuck is wrong with my webcam. It's come over all fuzzy with heaps of lines on it. Since I formatted. Could be something to do with the different USB hardware maybe.
- posted by Lach @ 21:51