New Testingstan

At least with Telstra not being a super-monopoly like they were when I first got my phone line connected there back in 2002...

Hobart - Classed as metropolitan for billing purposes (so no regional/remote subsidised connections).
All of Tasmania (including Hobart) - Classed as regional/remote for the purposes of install and maintenance timeframes (1 month - 1 year ETAs).

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as it turns out this vicodin i got for my root canal doesn't actually do much for the pain itself, but it does make me incredibly drowsy

lol so my landlady stopped by and said she's going to raise the rent because the cost of living is going up

that's funny cuz the only one of my costs that's been going up

is the rent


but meh it is still fairly reasonable

if i bail it will be due to her new property manager bullshit idea.

i should just buy a house for myself to be rid of it all, but i don't want to pay a five figure interest bill and i don't exactly have a hundred grand stuffed under my mattress either



though there is a piece of shit house down the street for sale for 40k

can't afford that in cash either, but i could def defeat that loan in a reasonable amount of time


the problem is it is a piece of shit down the street

i don't like the people there

and they probably smoked in there


at that point i might as well just buy a plot of empty land and save me the demolition costs

soda and pain killers are a good stress relief right

Veef wrote:soda and pain killers are a good stress relief right

two vicodin from my dental prescription and three hours of sleep have done wonders for my migraine

mileage may vary

oh man

nice neighborhood

right size (i think, the square footage is good but i want to know building dimensions)

i haven't actually seen it yet but this is pretty tempting

in fact if i had the $119,000 on hand i might just impulse buy (tho i'm more likely to offer 100k)


alas i don't but there is always the option of debt

debt is a high risk game that i don't like one bit

but i'm tempted to play

Manage that anxiety

i hate people who are responsible with money

Dude I'm just bitter that effective regulation means fewer people were foreclosed and housing prices didn't crash here like in the us

Fucking hell ... primary HDD on my rendering rig is going tits up. I just replaced the geriatric graphics card and dead-pixel strewn monitors, now this
Luckily everything important is backed up on an external, and equally lucky Maplin Electronics had a sale on when I popped in today - terabyte HDD and 64 gig SSD for a lot less than I was expecting to pay.
So much for getting some artwork done while GF is off visiting friends ...

so i looked up the records on that house

the current owners bought it 20 years ago for 45k


my view on business is to shoot for the stars.

oh i'll lowball them



i almost can't believe i'm so seriously considering this shit



now though i kinda regret cutting ym clients the slack i did

if it held them to their pay agreements i might have 30% down right now

but on the other hand they migth just be bankrupt if i held them to it too whereas right now they still alive and still paying

altho slowly



but mang

At work, the usual night shift of three kitchenhands for 5.5 hours is now one for 5.5 (six hours minus a half hour dinner break), and two for five.

I and another arrive at six, after one guy has been there for an hour. That kitchenhand has been upstairs doing cleaning elsewhere. We're massively behind. I get shouted at for not being fast enough. Even though it's me and the new guy working a kitchen that serves hundreds of people.

Good work new head chef.

Washing paint off my hands at four in the morning. Supposed to meet someone for breakfast at 930. Poor life choices.

More like poor fucking planning

Take some responsibilty

Six of one, half a dozen of the other? All the egg is on my face, either way.

I'm actually feeling way better than I expected to feel today.

You guys see that video that was supposed to be the smoking gun for Obama's secret socialist muslim agenda because he spoke at a Harvard law school protest twenty years ago?

Most of the video is pretty boring, but the first few seconds has one of my uncles eating a sandwich.

Just thought I'd share.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-m ... nnity-tape

as soon as i find something that plays VHS

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-m ... -tape-fear

secret video of sean hannity lawl

So the zoo near where I live had this awesome polar bear exhibit. There was a section that was below the water line, and the polar bears would dive into the water there and show off for the visitors.

Last time I went there, there was a bunch of construction going on to upgrade the polar bear area. Yesterday I discover that they decided the upgrade was going to be too expensive, and so they aren't going to be bringing the polar bears back.

Since they aren't going to have polar bears anymore, that area's going to have the tigers there.

so i was gonna make some awesome pizza that is awesome and not horrible like the ones you buy, but turns out someone had left bullshit residue or something in the oven and it started smoking like hell and now my pizzas taste like smoke

Hmm. Battlefield 3 for $20 . . . I think I'm willing to tolerate Origin for that price.

Fuck this day right in the goddamn ear with a bowling ball.

Zod wrote:Hmm. Battlefield 3 for $20 . . . I think I'm willing to tolerate Origin for that price.

The lack of self analysis is fundamental

starku wrote:

Zod wrote:Hmm. Battlefield 3 for $20 . . . I think I'm willing to tolerate Origin for that price.

The lack of self analysis is fundamental

amazon has a sale and i've got a $10 promotional credit, so pft

Feeling a bit better at the moment...

The best steak I've ever cooked and some sauteed onions really helped.