Nerdiness

Had a strange desire last week to do Nerdy stuff. I had a list of things to try out, all of which were, I'm sure you'll agree, pretty damn nerdy:

• Install a network card in evildoom_bunny's old PC so we could get her MP3s off it
  
• Use parts of external USB hard drive case to connect an old DVD drive to my computer
  
• Find out how to put a counter on a wordpress based blog
  
• Find a new two-column wordpress layout for www.maxcelcat.com which was nice and dark around the edges
  
• Hand edit a cascading style sheet for said layout.
  

Unusually, all this stuff went very smoothly and didn't occupy me for long at all! I can now play DVDs on my computer - although describing the setup as rudimentary would be polite.
Next I have to:

• Get my linux box booting
  
• Get my linux box working, or
  
• Take said machine to a friend's place and let him play with it!
  
• Finish setting up my site...
  
• Assemble that Mac from the parts I've had lying around for nearly two years!
  
• Get the four port KVM switch working (this allows you to have four PCs connected to one monitor
  
• Get Neil's computer and see if I can fix it...
  

I'm not going to get much time this week to indulge in nerdiness - have to go to parties and stuff. Sheesh! :-)

Altogether now:
Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerdy!

Still, a certain evildoom_bunny turned down offers of Physical Intimacy yesterday because she was playing Age of Empires! Ok, so, not quite, but I did say "Hey come give me a hand with dinner" and she said "Hold on!!" and then I could hear a whole lot of archers firing at the same time :-)

Weekend - Friday and Saturday...

Dear Diary,

I had a long busy weekend. Friday night I did a whole lot of nerdy stuff (see below) whilst evildoom_bunny got an early night. Soon I will have an actual working website. Woo-yay.

Saturday, the nice lady at the el-cheapo haircut place gave me a buzz cut. I was going to get a passport photo taken, but then I went and looked at myself in the mirror... Unshaven, bags under my eyes, shitty TISM t-shirt on. Do I really want this to be on my passport for the next decade? I think not.

evildoom_bunny and I went for a drive down to Point Cook, near the airforce base, just to get the heck out of town for a bit. There's a very obscure beach down there, covered in smelly seaweed. A couple of planes seemed to be practicing touch and go landings at the base, they kept buzzing around and around.

The road to Point Cook is rapidly being surrounded my houses, there's a whole scary new suburb growing up out there. I swear on a stack of Adbusters magazines I will never, never, ever live in a place like that. I will cram me and my whole family into a tiny three bedroom place in the inner north before I end up in a desolate place like that. My non-existent children can share a room, and if they complain, I'll take 'em out to Caroline Springs until they cry and want to go home.

We drove further along that part of the coast to a place called Campbell's Cove (I believe) which isn't officially a town, I think. There's a tight windy dead-end road, on one side is a market garden, on the other a the ocean. On the beach sit a whole series of... Cabins, not sure how else to describe them. They were kinda halfway between beach boxes or boat sheds and little houses, not much more glamorous than a caravan. And they were all tiny, not much more than one room with a tiny balcony on the front. All of them had water tanks, and lots of them had gas bottles as well. I guess they weren't on the power grid. Some of them were clearly being lived in, but a whole bunch were in increasing states of disrepair - one had fallen down completely. And a lot of them had "for sale" signs. Weird place, wasn't clear what they were all doing there, and who would use them. Hermits perhaps? The beach - maybe it was the time we were there - was very smelly from seaweed and probably also proximity to the sewerage treatment plant, not a nice place to be!

Saturday night, we went out to Bayswater (another scary suburb) to visit stillbeing in her parents house she was housesiting. The damn place doesn't need sitting, it's more high tech than... Something high tech! The best bit: the pet frogs. The worst bit: pictures of four wheel drive trips her parents go on! Argh! The suburbs! The really scary part - her house was just around the corner from a place where an ex of mine lived (years and years ago, like 1992). Note to self: have less complicated love life.

We watched a doco about Einstuerzende Neubauten's 20th anniversary, as you do. Probably time I got a Neubauten logo tattoo - like everyone else on earth, including Henry Rollins and indeed stillbeing, since I've been buying their records since at least 1991.

More to follow...