Yet another cold.

I know it's winter, but do I have to have these blasted colds?

I can see what people are talking about with the font stuff etc. though it does indeed appear only to work with IE. Possbert says it doesn't work with Mozilla and my tests with Opera haven't showed up all this funky stuff. Heh! I say. I can do html without any silly buttons.

Being single seems to be a bit like having exams coming up. Actually being at my home at the weekends has allowed me to catch up on sorting out my study and tidying up my place. Whether this  continues I don't know, but I won't have any excuses if it doesn't.

Provided I can tear myself away from my new ADSL connection that is. :)

For reasons known only to the scheduling computer, all the units which I am recording, or turning up to say 'Hi' at in the first week are either at 8:30am or 9:30am. I am  not a morning person. Still, valiantly (especially with this cold  - you can hear me coughing a fair way off) I have gotten up at 7am every day so far this week and struggled into work at 8:15am. There is talk of rescheduling some of the 8:30 ones  to 9:30 for future weeks and I hope that's so, but it's actually quite nice coming home while it's still light.

Busy week to come, got the observatory volunteer's 'thank you' and windup night on tomorrow, then the Genghiscon quiz night on thursday - Yes Poss, I am coming.

Oh well, back to getting these lecture notes updated for the students.

Colours? Where?

Well, I've done colours on blogspot before just using the usual font stuff, but people seem to be wowing about colour stuff, which I can't see. In fact my usual formatting stuff for posts appears to have gone away so I guess it's yet another thing that works with IE and not opera, will test later.

Wireless and ADSL

Ahh, high speed internet connection with not many wires.

Yes, my ADSL is up and working, and so is my wireless, so I'm sitting comfortably in my lounge enjoying the fast link.

Dinner is on the stove, I have a cold, and catching up on some tv. All in all I'm better than a week ago.

First project all the way through.

Well, the first project that I managed all the way through the distributed proofreaders site has been posted to the Project Gutenberg site. Yay! Of course my second project overtook it and got posted there about a week ago, but that was because the first one was a lot of poetry which took a fair amount of time to get right.

I suspect that while only the animal lovers would like project no. 1 (Voices for the Speechless) the more fannish might like Project No. 2 which was an early short story collection by H.G. Wells, The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents.

Future projects I intend to bring to the world involve an older chemistry text and something called Zarlah the Martian.

Oh, and hopefully by tomorrow I will have gotten my ADSL connection all hooked up. Yay! Yay fast connection! Yay work VPN! I got myself a relatively nifty modem. router, firewall, wireless server! Now all I have to do is get it all working.

Week off!

My boss was going on leave this week, and suggested that maybe I take some time off too before the semester rush started again. But to be back for the 2 weeks before semester, which basically meant this week. Ah well, I'd hit a brief lull so without said boss to give new crises to me I'd be doing a fair bit of tedious makework, so having the time off makes sense. Need a break, and yay! Andrew's also taking this week off, by a not so strange coincidence, given that he does some work in the tertiary sector also.

I've also bitten two bullets in the past week. Applied for ADSL, just couldn't resist any more now that work has a VPN that makes it useful to get for telecommuting, and also paid off my HECS.

Just the mortgage to worry about now.

Loved Shrek 2, and for those who haven't seen it yet, remember to stay for all the credits. (My parents didn't realise this. Maybe I'll have to go see it again.)