As I was clicking through all the other bloggers on Murdoch, I saw that they had gone out of their way to refresh their blog and make it look slightly more interesting than one of the default themes, as you can see, I joined them to try and bring a shine and clear out the cobwebs of this blog, which is mature in terms of most blogs that only last two posts and then the poster realises that they actually don't have anything interesting to say, and no one to read it they stop. I ignore that fact and post on, with a brand new default theme with the same tired old concept and mostly rehashed jokes. I hope the new blog and refreshed design appeals more to the younger generation with their loud music and their hula hoops and their Sony PlayStations and their Marvel Comics and their YouTube dot com and their Quentin Tarantino and their hopsotch and their lollipops and their YuGiOh abridged quotes and thier artificial insemination and their weird political overthrows.
So the new theme is slightly less readable white and blue on white and blue, after clicking through their technology themes which were all stereotypical 1 and 0 in bright green or appearing on a neural overlay device. SERIOUSLY we have other numbering systems, and most of us cannot understand machine code. Well, Okay, I can insult you and ask how to go to the bathroom
Lachlan, that's two jokes you're passing off as your own that you've stolen
I know. Aren't blogs awesome like that?
So, for an uneventful life a surprising amount has happened since the last post. Unfortunately, not a lot to me. But as the financial new year has just passed, I thought I'd take this opportunity to go over my regular new year resolutions and see how far I've come
1. Get a job
At the beginning of this year, I had been unemployed 12 months much to my mothers displeasure, I have since acquired a job and learnt how to fix computer problems quickly, duck tape solutions to make things that shouldn't seem possible work, and interpret when a teacher says "It's not working" to mean "My projector is not corrently orientated to my digital whiteboard and is being displayed on a 180 degree angle." So now I have money, and have been better at sending it to a high interest account instead of investing it on ThinkGeek. I am yet to believe my returns have been worth it.
I can actually see the difference I am making, and not just by accidentally turning off the Proxy server (no one could go on the internet.), the Uniflow/Clickview server (No one could print to photocopiers or stream videos.) and the RIS server (No computer could be reghosted.) all at once last week. Yeah, my bad. I think. I remember unplugging something below it, but I DON'T REMEMBER turned off any off the switches. And that pisses me off. I wish I could remember it and not just feel guilty, but someone had to take the fall, so I did. I'm not a total bitch to any boss, but if no one is owning up to something that I had a chance of doing, I don't mind. But I am making a GOOD difference by the fact that I am running out of work to do, very few people submit jobs to the job list, but it's currently empty, call get answered, and attended immediately, because I have nothing else to do, in fact, the thing I have to do more and more often is to walk around the school randomly to look like I am doing something important instead of insulting/disturbing friends and family on Facebook. This is actually the best way to do things. Why? Because if I am walking around, teachers see my and my "IT SUPPORT" badge and think "Ah, I was having a problem the other day" and that's how I get 90% of my jobs to do. I mean, there are times when I can see my boss is not so pleased with how I've solved a problem, but I solve it all the same and don't really cause any problems in the process.
2. Pass all my third year units
Well, so far, 50% ain't bad. As I got three credits on what I have been told are the three hardest units of my degree. As apparently, the previous three were. But that means. 1 semester and I could be in the real world and that's scary because one thing that I have been taking for granted with my job is the hours, the other week I slept in, I just called up and said I'd come in tomorrow and it was fine. And plus, working at a school means my hours are 8 till 3. EIGHT TILL THREE. Home by 3:30, back in bed by 4. For two days a week. Bliss. Next year, might not be so plesent, stuck with nine till five for FIVE FREAKIN' DAYS. One of the things I like about my two days and uni is having weird time off, I've had semesters where my weekend is Tuesday and Wednesday. That's cool cause no one else is available so bars, restaurants and stuff like that, ain't busy. You can hear people talk from across the room and I like that. No one else is interrupting the tranquil nature of Kings Park at 11pm on a Wednesday night. Of course, this meeting fewer people in public means a less chance of meeting a candidate for mating/co-op partner for Portal 2.
However, there is a slight glimmer of hope. You see, if I get a good technician job, or admin job, there is the opportunity for night shift work or work at odd times due to being on call. I have heard of system admins being called up at 2am on a Sunday, being told a server is down, remoting in, finding a problem, going in and solving the problem by 9am when business starts on Monday, getting paid double and then getting to go back to bed. AWESOME.
3. Dump a bag on poo on someones door step and light it and run away
You can probably tell this has been hanging on my new year resolutions for quite some time. But I never at anytime have dog poo AND a lighter handy WHILE being near someone's house who I don't like. I have experienced the smell of burning dog poo in my own studies to grasp the hate displayed by the act. And I am actually yet to hate someone that much, I dislike people. People dislike me. I hate some of them enough to enjoy killing them in some sort of vitual enviroment (Never admit to a student any of your after school habits, I am now "Halo" to a small collection of year 9's (And Son-Of-Contos to others.). But I don't hate them enough to inconvenience them. Except for maybe blocking their internet and restricting their user account space to 5 MB. Students should be really less willing to tell me their names.)
4. Not get shot.
Another very good year for this one so far, there was an incident which could of slid this the other way but so far, so good.
5. Figure out when to use a blackslash and when to use a foward slash.
Don't think anybody knows, and Linux and Windows are good at correcting these.
6. Learn more Linux
Pretty good, I can sort of get enough commands to get a server up and running and change file permissions. However, MAN is still my friend.
7. Keep the house\garden in a clean state
There is always one resolution that you set that you know you can't do but you add it to the list to make it longer and make you seem like a better person. This is not that one but I have no intention to tidy my bedroom.
8. Make out with someone with their permission who is not in an intoxicated state, or ingested food or medicine which would impair their judgment. Double points if they initiate it.
There is always one resolution that you set that you know you can't do but you add it to the list to make it longer and make you seem like a better person. This is that one.
9. Pass my CCNA
I will book it again, but all you need to know is it's a standard test that most network guys do and get a card out of it, I failed it the first time, but there will be always time to try again. But, I mean, currently my wallet can't fit anymore in, so I'm going to have to get a new wallet if I want to pass it. Oh and study. But seeing that I got a credit in network security, and a 70% in my Prac I have the confidence that I do actually know my stuff about networking and it is the career for me.
10. Post more on my blog with content that is not just humourous but also is more truthful about myself as a person but has some depth.
Think I may have crossed it with this one. People always complain about the length of my posts, I make up for that with the fact that I post rarely. This year however I've very proud with how many posts I've done and how much work I have put into it, and at some points, I must admit, I have bared my soul a bit, maybe a bit too much, in wanting to really want this blog to reflect who I am as a person and be "Lachlan in the raw" there have been unfortunately, like my "Lachlan in the raw" photographs, some sights of things people would rather not see. It has been mentioned to me that at some points there has been very little humour in posts, when uni life has been getting me a bit down, it happens. There are times on a roller coaster when it goes up, times it goes down, and times when photographs are taken and you are reminded of your roller coaster visit by some free zero-g boob pictures.
(I know there are ladies present.)
But softcore aside, there have been times when I can't find words that are funny. When I've got a poor mark on an assignment, when I don't know how to do an assignment or when I wanna go out, but no one wants to come and I don't know where to go. I must admit there isn't a lot in my life, so yes, number 8 is a bigger issue for me than some other people.
You don't get a girl by stalking her. By posting about her in your blog. Or cutting her name into tables in lecturer theaters.
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.... Mine will. And plus, I never cut them, I wrote them on. You could get that off with some cloudy ammonia.
Oh and don't try to pick up females just cause they comment on your blog
Granted, that was a bit awkward, but I didn't know my sister was going to comment anonymously.
People think it's sad that I love my job because of it's hours, or can be so satisfied with going to Melbourne for a Krispy Kreme "Chocolate Mint" Doughnut and a chocolate milkshake. But if those little tiny things didn't make me happy I wouldn't have much to live for, I am happy for people to blame this on residual teen angst but I love to be happy.
Speaking of teen angst, (I'm going to get all high and mighty cause I'm not a teen anymore.) I was such a simple teen to live with, working at a high school I've seen students randomly walk out of classes they don't wish to participate in, leave rubbish everyone, distroy school property (One out of every five of the jobs I have to do in a day is go clean something or change something back that a student changed (ALT + LEFT SHIFT + PRINT SCREEN is the worst. That and student stealing Mice or RAM and then having no idea what to do with it so breaking it and/or leaving it somewhere else.).)
Do like normal people and wait till uni to do this stuff.
(I'm sure I did some pretty bad things, like at my 15th birthday, my mum going crazy because I walked away from the table to hide in my room and watch movies, and not "Thank them for coming." (I've done so ever since cause I now realise cause I'm not sure that people want to celebrate my birthday because I'm getting old and it only makes people feel old realising I could now go and apply for a loan and the bank manager to take me seriously.). I don't know why but I regret not obeying my parents, apparently, I should of got all angry and moved out and gone on the dole.)
So I get happy over little things. If I can get that job with the interesting hours and awesome IT challenges, get the disturbing girl who knows I am the one who left the chocolate, her favourite Rose wine, a USB drive with that chick flick she wanted to see and a box of tampons on her doorstep. See, I'm so out of it that I don't know the protocol here, granted by the time I meet that girl she will have gone through a few and hopefully be able to tolerate this, but I'm not sure where the guy fits, is he suppose to be there and cheer her up? Pretend it doesn't exist? Leave her alone?
Hopefully that awkwardness will all be dealt with in a future post, but on the current trend not likely, so until then, you are going to tolerate me going through some bad times and me describing the awesomeness of that Maltesers Sundae at Macca's during the good times. Just go with it, Okay? There will be laughs somewhere.
So far, not a bad year, and I think I am pretty much doing my best, which makes me proud... Hmmm.. 4 1/2 out of 11, hey if I've passed this last one that means I get a pass!
So last but no least: Have a graffiti of the week for every post on my blog this year.
... Shit.
Until I get banned from the network, good bye.
1 comment:
Loving the new look blog - nice work!
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