mazzanet's Lair

And so flys by another week, and what a busy week that was - I haven't had time to post. Only some 5 more to go until exams too.
I can't remember much about Thursday, just the usual classes then work.
Friday was pretty much the same, with the new addition of touch rugby training at lunchtimes.
I had the usual BBQ chicken pizza and then went up to the annual Bendigo Show with some friends. I didn't go on many rides as I had a little bit to drink beforehand (mmm Guiness), though I did manage to successfully drive a dodgem car one-handed in that state. What a fun and enjoyable night that was.
Normally I would be working on Saturday morning, but I couldn't as I was organising an orienteering event in the middle of nowhere. It went from 9:30 till about 4, including setting up and pack up. The event went without a hitch, no dramas (apart from one frantic run to a particular control that had the wrong number) and about 35 people showed up.
Straight after, I headed out to the foot of Mt Alexander to a mates party along with a bunch of friends. The party involved the 'traditional' blowing up of a tree on the side of a hill, and boy did it go off with a bang (along with 20 other bangs that were echoes from around the valley and flocks of gallas flying around crazily), which was followed by watching a whole stack of Family Guy episodes. Yet another fun-packed night.
Sunday was pretty much the usual - walk into work with a friend, work, have lunch with friend, work, go home - a nice semi-standard routine.
Monday was the end of another era, the final day for the Year 12s. Every year you see them go, some you might see later, but most disappear into the wide open world.
Also on Monday I went home for 2 periods due to a very lengthy and random blood nose, during which I apparently passed out. This past few days I've been getting them a lot for some reason, probably due to the weather which is getting warmer and warmer. Might pay to see a doctor sometime...
Nothing much happened of interest happened on Tuesday, just the usual classes followed by work.
And finally we arrive at today.
After walking in with a friend, I settled down and watched The Matrix in REPD followed by watching the Truman show in English (worst movie ever I might add), movietastic.
Another highlight of the day was gaining global domain administrator access to network. I'll let this screenshot do the talking.

So there we have it, another week down.
Look after yourselves and goodnight.

Well I broke my pseudo-promise. I have a somewhat legitimate excuse though, lack of sleep.
Monday was quite an interesting day.
First up was er... some classes which I can't remember. Next up we all went and watched the Matrix in both third and forth periods for REPD.
For lunch me and some friends went and got pizza which got devoured pretty quickly. Lunch actually marked the end of the day as the school closed down for Mrs Jenkin's funeral.
The funeral was actually quite an experience, it was the first funeral I've been to. It was held in the Strath community hall and there was so many people there it wasn't funny, we ended up sitting on the floor up the back and there was still a fair few people behind us. I can't really describe how I felt about it all, all the hymns, speeches, bible readings and the guard of honour. It was quite saddening.
After the funeral I headed over to the Conservatory to see how things were going with a friend who was setting up for a house dinner. He actually had a nice surprise for me. In the whole entire area we were in, there was a grand total of 3 powerpoints. One on one side of the building, one on the other side and one that was very randomly sitting in the middle of the roof. They had fun.
Tuesday was just as er 'easy'. First two periods were mostly sleeping, we had fill-ins who had no work for us. Next, I was going to have a Business SAC but it got canceled because half the class wasn't there. That was the last class of the day because it was out to a house dinner for me. It was at the same place as another one I did last term, so setting up was a breeze as I knew where everything needed to go. There was a band playing. They were crap. I should have taken the vocal auto tuner.
After the quick set up, I went to work. The head of us techs came into work, on the way to take some other members of the team to other house dinners happening that night, which a 4 channel lighting dimmer with a missing fuse holder. No idea where it went, it just disappeared. Also while I was taking out the 24 screws holding the cover on, he told me to hurry up as he had 3 kids in his car who were almost killing each other. One of the 3 was a friend who I was SMSing not that long before and got stuck with 2 very annoying/stupid people. I pointed and laughed. I got abused. I laughed some more. They had fun that night.
My house dinner was a success. The gear held up another brutal beating, except for some dodgy projector screen that someone found somewhere that required gaffer to hold it up. The pack up was even quick. The waiters/waitresses were also some friends so I got great food. A great night indeed.
Today was slightly back to normal, all the usual classes and sleep though a few people were missing due to camps.

It's getting rather late and I need more sleep.
Have a great night and look after yourselves.

Now I've just been even more slack and gone "Meh, can't be bothered". I promise I won't be slack this week otherwise you can er do something...
Straight into it.
I can't remember much of Monday, after all it *was* a week ago. Double electronics suprisingly involved doing something useful, discussing battery charging with Peter (one of the (cool?) lab techs).
Tuesday was a sad day for all. Halfway through a maths test on variation, the evacuation alarm sounded and everyone piled out onto the oval and all the teachers mysteriously disappeared into the hall. When they emerged again, we split off into house groups and were informed of the news.
Mrs Jenkin, one of the original teachers (she's been there for 37 or so years), had passed away. She was diagnosed with cancer early in the year and it is thought she passed away with a heart attack that might have been caused by the cancer treatment.
Having someone close to you, say family, is one thing. But having someone that wasn't close, someone you didn't know very well and you only heard about them from other peoples experiences is something else. You're not really sure on what kind of person they really were. It's quite saddening. The only thing I really remember about Mrs Jenkin was when I met her and her husband on the ferry when I went to Tasmania a few years ago.
Meh, life goes on...
The rest of the week seems pretty vague now, mostly the usual classes.
However, last period on Thursday was spent doing something out of the ordinary. Me and Graeme spent that hour and a bit doing cabling to the music block. About 110m of 2 x CAT6, 2 x CAT5 and 1 x figure-8 being fed through 20mm conduit with fifty billion right-angled bends is fun kiddies.
On another sad note of the week, Friday was Graeme's last day here. I have no idea where he's headed off to now but I'll hunt him down, heh, after all he lives around the corner a bit from me. He also said I'll have to finish off the cabling job, yay. The crazy thing is that there's really no one else that is er capable of doing it either.
Saturday morning started off with the usual work. In the afternoon I finally managed to get orienteering. I pretty much had to go since next weeks event is being organised by me and someone else, so I had to grab all the gear. The course I also did was 5.2km but I ended up doing 6.1km, caused by stupidity on my behalf. I suppose it serves me right since I haven't been for quite a few weeks.
Today was also the usual working. I didn't visit a friend as usual though, since they spent a lot of the weekend packing and getting ready to move house sometime so they can do majorish renovations.

What a crazy week that was, so much happening all a once. Hopefully this week won't be as busy.

Look after yourselves, cherish every moment you have with other people, think positive and have a great night.
And look out for another post soon...

OK, OK, so I was very slack and missed a whole week. Spank me.
I don't really know why I didn't post either. I think I'll just put it down to 'too tired' and 'I forgot'. Meh.
The past week went by exceptionly quick too, as did the weekend. And as I said to a friend today, 'What happened to Saturday?'.
Wednesday... Now I have to really think back. The day mostly consisted of the usual sleepyness in double Info, started watching the Truman Show in English among the usual.
Thursday wasn't much more interesting. More sleeping in Info, first physics class of the term - we're doing motors, some other random classes.
Friday started off with double physics. Worse situation ever. Two whole hours stuck with Ben Wills. Say no more.
After those hours of pain was some more sleep in Business which was followed by maths in which I achieved the supposedly impossible. Any of you who have done some form of graphics calculator-ised regression would have heard of Pearson values, ranging supposedly from 0 to 1, which are a measure of how accurate the regression was. Well, I managed to recreate a whole bunch of points that resulted in a Pearson value above 1, confusing all of the maths teachers. *shrug*
Saturday started off with the usual - work, at which I got paid again. Yay. Then after a shortish run, I went to the birthday party of a friend at Pizza Hut.
On Saturday I had a full 2 course lunch for free. That's right. I just casually walked in the door, sat down at our table, pinched cutlery and a plate, ate and casually walked out the door again waving to the staff, who waved back and said 'Come back again soon!' Oh hell yeah!
And now to today.
Today seemed to be a good day to do another warwalk. I needed to walk into work so it was perfect. I left a bit earlier than normal, walked all the way into town and, since I had time to spare, around town a bit and then up to work.
The day at work went by as usual - fixing this and that, visiting a friend for lunch (of which I didn't get to eat much of *cough*), coming back to work and feeding Monty the eel.
After work I walked around town a bit more and then walked all the way back home.
Lots of walking. 15km of walking.
When I got home I was quite surprised with the results too, I had found 149 wireless accesspoints. Details, maps, etc. coming soon.

As the clock keeps ticking at a pace which seems faster than normal, it gets closer and closer to midnight.
Look after yourselves and goodnight.

And thus, at the blink of an eye, another term begins. Only 8 or so weeks until exams and 10 until more holidays. 10 weeks isn't really all that long either.
Backtracking a bit...
Friday was spent at work, just like almost every other day on the holidays, and then was followed by the usual Friday-night pizza (BBQ chicken from Dominoes).
Saturday morning followed the usual routine of going to both workplaces. A lot of the morning was spent chatting with my boss about radio stations, he used to be a broadcast engineer, and all the funky and sneaky tricks they do. Radio sounds like a very good area to get into.
In the afternoon at Discovery I fixed a few exhibits, had breakfast and mucked around with the work experience chick (no, not in that way...).
Sunday was spent at Discovery for the whole day as usual - including heading down to a friend's work, having lunch and then feeding the eel at my work, this may become a weekly event. Which is good, in a way...
Monday was the last day of the holidays and I got called into work, yay. I did the usual - serve + meet people, put out stock when it arrived, have lunch, repeat. A lady, a regular, also brought in a lead for us to have a laugh at from Harvey Norman. The lead was 1 meter long and had 3 RCA plugs on each end. I'll let this photo tell the story.
Lunch-wise, I have grown quite a liking for beef, cheese and bacon pies from Gillies.
And that brings me to back to today. The day started with the usual opening of term assembly, followed by English in which we started watching the Truman Show - really crapish movie. Next was double Business Management in which I got some more sleep. Finally was IT which involved doing nothing at all.
Since it's a Tuesday, after school I went to work. Apart from the usual, I picked up my new 512mb USB memory stick which I had ordered in on Friday and got it at a nice cheap $75.
Which brings me forward to here, me lying in bed, typing this post, talking to some friends in some mangled Latin and noticing I have a slight headache.

Tomorrow is another day, I wonder what it will bring....