typing myself into oblivion

news, news, news.

i did my first assignment over the week. i ended up typing over 10,000 words in 8 hours. my hands were a bit sore afterwards. typing up voices takes an incredible amount of time. and i don't really think it matters how fast you are, because you get to a bit where you can't hear and you spend about 20 minutes just trying to decipher it. anyway - i had fun doing it. people speak really weirdly when you actually listen to them.

penelope_stone is coming up this weekend. that will be fun. i was going to go to carlow, but that's not happening now.

i'm back playing oblivion again. :scratch head: yea. i didn't think that would happen either, but i decided to play it on the xbox - just a quick run through of the main quest (and possibly the thieves' guild quest line, because i never finished it) and i got hooked. i'm going thieves, mages, main and deadra quests (and some random stuff). and once i get better at killing stuff, i'm going to join the dark brotherhood. hmmmm. i was only going to play for a week or something... oh well. (oh yea, my character is kind of pretty too. not as pretty as her in my icon, but pretty enough.)

i'm messing around with wordpress at the moment too. it's incredibly flexible with designs and layouts and stuff. you can design it any way you want. it's brilliant.

lordkilljoy is in singapore at the moment. i had an awful dream last night about being at home on my own, and all these men got into the house and were chasing me around the place. i tried to hide in the bathroom, but they broke down the door. it was awful.

yeay, i can play games on my pc again

i am the happy owner of a new cd/dvd drive. i stole it off the pc that lordkilljoy was building but gave up on. and it works perfectly. i got to play oblivion (shivering isles) on my computer last night. and i'll be able to make penelope_stone a mix cd now. yeay.
and i have an old cd drive to open and play with. after pulling some funky-powerful magnets out of lordkilljoy's old hard drive, i'm curious to see what a cd drive will have.

i'm working on the cappanalea website at the moment and noticed a wierd sort of typo: Inspaniduals. it's because i was changing some divs to spans and it took the middle out of this word. i'm kind of laughing at it. it's a really funny sounding word if you say it out loud.

anyway - web dev until 12, then writing after lunch. woo!

i forgot a subject

wow, i really havn't changed at all. i'm doing the coding for cappanalea's website and here i am procrastinating on livejournal. yeay!

i opened up lordkilljoy's broken hard drive last night and pulled the magnets out of it. they are so strong. i never would have guessed that a hard drive would have magnets in it. i've been playing with them for some of the morning. and playing with yoshi for another bit of the morning (even tough he's not very playful. i moved him from under the bush in his tank (the coldest place he could be, with no heat mat and no light) and he was freezing when i picked him up. he's a silly-bo for staying there so long. he sat in the "sunlight" for about an hour after that, until he ran off behind the waterfall. he's such a scardy-monster.

so i have some javascript to go work on. i may be lazy and just look at what other people's code does.

things of today

i figured out the problem with my keyboard. there was too much metal between the transmitter and the receiver. so i moved all my stuff from a metal box to a cloth one. it seems to have helped.

i went into the social welfare office today and picked up forms that need to be filled in. they need to be handed in on the first day of my unemployment.

mad - i just got distracted from writing this entry by the design for the cappanalea site. that's a first. i'm somewhat chuffed by this achievement!

i really don't have much to say. my other big news of the day is that the bank does not want to give me a credit card. again. that's twice now that they have rejected my application. my last attempt was two years ago, it seems they still have something against me. damn, and i really want to be able to buy stuff online.

right. off i go again.

chinese water dragons

it has taken too long for me to get around to writing this post. but work is screwing around with my hours, again (why does this still surprise me? i'm actually this close to quitting. my mood has plummeted and whatever little bit of motivation i'd worked up over the last week and a bit is totally gone. i just don't care at all for the petty, unorganized, greedy company i work for. i really should quit.) so i haven't had a chance.

we got lizards on saturday evening. green water dragons. two of them.
they are adorable, but i think they are finding it a little hard to settle into their new home. they aren't eating that much and their skin looks healthy occasionally, but the rest of the time is sort of pale and lacking lustre. we need to try to get the humidity up in the tank. it's at 40% and needs to be at 80%, but even spraying it down a few times a day does nothing.
anyway, the two cuties are called yoshi and yoda. they are about a (small) hand long, not including their tales, which are about a foot. we have no clue what sex they are, but we'll find out when they get a bit older.

i'm doing up a website for penelope_stone, but i'm having trouble finding time to work on it. i should be doing it now, but i really needed to update my livejournal. i had news that needed sharing.

yea, it's funny. we got pet lizards, and they need food, so we have temporary pet crickets and locusts. the dudes are picky eaters, though, and will only eat crickets (and a few mealworms). i don't know how to get them to eat new food. we tried them with an apple too; they didn't even look at it. ah well.

i don't really have any other news. bye, then.

[edit] my mood for today is annoyed, which i debated over choosing, but i think i chose right. i'm totally distracted - i forgot to choose a user pic and give this post a title. :sigh: