My day

So far it's been a pretty excellent birthday, I'm awake and I have full use of my faculties. I'm going to be late for work because I'm treating myself to a leisurely morning including toasted wholemeal muffins and my necessary double shot espresso. I say it everyday, but today I mean it even more, thank god for coffee.

I've learnt much in the last year, rather than done too much. I've finally admitted to myself that people - family particularly - are the most important thing to me. I have learnt so much about my flaws, and by slowing down and looking at them, I can attempt to compensate for, or even correct them.

I'm sure the people who know me would appreciate that. I have a mouth faster than reason, somedays when I intend to say, "hey how are you" what comes out has the same impact as "your mama sucks dogs". I wish I were exaggerating.

My childhood of extreme shyness and never speaking left me way behind the eightball on expressing myself as I intended.

red!

i went red.. pity it never lasts like this.. but thanks to digital + internet, everything can last forever:

From red 20060910

learn something new every day

Well I do *try* to learn something new every day, but rarely is it so useful;

http://www.lifehacker.com/software/life-hacks/keep-headphone-wires-from-getting-tangled-152499.php

reading new scientist (blogs) isn't such a waste of time after all ;)

outgeeked by mum

my mum has never shied away from technology, which I've always thought was cool.. until now.

she's got a cooler phone than me!! (the new 3G motorola handset) and I'm a tad jealous.

this is worse than when I was a 19 year old and she was going out every Friday night, and I was at home painting or on irc - lucky I'm such entertaining company, cause the denizens of the internet are a little lacking :P