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Life's been crazy

Wow ... it's been 3 weeks since the last update. Funny little thing life, how it can go hectic and busy sometimes, and be dead boring some other times...
There have been many things I wanted to write these last weeks, but couldn't find the time. I'll recap the main things that come to mind at the moment :).

World cup

Can't even remember when it was. About 2 weeks ago. Everybody was busy with it, but since I'm not a big soccer fan, I didn't really give a damn about the games. Never the less, I decided to go watch the last game (Spain-Holland) at the Darling Harbour, on the big screens, with half of Sydney it seems.
My impressions were:
* It was cold.
* It was late.
* Spain won after 2 hours of being cold and tired.
I went dancing before, then managed to sneak a couple of hours of sleep, and was at the harbour at 0430 am. The game ended around 0730. Wasn't the best thing i've done in my life, but nice experience.

Dancing

Was up and down. Different reasons. All in all, I still enjoy it :).

Family and friends

Brother and his wife are working on their visas to get to Australia :). I Wish them luck.
Met some new friends, talked to some old friends.
A friend's grandmother passed away yesterday :( . Ce la vi ... and yet, it still sucks.
A friend in the salsa scene has been back stabbed by one of her friends. She took it hard. Sometimes the scene can be a bitch ... :(
A different friend discovered that someone took 1000$ from their bank account. Not clear how exactly it happened, but according to the bank, somebody walked to ATM and withdrew the money in cash from the account. Sucks ... :(

Computers

People seem to be throwing away computers lately. I managed to put my hands on a couple, and I'm trying to salvage parts to create one working computer. After spending some hours last night, I think I'm almost there. Should find some memory now .... Do you hear me universe? you gave me golf balls, and then tennis balls, now I need some memory (DDR 3200 would be good :)

Well, can't remember what else I had to write. I still need to sit down and reply to some mails I didn't have time to reply to in the last couple of weeks, so I'll end here for now. Hope you're all good, wherever you are.

Another week passed by

Hmmm ... amazing. Another week ran by.
It's been mainly a good week. I catch up with some friends, even though I was running around like a hamster in a running wheel.
My back was getting better, and I thought I'm past this one, but yesterday, after a phone call I had, it started aching again. Back to square 0, which really annoys me.
Looking forward to a relaxing weekend, with some dancing and more friends I hope. (Speaking about relaxing, had a Reiki session today. Very relaxing :)

Good weekend

Wow ... been a couple of weeks since I managed to sit and update.
Must say these couple of weeks been rather good. Took a weekend off, met friends, participated in a scavenger hunt (I'll upload some pictures one of these coming days), read a good book, fixed a couple of computers and even managed to dance a bit (not as much as I thought I would though :).

Having fun with my new/old friends (the one I met in salsa which turns out that I know her husband from back home). While we look for a 4th person so I can teach them Tichu, we play Yaniv & Skip-Bo.

After some days trying to get win xp to work with the security software (it didn't), I eventually went back to 7. Everything seems to work for now :)
Which reminds me, to update some tech things next time.

Talked with family on the weekend (all of them actually) :). We ended up having a cross world conference conversation (Ecuador, Israel & Australia).

I'm quite sure there was something I wanted to write about, but it's way to late, and I can barely remember my name, so I'll do it next time if it'll come back to me :)
In the meanwhile, I'll be heading to sleep & wish you all a great weekend :)

Fun week

Wow ... yet another busy week, but this one was a rather fun busy week. Lets see what I had ...

Tuesday 8th

Long day, and then a movie.

Wednesday 9th

Went with Yen to a walk around the Bay Run. An hour and a half walk around the water. Was nice. Only problems were it was freaking freezing and windy, and it didn't help my back as I hoped it will. Meh ...
Later that night I was invited by a friend to watch the show "glow" in the sydney Opera House. good.

Thursday 10th

Met up with the friends I was supposed to meet, and we went to a Lebanese restaurant, and then to have a coffee (well, we ended up having chai, and playing a cards game).
The friend I wasn't sure that I knew, turned out to be the one that I thought :). Life's funny, and this world is way too small for it's own good.

Friday 11th

Had an interview in a recruitment agency. After speaking with the guy, he told me there's a couple of companies that might be interested. Waiting for him to talk to them and get back to me. Hope this will work out. Will solve me many problems :). At night went dancing, new place, not too impressed. Felt like most people weren't dancers, and was too crowded. Ended up talking to my brother and mother and hit the bed rather late.

Saturday 12th

Went to have lunch in an Italian restaurant, in a place that used to be an old post office. Nice pizza.
Later on went with some friends to watch the "A-Team". Highly enjoyed the action, not to impressed with the liberties they took with the series.:)

Sunday 13th

Had lunch with a friend, and then ran into another friend, dropped her home, and had coffee.
Then we had a small party, mainly salsa people, which was quite fun. (we now have a very full fridge with party food :).

Now, to the not so great news ... I was happily ever after using Win 7, but for some issues, switched back to XP. All was good, installation went by quickly, I installed all the drivers ... and ... CSS wont work.
WTF is CSS you're asking yourselves ... well .. thats Client Security Software. Basically, a cool program that will let you scan your finger, and fill out your passwords for you (Well, it will if it works. It doesn't at the moment).
So, uninstalling , reinstalling, cursing, restarting, playing with the BIOS, restarting again, cursing some more, and in the end ... :) ..... nothing ! :(
Lenovo's forums won't help. Compatibility for XP might not be their priority, I'm basically out of ideas, and I really hate this.
Options:
  1) Go back to 7
  2) Reinstall xp from scratch and try again
  3) Simply not use the finger reader
Not sure what I'll do yet ... I'll see how I'll feel. Anyways ... just wanted to share ... (for some reason they say sharing is caring ... crazy bastards ... :)

Hmmm

Wow .. time flies, and yet, seems to be frozen. Some random bits that happened during the last weeks:

There's a saying: ask life, and you shall get. I think it's working on a small scale, or maybe it's an illusion of happening since you're tuned to what you've asked for. Examples:

• Golf balls: What started as a joke, led to me having some 4 balls now, which I randomly encounter in different places.
• Tennis balls: Same thing, have 4 now.
• Ice: Been recommended to use ice on back, and lo and behold, not 20 minutes later I see a big chunk of ice being thrown away.

So, if this works, where's the rest of the list of things I've asked for? :) / :(

Yesterday been out for dinner (salsa friend bday) and the dancing.
Dancing was great, but not what I want to write about, so bear with me.
A woman I met some 2 weeks ago, told me she's married to a guy from my hometown.
I said: "really? who is he? maybe I know him".
She gave me the name, but I didn't recognized it. He's not the same age of mine, so I guessed that's the reason.
Yesterday, he was there, and she introduced us. Now, I'm almost 100% sure I know him. I still need to talk to him (didn't have the chance with all the noise and dancing last night), but I think that we pinpointed the place and time we met. If he's actually the guy, then this world is way to small for it's own good :).
I'll update