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08:25 am
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Small things.
I was absurdly glad last night when I noticed my fever had gone up to 38.1 C's.
Not that I was feeling lousy (and I still am).
But to the fact I no longer need to run to hospital when I get some fever.
Happiness is made of small things.
True, true.
Current Mood:  sick
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01:01 pm
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Well. I Fail.
Well,
Independence Day came and went, and I didn't write an update.
Sorry.
I have been quite busy lately, trying to get a Life, or
at least to find a Clue. But the time keeps wasting, and some things are left undone.
So, update time. What I have done lately?
Not much.
I took part to my first strike ever. We got what we wanted, more or less. The issue was about how traveling on business during your free time was compensated. Before it wasn't, starting next year it will be partially. Some small raises in salary were included, but it wasn't about the salary, really.
I have been having some sort of flu / cold. I have had no fever, only coughing my lungs out and being sleepy all the time.
Got myself an internet connection. Now I can work from home once in a while,
and do other highly important things, too. Yes. I am in Facebook, now. Sigh.
Having internet means that I had to start my home computer for first time in 6 months. Now after 2 months, it is in working order.
Bought myself an early Christmas present. PS3. I know. Don't say it.
Wont be installing the linux in it before summer. I need uninterrupted week or two to tweak it to way I like it.
Now I got to run to another meeting...
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03:45 pm
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Quick test I took.
When shoe fits...
An update coming on the Independence Day (the Finnish one)!
Honestly!
Your Score: Guinness
(66% dark & bitter, 100% working class, 66% genuine)
 Okay, we all know Guinness is the best possible score on any "What Kind Of Beer Are You" test, so you can just go on and pat yourself on the back now. Like the world's most famous brew, you're genuine, you've got good taste, and you're sophisticated. What else can I say, except congratulations? If your friends didn't score the same way, get ready for them to say: Guinness is too heavy; it's an acquired taste; it's too serious--and they probably think those things about you at times. But just brush 'em off. Everybody knows Guinness is the best. Cheers. |
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10:22 am
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Some noise after long silence
Haven't updated this log for a while.
What has happened since last entry?
Well, 1st of all, I had a summer vacation (6 weeks).
Which was Excellent.
It was an actual vacation, which included lots of time off the grid net. I started feeling like a person again. Also drank some wine, and started to appreciate the australian reds bit more.
Then I have been quite busy at work, so no time to update this space.
That will change next week, since then I finally get net at home :)
So more updating to follow...
Current Location: At work
Current Mood: busy
Current Music: KT - Satu peikoista.
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10:27 am
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No bedrest at this point
Had the 'test-phase' of my controls, and didn't get carted to the ward. A good thing.
Ultrasound showed that neck / throat area had no signs of cancer. Another good thing.
Now I have to wait until next week and visit to the doctor about the lungs and hopefully get peace of mind for next six months.
Current Location: Oulu, Finland
Current Mood:  tired
Current Music: Kotiteollisuus - Valtakunta
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04:13 pm
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Should I move my summer vacation?
http://www.2kgames.com/civ4/beyondthesword/
Hmmm.
It should be out at the end of July.
Should I move my summer vacation...
Or just do my sleeping during working hours :)
Current Location: Oulu, Finland
Current Mood:  devious
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01:49 pm
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Fear is a funny thing
I had decided that I would be mature, thinking adult and take it easy about my upcoming control-appointment to doctors office at cancer-ward. I would not stress about it, I would be calm, collected and just go there and like Nike ad, 'just do it'. Unlike the last time, when I was too worried to sleep for a week.
This plan survived until this morning.
Now I am panicked.
I'm not certain if I am more angry with myself for letting myself be this scared because of relatively small thing, or setting myself up for disappointment with unrealistic goal of not panicking.
Current Location: Oulu. Finland
Current Mood:  scared
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12:07 pm
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Re: Movies.
Hmm, my striking average has G(one)T(o)H(ell).
300 - Pretty but sucks
Ghost Rider - Between horrible and Terrible.
Spider-man 3 - Ho-hum. 2 was better. And why drag Gwen Stacy to the story at this point. Is Kirsten Dunst giving the producers hard time about possible 4? And if/when she signs for 5 does Bryce Dallas Howard get gwenstacyed from bridge?
But wait , yet more films are being considered / announced from comics. The one I wait/fear most is the 3 movie deal where Peter Jackson & Steven Spielberg take on Hergé's Tintin. But that is coming out 2009 (probably) so the wait is long.
Current Location: Oulu,Finland
Current Mood:  amused
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10:31 am
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Yet another month passed without a whisper here
Yes,
I am L A Z Y .
Another month passed without a whisper here. I'm kind of envious of the people who have energy to update their journals more often. What have I been up to lately? Hmm, a lot actually , since there has been more than month since last update. Got some reading done. Not much, but much more than I have been able lately. Is it just me, or have the crusades, knights templar etc. suddenly became the 'hot item' in publishing industry? We have 'Last Templar', 'Templar Legacy','Brethren' ... and then there are numerous historical books / series that have suddenly received new prints and mass-market status. Not that I complain, I buy them all ;) If only the Jan Guillou's 'The Knight Templar' (middle book of his historic trilogy) back to print, preferably in finnish.
Then I have been playing video games, shame on me :) Suikoden is now officially shelved for a while. Not that I am bored with it, overly much. Liked the story, liked the characters, will return to it sometime. My new time-waster is , surprise surprise, another RPG. Or might I say the RPG. The latest installment in the series that caused me to buy Playstation. And PS2. It might be the reason I someday change to PS3. Yup, I am talking about Final Fantasy XII. More about the game in some latter date.
Before continuing with other gaming related stuff, monthly health update. It has been quite up-and-down ride lately. My shoulder is giving me some trouble, which leads to the crankiness I display as my current mood. Also I am starting to think some 'leftovers' from chemotherapy are going to be permanent issues. The ears still ring, the fingers still occasionally loose their power and I still have issues with balance. And YOU try shaving when one half of your face gives out phantom 'readings' around neck-shoulder-area. Those same readings make it interesting to walk around in rain, too ;) At least I have eyebrows and hair now.
My lack of stamina leads me to believe the blood clot in my lungs is not really going away as fast as it should. But we'll see, I have a CT scan scheduled early next month.
Now back to gaming. Or maybe this is still part of the medical section, you be the judge. Long ago, I realized something about myself. I would not be a 'good patient' about exercising my shoulder. I knew that I would skip exercises and then whine about my shoulder hurting. So after some long consideration I did something about it. Geek-style, of course. I bought me a Wii. How does that help with shoulder pain, you ask. You figure it out. I'll tell about how it worked in few weeks time, but the beginning is very promising.
And finally, this time I can actually give out the link to music I am currently listening. Here is the game site, and in downloads-section you can find the soundtrack in mp3-format. Nice medieval-style music that is great for excel-warriors and powerpoint-commandos hard at work. And speaking of work, I am not going to say anything about it, except that I felt like M.Corleone in Godfather III - Just when I thought that I was out they pull me back in. Obviously there are no former unix-sysadmins. If you want out of those tasks, you need to change at least company, possibly leave town, preferably the country. Now you know why it is called iT-support. If you didn't get it, take couple of these and do the math :).
Current Location: Oulu, Finland
Current Mood:  cranky
Current Music: Something from Knights of honour soundtrack
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01:01 pm
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Empty noises.
Managed to waste several days at work trying to get something working only to realize that all of that effort had been useless and in fact that system couldn't actually work on HPUX. Plan 1 was to scream a bit , then leave work early and down few pints at the usual place, but that one wasn't really a constructive thing to do and I would have had to do all this again tomorrow, but this time suffering from hangover at the same time. So stiff upper lip and all that, still hard at work. Maybe glass or two of wine this evening while watching the finnish Idols... if I still manage to keep away from Final Fantasy XII. Why should I stay away from it , you ask? Well, since it replaced Suikoden V as the 'default' game inside my PS2 I have accummulated ~200 hours worth of playing time and decided to cool it down a bit.
Also recently noticed that some of the songs currently in my iPods playlist can be found in YouTube as music videos. So in future I'll put a youtube link at the end of the entry...If I can find one.
So here is the first one.
Edit: Btw, according to a quiz, I am :
 A cat’s M.O. is simple: they just don’t care. Seriously, an intruder could be attacking you, and a cat won’t get up till it’s finished licking its paws, and even then, it’s not really in a hurry to help you out.
Being a cat, you’re cool and refined, and you’ve got plenty of that cat attitude. Okay, fine, we’ll say it – cattitude. Just be careful not to fall into any huge open vats of water. Cats don’t like that sort of thing.
Take This Quiz!
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So maybe, just maybe, I should get one... Well, maybe if I stay C-free for a year. So lets think about it in December.
Current Location: Oulu, Finland
Current Mood:  blah
Current Music: Kotiteollisuus - Rakastaa / Ei rakasta
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09:33 am
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Missed February
Somehow managed to get through February without posting a single rant entry to this journal. Why? i would like to say I was busy, but that would be a lie. I just have been lazy. And maybe a bit dissapointed with myself, since month of February passed without a single book being read.
But it is March now, and it got close to the end but I finally have managed to read some books! After a weekend spent reading, this month I have read (so far) the grand total of _4_ books. Which is kind of lame, since usually it takes me just about 4 days maximum to get 4 books read, not nearly 3 months. More comments when I have more time... actually now I am busy :)
Current Location: at work
Current Mood: amused
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01:10 pm
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Yet another monday
I am starting to think that Garfield is right about mondays (and lasagne). Mondays do suck. And lasagne is good, but that shall be the subject of another rant. Only thing mondays are good for is ... well ... I honestly can't think anything right now. And I am getting this feeling that January is just a month-sized monday to start your year on. Only thing good about it is the payday, and it is still several days away.
I am still feeling tired and still doing nothing at my free time. Oh wait, I did manage to shelf half of my books and do some cooking (chili, not lasagne). But still no laundry, cleaning or reading. This has to be first time _ever_ I am finishing a month without reading a single book. This includes the time in chemo / radiation therapy. Most peculiar. Weird even. Should I worry? Rhetorical question, I worry for a living so some worry on company-time will be spent on myself. Maybe next weekend I get some no-brain paperback and break this vicious circle. Too bad Nora Roberts hasn't got a new one out in paperback (at least not in my local bookshop). Clive Cussler has a new one in Oregon-series but I don't like those. Even the latest Dirk Pitt one was a pain. One of us has changed for worse, or maybe both. Coworker loaned me "Choke" by Palahniuk but if Fight Club was anything to go by, it will not be a no-brainer I am looking for. Maybe I should reread something, but usually ones that are worth rereading definitely are not no-brainers. Except maybe while having an hangover. Maybe C.J. Cherryh's Merchanter's Luck would be short enough and interesting enough to keep me reading. Which reminds me, here is an funny Cherryh-related personality test.
Current Location: .At work
Current Mood: cranky
Current Music: Kotiteollisuus-Arkunnaula
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12:51 pm
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Yet another weekend survived
Back at work after yet another weekend when I managed to do .... nothing. No reading, no cleaning up the apartment. No cooking, not doing laundry. Absolutely nothing. And it was glorious. :=)
Too bad it means that I have more to do next weekend. Only things I managed to do was watch 2 of the NFL wildcard-games (KC vs. Colts, Jets vs. Pats) and put 20 more hours to Suikoden V. I should really try to 'do' something in my free time, but lately I have had no energy to waste... yet alone try to 'do' something. Maybe I should start easy, like reading arranging the mess of books I have currently just lying at my living room floor. But wait, that would not be starting easy...
Current Location: at work
Current Mood:  mischievous
Current Music: Fear Factory - Cars
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04:10 pm
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Great movie quiz
There is a great visual movie quiz here. Managed 43/50 without googling for solutions.
Should be leaving from work right about now.
Current Location: at work
Current Mood:  bored
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11:24 am
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Trailer-watching
I have been spending my time watching trailers on Apple's site, while I'm waiting for my Christmas break to begin. A really useful way to spend your working time, just like writing here is ;). I came across trailer for Eragon, and it seemed quite familiar. First I thought that this was because I might have read the book. The book, as it turns out, was sitting in my bookcase, as was the sequel, Eldest. But seeing the cover made me realize that the book already had me feeling 'been there, read that'. The trailer had me thinking the other Jeremy Irons with Dragons movie which shall not be named, but the book at least had the decency to draw the 'inspiration' from a better movie. Only thing missing was the 'Luke, I am your father' - moment, but thankfully that came in the sequel. Hopefully I remember this by the time comes for the third book to be on bookstores shelf, so I do not get seduced by another book with dragon on the cover.
Speaking of book trilogies & movies, I read that they are making movies based on Phil Pullmans 'His Dark Materials' series. Lets see what they can do with a series that I actually liked. Usually it has been a bad sign for a movie enjoyment when I have read the book before and liked the book. I have somewhat more mixed experience when it comes for a comic that is transformed to silver screen. There are some , like Sin City or Spider-man series so far, that I liked both the movie and the comic. There are some, like Constantine, that I liked a comic a lot found the movie too much unlike the original. Those are the clear cases that I also have with books. The ones that differ are 'didn't care for comic, movie was watchable' (Fantastic 4) and 'this movie would have been terrible even if was not based on comic' (Elektra). Odds are, seeing that there are quite many comics based movies, (Ghost Rider, TMNT, 300, Transformers,...), at least one of them should be watchable.
Current Location: at work
Current Mood: working
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01:14 pm
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First post
Last night, when I was setting up alarm for this morning, I knew that I would be sleepy
all day. Having the phone say "Time until alarm: 3h 33min" usually means that. So far,
I have been proven right.
Started this journal, not really expecting anyone to read this. But lately I have been
having conversations with my mirror that I couldn't really have with any of my friends
and thought that putting those thoughts to writing would keep the mirror from cracking
under pressure, or worse yet, starting to talk back.
I have been away from work for 10 months, and have been working again from the
start of this month. It has been strange. Right now I am ready to grab my trusty RJ-45
cable and do physical violence to next one to ask "How does it feel to be back to work?".
But probably I will just put on my poker-smile and give the standard happy-to-be-back-everything-is-fine-routine.
And b**ch about it here where nobody gets their feelings hurt.
Hopefully.
Current Location: At work
Current Mood: working
Current Music: J.Cash - God's gonna cut you down
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