I am not always grumpy

Just so you know i am not always grumpy. It just seems like it. In truth i can be charming and chatty when the mood takes me. When i am not really, really annoyed. Which is unfortunate 'cause i get annoyed by most things. I think it is genetic. Also, the fact that i am a bit of a spoilt brat who never got her poor manners corrected. An important lesson there parents. You THINK it is cute when they are little but in truth EVERYONE grows up eventually and it just becomes the bane of your life.

*grin*

I like being annoying. I don't like being annoyed quite so much.

I have a cold at the moment. A head cold. Not a bad one but still. Not having much fun with it. As if i don't have enough medical problems without a head cold. Mind you when i visited the Doc today she seemed worse off than me so we just chattered about her problems and horse racing. I thought i might make a nice change for her to NOT have to listen to problem after problem. We still got my stuff sorted....just she got to have a chat about something. See. I can be thoughtful sometimes too.

We talked about horses because yesterday was "The Cup". It comes around once a year. It is not really a problem but i live a few blocks from the race track and that means several things:

1. i can't leave my house after lunch (cars, drunk people)
2. helicopters flying around all day 'cause rich people don't wanna drive
3. drunk people
4. horses
5. did i mention drunk people? thought so. they are sooo annoying

seriously i hate horses. I was trampled as a child. And when i say trampled i mean a horse once trod on my foot and i lost toe nails. Still similar. I don't think i liked them before that anyway. Shifty. What is worse is that my family kind of like them and stuff. They have things to do with them. Also, dogs. I mean racing dogs.

God. My family are such....i don't know the politically correct term is but i am pretty sure my mother would call us "common". And she is part of this family!

I did like seeing all the pretty people. Lovely dresses. I was envious. Not that they went to the races but that they looked so lovely. *sigh*. If i were young again i would dress like that and have more sex. A lot more sex. Too much information??

*grin*

For some reason i am completely cheered up now. I might start looking at some equations and doing a spot of data analysis now.

bye.

rambling thoughts

I wasn't sure if i had the time or energy to blog this week. hang on Erin has found a pair of scissors that she wants to "try". she is nearly two so the answer was no. she wasn't really happy with that but what can she do? only a baby. one of the reasons i am so tired. my sister has chicken pox so helping look after her kids. and working. and trying to write (not happening). and trying to sort out my life (also not happening).

*sigh*

Got my computer problem sorted. Thanks to Mark. Awesome. It was a power supply thing so he just swapped the storage component to a new machine (which was the same model as the old machine...and i mean OLD machine)....and away i went. i also bought a new power surge protector which i KNOW i am suppose to use but. you know me. like to live dangerously. OK. no i don't.

It was great hearing Mark's stories about computer support problems. Well, not the problems but the shear idiocy of his clients. I worked a computer support desk for a while when i was an undergraduate. now that was a LONG time ago. If you know me you can probably imagine just how good i was at that. Lucky for me in those days you could be half bitch/half nice and get away with it. I was going to say all bitch but being pure bitchtended to get you the sack.

Started me remembering some of the things happened back then. i remember the time i hacked the the new "internet thing" so i could post articles [i got a job offer out of that rather than being expelled]. Or the time i got so much email when some one hacked my account and posted my details online [i.e. back then there really werent that many chicks online *grin*] and i crashed the entire system. Still talk to Thomas who i first met during that time. *wave* hi Thomas.

Even after all that experience and having known me so long Mark still did the "so did you turn it off and on" routine.

just popped out to deal with an issue: Erin was colouring in the cat with a texta. no really. i take my eye off her for like 5 mins to type up a blog!

*sigh* again.

have a good week.... i am off to find the rest if the textas.

A computer death

I had a little bit of a “turn” the weekend gone. One of my computers died. Now before you start to think i am like the biggest geek out i have to tell you that i have multiple computers because they are for different types of activities. One for play, one for writing and one for coding. Just the way it is. Deal.

I had the coding machine operating just fine in the morning. Then i turned it back on to print something out (yes they have different printers too) and it just did nothing. absolutely nothing. i first thought was a cable was loose or someone had turned the power off. I must say i spent much longer than any sane person testing out these theories. Much longer.

I have a long history of odd computer malfunctions. I may have in fact got a service call put out only to find i had a crappy (but random) power cable. There was also that awesome thing when i ejected a CD/DVD it would sometimes catapult it right across the room at damaging speeds but never when anyone else was around. There have been other incidents. After this many years there would have to be. Oh yeah. I just remembered that time i get an ant infestation. I know. Odd right? I had a cold office at basement level on the maths building. It was a very weird place. The ants made a home in my nice warm computer. I only noticed when the thing stopped working.

I will say that nine times out of ten turning the computer off and back on fixes things. This time it was trying to get it on to find a problem that was the problem. Lucky for me i have Mark. Hi Mark. Who is going to make it all better. Well take it away and fiddle with it a bit. Hopefully making things better.

The whole incident was weird because i nearly cried when it realised it was broken. Not a cry because you did a “del *.*” cry. Rather i just lost my pet cat (or dog, hamster, probably goldfish too) kind of thing. Just shows me what type of person i am really *grin*
Anyway i am feeling much better about it now. No coding this week so you know, not too bummed. Even if it can’t be fixed it wont be the end of the world (i DO have all data backed up). Did do love that machine though. And it has a sweet monitor. Very old and heavy but perfect for my eyes and looking a satellite images. *sigh*

So i better get back to some writing then. I suppose.

[PS On a personal note let me just remind everyone to live every day as if it were your last. I know i don’t do that but i really, really have to try. Working really hard so you can enjoy your retirement doesn’t really work if say, oh i don’t know, you get diagnosed with a brain tumour and no one knows what the surgery will do to you but considering the doctor told you that he is going to try to give you quality of life over quantity things are not going to be “fine”. Just a thought.]

getting on with some work

I have not been working hard enough lately. I blame the summer heat. I don't really like to think when it is hot. Having said that i should also clarify that i don't like to work when it is cold. Which is odd considering what i do. I do have the excuse that i am back at work. Also, the kids have chicken pox which has put a bit of strain on the household.

One of the things i have been working on is how to to explain data like the plot above. It is data from 4 different sources for the same polynya over the same time period (km^2). What i was hoping to show is that it depends very much on what parameters you use for determining what is the polynya area what result you get.

It is very complicated. That is why i need to explain my algorithm along with everyone else's algorithm (or should i say results?). Why i made certain decisions etc. It is quite dull work but really vital. I think that is one of the reasons people have trouble with climate sciences in general. The difficulty with interpreting "results". I think that is why i prefer to be honest and indicate the ambiguity. That is why my thesis is so F'ing long. That and all the pictures.

Oh well, start of another long, hot day to get started! I am just going to enjoy that last dregs of my cup of tea and then make some calls. dull. dull. dull.

did i mention that i have been watching too much StarGate Atlantis? Man i love that show. I love TV at the moment. Gives me something to do with this active mind of mine when i can no longer type or read *grin*.