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I was feeling so much better today… until I realised my left ear & jaw are aching. An ear infection just after fighting off a virus? ARGH.

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Ha! The Knitted Stig actually made it on to the show: http://bit.ly/4FRydh

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@misswired My friend Kate – the one whose blog is linked. She put him in the Royal Easter Show this past year. 🙂

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@Ezzles Might need to engage your services later this year, actually! Our place is nicely high-tech. 🙂

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Listening to @ironbrandon on my way home and wishing I felt good enough to go for a run.

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@Ezzles probably the US to visit the fam at the end of the year. We’ll need somebody to herd our idiot cats.

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Broadway Newsagency has crowd control barriers up to deal with crazed lottery ticket buyers. No, I didn’t buy in. http://twitpic.com/8u3d4

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Hm. Suddenly realized that conversations with the Snook occur across the unbreachable chasm dividing the world of the BA and the developer.

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Just completed a 4.00 km run with @runkeeper, check it out http://bit.ly/D0Ali #runkeeper

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I feel great! Got some drops at chemist last night that helped earache. Went for 1st run in a week today & had ZERO shin issues. Yay July!

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Wait, wait… Did a lesbian knitting group from the Netherlands just refer to the SSKers as “crafters” and invite them to a new group?? o_O

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I stand corrected. They hit every group on Ravelry that had “Sydney” in the description, apparently.

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@mrs_sockvictim I did too! I gave away my sneaky trick the other night, didn’t I? 🙂

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@j_wren Feel free. I was more amused than annoyed. Go get ’em!

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Where the hell are the Park St buses? Been waiting 10 minutes. Have seen every Newtown bus 3 times…

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Oy vey. One of the people booked in for my sock class was a 9-year-old. Who gave up halfway through. And who then puked in the shop.

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@crumpet @glittertrash Ooh, we just got some Black Russians in yesterday’s veggie box. Very nice.

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Bailing on Rachel’s Stitch and Bitch in favor of going back to bed. Talk about a lost weekend…

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Feeling a lot better. House is a wreck and I accomplished nothing all weekend, but at least I can stop munching paracetamol.

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Still in bed. Going to take one more day to rest and shake this bug.

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Have spent nearly entire day in bed, only stirring briefly for last visit to Bourke St Bakery. *sob* Time to try sitting up, I guess.

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@rhagern Heh. You’re not an idiot; it’s only had search for the past 2 weeks. (It was in 3.0 update.)

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Time to pop some paracetamol and man up for a trip into the city. My knitting students must not be disappointed!

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Wow. Change of plans. Thanks to @lachlanhardy, just realised that buying iPhone outright from Apple is best deal of all. Cancelling Optus!

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@wookie_man We changed tack. Getting outright from Apple store now. Snook is in the queue as we speak. 🙂

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Jeff Goldblum story was a hoax, and a two-year-old hoax at that: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/tomhanks.asp

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@SupFarn Yep, official site says “outright purchase.” 32Gb $1049 or 16Gb $849. Snook reports queue at Sydney store but “they have plenty”.

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@SupFarn Apologies. $879 for 16GB.

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@twelveeyes Saw it on Twitter today. Snook has verified at Apple Store. 32Gb $1049 or 16Gb $879 for “outright purchase.”

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Just realized girl in front of me at chemist was getting morning-after pill. Suddenly puts own life stresses into perspective.

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Not feeling very well. Going to skip the Friday night drinks and head home for rest. 🙁

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New iPhone is set up and synced. Yay! Tested out video camera and compass. Snook is entranced with my hand-me-down 3G.

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Ugh. Virus. I feel sleepy and nauseated, and I haven’t even gotten out of bed.

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@witty_knitter I hadn’t! Great minds think alike. 🙂

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@traceyh Unfortunately, yes. Every New Year’s I post my stats, and I think this will probably be my lightest blogging year ever…

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How to feel old: Mention “The Princess Bride” and have your coworker say: “Never heard of it.” WHAT IS THE NEXT GENERATION COMING TO?

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Just got an email with Optus upgrade pricing for iPhone! They’ll reduce my upgrade fees by 20%, but I’d have to re-up for 2 years.

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Yours said 40%, @zachhorder? I’m only 6 months into 24 mo Optus contract, and they offered me 20% off upgrade fees. Not worth it.

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@shaps I only got offered 20%. Seeing everything from 20-40% on Twitter right now.

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The Optus iPhone upgrade offers have gone out, and it sounds like they’re offering 20-40% off upgrade fees depending on length of contract.

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@techAU Not for everyone. I only got offered 20% off.

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@shaps Only six. 20% off isn’t enough to sway me, considering I’d have to change from my grandfathered $39 plan (which I love).

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Same guy: “Is Alice in Wonderland a book, Kris?” God bless this kid.

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@shaps I’m not going to bother. Partner is going to get $19 plan and swap phones with me. (He doesn’t make many calls.)

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@redambition I signed up for the updates on the Optus site.

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Lovely two hour celebratory lunch… It’s nice to feel like the company appreciates all our hard work!

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@wookie_man I thought you were gonna wait and see Tia’s?? 🙂

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@wookie_man I can’t see their plans online?! Did they email them to you?

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@smallpirate If you’re on contract, free. I did it last week. Surprisingly, they did it in less than 2 business days!

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Heading to knitting at the Grace…

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iPhone ordered, delivery Saturday. WOO! That was a tense 20 minutes. Stupid Optus site is very fragile. Expected session timeout any second.

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I thought Michael Jackson lived in Bahrain or something because he thought the US was too persecute-y with the whole molestation thing?

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@traceyh I think it’s a total fake.

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Recruiter emailed looking for PHP devs. Said I’m not doing that anymore. “Do you know anyone who’s looking?” “ISN’T THAT YOUR JOB?”

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Vodafone iPhone 3GS prices are up, and they’ve got prepaid! http://www.vodafone.com.au/personal/iphone/3gspricing/

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Vodafone’s iPhone pricing page says: “There is no monthly access fee for tethering.” Translation: “Screw you, Optus.”

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@clesan700 It’s a screenshot from “Lost.” You can see Evangeline Lilly wearing handcuffs in the front.

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RT @andrewsayer: Idiot gets firework nutshot (32sec VID) http://bit.ly/4N5In <- I think I went to high school with those guys.

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@redambition Congrats! Well done.

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The plan all hinges on whether the Snook’s SIM works in my iPhone. *crossing fingers*

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SUCCESS! Current plan is to order $19 plan online on Optus’s site tomorrow night. They then courier my new iPhone on Saturday. W00t.

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@bellsg Snooky’s 95% sure he can get by on Optus $19 plan. (He doesn’t use phone much except to call me, and our calls will be free then.)

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Cranford Mitts are off the needles! Little bit Victorian lace, little bit Japanese punk rock. Details on Rav tomorrow: http://bit.ly/1buB0O

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@Ascasewwen Wait, seriously? You’re actually the second person to tell me that recently. Obviously this is a Halloween costume possibility!

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@eileenDCoE I always think that too. It’s kind of a mean thing to say to a person, really.

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Finally finished Red Mars. Enjoyed 1st half more than 2nd. Debating on getting the sequel(s). (Need to know if FC is dead. I doubt it.)

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Um, am I the only one that realises that Godwin Grech of the Treasury Department is clearly a Gringott’s goblin at loose in our world?

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Just completed a 4.28 km run with @runkeeper, check it out http://bit.ly/KCQmV #runkeeper

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Accidentally republished an old run this morning. Just did 4K, not 10K. Nice and slow, w/ only 1 walk break! Recovery is going well.

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Smartphones are the future. How else could I be alerted that sewer has backed up at work while still on the bus? It’s good to be prepared.

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Uhh… I’m really weirded out by the new Skype UI. Big, big departure. Took me a few minutes to find my bookmarked chats.

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Really had it up-to-here with knitters guild busybodies today.

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@Opheli8 It drains my battery!

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@twelveeyes @randomknits Yeah. Members of Exec spying on and forwarding emails from groups. Funny in a childish kind of way.

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Charitable: She’s stupid, misread it being for everyone and wanted to share. More likely: She wants brownie points for keeping tabs on us.

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Woo! And the knitting shit has hit the fan. I’ve been asked to remove a Ravelry group I have no authority over.

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Just sent an email that could – wheee! – get me kicked out of guild completely. Who knew a simple discussion about usernames would explode?

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Bullet dodged in the face of implacable logic.

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@witty_knitter Actually, the strata’s builder was out today to take a look at it. It’s their issue, so luckily they’re getting it fixed. 🙂

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@witty_knitter I really need to start loaning out the Snook to set up PVRs for you. The concept of watching live TV is gone from my life!

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@witty_knitter Puter that records all your TV, like a TiVo. Check out MythTV.org. I have it set to record all Time Team, whenever it’s on!

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Trying to restart my heart after getting email from CEO w/ feedback on site we haven’t officially launched yet. But feedback was ALL GOOD!

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Snook went to silly @hAPPlication Optus iPhone tent at Circ Quay. No 3GSs to play w/ or even view. No info that isn’t on website. FAIL!

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Also, Optus actually put a sticker over the “S” on the iPhone tent sign. Must have had too many people pissed that it wasn’t really there!

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Holy crap. Colleague just gifted me brand new copy of Sims 3. Sweeeeet. (This could be a bad, life-sucking thing.)

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Starting to worry about this game. I have a 1000 page book to read, running and knitting to do, etc. I don’t need another obsession!

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RT @chrisgander: Our new social network has just launched! GetUpGo Beta is online -> http://www.getupgo.com. Check it out! 🙂

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How can I be the only person to have gotten on this 461 bus in 20 minutes? AM I ON A GHOST BUS?!

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ARGH. Just spent 45 minutes trying and failing to recreate the Snook as a Sim. Somehow it came out all Freddie Mercury.

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Just completed a 5.25 km run with @runkeeper, check it out http://bit.ly/RNIZ5 #runkeeper

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@RTRR Thanks! Still taking walk breaks to ease back into it, but shins are feeling pretty good…

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@AusVintageGrrl @sharre @redambition Nah, just suggested as a possible topic! More interesting than what was scheduled. You can lead it!

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Holy crap! Just sitting here quietly when foot-long piece of render just broke off around the sliding door and SMASHED on the floor. WTF?!

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Finally working on the web-goddess.org redesign…

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New web-goddess.org redesign is up! All credit to @scrubbles for the awesome header (which is the first time I’ve ever been drawn!).

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@witty_knitter Just odd, because it doesn’t feel/look damp at all. Is your builder free to have a look? 🙂

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@Ezzles Hahaha… Yet you’d be surprised how many people get it wrong!

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@lotsofco Wow, thanks for the plug, Max! Really, all credit to Matt @scrubbles for coming up with the idea in the first place. 🙂

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I feel CRAP. Slept instead of going for my long run. Am I finally going to get this damn flu after everybody else in the office has had it?

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OK, it’s 22nd of June & the whole Optus @hAPPlication (terrible name, btw) thing is supposed to start. Why no prices or info on the website?

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