Recently in Rant Category
Well at least that's over.
(TMI post, you've been warned)
To summarise:
* bad flu after Sydney in September that had me off work for most of the week
* ear infection, probably bacterial, took three weeks of antibiotics to get over
* gastro or food poisoning the night of our work ball (during the antibiotics run)
* weird eye infection just after I finished the antibiotics, don't know if viral or bacterial (both tests were negative)
* cold from one of the boys at the coast, done by the time I went to Melbourne
* bad cold or flu that started the Sunday night in Melbourne which made my training week pretty miserable
* persistent sore throat since about Saturday that I'm convinced is another bacterial infection (still coughing too)
Being stressed about being sick sabotages my means of getting better (ie, sleeping) and haven't felt up to doing any proper exercise in forever.
*sigh*
This entry would have been a rant. Except that that sort of thing can get one fired. Suffice to say I had an "ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME???" moment today and was literally shellshocked for the next hour.
So anyway.
Tonight more geotagging. I'm going to struggle to keep up with the holiday at the rate I'm going! One year ago today we went to Kyoto - went up the tower, visited the monkeys and the bamboo grove at Arashiyama. It was a good day, but very hot so we didn't have the energy to do all the things we wanted to.
And since blog entries are pretty boring without pictures, here's one of the Mongolian flag :)
When Google+ first came out a month or so ago, I scored an invite and decided to have a look.
My reaction: meh.
I mean, I blog. I tweet. What use would another app have that was basically just a combination of the two? So I used it all of three or four times. I quickly added quite a few people to various circles. But really the only people using it were people I haven't seen in forever talking about things that really have no meaning for me. And not just their original comments, but all the ongoing conversations they have with their own friends. Completely boring! To filter them out I'd have to put them in their own circle, and only read the other circles regularly. Pointless.
But whatever.
The thing that really turned me off however is their "real name" policy. Which I simply don't want to use. I have my online persona thankyouverymuch, I don't need them dictating that I need to use my real name online.
There were two problems.
1. I didn't know what other Google services would be affected by me using my real name. This is not explained anywhere. Would my YouTube videos suddenly have my real name? Blogger comments? Noone could tell me.
2. If they catch you, they don't just suspend your Google+ account - they suspend just about *everything*. Now you have to understand, I am entirely dependant on my Google services. I mean just look at the list:
The biggest things of course being my calendar (I *really* couldn't live without this), Reader (that'd be an epic pain in the butt to switch to something else), Gmail for some mailing lists to make some things easier to manage, Analytics for my blog, Maps for various travel maps I've done, as well as a profile for commenting on people's blogs, chat which is the only chat program left that I use with any sort of regularity, and YouTube which I have a few videos but could live without.
So you can understand my fear of being suspended.
And then there are stories like this (and other Australians in the past few days as well) and so I decided to delete my Google+ account. Just like that. All gone. Never even miss it.
Not sure which is worse..
1) Having to go into work for the second Saturday in a row, but not sure of the time, and so not having the time to do the things I wanted to this Saturday
2) Arriving at work only to be told I wasn't needed and could go home again
!!!!
Only upside is that I'll get paid three hours overtime for turning up and sitting around doing nothing for half an hour.
Resisted temptation to call people Bill Lumbergh.
Had an annoying phone call from the real estate agent today. They want me to pay for new blinds because some slats have broken on the old ones. Now when I was living there, some slats broke (ok they're a pretty crap design - only held on by a tiny piece of plastic at the top). But this was because I had the windows open and the blinds closed. Wind blows, stresses plastic, plastic breaks. So I fixed them before I moved out ($80 for 20 new slats - I only needed five but there was a minimum number and I thought I may as well have a few spares. But only for the windows, not the longer ones in the living room).
What this means is that the tenants have been doing the same thing - having the windows open and the blinds closed. And now I have to pay for it. *sigh* #firstworldproblems
Picture the situation:
Small sealed training room. Ten people crowded in. The person sitting next to you is coughing and spluttering and *breathing* all over the place.
Yeah pretty pissed off at the moment. I feel like my throat is a bit sore but don't know if I'm just imagining it. All I know is that if I *do* get sick, it'll be just in time for the weekend.
People suck.
Badly organised events + incompetent vendors + mean and cynical people = depressed Kazza.
People suck.
So last night at 1:30am I had this sudden need to go throw up. So did that, had a glass of milk, and went back to sleep. Repeat at 3:30am. This morning I was constantly nauseous and decided it'd be safer not to go to work. Then the sweetie started feeling sick too.
Great.
So the two of us spent the day at home alternating between having to make messes in the toilet and lying in bed moaning. Yay. The sweetie was worse off than me - couldn't keep any liquid down :(
It would seem that we managed to get whatever Violet had when we went over on Sunday night. Kerry and Scott got sick subsequently too. Apparently the virus is doing the rounds of Canberra, Scott said their doctor had seen a bunch of cases of it. He also brought us over some anti-nausea drugs, Panadol cause we were out, and some toilet paper cause were nearly out.
I can't remember the last time I had gastro. Probably when I was in school...
*sigh*
So my nose decided it hasn't had enough action this cold and one nostril decided to be completely irritated all day. I think it wanted to make me sneeze the entire day, and drip constantly in between.
Extreme frustration!!!!!! >:(