Goat Minister of Propaganda

It's my 23rd birthday today. I feel special. I've never been 23 before.

It's a shame Sister isn't employed, or in the country.
No "Christmas in May" this year.

I think I'll go to Centro Roselands and buy something.
I want a Nintendo Wii!

It was my grandmother's funeral today. She died on Saturday.
Great excuse to get the day off work and stay home playing around with my shiny new Internet connection.

Too bad it wasn't connected earlier in the day, so I could have skipped the funeral altogether.
I show up in my casual clothes and mismatched shoes, looking all Sef, and all these family members I haven't seen in many years, stand there looking at me, like I shouldn't be there.

I don't understand these pagan rituals my family follow.
She was buried in a sheet, not a coffin. There was a coffin, so it's not like they were being cheap.
They took her out of the coffin to bury her.

I don't get it.

I didn't step foot inside the pagan temple mosque thing. I have no place in there. Plus, I really hate taking off my shoes.

Getting back to the good stuff; This ADSL2+ connection runs at 9.78Mbps. Not bad, but I would have liked more.
That's what I get for being further than 2km from the phone exchange.
Once I get torrents running, we'll see how this baby flies.

I'm attempting to disconnected my Internet and home phone from iiNet, and move to a different provider, with faster speeds and better plans.
It isn't going very well.

I just discovered, if I connect with any provider other than Telstra for ADSL2+ after the 1st of March, Telstra won't offer me their cheapest phone line rental. ($19.95!)
I'm trying to save money here.

First I filled out the form on the Telstra website to move my phone service over to them.
Their form doesn't agree with Firefox, and Internet Explorer didn't seem to like it to much either.
Once I battled my way through that, I get the, "It will take up to 21 working days for your request to be processed" message.

That's great, looks like I have no choice but to pay an extra $7 a month just for a phoneline I really don't want or need.

Now it's time to call iiNet. The first attempt failed. The rep. hung up on me.
Second attempt isn't much better. The dude doesn't seem to know what's going on.
Sef - "Hi. When is the soonest I can cancel my ADSL service?"
"..."
"Hello?"

iiNet - "Sorry, could you repeat that?"

He's telling me they can't schedule a disconnected for the end of the billing month, I can cancel it now, or call back on the last day of the billing month. If I cancel now, they won't credit me for the rest of the month.
Also, I'll have to pay a $169 disconnection fee. To cover the setup costs they waived, and to cover the cost of the hardware I never actually ordered or received.

Part of that fee is also an early termination fee, 'cause I've only been with them since September, (less than 6 months) even though I've had Internet with them since July.

Fucking iiNet.

Friday night seems to have gone missing from my memory.
Probably a good thing after all the stories I heard.

I went out with work people for Terina's birthday. It was at the local pub, so I didn't have much excuse not to go.
Everything I do remember was great. I'm glad I did go.

It's nice working with people you can also go out and have a good time with.

I woke up this morning with a reptile in my face.
It's not the best way to be woken up, but it sure makes for a nice intro to this entry.

Brother got me a Blue-Tongued Lizard. It's the best pet he's even given me. Fuck Kitty Pants.
I went out and bought stuff for it this afternoon.
I bought a three foot glass lizard tank, it's like a fish tank, but instead of a lid, it has sliding doors on the front. I also got a heat rock, so it can sit on it and stay warm, a water dish, some sand, a plastic log for it to hide under, some roaches and grasshoppers for it to eat, and a guide to keeping lizards.
Lots of money wasted there, but I earn a lot, so it doesn't matter.

I haven't given it a name yet. I wanted to find out if it was male or female first. I actually like this thing, so I'm not going to name it Kitty like every other animal i've neglected.

In this lizard guide I've been reading, it says, to find out the sex of the lizard, you need to... ugh... "stimulate" it.
If a penis comes out, it's male.

They recommend this should only be done by professional lizard trainers/breeders, 'cause you don't want to go breaking its bits.
I'm no professional lizard stimulator, so I've decided it's female, 'cause it isn't angry enough to be male.
Although, it did hiss at me when I tried to move it away from the heat stone.

I love pets that hiss.

I injured myself at work.

I was taking out my frustration on the ice that had built up on the cement floor of the blast. (A freezer that "blasts" -17 degree air at stuff to get it cold real quick.) While doing this, I feel on my back. It hurt. A lot. I couldn't get up for awhile, and could hardly walk once I did manage to get up.
I was instructed to defrost the blast, so I wasn't doing anything I wasn't supposed to be doing.

I was sent home. Which made sense, 'cause I couldn't do any work while lying down on a wooden pallet in the chiller, attempting to ignore the pain.

I took the day off today to see a doctor. He made me do some stretches, lift my legs, and shit like that, to see if I really was injured, and to what extent.
He said it's just some muscle pain, I haven't broken or fractured anything important.

He filled out a workers compensation doctors certificate, stating my injuries, and requesting reduced duties at work.
No lifting, no pulling, no pushing, and breaks to sit down should I feel the need to.

I have to do physiotherapy soon. I should make an appointment for Friday, when we're super busy.
Any treatment, or medicine I need will be paid for by the company, 'cause I hurt myself at work, and it was their fault.

Workers comp. is great.
I should slip and fall more often.

Today, at work, I saw an Indian man fingering the arsehole of a dead sheep.

Not the most disturbing thing that happened this week.

Someone told me Kim from pre-pack thinks I'm hot.
I thought, "That's pretty cool. I've still got it."

Well... Turns out Kim isn't a woman. At least not entirely.
Kim is the transvestite.

If I have to fill out an employment application any time soon, "The transvestite thinks I'm hot." would be my reason for leaving my previous job.

Now I know how straight guys feel when gay guys think they're hot.

I finally uploaded those photos from Thredbo.
You can take a look. They're not all that great. 'Cept the one of me on my arse after falling.

Yargh!

Today I learnt to not drink out of a can while walking down stairs.

I rented a copy of Metal Gear Solid on Playstation, back when it was first released. I remember thinking it was one of the most awesome games ever. So many cool little features, and great gameplay.

Once I got Splinter Cell on Xbox, I thought, "This is okay, but it's no Metal Gear Solid."
More time progressed, and I found myself playing Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance, thinking, "This is horrible. What the fuck happened?"
It was no Splinter Cell!

Now I'm playing Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow. (Stupid title) I bought it years ago, and never played it. Which is something I can say about almost every game I own. Some of them are still shrink wrapped.

Pandora Tomorrow is fucking awesome. Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater, or whatever it is, has nothing on this game.

I finally started playing it 'cause I just bought Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, and I must finish the previous game in the series before I can play the next one. I'm anal like that.

The point to this story is; Splinter Cell: Double Agent will be out soon, and for once, I'd like to buy a Splinter Cell game, and just play it.