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randomthoughts - Random thoughts on everyday life: Who knows where they come from

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Well it has been a week now...i ordered the dream machine brand new computer. Checked with the software company that provides my Trading software to make sure it was all compatible, i dotted i's and crossed t's did everything a person could think of to have a seemingly smooth technology transition.....apparently not...It has been a week and I am still not p and running properly. i think the Tech God's totally conspired against me, even my internet stopped working for two days, ALL BY ITSELF it has nothing to do with my new Computer.
Now i am in Qld with a new computer that only half works, yes you guessed it the VERY expensive new trading software does not work on the New PC, no-one knows why........What the!!!!!!!

I feel like throwing this shiny new Laptop out the Window and screaming, what does a person have to do to get things to work properly. The only solution available is to trade off the Old coputer and use the Laptop for other things for the time being....aaargh......

Here's hoping i go btter tomorrow getting my new internet connection from a friend that works at Telstra up here.fingers crossed, I am trying my hardest to join the Tech Revolution....boo hoo keithy

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What a load of Globaloney!!

August 5th 2007 06:04

I was all excited for a minute, I was reading a magazine and found a great new word: Globaloney The questions flowed, what does it mean? Who made it up? How can I use it? Imagine the metaphors and double entents in everything I write, how cool, how clever, how much fun......then I saw it is trademarked. What does this mean trademarking a word? Does this mean I can't use it in a sentence or a title, what am I supposed to do, pay the person who made it up every time I use it. How the hell can you trademark a word?

I'll have to admit, I hesitated before writing this post, I mean should I quikly run out and trademark the alphabet before I tell the world of Orble that words are now trademarked and if you don't get in first all words will be out of reach to you. Imagine the trading going on, I'll l end you my "and" for your "the", no you can't have the capital "T" today I've sold it to the Financial Reveiw for an entire year.

Is it just me or is this absurd, trademarking a word? Je ne comprendez pas. or whatever the french say....do French people trademark words?

I am going to sleep on this before I write my post on Globaloney, maybe the owner will contact me so I can get some clarity.....

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The Power of the unimaginableimagination.....

August 3rd 2007 08:01

I have been sitting here for an hour, imagining I can hear the marching band...for all of those who don't know, 2day FM was giving away a house in byron, my Dream house...its all I've ever wanted house in Byron and for the last month I have been trying to win it...

The DJ's Hamish and Andy have sent a marching band to the winners house....I have been focussing all my positive energy, well all my energy towards winning this house.I was incapable of speech, thinking, I almost stopped breathing hanging out to win this house......every ten minutes I convinced myself I could here the drums, the trumpets, the marchers footsteps...they are coming to my house, I am going to win.

I will be rewarded for all my dreams, the fact I bought dove soap not once but twice (yes the first time I bloody left the receipt at the counter)

My dog's even joined the party, running to the front door every time I flinched at the prospect of hearing the marching band coming down my street...i sent my poor partner to the bottle shop to get supplies just in case...no I couldn't go along, i was busy focussing on winning my house...... even writing this piece I can hear them coming walking to my door, excited, that a worthy winner was going to win it....the power of the mind ...please please please......It;s my house, all i have ever wanted, the sacrifices I have made the dreams the diappointments...it has to be mine just has to be...the drums the drums I can hear the drums........ok so its the band that plays in my back alley every night but goddamit I can hear those drums, for one blissful hour this house is mine, I am swimming in the pool, dancing in the street...PLEEAAASSSSe......why won't my phone ring......sob sob sob, who can want it more than me???/ I ask you...WHO I am convinced they are coming.................ah well, I have my health, and my stupid detox which I now have to stick to because there is no special exception for celebrating, but wait the phone rings......OMG....

breathe, there is no one on the other end, I hear on the radio, someone else won it....boo hoooo

in my imagination I can still here those drums....still imagine that house is mine, ....better work bloody hard next week and the next ten years so I can have a better one, the great australian imaginationaldream........I guess I'll just have to suck it up....and that's why I never enter competitions..thanks for everything and nothing 2Day FM, forever more Hamish and Andy SUCK,,,thet let me down... ......

No desperate housewives mansion for me....Maybe i would have abused the power..............

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Starting my Spring Detox Early this year: What;s the Story with these Organic Vegies?

August 1st 2007 02:55

Maybe it is because I am a little hung over today or maybe it is because I don't want to feel like a victim of Advertising, or maybe it is so I can gloat when I see all the Ads for Spring Detox,,,I am not quite sure but today I have decided to start a Spring Detox in Winter in anticipation of the hot summer Global Warming is promising to bring.......

My Dad is a Naturopath so I have the advantage of free advice and Free stuff (there is the downside of the incessant lectures) I am doing a Metagenics program which is going to be Torture; 2 weeks of having supplements for two whole meals a day, then it drops off to a manageble one meal per day. I am stressing about which meals I will skip already and I imagine food is all I am going to think about (and Beer) for the next two weeks...but I only do this once a year so I may as well follow my Dad's advice.

I have decided to go all out on this one so am doing something I have promised myself I would do FOREVER and that is start eating organic food...so off I went like a good little consumer to MacroWholefoods to check out what all the fuss is about with this Organic food stuff......one thing struck me as extremely odd. If it is so good why the hell does it all look so small and sick?. I am guessing the answer is probably that all the other fruit and Veg I buy has been genetically modified or something hideous like that but everythnig seemed so much smaller. The Banana's are at least half the size to what I am used to and the sweet poptato looked just plain freaky......
I honestly would have thought that food grown without Chemicals would be bigger, better, stronger......I guess I was sadly mistaken. and as for the price, at those rates I can only afford one meal a day, for example mince meat is $10 per kilo more. That is a HUGE difference.... At least the meat looks good but it would want to for the price.

Photo Courtesy of Morgue File - Thankyou

Anyhow off I go to make my miserbale powder smoothy, I am cheating and adding a Banana, for self preservation as I really don't want to chew my arm off at my extremely important 2pm meeting..........

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