Thursday 31 Jan 2008 by Orphi the AweKid.

My jaw bone doesn’t appear to be straight at the moment. It feels like it’s slotted in slightly sideways. As in, my teeth seem to not mesh properly. There’s more pressure on one side than the other. And the joint on the opposite side feels sore…

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Thursday 31 Jan 2008 by Orphi the AweKid.

Hi there, and welcome to the “I hate my job” club.

Benny keeps telling me I should get a better job. Apparently his teenage son earns more money than I do by stacking shelves in a game shop. (I, on the other hand, spent 6 years and tens of thousands of pounds on higher education, and am in charge of the entire IT operation of the UK site of a company that regularly takes customer contracts for over $100,000 US.) According to Benny, “you’re being taken for a ride”.

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Tuesday 29 Jan 2008 by Orphi the AweKid.

Well, late last year I started talking to a lovely girl who works for Honda Motor Racing and knows differential calculus. We seemed to be getting on really well. Then she told me she was going on a 4 week trip to… some far-off place. And I haven’t heard from her since. (Despite a number of emails, texts and phone calls.)

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Monday 28 Jan 2008 by Orphi the AweKid.

Oh, wait… did anyone even notice I was gone?

Well anyway, I just spent a week skiing in Switzerland. Not as much fun as last year, but a damn site better than being sat at work all the same! Mmm, and now I’m contemplating buying my own ski boots…

PS. Fondue for the win!!

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Thursday 17 Jan 2008 by Orphi the AweKid.

Something FlipC said the other day got me thinking about my mother and her extravegant present strategies. In fact, let me tell you all about it…

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Wednesday 16 Jan 2008 by Orphi the AweKid.

For Christmas, I got my dad a computer.

Granted, this is a bit like giving an Eskimo a block of ice for Christmas. (My dad already has several semi-working computers and a large collection of dismembered components scattered around.) However, a while back I got him some Adobe software which apparently requires SSE II in order to function. His current PC lacks this technology. It’s also running Windows 2000, while he’s been talking about getting himself Windows XP for quite some time.

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Wednesday 16 Jan 2008 by Orphi the AweKid.

Gah!

The new laptops I got yesterday… they have US keyboards. >_<

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Wednesday 16 Jan 2008 by Orphi the AweKid.

Another (moderately) interesting video is here.

I don’t know if it’s just me, but I felt really sad at the end… My God, I’m getting soft in my old age!

Still, a very smooth video I think you’ll agree.

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