Yes, that was a password protected post. Somtimes if I need to rant about personal issues, for instance if I needed to rant and get depressed about my sexuality (I’m quite comfortable about being straight though 
), I’ll password protect them. Only people who I want seeing those entries will have the password.
Ofcourse there was nothing juicy in that last post, was just a test to see how feed aggregators deal with password protected posts.
So! Interesting events lately, first off, my trip to KI. I had the sensibility to write down what was happening the whole time so I wouldn’t have to try and remember it when I got home. So here it is:
Day 1
I swear! Interesting day. I still don’t understand how I still have enough co-ordination to write this considering how much alcohol I’ve drunk, and how little experiance I’ve had with alcohol. I still keep trying to type alcohold instead of alcohol though, which is atleast somthing.
Got up at 8 or 9 in the morning, immediatly it was up and doing dishes, nice wakeup call. Had a shower afterwards, and grabbed my shit. Was milling around the house for a bit listening to Radiohead on my recently fixed up iPod (Buggered database, missing a few albums I had recently aquired, none of the music was on any of my comps to fix it, so did some fu to get it all working again), Hail to the Thief, Kid A, and finally, by the time I had gotten three quarters through OK Computer, I was already in the car and half way to the ferry.
Took some photos allong the way, was sitting in the back of the car taking pot-shots with the camera out the window, should be a nice lil’ gallery for you folks around the place to look at when I finally upload it. Damnit, went and wrote uploade then, GROG! :D. While listening to Radiohead and enjoying the scenery it was quite nice.
Got about half way and had to swap albums, immediatly it was Ministry of Sound 2006 Annual (Disc 2), which surprisingly my head was able to deal with for a good long leg of the journey. Took more photos, including a Wind Power farm stretching allong the coastline. They were actually protesting AGAINST this clean, green energy source for quite a while. Fucking greenies should be taken out and shot. You’re breathing my air, prick. And since you wouldn’t survive in a coal-mine, you’re no good to me. If anyone wants to have a go at me for this statement, I’m only going to use the alcohol excuse, so pfft.
Got to the ferry, took a couple of shots of that fat motherfucker of a boat turning it’s arse arround. The things come into the dock head first, they throw a rope over, and then use the warf and the rope to swing around and get the ramps onto the concrete for the cars to drive on.
Got onboard the ferry, was a pretty boring trip, was a cute girl though, darkish tanned skin, jet-black hair, but too young by far. Pity, saw an cute looking emo/rocker chick who was closer to acceptable, but then she put on these big fat sunnies and ended up looking like some plastic prep bimbo. Blah. So I sat and read my White Dwarf magazine instead, mostly the Tau article, which is quite good.
Got to KI itself after a rocky boat trip, water was relativly calm, but it was blowing against the side of the boat and it was rocking side to side a bit, was interesting walking allong, I’ll say that much. Drove to Munchy’s place (Friend of my dad), got there, had a look around. Nice place. Was a good thing I took my laptop, there for a fishing trip, and theres already two laptops sitting on the dining room table, so now theres three :D.
Bummed around for a bit, played some TTD on my laptop, showed a bit to Munchy, who is an oldschool TTO freak, he’s who I originally got TTO and TTD from, still have the original burnt copy he made for me. A69 was being a touchy prick though, so I didn’t get to show him much of Pikkas pineapple scenario, somthing going wrong there. Have to submit some bug reports. Canset was being a prick to, my damn iron ore trains just wouldn’t play nicely. I think it was having NARS on in the background, duplicate iron chains not mixing well. >.>. (WHY CAN I REMEMBER THIS WHEN I’M UP TO MY EYEBALLS IN BOURBON AND COLA!!! SOMTHING IS NOT RIGHT)
Went swimming. It was fucking cold, but it wasn’t too bad. Bourbon and cola warmed me up later, allong with dinner.
Started watching Mr. and Mrs. Smith, funny movie, but we didn’t get too far in. Ate dinner, just assorted meats, veggies and a nice gravy with mushrooms. Was all on plates in the centre and we grabbed what we wanted. I avoided the veggies and snags, but ate everything else. Nice bacon, but it definatly wasn’t Turkey bacon, my favorite.
We all sat around the table, I was looking for excuses to leave, and then we started on the alcohol. Everyone else was drinking bourbon and cola (Four guys going through 2 and a half bottles of Jim Bean (20 standard drinks in a bottle) in one night, my dad is going to be interesting tommorow), I poured myself a coke, and then Munchy passed of the bourban and I topped it up :D. Can’t say I’m a huge fan of bourbon and cola, but good god, it beats the living fuck out of beer. I cant STAND BEER. So three of them later for me, my glass was quite a bit larger than everyone elses, so it was equivelent to about four/five of what they were all drinking. Ofcourse they all downed atleast 5-10 each between three guys. Mum and Anne (Munchy’s wife) were drinking wine. All the bourbon and almost all, if not all of the wine was consumed that night. I was/am fucking drunk as heck. But some reason, I can still retain majority motor skills, and can still process and see reason. I just ignore it :P.
Aaaand that’s about it, went back to my room, picked the lower bunk (Dunno, like smaller spaces, feels safer for some reason), even though I have the whole thing to myself. Couldn’t sleep, got back up for a bit, went back to my room, saw Kym with his laptop, made a crack about what he was doing with it, and somthing about porn, went and grabbed my power adapter from the table and went back to my room where I had already dragged my laptop bag. Mentally punished myself for putting myself into a position where I had no ‘net access, and no stash of porn. Ahh shucks.
Now I’m listening to 2006 annual (Disc 2 again, Mark Dynamic flogs John Courses arse with a length of barbed wire, he should just do both discs of Ministry of Sound (Australia)’s stuff. Dunno, he just picks a better of selection of tracks, although I hate ‘I like the way you move’ or whatever its called remix, and Voodoo child (Rogue traders shitty mix, both sound the same, I hate that rock remixed dance style stuff, shitty crap), so I skip past that to the last three four tracks of the album which are just pure gold. A magic remix of that ‘Whats a girl to do’ track, and then one last track I can’t quite remember. And the track or two before it are good too.
Ooof. My shoulders are sore from all this typing, and my chest is sore and warm from the bourbon. I wonder if I’ll remember any of this tommorow. God knows after a week I won’t. I’ll be fucking smashed. Should be a good learning experiance.
Now listening to: Hard to Beat (Track 4) - Ministry of Sound, The 2006 Annual (Disc 2)
Nono, now listening to: Shot You Down (Track 5) - Ministry of SOund, the 2006 Annual (Disc 2) (Think Kill Bill, jj My baby shot me down jj)
Mood: 
2nd Day.
Not a drop. No alcohol at all. Suppose dad was right when he said first night is always the worst. Somthing in the KI water, he reckons.
Woke up, felt pretty arse-kickin’, everyone else was absolutly hung over as fuck, I came traipsing into the kitchen saying ‘Gooooodmorning!’ all cheery like, and either Munchy or Dad said ‘Theres nothing good about it’. They were all a bit worried at the three empty bourbon bottles and the empty wine bottles/casks.
Today was slow, good, but slow. Sat on the compy playing TTD this morning. Turned out the bug in canset was because of duplicate industry chains in NARS and Canadian Set. Disabling NARS fixed that billy cart. The crashing in Pineapple land was newsounds. Always the first to get blamed. Usually always right.
Ate cheese, watched cricket, went to the beach (Not in that order, infact, this entire entry is most likely out of order. I remember what happened, just not in what order). Bet my father to the beach even though he left two minutes before me, and I wasn’t even rushing, I just trampled cross country through an vacant lot right infront of the house to the beach, whereas father went allong the road. It was too bloody cold to swim though, was still quite grey overhead. Only went crotch deep in the water before chickening out and coming back. That and I really, really don’t like being in public with my shirt off. I really, honest to god, am fat. Beer gut, man boobs, gah. Still, it’s workable, it’s just flab. Not like some people who have roll upon roll upon roll of fat hanging off their entire body, mine is fairly localized. Actually, I’m due for a growth spurt the doc reckons, might just be puppy fat like the last few times I shot up in height. Either way, I can work it off, and, heck, I’m going to. People never really notice, or comment, because I wear mens shirts (They fit, they fit quite fine), and I suppose, I wouldn’t look too much bigger than anyone else. But beh, I’m still not happy.
Came back, sat around for a bit, tinkered with my laptop, took a few shots from the house with the ol’ 4megamapixel Olympus digital. Weather had cleared up and the sun was out and shining brightly. Looks like I’ve comandeered that camera, mother’s, technically, but she never uses it, is technically inept, and the father has an 8 mega pixel olympus digital SLR. Photos turning out alright, my hands aren’t jittering as much.
Borrowed Munchies bike, after sitting on my laptop for a bit again, and went for a ride, just up the road as far as it went, then came back. Was knackered, haven’t ridden for a while and I pushed this mountainbike hard enough. Slammed the thing into the hardest gear I could and sped allong the sand/dirt road at about 60-80 clicks. I know because I later kept pace with a ute (Was a ways behind it though) doing that down the road later that day, and I wasn’t pushing as hard. It’s easier when you have gears. Still surprised my legs can throw that much power out.
Tinkered on laptop for a bit more, getting Googles Picasa 2 going nicely, well, I’m just learning how to use it best.
Went out on the bike again later, went the opposite way up the road as far as it went, chased the ute for a bit, then came back. Was knackered again, grabbed a drink and the camera bag, then went down to the beach. Took some snaps of the coastline, then came back.
Somthing else happened that day, but I can’t for the life of me remember. Ohwell.
But yeah, everyone was around the house that arvo except for Munchy, who was fishin’. Munchy got back, we watched Crusty Demons for a bit, did some other stuff, ate dinner, took photos of wallabies, aaaaaaaaaand I can’t really remember anything apart from dinner, and finishing off watching Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and then watching Collateral.
Meigh.
Good dinner though.
3rd Day
Went fishin’
Got addicted to Port Royale, Munch got me onto that game. Good one at that. Oh, played some TTD aswell, my Pineapple set game is coming allong nicely.
4th Day
Alcohol are teh whooot. Eh, just a very large cowboy that I’ve been clutching all night, the idea was to sip it, but that took a good three or four hours, got to the last quarter of the thing and started to throw down chunks of it. Mmmmh. Warm.
Went to Penneshaw pub with Munchy, Kym and Munchies wife, Anne. Mum and Dad went for a drive, and I only woke up just as they were running out the door. And by god, sunburnt feet hurt like hell. Slip slop slap, folks. The sun burns bright on KI, and my lobster feet and knees are proof.
Came back, played more Port Royale, I’m really liking this game, and have finally gotten the swing of it. Got a nice, medium sized fleet of ships. A Cassock, a Carvel, and three friggets iirc, very tidy, pulls apart anything apart from a military convoy.
Fucked around with the ipod/laptop some more, ipod ofcourse has no IRQ or any resources, runs through the USB controller for that, problem is, it’s an IO issue. Can’t debug it, I don’t have the gear, can’t fix it. The quality (Or lack thereof) varies a fair bit depending on what USB port I’m using. Two ports to each controller, two controllers. Two blocks of memory and both controllers use IRQ 19, can’t alter any of it either which is shitting me right off. This better not be a WinXP Home restriction >.<.
Suddenly, the concept of weasiling a new laptop out of my parents is so much more appealing. I’m getting really really tired of this laptop screwing me around, parts wise it sucks, mobility is shocking. The only real plus-side is that everything works out of the box with Linux now, which wasn’t true when I first had it though.
Grargh.
Nice hi-tech fishing trip.
5th Day
Caught Yabbis and Marin.
And that’s it aswell. Left in the morning, came back at 6:30pm. Ate said marin and yabbis, played more Port Royale. Listened to music, talked, tinkered with the photos. Oh yes, took lots of photos.
6th Day.
Sat around and did bugger all.
7th Day.
Nothing much.
8th Day.
Went home.
Yeah. I got lazy towards the end of the journal entries. Sue me.
Oh, I’m also putting together a Warhammer 40k army, Tau. Going for a black/white colourscheme, but I’m not quite happy with my paint jobs, I’ll just have to keep working at it. I’ll write a full entry about it when I get around to it.
It’s all coming together, planet.tt-forums.net is really starting to work!
Yeap Owen, Inter-blog interaction. This has been somthing I’ve wanted to see, but didn’t know how to suggest to people. Do it via blog posts in response to other peoples blog posts, or commenting on other peoples blogs. Either is good and is well within the spirit of this whole venture!
Thanks to all the people who have supported me in this project, and who haven’t been hideously difficult with me over niggling things. But who cares! Let’s keep this ball rolling!
I SWEAR I will write a proper blog entry at some point. Probably tommorow. Maybe tonight. Maybe next week in the VERY VERY RARE CHANCE that I can get an internet connection on… bom bom bom… KANGAROO ISLAND! . Yeap. A proper vacation. Been a very long time since I’ve been on one of them 
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Planet TT-Forums is LIVE!
Owen delivered with space on Yoda and a domain for planet.tt-forums.
The address is: http://planet.tt-forums.net!
This replaces the older Planet Tycoon! hosted by yours truly, it will be soon rm -rf’d into oblivion, and all bookmarks/links should be changed to reflect this change.
Edit: Yeah, I’ll post a proper weblog entry at some point, I’ve been a bit too busy waving my arms around making annoucements for Planet Tycoon/TT-Forums lately.