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I guess blogs shouldn’t be about depressing things all the time lol but it can’t be helped. I had a nice trip on the weekend – went to the ground, have you been there? Its probably my second biggest trip in two years – luckily I saw different sights this time around as it happened in the backyard instead of out the front door. I have this massively huge bruise that covers my knee and then goes down to almost halfway down my shin. It happened on Saturday morning so you can understand what type of a weekend I had Stupidly, yesterday I spent most of it sitting when I should have had the leg elevated and straight, I ended up with not only a swollen knee by the late evening, but also a swollen ankle. I guess I should have stayed at home today but what’s the point? Its a bruised knee its not a broken one, painful though it may be. I’ve currently got my recycle box upside down under the desk with my leg rested across it lol, though it may be a little too high I think, especially for the way I’m sitting (hunched over because I’m tired).

Today’s a fairly quiet day. Its the beginning of the school holidays here so we’re not likely to get many calls for the next couple of weeks. My boss is away today too so it makes it even quieter. I like it though I started feeling ill on my way in. Unfortunately I’ve put that down to work-illness. Lately its been getting worse, stress and the strain of the relationships of people around here and their attitudes towards everyone else. I’m getting sick of it and its also making me sick. My boss wants me to put in the paperwork for a performance management – however the only reason he wants it is because he told his boss that all of ours are done, its got nothing to do with listening to me and my needs or giving me support in areas I can improve in. We’re also at the point where things are going to change here because of a new separate department that’s been created and a number of our sections will be moving to it. Because of that, and some other changes, there’s the possibility we can make changes to our structure ourselves. But the problem is that the ones at the top only want to make themselves higher (salary wise) but with less responsibilities. And as for the ‘working bees’ below, well they wave it aside and say “We’ll work that out later”. I’m hoping that the Executive Director makes his own decision not based on what my boss or the other manager’s say. There is one manager on the floor who actually reports to my boss, or so she should based on the original structure, but instead she’s running the entire section! She has no clue as to what half of us do, including the small group I am a part of, but she’s already made decisions on how we should be working in the future.  One of my co-workers has been pissed off with both our boss and the other managers attitudes towards these changes and how they don’t look anywhere below their own levels. He’s prepared to walk out and go into another job – and considering he’s highly sought after, I don’t blame him for leaving if he does go. I would like to as well but to where? Not a lot around at the moment that I’m interested in (jobs) and I’m hoping to see what happens with changes before I do anything.

(Gah! It doesn’t matter how I sit or where I stick my leg its still painful!! ;__;)

Anyway in other news:

• I did get the new hot water system installed. My credit union were kind enough to give me the money though they gave it to me as an overdraft instead of adding it onto my home loan. That’s a real pain because I get hit more with fees on the overdraft than I do on the home loan. But at least we have hot water!
• I started reading a new book called “Hidden Empire” by Kevin J Anderson. He wrote The Jedi Academy trilogy for the extended Star Wars universe. I was going to read “The Twisted Citadel” which was the second book of the Darkglass Mountain trilogy, but I was kind of pissed off with the characters and not terribly fond of the story by the time I finished the first book “The Serpent Bride” lol. This is a change from Fantasy to Sci-Fi and its a nice change I guess. So far the book is okay though it seems like this entire book is dedicated to the setting for the rest of the saga (there are seven books in total) as not a lot has happened and I’m almost half way through it.
• Ended up downloading a lot of TV series as I either miss the night they’re aired, or they change the timeslot on me. Easier to download and catch up. Also it means I can view any series that is about to air here usually before it airs! Caught up on CSI last night as I’d missed the past two weeks (and the episode last night too). Also downloaded that Sanctuary – 8 webisodes which make up the ‘pilot’ episode. The series is supposed to begin airing or has begun airing, I’m not sure which, but its kind of weird seeing Amanda “Samantha Carter” Tapping in such a different role and with a british accent.
• Have been behind with watching anime. I was behind with updating Animay for a while since I focused on getting RBM up and running. Vampire Knight was pretty popular when I was screencapping it but the first series is over now so will be looking towards a new series (maybe). Seasons 2 of Vampire Knight as well as Season 2 of Gundam 00 both air in October.

That’s really about it for now. ReBoot Mayhem is up and running using Joomla! to run the site. Its really great and I’m pleased with it though my only problem is that the theme I have doesn’t run too well on IE, it comes up okay but there are some odd things it seems to do. Regardless, its a constant work in progress but at least I’m updating a little more than I was before.

Well the upgrade to WordPress 2.5 has gone smoothly – no problems I’ve run into so far so that’s a good thing. The Dashboard interface is awesome! Much better improvement on the previous version. Still trying to get used to where things are located though. Will be upgraded my Animay site as well since it runs on WordPress too.

If you were wandering through this way a week ago you may have seen a strange “Test Post” appear on the site. All of my sites were shifted to a new server and in the first instance everything looked pretty good and seemed to be working properly – though I hadn’t done anything to actually test that until I went to update Animay. Discovered then that there were some problems mainly with posting to WordPress and uploading images to the Coppermine galleries. I could upload individual images using the ‘upload image’ tool, but considering the number of screencaps that go up, I tend to use the “Batch Add” tool which makes it a lot quicker. Unfortunately it just wouldn’t work. I posted a test post on this site and oddly enough it worked, however trying to change that Animay Image Update text box on the menu there achieved an error message. Thankfully I have a great host with top service so the problems were fixed during the week and now, so far, everything is running smoothly again.

And I just realised its April. Man I keep forgetting to post something here – though I usually don’t have much to say lol. I have completed a few more Gundam models and have another two on their way from Japan. Apparently with this new WordPress I can actually create a little image gallery here! Pretty cool eh? I may even do that if I get around to testing it, but for now we’ll leave that feature alone lol.

Still working on a number of things – still updating Animay, working on the Drupal Test site which will eventually be used for ReBoot Mayhem, and looking into other things like new themes and plugins etc. I’d love to just click my fingers and its all done, but alas that’s not the case and so I must do everything manually… (Yes I am lazy).

Well its regular now since this is the second time I’m posting on New Years Eve in the lead up to 2008.

Here in Australia its only another half hour (as at the time I begin writing this) until the clock ticks midnight and we say goodbye to 2007. Once again I’m at home as I’m past the age of wanting to go out and party on NYE – it often gets boring and its the usual crowds that go anyway and its way too hot tonight (we had 41C our max today). I’ve got the TV on as they countdown to the fireworks spectacular that will happen in Sydney. It’s kind of funny because we’re actually half an hour behind Sydney so they should already be celebrating midnight now.

2007 wasn’t anything amazing in my books – I’m relating to my personal life here not the world in general. The only good thing was paying off one loan and extending on my home loan so I could get some renovations done. That and my nephew had his first child in October and he and his new family have now returned to Australia and we all spent Christmas Day together.

Resolutions are not high on my list… wait that came out wrong What I mean is that I’m not bothered with making any resolutions as I never follow them through, or I never complete them. I’ve got a “To-Do List” which is probably as close as it will get to being a resolutions list. I guess really I’m just hoping for a good year this year, but I’m not keeping my hopes up high for such a thing to occur. There’s too many problems at work and things that I want to do will not get done because of these particular problems (namely our Director, whom we have no budget for her salary but she’s here for the whole of 2008 and is basically cutting things in order to justify her salary package, so there goes any chance of my reclassification going through). It’d be nice if a new job came up, one where I only needed to concentrate on one project at a time rather than ten at once. The problem with working in the government, though, is that you just go from one problem department to another, just a different set of problems. It’s a little too early to be judging how things will go this year and for all honesty… its just a job.

In other areas of my life, I’m once again going to try and at least do updates that are a bit more regular on a couple of my websites. Wait.. I only have a couple of websites that need updating!! After midnight tonight, I’ll be taking down the Animay forums. No posts since November, and then two of those posts were from me I’d already put up notification months ago about taking it down if no activity happened, and since none has happened well then its coming down. Its just taking up space that I need. On top of that I’ve been thinking about converting the ReBoot Mayhem website to a WordPress site. I can’t be bothered with all the fancy html and php stuff to work with and using something like WordPress would make updating it so much easier. Its just that I’d like it to look more like a site and less like a blog. There is a fan ReBoot website that is built on WordPress, though they don’t use a skin to make it look like a ‘regular’ site. Themes that are out there for WordPress mostly seem to base themselves on a blog aspect rather than a site. There are a few that look like magazine type sites which are pretty cool, though there’d have to be some messing around with the codes in order to make it look more like a ReBoot website rather than a newspaper website. I’ve still got a few weeks to work on that anyway lol.

Its definitely nicer being on holiday from work and the fact that I don’t go back until the 21st January, so its a nice long break.

Anyway, its only another ten minutes until midnight here in Australia. I’m wishing everyone a Happy New Year and I hope you have a great year in 2008! Cheers!