Archive for April, 2008
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Wisdom Teeth, Self-Extraction
Yes, I admit to googling this.
Alas neither Google, nor YouTube could arm me with sufficient instructional guidance to engage in a self-exploratory mission.
That, and the fact my pain tolerance is a pittance of that of my forebears.
So, I am told that I need to lose my wisdom teeth ASAP (this week would be good), as [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Uncategorized by michelle
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Role Model of Laziness
‘Tis the time of autumn. European trees turn brilliant shades of red and yellow, children play in mounds of dried fallen leaves, paths become smothered and squelchy, and pavements are choked with the fumes of two-stroke engines. Yes, ’tis the season of the leaf-blowers.
For the next month or so, my route to work will be [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Rants by michelle
Friday, April 25th, 2008
Climbing Mt Edgecumbe/Putauaki
To commemorate ANZAC Day, we went for a road trip down to the Bay of Plenty to climb Mt Edgecumbe/Putauaki.
Mt Putauaki is an 821m extinct volcano situated behind the township of Kawerau 30 minutes from Rotorua and Whakatane. It is probably the most prominent mountain in the otherwise largely flat Bay of Plenty [...]
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Have you tried turning it off and back on again?
My work laptop ceased on me today. It’s a standard HP notebook and while I was reading my email it shutdown and would not come back to life.
I proceeded to troubleshoot the most common faults, and swapped the battery and power supply all to no avail.
The time had come to contact the IT help [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in IT by michelle
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
One glass of nasal juice please
For the past few days I’ve been battling a cold, or at least something that produced cold-like symptoms, but which now seems to have settled into the left side of my jaw.
With the Internet at my fingertips, this inevitably led me to reach one of two possible self-diagnosis:
It isn’t a cold, but rather a wayward [...]