Archive

Listed are the posts for August 2007.

Don't postpone…

to tomorrow, what you can do today… I ventured into my garden today, as I was feeding the rabbits, and I noticed my plants dying, the ones I purchased just before I hurt my back. The have been in little tiny pots without being watered for the last two weeks, I think they’re beyond any [...]


Life is precious

We have all, the time in the world Time enough for life To unfold All the prescious things Love has in store It’s funny how much time one can have on ones hands, and the thoughts that enfold from that. Thinking about that, and the lyrics to the song “We have all the time in [...]


Overdose?

I wonder if it’s possible to have an IM overdose. Right now, I’ve had it with all the fast media. If someone needs me, I’ll be available over phone, during office hours. And via email. Let’s see how long I last, I can clearly remember my last week without Internet access, it was in Switzerland, [...]


We have a saying…

We have a saying in Dutch, “Jantje lacht, Jantje huilt”. It basically says that a person is bipolar ;-) No, honestly, it says that someone switches between being (very) happy and (very) sad easily and fast. I’ve been feeling like that lately. I’m trying very hard to think positive, and not to be to down [...]


Why I'm not a serial blogger, and how I don't have any self control

According to an irc-bot:
infoitems for faragon: .. [insert loads of semi true (at one time or another) Dutch stuff here] .. serial blogger

I am *NOT* a serial blogger :-)
If you look at http://fifo.sh, you might think differently, but the rest of that *long* list of people just doesn’t blog (often enough), I can’t help that, ok? Thank you :-)

Now, for all the interesting stuff that has happened in my life sinse my last blog…
 
 
 
(Note that I actually went through the trouble of making sure there are three empty lines there, instead of the normal one that WP uses when you have multiple blank lines in a row :-) )


A little late isn't it?

For those of you (and that does include me) who are wondering what the fuck I’m doing up at this hour, the answer is, I don’t know. I can try to explain… I’m in pain, a bit… slightly, my GP thought it bad enough to prescribe morphine, which I’m reluctant to take, because I don’t [...]


YASA; Yet Another Stop Attempt

faragon@coffee$ smoketimer Three weeks, 4 hours, 43 minutes, 8 seconds. 317 cigarettess not smoked, saving EUR 66.89. Life saved: One day, 7 hours, 42 minutes. This time it isn’t so much an attempt though, it’s more like a total lack of seeing any reasons to keep on smokeing, or to pick the habbit up again. [...]


Whoooops…

I think I killed it… slightly… maybe… a bit… last pid: 85198; load averages: 454.58, 343.88, 171.1 up 29+22:09:38 22:52:32 3799 processes:938 running, 2231 sleeping, 630 zombie CPU states: % user, % nice, % system, % interrupt, % idle Mem: 508M Active, 33M Inact, 182M Wired, 25M Cache, 86M Buf, 1324K Free Swap: 1024M Total, [...]