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I got me some new work shoes. They're a pair of dainty Windsor Smith ankle boots which are obviously pre-loved (they cost me $20) but I don't care.

They're really comfy.

^^^ WP really needs a "Like" button. Goodwill, a thriftshop chain here in the US, is my Mother Ship. Love finding awesome, preloved stuff.

I'm smiling about a new friend.

Got back with an old friend, Not in a relationshop way...

We spent most of the afternoon making random guesses at what 3 letter codes meant which stations... I even gave her my stopping pattern in 3 letter codes. She got it all 100% right.

Heh . It wasn't so much a thriftshop where I got them but rather a place that sells recycled designer wear. My workmate raves about the place but I'm always hard pressed to find a bargain in there. Until today.

a few weeks ago, i made friends with 2 australian magpies. there is a male and a female, and they have a nest with chicks in it somewhere down the hill. i know this because i put food out on the balcony, and instead of eating it themselves, they break the food up into small portions, and they load their beaks full of the small portions and fly off, and they return about 5 minutes later to repeat the process. only after about 3-4 trips do they eat any of the food themselves.
what devoted parents they are, and yet, they are like innocent children themselves.

the male is by far the easiest to tame. today, i was standing on my podium looking out the window, and the male magpie landed on the balcony rail and looked into my eyes. i can certainly hold eye contact with a magpie. i started talking to him saying "well hello little man! do you want a little something do you?" (like one may talk to babies (it is an instinctive voice that i use when i talk to animals)), and then i went to the fridge and got some grated cheese (which they love), and when i opened the door and went out, he started singing his wonderful song at me.

i have never been talked to by a magpie, and i was extremely touched that a wild and untamed bird decided that i was his friend enough to talk to me.

australian magpies have a very sweet warble that is very complex, and i am sure there is a language that it represents. it is not a repeated set of sounds that is like a "call", but it is dynamic, and while i was talking to him on the balcony, he warbled in such a complex way that seems akin to a "conversation".

i love him so much. i love the female too obviously, but she does not trust me as deeply as the male. she will too eventually, but she is more cautious than he is.

here is the sound of an australian magpie that is similar to how my magpie friend spoke to me for the first time today. my magpie was looking in my eyes while he was warbling, so i am sure he was trying to talk to me.



[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXBuxN1LwFs[/youtube]

I got given a fairly easy part to play in music, and am back in the mood for playing now.

that is good english jess. i hope you were able to play your part with enjoyment.


edit: there seems to be some green hyperlinks in this post that i did not intend, so i would ask you not to click on those green words in my post because they are most likely advertisements that have intelligently hijacked my post. i am not a spammer or a linker to anything.


what made me happy today was that i got a new I.T job in the company that supplies the products for my frozen chip delivery runs.
i have already a business that supplies frozen chips to fish and chip shops and pubs and charcoal chicken shops etc, but i do not have to do much work to run my business. i simply spend 10 minutes on 3 days per week ringing my customers to ask what they want for the next day, and i enter their requests into a sytem i wrote to save me the hassle of invoicing and accounting.
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the boss of the company that supplies my products that i sell asked to see the system i wrote for myself to handle my small business, and he was so impressed that he wants me to write a similar system for his accounts and orders, and he is quite enamored of me. he wishes for me to be involved at a core level in the computational handling of his affairs, and he has offered good money for my efforts. he has somewhat found me to be a new and handy tool in his repertoire of capabilities that he allocates to the building of his business.

he called me a genius (which is obviously his perspective considering what he wants from me), and i am compelled to think of, and write very salient programs that will simplify his nightmare accounting system. he has 2 accountants that spend all day entering figures into the system that they currently have (MYOB), and it is stubbornly inflexible, and i can write a new system for them that will be tailor made to everyone's desires (from the clerk to the boss), and i am invigorated with a renewed desire to solve problems for other people.

he is eager for me to go there tomorrow ( i was also there today) and to continue telling me what he wants.
i will also tell him that some things he wants to happen are ineffectual, and i am eager to go there again tomorrow to plot the new system that may make his business more effective.

his clerical staff are all very excited about my system that i demonstrated today (which is not complete because it was the system i wrote for myself to operate), and they are hoping that i can make their work days much more easy by coding programs that will automatically perform their arduous tasks (like manually typing invoices and statements for example).

if someone believes in me, i will very much devote my mind to making their work easy to perform so they can go home early.

i like programming because it saves so much effort and time for those who are run ragged by the manual demands on their minds and energy.

i also like it because it pays very well, and it is like playing a computer game for me to code their business so as it is almost automatic.

that and my magpie friend have lifted my spirits immeasurably.

Watching Fern Gully and realizing that, even though this world is going on a downward spiral, there is still hope that we can change things around.

I got plenty of sleep.

I had some chocolate milk. Sounds a bit simple, but anything chocolate is a friend of mine and always makes me happy.

I gave good advice to someone!

Myself and a classmate stated our case to the department head as to why we believe it was unjustified for our professor to have administered a major exam during the first class we had after a major natural disaster.

I wrote our principle argument and my colleague was instrumental in alerting the department to this issue. We did a great job!

I had the chance to comfort a classmate (the same one referenced in my previous post) who was very upset over some very harsh and unfair criticisms she received.

Picture of Helena Bonham Carter as Madame Thenardier in Les Mis

Gahh, I don't even know anything about this character other than the fact that I'm already in love with her (because she is played by HBC and looks a lot like Mrs. Lovett!)

Christmas shopping today!

The one time where your lizard is sitting in your lap positioned head first between your legs, and you got to fart, that is the moment you get back at them for making you clean up their poop for so many years...

Lizard 5000<Human 1... WIN!