Is this thing on?

Ok nom nom

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Out for a bit of impromptu scoffage. Cheers!

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Even better - Bog informs me that those frames were taking 2 hours each on the renderfarm. That’s until it gave up and died.

My Mac was churning them out at 20mins a frame

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Friend Bog’s got a big 3d job he needs to get out the door before heading off stateside next week, so I’ve offered all the spare clock cycles on my Mac to share some of the rendering load.

Lightwave is currently chunking away over on the other screen, rendering a scene out in full HD res and yet I’m sat here with a DVD ripping, whilst watching a video, uploading the next 100meg or so to FTP and noodling on the net with absolutely no sign that my Mac even thinking about breaking a sweat…

Aces

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Ahh, an oldie, but a goodie!

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In reading for a curry with the Bogster as he’s off to the states next week and we want to make sure he actually gets on the plane!

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So, the UPS bloke picked up my 360 earlier to go off to MS for repair.

His comment as he picked it up was “I could do with a bigger van just for these bloody things..”

Hmmm….

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Got up about 8, fed the cat and had some brekkie myself.

Sat down to crack on with all the stuff I needed to do today (first day back teaching after 2 weeks off) and felt decidedly odd. The snot-filled head last night was probably the first clue, but suffice to say I went back to bed for a bit and actually woke up again properly about 12:30, still feeling knackered. Arse.

When I woke up though it was nice to discover the cat had managed to ninja her way in for a cuddle and was fast asleep in my arm. Bless her

Sorry for the crap pic but it was a job to reach the iPhone without waking her up!

It’s nearly 3:30 now and I still feel woolly as fuck. Arse. Not exactly how I’d planned to spend my day!

Anyone got any miracle drugs to wake me up a bit? I really can’t be doing with feeling like this, got too much to do…

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Recently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.

This is how it manifests:

I decide to water my garden.
As I turn on the hose in the driveway,
I look over at my car and decide it needs washing.
As I start toward the garage,
I notice mail on the hall table
I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car.
I lay my car keys on the table,
Put the junk mail in the waste bin under the table,
And notice that the bin is full.
So, I decide to put the bills back
on the table and take out the rubbish first.
But then I think,
Since I’m going to be near the post box
When I take out the rubbish anyway,
I may as well pay the bills first.
I take my cheque book off the table,
And see that there is only one cheque left.
My extra cheques are in my desk in the study,
So I go to my desk where
I find the cup of tea I’d been drinking.
I’m going to look for my cheques,
But first I need to push the tea aside
So that I don’t accidentally knock it over.
The tea is getting cold,
And I decide to put it in the kitchen to wash up.
As I head toward the kitchen with the tea,
A vase of flowers on the worktop
Catches my eye–they need water.
I put the tea on the worktop and
Discover my reading glasses that
I’ve been searching for all morning.
I decide I’d better put them back on my desk,
But first I’m going to water the flowers.
I set the glasses back down on the worktop,
Fill a container with water and suddenly spot the TV remote.
Someone left it on the kitchen table.
I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV,
I’ll be looking for the remote,
But I won’t remember that it’s on the kitchen table,
So I decide to put it back in the sitting room where it belongs,
But first I’ll water the flowers.
I go to pour some water in the flowers,
But most of it spills on the floor;
So, I set the remote back on the table,
Get some towels and wipe up the spill.
Then, I head down the hall trying to
Remember what I was planning to do.
At the end of the day:
The car isn’t washed
The bills aren’t paid
There is a cold cup of tea sitting on the worktop
The flowers don’t have enough water,
There is still only 1 cheque in my cheque book,
I can’t find the remote,
I can’t find my glasses,
And I don’t remember what I did with the car keys.
Then, when I try to figure out why nothing got done today,
I’m really baffled because I know I was busy all day,
And I’m really tired.

I realize this is a serious problem,
And I’ll try to get some help for it,
But first I’ll check my e-mail….

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