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One
of the great pleasures of Winter is wearing your winter coat. Part
of the wonders of a winter coat are the surprising things you left
it it's pockets the season before: ticket stubs to that wonderful
show; buttons that popped off your shirt; wrapped boiled sweets; coinage.
If you are *really* lucky you'll find a nicely folded $5 note and
you think "sweet" because it's like bonus money.
So imagine my joy this morning while rummaging around in a seldom-used-purse
for the $4 in coins for my Parking to find £25 (NZ$74.40) shoved in
the tight side pocket. I used that purse while in the UK last year.
So yay me, I found bonus money!
Money for Jam.
  
Long blonde hair was pulled into a ponytail, her
hand held the curtain lightly. Standing in the window of her Hotel
room in her underwear, looking out at the world seemingly unaware
that some of the world were looking back. She lingered by the glass
for quite some time before turning back into the darkness of her room,
closing the curtains behind her.
In the last 24 hours I have been asked a bunch of stupid/pointless/lazy
arse questions:
"Does Simon have his cell phone on?" [phone call]
"What's the date on Monday?"
"Why isn't it starting?" [broken car]
"Would you like a piece of strudel?"
"Do you know what the time is?"
"Are you still grumpy?"
"Do you have any jumper leads?"
"Have you left yet?" [land line phone call]
"Aren't you finished yet?"
So I went to the Adobe Endless
Possibilities - T3 Roadshow this morning at the Stamford Plaza.
They promised "Tips to keep your finger on the pulse, with a tool
for every situation" and "Tricks that keep you at the cutting edge,
ahead of the pack" and not to mention "Techniques that enable endless
creative possibilities". I mean to say .. endless creative possibilities...
how flipping cool would *that* be. But do you know what? They didn't
deliver any of those things at the 9:00am-10:30am session of Brush
up your skills: Photoshop 7.0 and Illustrator 10.0 in fact, all
they *did* do was high light the fact that being underprepared for
a demonstation wastes_my_time. And Lord knows, I can tolerate a large
amount of my time being wasted - but the chairs were uncomfortable
and the techiques offered weren't "new" (for anyone who has used Photoshop
7 for five minutes) and they didn't even give you a PEN ! In fact,
the goodies were baddies - One stupid pc based (not even cross platform
your wallies - some of us have macs AND pcs you know we could do with
trial versions for both systems) cd with trial versions of some of
their software but not a trial version of Photoshop 7. There was no
wee baggie with brochures and free coupons, there was no groovy ramped
up advertising cd and worst of all. there was no pen. NO PEN. The
Adobe people should truck along to Macromedia and get a few PR and
Marketing ideas cos even as annoying as that Greg Rawkus (whatever)
can be, at least he gives away free stuff! This rant has been brought
to you today by Adobe - maker of fine computing software products,
and by the number 2.
From: Colleen
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 10:09 AM
To: Michelle
Subject: RE: Timesheets
<font color="blue"><i>Answers to your questions
:
Melbourne
Never
No
Because
Colleen</font></i>
-----Original Message-----
From: Michelle
Sent: Tuesday, 23 July 2002 09:20
To: Colleen
Subject: RE: Timesheets
i have a few questions:
where are you going?
when are you back?
will you be buying me any presents?
why not?
m
-----Original Message-----
From: Colleen
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 9:01 AM
To: Jim; Diana; Frazer; Michelle; Rose; Jon; Pene; Debbie
Subject: Timesheets
Morning All,
As I will be away next week, Diana will be putting the project
hours up on the board. In order to provide her with adequate training,
the update will take place tomorrow instead of Thursday. So for
this week only, please complete your timesheets at the end of
today (or first thing tomorrow morning) and as usual on Friday.
Please see me if you have any further questions.
Wednesday, July 24, 2002
~JJ~ says to Michelle: I used to think the Wombles were putting
themselves down in the title music
~JJ~ says to Michelle: "The Wombles of Wimbledon, common are we."
Michelle says to ~JJ~: *humming the theme*
~JJ~ says to Michelle: I used to imagine the ferrets of Flushing
Meadow being quite snobby in comparison.
Saturday, July 27, 2002
(for Rosie) What's brown and sticky?
a stick
Monday, July 29, 2002
  
Brrr it's so cold ! I heard a few people say this morning was the coldest morning so far this Winter - I don't know about that so much I only know it was jolly cold. And it's cold again now. The day warmed up a bit and sitting in the Board Room for the MondayMorningMeeting I nabbed a seat in the sunshine and it felt so lovely - making me wish I was a cat all stretched out on the carpet in that pool of warm sunlight.
I came over all tea parties last night. Thinking about redesigning thejamjar (would never commit by actually saying i'm redesigning it) I thought of what I like and it ended up being toast and white tableclothes, fine bone china cups and saucers and lovely kitchens. I did the whole "there should be jamjars here" but decided it's my site and I can do anything I blimin' well like.
So today, I went to The Warehouse [the warehouse, where everyone getsabargain] to buy doilies. I only needed one but I feel the need to be a girl and put a doilie of some sort on here for the Spring. Rosie said she'd like to come, and James and Todd followed us down to Downtown. We mingled at first not quite sure who was doing what (four people is harder than two at figuring stuff out) until I made a break for it and ran (read: walked) to the ATM and checked I had money in my account. Sweet-as-bro I had doilie money so it was off upstairs to The Warehouse. The cloth doilies were easy to find but I needed the paper ones and I found those in the stationery section. Todd and James and Rosie still in a drizzle of a tow, we went sweet shopping but managed to lose Todd along the way, finding him sitting on a chair on the other side of checkout with his new airing rack. Back downstairs I decided to actually withdraw money from the ATM. "Haven't we been here before?" yes but now I'm getting money and the other got food and Todd found a table and James ate his too-hot-panini thing and Rosie had a pile of asian that seemed to hit the spot and Todd had some orangey soupy curry-ee thing with what looked like gum leaves sticking out but he said they were Chillies and I had a lime milkshake and we ate lunch. After, we wandered up to HotShots coffee barrow thing behind the ANZ Tower but it was shut so we carried on over to Serious Espresso for coffees-to-go and went back to work. And it was just as nice and just as exciting as it sounds :)
  
I was pleased to find the boysonropes dangling off the Quay Tower this afternoon. Out there in the chilled air and warmed sunshine. Rosie said it was unfortunate that winter - boys-on-ropes wore jeans but there you go, can't have our intrepid climbers freezing their kneecaps off.
  
  
Tuesday, July 30, 2002
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