I’m a shell scripter

This morning, I’m doing a quick review of HJ’s new breakfast menu: It’s good. Esp the wraps. :yum: I had a Mega Muffin (which is an english muffin with egg, cheese, bacon, sausage and bbq sauce) and a wrap which ended up having the same stuff on it. Didn’t need both. :poke: Also had “hash browns” which I put in quotes because they’re actually potato gems. And a large coke, the perfect breakfast drink. :poke: I’m as full as can be, and also a little sick.

In other news, I’m off to the airport to get M&D this afternoon, fresh back from their jaunt to Noumea. Lucky bastards! I’ll need to leave work slightly early (oh, such a shame!) and swap cars at their house first, my car being full of crap.

Oh, we thought we’d (and by we I mean my real work) have another crack at a merchant account in the US. Things were going slowly, but well, and suddenly they pull out their big guns … the US$1500 application fee. There’s no way a certain boss of mine will go for that. Rightly so. US$1500 application fee? Idiots.

I wrote this linux shell script yesterday that backs up linux servers to a file. I’m pretty proud of it, actually … if anyone has any webspace that they need to have backed up, drop me a line and I’ll send you a specially customized version.

We’re camping, you want coffee or not?

The whole weekend, I had that line (from Crocodile Dundee) in my head. Yes, I went camping. Pete picked me up on Friday night and got Gary on the way through. Traffic to the Sunshine Coast was terrible, as expected, and we FINALLY got there, the tent was already set up, and the fire was burning. Nice.

Where: Amamoor

Saturday morning we ate a HEAP of food for breakfast and then headed off on our pushbikes for a fire tower which was 10k’s away. We got most of the way, and were shagged, when we saw it miles away on top of a giant hill, so the unanimous decision was “screw that”, and we headed back. There had been some pretty hairy moments leading up to then, some where airborne, so I decided to be a bit gingerly. Until, of course, a huge hill.

At the bottom of said hill, were some deep, hard ruts, and at high speed, with your wheels in different ruts, it was chinatown, and I was catapulted off. Apparently I flew 15 metres from where I came off. All I remember was biting the dust, and “coming to” by the side of the road with quadruple vision, in what is probably best described as a “Saving Private Ryan” moment.

The front wheel of the bike had somehow turned into a pringle, but the rest of the bike was completely inedible, so Daniel and I wheeled our bikes down the path, while the other fellas rode on to get the car and pick us up.

With a bit of convincing, and a few hundred kilos of weight, we managed to straighten up the wheel, and the next day, we rode ~40k’s (round trip) to a pub, stopping off occasionally to throw boomerangs.

Monday, we had breakfast burritos. The other fellas wanted to have a walk through the forest, but I was content with breathing, let alone moving. So we packed up, and Dean and Berny collected me. It is indeed correct that we caught a DVD at Berny’s. “After the Sunset”, which was very funny, but will have to wait for another time.

Got a killer photo of my stack that I’ll have to upload when it gets developed. Til next time, Woodee

A weekend less travelled

Hello, me little dudefaces. :teehee: I bet you didn’t expect today’s blog entry to go like THAT!

For those who are playing from abroad or interstate, yesterday was a holiday here in little old Queensland … Labour Day, which we celebrate by doing no labour whatsoever. I’m not complaining, except that it means the cinemas and eatieries are jam-packed with school kids.

It was a very quiet weekend actually. It never seems like a real weekend without Brek or Glara’s involvement, but we got by without them. Broncos on Friday night was a treat. Saturday was spent with dog visitation and then helping dad with a computer issue. And then the Lions that evening. The weekend was shaping up great.

Then along came Sunday, with the call of accounting to be done at Leyton’s place. Spent a few hours there before I had to leave to help M&D to the airport. Noumea, for those wondering. Spend Sunday night chilling in front of the tele - watching L&O:CI and NCIS double feature.
Monday I slept late and then had lunch and movies with Berny. We were going to hit Oportos, but it was closed. :wtc: Second choice was HJ’s, where I stole a voucher from the chick behind the counter and ordered with that. :teehee: Berny was dead keen for a six inch sub, even after the HJ’s, so I went along and ordered cookies. We then hit Baskins before movie-time.

Sahara is quite a good movie. Matthew McConaughey, Penelope Cruz, William H Macy, Delroy Lindo, and Steve Zahn as the comic relief. It tells two stories that become intermingled: one, a treasure hunter seeking a long-missing civil war ship, and two, the story of a plague in Africa. Good fun. Absolutely no realism whatsoever, but good fun.

We hit Foo for tea last night (after Woo got back from mountain biking in the middle of nowhere) and retired to our respective homes. I think Woo might’ve gone with Berny to watch a DVD at his place, but I can’t be sure. I know that I went home and rebuillt databases for online stores. Now THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT!