azekeil

You know when you embark on a task, you realise it's going to require some learning. I think there are four stages to this learning process (I've googled but I can't find anything that quite matches what I'm going to say here):

		Knowledge
		don't have	have
Awareness	aware	2. Discovery 3. Pain 1. Ignorance 4. Victory!
	unaware

1. Ignorance. Here you aren't aware you don't have the knowledge, and you also don't have the knowledge. Ignorance is bliss!
2. Discovery. You start on the task and become quickly aware that you don't have the knowledge.
3. Pain. You start learning about the knowledge, but all you are aware of at this stage is just how much you don't know! Pain! (incidentally, this is where I am now and hence why I'm procrastinating *grin*)
4. Victory! You have the knowledge and are no longer aware of the lack of it.

Aside: isn't know a stupid word?!

I'm so tired.

..but there was something wrong. jinx_lbc wasn't there!

1. Lost my wallet. Again.
2. Still not healthy. This weekend may finish me off, but I'm not missing it.
3. (Hopefully) mild insomnia as a result of worry.

Grrr.

I just received a very strange phone call on my work phone from a young woman who sounded like she was trying to put on 'airs'. I could hear traffic noises. She talked about something - I couldn't decide if she was a sales drone, someone I knew, or what. Consequently I don't recall all of what she said, especially as it didn't make a lot of sense.

She said something about going down to the shops for cigarettes and a book. Then she talked about Charles Dickens and said that she thought his book was a bunch of *expletives deleted* - kind of how you might imagine a tourettes outburst might sound like. After a slightly stunned silence on my part I asked "Who is this?" but realised they'd already hung up.

How strange!

This is. :)

ETA: Also, this :)

anti_girl you are a genius ;)

At the moment I'm stressed. I have a lot to do at work (although I've found made a lull in which to post this) and I'm fighting off some illness as well. I'm not sure my responses to things are in the 'normal' range either, so for now I'm going to sit on them until I work things out for myself a bit more.

At any rate, kweilo provided a nice reminder/distraction/escape for something I've seen before, and I browsed the site with the page on giant spacecraft (the 'BIG' tab) to see the Dyson sphere - the concept of a giant hollow sphere engulfing a star, with people living on the inside. A link from that page goes into lots more detail about the theory behind it and works of science fiction that have used this and other similar concepts as the basis of their stories, which is (to me) absolutely fascinating.

kissycat1000, in one of her rather mysteriously timely ways, sent me a link of news of a discovery of a near-by earth-like planet.

In my state of escapism, it made me nostalgic for an era of space travel and colonisation I'll never see - which quite frankly is nuts, but it's bittersweet to think about.

Last night we watched Event Horizon. It's a good film, but I remember being very disappointed the first time I watched it because it promised to be all spacey and then turned out to be a horror film which happened to be set in space.

I think I need to see Sunshine as a matter of urgency.

This is a story about Murphy's law. Once apon a time there were two frogs. One of them spots a place with loads of flies, and says to the other "Let's go there and fill our bellies!" So they hop off and jump through an open window - but unfortunately they land in a bowl of cream. Now frogs aren't best equipped to deal with cream, but nonetheless they start swimming. The frogs are getting tired but persevere. The second frog decides they're getting nowhere but the first frog persuades him to keep going. After the second hour however the second frog gives up, and drowns in the cream. The first frog perseveres, and after many hours something changes. Eventually the cream has been churned enough that it has turned to butter, and the first frog manages to exhaustedly leap out of the bowl.

The moral of the story is to keep going until it gets butter.

This story was related to me on telling my woes. Good news, bad news once again: Good news! I reconnected the battery and the central locking behaved, and the car started! I drove myself and ev1ldonut home, so we don't have to go back and sort out the car or pick up the stuff. This is Good News™. The bad news is that I didn't realise my bike's MOT runs out today and I haven't booked it in. Now they're electronic I'm wondering what penalty I'll get for this :/ Still, I'll book it in today and not ride it until then, so at least I'm showing willing and actually being legal.

Now for a long Monday after not very good sleep...

Now this is what I call progress!

Trouble is, I suspect they'd die of hypothermia over here..

So this morning I got woken up at 5:30, by the wind in my bedroom. Apparently if the wind blows in a certain direction, which would be seemingly rare, it gets forced into my room through the air vent, despite it being closed. The chilly breeze along with the whistling produced was enough to wake me up, distinctly unimpressed. I decided that I wasn't going to be able to get back to sleep with it like that, so cue an impromptu DIY session.. at 5:30 in the morning. I hope my neighbours forgive me for the motorised screwdriver next to their wall (note to self: must get a standard philips screwdriver).

First I tried cutting a section out of a non-crinkly plastic bag, to place between the plastic sections to seal it better. This seemed to work and I went back to bed. A lot quieter too. But no dice! I was still getting chilly breezes! On further investigation the cold air was coming out of the sides of the vent where it doesn't seal properly with the wall. Luckily, I knew exactly where I had some draught excluder hiding away, so used that to seal it properly. This time it worked like a charm, and the bag logo is quite funky through the slats of the vent too.

But, bah! DIY at 5:30 in the morning. Someone up there is having fun taunting me. *shakeyfist*