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05:13 pm
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Challenges
We have been talking through some stuff at work recently and as a result of this I thought that I might pose a question to you all.
What are the big challenges in your day. That is what is the single biggest challenge that face both at work/in business and personally/at home. I guess the idea behind the entire process if that if we can identify the single biggest issues that we have then can and are more likely to do something about them.
There are more questions involved in the whole process but I thought if we started here then those of us who decided that it might be a worthwhile exercise to engage in we could move on from this point and take a little bit of a journey.
So to start the ball rolling my biggest challenge at work, is trying to juggle the requirements of the three businesses i am involved in, while trying to develop new strategies and directions and still maintain firstly quality time with my family especially Lex and be able to spend time with those other people whose company I enjoy or who enjoy mine.
My biggest challenge outside of work (and achieveing the blance between work and home) is I think my weight. Those of you who know me know that I used to be much heavier than what i am now, then when in adelaide lost a lot of the weight and then when back here put some of it back on again and now finally am begining to come back down again.
Well there goes I have made a start, if any of you want to contribute and as I said come for a bit of a journey of exploration with me that would be great if not that is fine to.
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10:36 am
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The long night to success.
I have been thinking about work and success and luck recently after an acquaintance of mine suggested that I was very lucky to be doing a job that I love and to be successful at it and how it all seemed to have happened so quickly. I thought about it for a few moments and I realised that often people use the concept of luck or or of overnight success to compensate for their own lack of achievement, motivation and drive. The concept of overnight success is one that I have a great amount of difficulty with, again I often hear people talk about how someone was in the right place at the right time, heard the right rumour, invested at the right time, for them to become an overnight success. I am not sure that there are any overnight success's though, take myself for example, if I am an overnight success then it has been a very long night; either 20 odd years or about 10 depending on where you decide to suggest the journey to here started. I certainly could not have got to where I am not without my nine years of university, or my various jobs, or people that I have met or interacted with, all of these things and many others as well have all lead me to where I am today, have molded me into the person that I am today. Any success that I have achieved to this point in my life is a function of everything that has gone previously, not only my success's but my failures as well, and the further success I will achieve will of course evolve from this point onwards. There really is I think no luck in this world (except for Lotto) that we do not make ourselves. There is no point in complaining or suggestions that things have gone wrongly for us and that this has caused problems. Everything that happens to us is a result of the things that have come before. This is not to suggest that I am a fatalist or I believe in a deterministic universe, nor do I believe that things can not be changed. All that I am saying is that where we are now is a result of what has happened in our past and how we have reacted and still react to those incidents. We have all of the power in our lives, it is us who chooses how it is we are going to react to any thing that happens, we can change the things that happen around us by simply changing the way we react to it or the way in which we perceive it.
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02:39 pm
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Star Trek XI
Simon Pegg is playing Scotty in the new Star Trek movie due for release 25/12/08
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06:58 pm
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Found by my wonderful child (the little one)
Lilith found this on the web, dont ask questions just hit the link and watch the goodness.
http://www.oyunlar1.com/online.php?flash=607
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12:41 pm
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Well wasnt yesterday interesting
As most of you know I have had a bit of a sinus and ear infection for the last little while. Imagine my surprise when I woke up Sunday morning and the right sideof my face no longer worked. By this is mean when I smile and laugh only the left side of my face moves the right side tends to stay where it is. We had the mild panic for a while of 'has paul had a stroke' but general hand and leg movability as well as aiblityt o speak and read seemed to rule this out. Went about day thinking all would come good, when by lunchtime it had not, after consultation with the learned one (museumnut) I went to the hospital. Now the QLD public hospital service has take a bit of a battering recently, however after yestereday i have nothign but praise for them. I walked into emergency, spoke briefly to a lovely nurse, who casually directed me to the admin girl who took my details and pointed me back to the nurse who said, 'come right in mr rasmussen' Straight to a cubicle, into a gown and very quicky becoming the centre of attention. It turns out i have Bell's Palsy a relatively about 1 in 5000 condition (well actually it is classified as an event because it is temporary and in general self correcting. However due to the fact that diagnosis of Bell's is by exclusion and the other main candidate for my symptoms is of cause micro stroke, i got every test under the sun and felt a little like i was on the set of house.
The older nurse and the register knoew what was going on almost straight away, (however still have to go through all the tests) however due to relative rarity, none of the residents had ever encountered a case before, so under strict instructions from the registrar not to tell them anything a procession of young doctors came along and questioned and probed (not that sort of probed) to see whether they could manage a diagnosis.
The upshot is for the next few days to few weeks the right side of my face is not really working. It is not painful anyting like that just slightly disconcerting particularly when i laugh (you imagine laughing when only half your face moves) so if I appear to be sneering at you a lot of the time it is probably just me smiling (well maybe)
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12:18 pm
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Surreality again
This week certainly has turned out to be somewhat surreal yet again, my life it seems is currently one that really does possess a certain surreal quality to it these days.
Tuesday left home at 4.45
Board plane for Emerald 5.30
arrive Emerald 7.00
drive towards Moranbah (shudders slightly)
150km into the drive this and I spend 30 minutes driving very slowly
through 500+ cattle being herded along the road.
Approaching Moranbah find FM radio sation
Playing what I think is possibly one of the best collections of early eighties
alternative and goth music and it turns out to be Moranbah FM
Moranbah - WOW
All of the motels are owned by Chinese people therefore there are 7 chinese resturants on main (read pretty much only) road into the town. The only other food choices are the pub where you kinda have to pick the teeth and blood out of your steak before you eat it or KFC (guess u would be right there GUP) or Red Rooster.
Wed and Thursday - Spend day at Saraji Mine site training people.
Thurdays night fly back to Brisbane.
Friday - back at work open emails
Invited to lunch with CEO's, Director General's and Executive Directors of organisations such as Brisbane Airport, State Development and innovation, and the Turf Club.
See now you undersatnd why I feel kinda surreal
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01:05 pm
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pixies
For those of you who are not aware, one of the bands, that bands like Nirvana, pearl Jam and numerous others claim as being seminal in the development of their music, namely THE PIXIES are touring Australia as part of the V festival. They will be playing as part of the festival on the Gold Coast on april 1. Now i understand that some of you will think this is a really advanced aprils fools joke, however it is not.
They are touring. Looks like tickets for the gig will be about 110-125 per ticket, but man it is the Pixies, as well as the petshops boys and numerous other, and I say again what will your one and only chance to get to see, THE PIXIES.
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03:09 pm
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Phone number
Well for all of you folks out there in internetty land, my replacement sim has arrived and I am contactable once more on my old number.
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02:56 pm
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new Phone
After the saga of losing my old phone, work has purchased me a new one today, I will get a spanky new Nokia N80i on tuesday with a replacement sim card, which should hopefuly if everything goes well have my old number on it so no one should have to actually update anything.
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09:57 am
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New Potter book
For those of you who are fans,
Rowling has said that the new book (and last) should have worldwide release on 21 July this year and further that two main characters will die.
thank you for your attention
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08:15 am
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mobile phone
Okay folks,
My mobile phone is currently lost in translation, namely i dropped it in a cab last night and am waiting for it to be returned or dropped of at lost, so at worst I will have it back by Monday morning. If you need to contact me or us, ring us either at home or lexi's mobile.
tks
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12:29 pm
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How to create a headache
I hae just discovered how much of aheadache it is to try and develop a training program for a process and program that no-one who actually has to work with wants to have anything to do with. Welcome to the world of document management ewwwwww. I have just spent the last three hours trying to elicit from various organisations that we work with what their policies are with respect to definitions of and responsibility for corporate information. Now given that this stuff is now legally required for all government and quasi government organisations, they must have not only the policies developed but also plans in place for the acquisition and implimentation of programs and porcedures in relation to DM, it is stunning that so many of them are so woefully disorganised. Not that I should be surprised by the fact that these organisations are disorganised, hell i work with most of them on a daily basis but still there are times when you shake your head and go how the hell did you people get to in charge.
But then I remember the money and that makes it alright.
Having a good day
nah really I am
Current Mood:  amused
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09:50 am
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I stole this meme
Instructions: Look at the list of books below. Bold the ones you've read, italicize the ones you might read in the future, cross out the ones you won't touch with a 10 foot pole, underline the ones on your book shelf, and do not do anything the ones you've never even heard of.
The DaVinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee).
4. Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks).
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
24. 1984 (Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. Gift & Award Bible NIV (Various)
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She's Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens) (partly, many years ago)
53. Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveller's Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brahares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones' Diary (Fielding)
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte's Web (E.B. White)
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. Wizard's First Rule (Tery Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down (Richard Adams 87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)
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10:22 am
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I am a little disturbed by this.
Dictator- ENTJ
60% Extraversion, 60% Intuition, 86% Thinking, 80% Judging |
Have you no soul? It's clear you have no heart and that your blood runs cold, but really, do you have even one redeeming factor?
Sure. You're a natural born leader. So was Hitler. You just don't like people, do you?
You don't play games. You take charge. And there's very little room for mistakes in your world. You're forceful, intimidating and overbearing.
Heard of the word "patience?" Trust me, it's a word and it's something you're sorely lacking. Believe it or not, you're not always right. Learn to have some patience for those who think differently from you, knobflap.
From the way people's knees knock when they see you, you should have realised by now that you're not exactly a "people-person." You're more of a "people-eater." You just ain't tuned into people's feelings and probably couldn't care less whether you were anyway. Maybe you're not from this planet but the rest of us are.
Sure, you're intelligent. So what? You have some semblance of power. Big deal.
At least people LIKE the rest of us.
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If you want to learn more about your personality type in a slightly less negative way, check out this.
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The other personality types are as follows...
Loner - Introverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving
Pushover - Introverted Sensing Feeling Judging
Criminal - Introverted Sensing Thinking Perceiving
Borefest - Introverted Sensing Thinking Judging
Almost Perfect - Introverted iNtuitive Feeling Perceiving
Freak - Introverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging
Loser - Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving
Crackpot - Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging
Clown - Extraverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving
Sap - Extraverted Sensing Feeling Judging
Commander - Extraverted Sensing Thinking Perceiving
Do Gooder - Extraverted Sensing Thinking Judging
Scumbag - Extraverted iNtuitive Feeling Perceiving
Busybody - Extraverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging
Prick - Extraverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving
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My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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You scored higher than 99% on Extraversion |
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You scored higher than 99% on Intuition |
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You scored higher than 99% on Thinking |
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You scored higher than 99% on Judging |
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08:06 pm
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Not New Years Resolutions
I am not one to make New Years Resolutions, however I am a firm believer in goal setting and the need to have plan in order to be able to achieve things. To this end I have decided to do a couple of things. The first is to post a bit of a list of the things that I hope to achieve, not this year, but hopefull within the next six months, I like definate dates so by my birthday I will have achieved the list the follows.
1. Get my bodyfat percentage down to around 10% I would be happy with 15% but I would like 10 better.
2. Have the piece of paper that legitimises my Dr Rasmussen Status :) in my hot little hand.
3. Be consistently smoke free. (This permits the occassional social cig, but nothing more.)
4. Have my RPL's done for my diploma of workplace training and education.
5. Spend as much quality time with partner and family as I can, and never forget exactly how important they are to me.
6. Get bookshelves (this one is for you Lexi :) )
7. Try and be less vocally citical of people and things: this way I can still have my loathing, but it means that the rest of you are not going to have to put up with rant abouts things like for example 'I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair'
8. Help my friends and those around me to be the best people that they can be, to achieve that their goals and get as much out of life as they can.
There is some other stuff that I really would like to get done by my birthday, however most of them are still a little fluid and formative so they may have to wait until I have a firmer grip on them and make some updates to this thing.
So there is the list, or at least the formative list at this stage. so why have I done this well two reasons, first goals are easier to keep if you make them public, it to some extent puts pressure on you to achieve them or at least keeps them where they need to be, clearly in the centre of your vision.
The other reason is that I want to encourage all of you to do the same, give it some thought, make a list it doesnt have to be as big as mine, it might only be one thing that you want to achieve, one thing that will make a difference in your life. Just think about it, decide what you want and how you are going to get it, then post it here, let me and everyone else know and we can all make sure that we all get what we want out of 2007.
Current Mood: optimistic
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01:30 pm
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waht a fun filled corporate life
I love airports. so here I sit in Townsville airport waiting for the airline terminal on which I am flying to open (approx 3.00pm I am told) Can't get into the Qantas club as it is through the security checkpoint and their are no lockers or places to store my baggage as well it is townsville. But fear not, I have cold beer, internet access and well not much else, but atleast I have cold beer and internet access. For those os you not already aware I will be completely cut off from civilisation until about 7.00pm on Friday evening when I finally return to townsville. I may be able to post via the net depending on access but that will have to wait and see. Anyho, Have a fun one people I will be back in the land of the living, (Bris VEGAS) on Saturday morning.
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09:42 am
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you are all going to hate me again
I know that I am only allow to bang on about my job for so long before people choke me (smiles as Novahoes) HOwever, how good is it i walked into the office today and the boss said to me "I noticed you had a bit of a free day so I thought i might change that" He then handed me a box 'Marked DELL' and said here have this, we need to see exactly what they can do and you need a new one anyway. What do a fine in the box a brand spanky new DELL Axiom X51v, state of the art handheld PDA. 624 mhz processor, bluetooth, infrred, wireless with windows mobile 5, 256 meg of onboard ram and another gig in the expansion card.
sometimes being a corporate whore is a wonderful thing
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09:35 am
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Traffic - also posted in Tesric's journal
Yes yesterday was a fuck up. One of those days when my regime of walking home feels soooo much more productive, especailly when it involves walking past crowded busstops and scowling people in cars (sorry tes I do feel for you) what amazes me however is the fact that people did not in anyway change their plans to get to work this morning. I got on the bus and the whole bus, with the exception of myself and the lovely older lady who i sat next to was pissed off because they were late, mobile phones were being madly thumbed to send apologies and i am late messages. WHAT did these people think that this was going to have no effect on their lives what so fucking ever. One stupid girl in her early twenties even said, Oh I thought it would be fixed by now - i mean fuck what part of crack in the freeway and closed indefinately did she not understand. Fortunatley this comment bought giggles to both myself and the lady next to me and when the girl glared at us, the lady even said the following and I quote "What, it is not my fault if you are to stupid to check the news in the morning dearie" At which point I almost shat myself with laughter.
Man there are some days when I just love my life.
(actually I am lying I love my life everyday.)
Have fun in the traffic folks and remember its not your fault if you can blame somewhen else.
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04:06 pm
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weekend and stuff
Well it has been a little while since i posted, mainly because i am busy ergo no time to post, I see most of you on a regular basis ergo you know what is happening, I dont necessarily think that everyone needs to know everything I am doing ergo I dont post that often, which come to think of it is what i said originally. Anyhow, flew to Rockhampton for training last wednesday and thursday hmmmmmm
Rockhampton: nice place (not) and i sure as hell wouldn't want to live there. For fucks sake the main road was covered in ground in cow shit, how hick can you get. That being said the hotel was nice, the few people i spoke too (including the people I trained) were not horrid and I did manage to get a steak the size of my head and an inch thick for under $30 with beer batter fries and salad, along with a pint of Guiness for $4.50. So therefore Rockhampton is not all that bad.
Weekend: Not too much to report except for the following, The beer is in the vat and is fermenting alone nicely. It will be ready for transfer to bottles by about the middle of next week (Then I can start the next brew) My paln is to basically keep the barrel full until around christmas time to build up a bit of a supply. I think that laying down about 40 bottles every 10 days or so should manage to keep me in booze for christmas. So that being said we are probably looking at a mid november testng party on this first batch to see how things have gone. Will keep you all informed.
Also I may actually be in need of beer bottles, if you have any and this whole brewing thing takes off I may take them off your hands.
Fuck it thats enough
Have fun
Catch you all later
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08:47 am
[Link] | Everyone who has recently added me you should also add Lexi (my partner) whose LJ is museumnut.
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