3 bars

Is 3 bars of reception on a Samsung phone really that bad? Since I've moved up to my desk on level 7 again, I just realised what a black hole it is for phone reception. I walk 1 metre to find myself frustrated, and walk another metre back the other way to find that it's fine!

But perhaps it's because I have a new phone. It's nice and sleek, but the fab feature of the phone is its 3 megapixel camera that actually isn't too bad... I've been playing around with it during the past week, and this is what I've been able to come up with (after some very simple touch ups on Picasa2 of course...)

Silhouette of Cow Up a Tree.

The East face of the NAB docklands building.

Melbourne Central Shot Tower and Cone Roof.

Enjoy.

Docklands Morning

It's always nice when the morning sun illuminates the boats in the bay, and the water is so still that the reflects coming off them are perfect.

A man fishes, while facing the Bolte bridge.

The marina at New Quay

That's gold Jerry, gold!

So, I entered a caption competition at work. The projects newsletter caption competition. And guess what... I won!

Here's the winning entry:

"Who do you think you are, telling me that my program runs like a dog..."

And for my efforts, I get 2 gold class tickets to watch a movie. Isn't that just great!?

Also if you don't get the funny part of the caption, I'll be happy to explain it.

Search somewhere else

So I've got these MapStats statistics for this blog right. It lets me see the visits for only the past week. I was having a browse over them to find that this blog comes up on some search engine when someone searches the words "Dirty World"!!!

Totally weird! I know the post it relates to is "The Dirty World of Jash" which is about me CLEANING MY ROOM! CLEANING!

It gives me a strange feeling now, just thinking about it. I mean after you search for something, hundreds of links are returned - and somehow that person clicked this site's search result!

It reminds me of the time the viking mistresses blog got hits because they put some rather strange pictures and topics up as their posts. They got lots of hits with those things! Go have a search if you really want to.... :)

Just get home

This is one crazy doctor.

I took a different route home today. A totally different route.

It was because I was at Lygon street having some cake for L's bday, and there were so many different roads I could have taken to get home. Dr Kawashima said it's good for your brain to take a different route driving home.

Who is Dr Kawashima? He's the Dr on the Nintendo DS Brain Training of course! And you're probably wondering why I'm taking directions from a doctor in a computer, ah? Well I thought it would be interesting... and there definitely some crazy conditions.

Traveling down roads I normally don't go on makes me a tad nervous. After all I don't usually drive on them, and are not well acquainted with which lanes are best. There was this one section which was quite confusing.

This road was 60 km/h. But only from 7PM to 3AM. And only from Wednesday to Sunday.

I sat there for a while, quite distracted as I was floating down the road. What time is it? What day was it? And am I still going 60?!!?!

I seriously must have zoned out for a bit thinking about whether I was doing the right thing - which was actually quite bad! I wasn't concentrating on the road!

I finally managed to bundle myself home, over stimulated by all the new surroundings I passed. Dr Kawashima was right. It does stimulate you. Too much..

And to top it off, I have some frozen tripe taped to my right foot because someone stepped on it today. Gotta love icy-cold beef intestines to soothe those aches and pains...

The Green Run

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