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2-3 hours more than normal: the time it took for me to actually doze off last night fighting the effects of a stoned cold fever. All my joints were aching, I was cold, felt stoned as everything was taking way too long. Shivering. Yet I hadn't done anything dubious. :/

This morning I dreaded going into work, something that's been developing this year like a malignant growth on my enthusiasm gland. Partly because I had a review session with one of my managers. I was also feeling guilty about having to deal with my irresponsiblity around thursday's drinking debauchery and the subsequent friday truancy due to excessive hang-over symptoms.

The review session started off really bad. (Let's just state 2005 has not been a good year so far, in terms of my work ethic.) I took it in my stride, sucked it up, I deserved to be told off. Once that was out the way, the next 30 minutes were as they always are with our Business Development Manager: Inspiring. I left the session with a head full of responsibilites and a renewed passion for my work. 2005 looks to be improving.

That said, time to get my own life in order. No more pissing around - I've got a career to build! As for the personal side of things, that comes second.

Upgrade time?

I've been mulling over a much needed PC upgrade. R6000ish for a new PC, maybe a nice LCD monitor too. This laptop is great, but its also a work laptop. Getting a PCI-E chipset is just ridiculous in terms of cost, I can't justify spending an extra 4 grand just to get a PCI-E Gfx card.

First, a decent table and office chair for the home-office-corner is in order.

All these ideas, and no scrapbooks.

I've gotta start getting things done. I've got a ton of ideas with regard to work, my hobbies and persoanl issues. Now I just need to turn them into realities. One such idea was having a blog, with a photo per entry, call it: "Mental Images". Then having a list of thoughts around the photo. A good example was something I saw the other day in the office...

We have a partner company that pretty much sells nothing, it is a fledgling company with a great idea and no implementation. They have all the flashiest marketing and awesome office decor. Anyway, they had a whole host of coffee mugs embossed with their logos, nice looking mugs. We happened to acquire one within our office, which we use as the dirty spoon cup for all our coffee needs. The handle is broken on this mug. I thought: "Hey, that's a metaphor for the company itself! It might hold water, but its not very useful.". Of course, this idea would have to be incorporated in my own site, running on my own box at an ISP.