A case of mistake identity  :: July 26th, 2009 

Checked my Facebook profile for the first time in a few days, and noticed I had a message from some random blond chick…

The resultant conversation was right out of left field… for your amusement here it is, names and places edited for the protection of the parties involved.

Random Blond Chick: Hay Bud, I’m looking for a man by the name Josh who works at the Random Bladibla call center in Tbar….is this you? Kisses
Josh: Yes.
Random Blond Chick: This may seem rude but I dnt mean to be. Is your dream guy Scott who works at pascos?
Josh: Dream guy? Are you smoking crack? I’m both straight and happily married with a kid.
Random Blond Chick: Im so sorry, I didnt mean to be rude. Obviously not the right person. thankyou
Josh: Clearly.

I later remembered that I’m not the only Josh in the call center. Coincidentally the other, if I recall correctly is gay. Sigh… next time I will say possibly…perhaps…or even maybe. Would have been a safer option.

  If I could’ve responded…  :: July 7th, 2009 

What I would have liked to explain is that our insured was given a breath test at the scene of the accident, meaning that there is a chance that they may have been driving under the influence.

Now, since accidents caused while driving under the influence are specifically excluded in our product disclosure statement, if our insured has done so we will not be covering this claim.

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  Sunday slept away  :: July 5th, 2009 

This morning was supposed to be my sleep-in day since Melly had her’s yesterday. Instead I got up earlier than I otherwise would have to Skype relatives visiting my Mum & Dad so they could see Siah… Made up for it, but more on that later. My Mum hadn’t realized my Dad was working so the whole thing was a bit rushed and on top of that Skype audio was breaking up as we really hadn’t enough time to allow the Skype connection to stabalise. Was good to see their faces though, and I’d rather have a dodgy Skype call than none at all.

The rest of the day so far has pretty much been sleep. Since I was already up for the Skype call I got Siah ready for the day (breakfast, clothes and nappy change etc) then after the call I happened to fall asleep on the couch until midday while the little prince happily played and watched The Wiggles… Yes, I’m a bad parent.

Melly must have woken up from her sleep-in sometime before I woke up at midday to Siah tripping on one of his toys and bumping his noggin, because she was up and dressed already. Poor little boy got such a fright and a big bruise too :(

After the ensuant screaming ceased, I realized I had drooled on the sleeve of my hoodie. I drool when I sleep, mostly when I have a blocked nose, sometimes when I don’t. It was at that point I remembered Melly had been up for some time, because she had earlier pointed out between dreams that I had drooled on my pillow too. Low point of the day, how embarrassing.

Went back to sleep when our little bubba went down for his nap. Woke up around half four, and have since been fiddling with getting cross posting worked out between Wordpress, FriendFeed, AudioBoo and Twitter. Finally sorted so now I don’t have to duplicate any post across any of these services. Convenience is for the win!

So I guess not a lot accomplished, but at least I’m rested. Shouldn’t expect more when I stay up until four in the morning tinkering with my website. Not much planned for the rest of the evening, just Melly time and perhaps some WoWing if I get the motivation.

Hope everyone is well and has had a good weekend.

  FriendFeed  :: July 5th, 2009 

So today I signed up for FriendFeed. I also have it cross-posting to Twitter to save posting to two different apps, thanks to suggestions from both Melly and Kate.

Melly also sent me a link she found for a WordPress plug-in that notifies FriendFeed, and subsequently Twitter, with my blog post titles when I post here. FFDirect is the plugin name.

Anyhoo, it’s much too late. NN!

  Almost a year  :: July 4th, 2009 

Hey folks, long time no see. Looking at the date of my last post I see it’s almost been a year, how slack am I? Don’t answer that :P Good news is, I’m really going to be blogging again, since I recently got a shiny 32GB iPhone 3Gs, so now that I have Internet in my pocket any time, anywhere, I really have no excuse.

Wanna know something geeky-cool? This post was written on my iPhone using the Wordpress app, which is really quiet nifty :)

I’ve also upgraded my blog to Wordpress 2.8, which has changed substantially compared to my old 2.2 install. 2.8 is all kinds of funky with nifty things available in it these days like Akismet being included by default and Web 2.0 content. Very shmick!

Life is good.