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13:56 / 18.07.06

I went for a walk earlier, and now I´m a bit knackered. It´s 32°C, and on thursday it´s supposed to be 36°C.

I probably won´t be leaving my appartment then. Which means I have to shop in that heat tomorrow. And I feel even more slothful than usual. I wanted to post photos of some nice cats, that I shot in may, up in the cat thread. But I have to get the external harddrive from the kitchen and photoshop them and I´m way too lazy to move right now.

Even to type is getting wearisome!

14:20 / 18.07.06

Everything is always new for me lately. So new in fact, I can't believe I am getting so old...

I have been in India on and off for the last 5 months, and having been back in Brisbane for 2 weeks I get told to pack my bags(again) and head to Melbourne for a few days. It's cold here in Melbourne, I have never been before but after 2 days here I can say it's the most multicultural place I have been to. So many different people and such a pretty city!! Dunno what to make of Federation Square though? I might have to go and have a few beers in a few bars there tommorrow and decide once and for all.

Back home in Brisvegas I moved out of my rented room in October last year and have been "borrowing" couches and spare rooms of freinds when I am hometown but that was wearing a little thin. After 8 months of bouncing between friends every time I land and take off again, I decided to get my own place! Time to go get a loan and shackle myself to a financial institution for the next 10 years or so? I feel a bit guilty now though, I went shopping today and blew a coupla hundred bucks... Naughty I know.

I have had to get another rented room in the mean time, so I put myself through a week of room hunting. Got a good place in the Valley at a good rate with good people. Except they travel as much as me so I have not seen them since I moved in? I get back, the other 2 leave. I leave they get back... I am having a heap of fun right now though, actually the last 2 years have been a total blast!

15:12 / 18.07.06

Time to go get a loan and shackle myself to a financial institution for the next 10 years or so?

No! Trust me, you don´t need or want this.

I was buried under debt, and my job got worse and worse and I wanted to escape but couldn´t, because I needed the money. Three years ago, I inherited and could pay off the debt and I was seen on my job autumn 2004 for the last time.

I use my newfound freedom for playing online games and taking long walks though, I have to confess.

Owing money sucks, and owing a lot of money to a financial institution for many years is a situation everyone who can should stay well clear off.

15:28 / 18.07.06

Not everyone has the chance of an inheritance, though, Mist.

*

16:59 / 18.07.06

I think that's a good reason to take Mist's advice, if at all possible, and avoid borrowing (he said, eyeing nervously the inevitable and growing pile of student loans).

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

17:05 / 18.07.06

See, I got an inheritance a few years ago, and yeah, I paid off my debts, and blew loads of it on booze and stuff... a lot of it I lent out to two people, one of whom keeps giving me money back, and I'm quite happy to wait as long as it takes, and for that reason am not particularly bothered if it takes decades. The other one (who owes me a lot more) shows no signs of giving me any money at all and is now in the habit of borrowing money off me anyway, and I'm too stupid to refuse. THAT part of the inheritance I may has well have spent on booze! (I get the sneaking suspicion I did... I just didn't get to drink any of it!)

17:56 / 18.07.06

Not everyone has the chance of an inheritance, though, Mist.

Yes, I know that. I got "lucky", that I could get out of my personal dilemma that way. By telling my personal experiences I only wanted to clarify, that I know what I´m speaking of. And of course, if you see no chance of getting a larger sum of money in the foreseeable future, it makes being indebted even worse, because you are so caught up in your money worries, that enjoying life can become very difficult.

20:45 / 18.07.06

No, actually, I suffered reader-comprehension failure, sorry. Just a bit of privilege-envy mixed with ain financial probs, stewed up to make a slightly unpleasant post. Sorry, Mist.

Spyder Todd 2008

22:21 / 18.07.06

I'm rather tired and don't have a day off until August 1st (My last day "off" was July 8th) what with work and acting and nonsense. That being said, I seem to be enjoying myself anyway, so I shouldn't really complain.

22:50 / 18.07.06

Barbeloid checking in: I'v equit my job, and have about 10 days to go. I'm moving out of my flat next Monday to stay with my folks for a few days, and then I'm off to Barcelona to start a new life. Mid life crises are soooo cool.

I have no job and no flat for the foreseeable, and I'm strangely calm about the whole thing, so it must be right. Right?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

16:12 / 20.07.06

Oh, for fuck's sake... now they've found something suspicious on MY MUM's mammogram. Hopefully nothing, but really, God, sometimes your timing sucks.

paranoidwriter waves hello

16:19 / 20.07.06

Oh Stoat, thats awful. Hope it turns out to be nothing serious.

ONLY NICE THINGS

16:26 / 20.07.06

Jesus, Stoats. Best of luck to your mother (and your sister, ongoing, of course).

14:24 / 01.08.06

It’s been quite awhile since I posted on the Barb but today has been quite the day and I thought I’d give a little update partly because writing it down will make it all sink in a little.

First off I still have a beard but it’s a little shorter now – I also have less hair but keep it shaved. Embrace the creeping baldness I say.

I still read Barbelith but can never seem to find the time to post but I ENJOY you all as much as ever.

So..

I still for the moment work in IT – I still live in South London – I still watch lots of TV but not as much as I did (Lost/Smallville over for now and Alias over forever!) I don’t however watch much wrestling I still read the Raw and Smackdown updates now and again but nothing in them really makes me want to download them sometimes download a bit of TNA it’s about the best there is at the moment (and that’s saying something when Jeff Jarrett is one of the main stars)

Yeah so like an hour a go I resigned from my job, I’ve resigned from jobs before but only ever when I’ve had another job lined up but not this time. So in about a months time, probably a little bit more I’ll be moving to Bunenos Aires – the wheels are now in motion! The parents have been told, the job was the first big step everything else is just the little stuff – cancelling phone lines etc. The plan at the moment is to stay in the city for a month and then travel around the south of Argentina, mountains, horse riding, glaciers probably for another month maybe two – and then – well who knows hopefully everything will go well and I can start to look for a job, if not then I guess I’ll be running back to Scotland (apparently Aberdeen is the place to be these days)..

So yeah all kinda big stuff

Hopefully I’ll still be here for Do Dirt and then can be the final big London night out because to be honest I can’t see myself coming back to London so I’ll most likely never see the London cliché again!

14:29 / 01.08.06

I won't cry for Beargentina.

14:36 / 01.08.06

How about me not being able to spell Buenos Aires is that worth crying over?
I know you'll all shed a tear even if it's a secret one!

14:50 / 01.08.06

*sob*

(Seriously, though: Aberdeen "the place to be"?!)

15:06 / 01.08.06

So the young folks were saying when I was back home a few weeks back - lots of people moving there and not just for the uni, jobs are popping up and a lot of young Elginers are packing up and heading off..

19:46 / 01.08.06

Yay! Good going, El Bearo!

I can see you in those gaucho trousers, playing with your bolas.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

19:53 / 01.08.06

Balls. My mum DOES have cancer. This sucks quite a lot.

20:04 / 01.08.06

It really does.

Have a virtual hug.

20:15 / 01.08.06

Big hugs all round, Stoatie.

20:26 / 01.08.06

That's terrible news man. My fullest sympathies.

Haus of Mystery

20:34 / 01.08.06

Sorry to hear it Stoats. Good thoughts directed to you, and especially your Mum.

ONLY NICE THINGS

21:41 / 01.08.06

Christ. I'm sorry, Stoatie.

00:17 / 02.08.06

Love you Stoat. You know where we are if you need us. XX

01:02 / 02.08.06

Stoat, I give you a big hug.
(like the kind Gir gives Zim)

Also don't know if you go in for this sort of thing... but I bet all the reiki folk that post in the Temple would be happy to maybe do some remote treatments if it was something your mom was open to?

03:09 / 02.08.06

((((((Stoatie))))))
((((((Stoatie's Mum)))))))

Tabitha Tickletooth

06:17 / 02.08.06

Alleged god - if you do indeed exist, could you please get the fuck off Stoatie's case?

Thinking of you Stoats. I can only assume that once everyone is well again, you and your family will have had your entire allotment of shittiness and the rest of your lives will be like living in Teletubbie world. Which is, obviously, in its own way a bit depressing, but I believe nothing bad ever happens and you get toast.

08:52 / 03.08.06

Best of luck to Ma and Ms Stoat. *etheric luck badger scurrying to them now*

This morning I got out of bed to come to stinky work and realised that I have about forty more years of this. I don't know if I can deal with that.

17:39 / 03.08.06

Also don't know if you go in for this sort of thing... but I bet all the reiki folk that post in the Temple would be happy to maybe do some remote treatments if it was something your mom was open to?

Yep, I'm a Reiki folkette and can send some healing. And hugs of course.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

17:53 / 03.08.06

I'd personally think that would be wicked (only had reiki once but it was... intense, is probably the best word). Unfortunately, my mum probably wouldn't be up for it. If any Christian-identifying (or even not, really) want to pray for her, that's the kind of thing she'd appreciate.

Went to meet her for lunch in Salisbury today (we have a deal- she doesn't really like coming to London, and I can't stand Yeovil, so every few months we meet half-way)- I'll be back on the night shift next week, and she'll probably be out of action for a bit as soon as they get her a hospital appointment, so I wanted to see her before that- well, as well as just wanting to see her, really. Had a lovely afternoon, too. Both she and my sister constantly amaze me with their relentless optimism- I think I got ALL the miserable genes in our family.

Thanks for the good wishes, guys. It really means a lot, cos I'm kind of freaking out a bit, really.

18:18 / 03.08.06

I'd personally think that would be wicked (only had reiki once but it was... intense, is probably the best word). Unfortunately, my mum probably wouldn't be up for it. If any Christian-identifying (or even not, really) want to pray for her, that's the kind of thing she'd appreciate.

I'm on to it, Stoatie, if your mum will take a Catholic-identified prayer...

In fact, I do know a mediunic exorcist benedictine monk who really gots the mojo on that kind of stuff (healing hands, psychic surgery, the works). If you PM me your Mum's full name and her diagnosis, I can e-mail him and see if he can do some major heavy-weight praying for her.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

18:28 / 03.08.06

Catholic or Proddy, she's all about the Jesus. The more intense evangelical/exorcism thing, probably not so much... but praying=good, if you can. Fuck, I'M praying. And I've had my problems with the Christian god ever since he killed my dad (who was a vicar. I wasn't really hoping for special treatment for him, but it all seemed a bit mean).

Weird thing being, my mum and my sister are the most clean-living people I've ever met. Apart from maybe my dad. And considering the amount of chemicals I used to take when I was younger... I dunno. It all seems terribly unfair, really.

But yes. That was all rambling a bit. Prayer would be cool.

18:36 / 03.08.06

I will be happy to pray for your family's health too.

I dunno if Jesus will be listening to my pagan frequency but I'm fairly certain all the Holy Mothers get together for tea so His Mum can pass Him a message from me.

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