I’m not drunk.

I was drunk, quite some time ago.  I miss that.

Right now I’m cracking open another beer and relaxing for the first time in several hours. Over those serveral hours, pretty much everything that could have gone wrong, technology-wise, has gone wrong.

Firstly, retrieving some music files (an asston of chillout/jazz) from an old mac turned into a fiasco when the mac refused to allow my usb stick to be formatted in any other filesystem but UFS.
Fuck you for not supporting EXT2/EXT3, you slack bastards.
Then, the file/folder exploring utility on said Mac wasn’t recognising files that didn’t exist, and trying to copy them. When it found such a file, it would crash without warning and undo all copying.

If one is copying 1091 files, which may or may not exist, this can get tedious.

While all this was going on, a routine software update for my iPhone fried the sim card, requiring me to scab someones spare one in an attempt to allow me to use it again. No, let me clarify. To allow iTunes to allow me to use it again. The phone functions fine without a sim card. iTunes however, does not. Cause its shit.

Then, while sorting all this out, the computer on which I’m working (Jimmy’s laptop) had multiple hardware failures cumulating in iTunes wiping all existing memory of well, pretty much anything. All playlists, all music, everything.

So, juggling backing up a USB stick on one PC so I can reformat it to use it on a Mac to put files to a PC which then can’t read the files cause they’re in the wrong fucking filesystem (UFS + windows = fail), and trying to put my music back onto my iPhone, I’ve had little enough time to do my Fez blog, let alone the Chefchaouen one.

Oh, and did I mention I have to catch a flight out of the country at 9am, and this will be the last chance I have to use either laptop for blogging/pictures/iPhone music stuff. So yea, sweet night in Portugal.

In any case, while I’m writing this rant the pictures and original content are being restored to my usb stick, the songs/playlists are being restored to the iPhone, and I’m relaxing with a beer.

4:23 am now, but life is good.

Beyond that, Italy is pretty exciting with much, much going on, but that’ll have to wait for a more detailed post/summary once I get more time. Right now though, partying!

One of those things to do is fix the script I have running here so that stuff isn’t saved as a draft instead of being posted…incoming lots of backlogged crap spam

Cause Saturday was actually warm and sunny for once, yay Melbourne weather, I did some work on me bikes. Pulled apart the minibike completely, gave a clean and lube, flushed out the old fluids…and banging, she’s back in business.

It’s not QUITE as good as my Gixxer, which is looking pretty mint after a wash, but still goes alright – as you can see from my housemate having a go.

That could have been the end of me for all of Saturday, but I was woken up with a bacon, egg, cheese, hasbrown and bbq sauce burger, courtesy of Jess. Life became a whole lot better.

Hence, Movie Night! Jess and Jule’s place for pizza, drinks and lots of movies which we of course legitimately rent from a video store… >.>

Looks pretty cool, not particularly lightweight but whatever, will give it some high-bandwidth testing later on.

anyways, time to go drinking!

RIP Sam Matthews.

Hopefully something interesting happens soon, cause 3 days a week of uni is killing me!

It was an interesting change of scenery, from the desolate, moonlike landscapes that are the bushfire stricken areas in Victoria to hot, wet Palm Cove. Everything is so green!

We stayed in a 5 star resort, pretty much lying around watching movies, soaking up the sun and getting drunk…nightly doses of complimentary fruit punch helped that along quite nicely. In between all the drinking, we managed to fit in jet skiing and scuba diving on the barrier reef, a real experience.

Can’t wait to do it again