Go forth and fill your libraries with media.
Seriously, thanks to everyone for being so amazing and patient. You are the reason I love Vox.
I was just told that the Amazon Conduit will be fixed by tomorrow. I will post here as soon as I get word that it's back up and running.
I know this has been frustrating and I am sorry there wasn't more I could do to make it less so. I really appreciate your patience though.
Cheers,
Bad news. As many of you have probably noticed, the Amazon Conduit was not fixed in the last week's release. Unfortunately, there was an undetected bug that is preventing the conduit from working.
We are working on this bug fix and hope to have the Conduit back up and running this week.
I will keep you posted.
Thank you for being so patient.
On going to see 'Couples Retreat'. I'm just saying, because you won't get that hour and a half, or your $20 back.
I was really looking forward to it, and we even went to the drive in to see it. But it was so lame. Vince Vaughn is just not that funny, and I say that with love because I like him, but he co-wrote the damn thing so has to get some of the blame right? He seems like one of those people that, in real life, are pretty funny, with a dry sense of humour and all. But this didn't translate on screen as his character just monologued on about random subjects such as Richard Simmonds (FFS) while missing the point and making you lose interest in whatever he meant to get across.
After the couples ending up on the island for 'couples therapy', it seemed to negate the point when they all had their character break-throughs on the 'party' island across the ditch. And the one couple that were all fucked up and intent on cheating on each other, only stopped because he caught her dancing with the yoga instructor. That probably doesn't make sense, but neither did the movie. Keep your money in your pocket and use your time to go do something that won't make you feel like you've just spent it being subjected to a film reel about why you should not get in to a relationship but remain single.
In the Tik rating system, this lead balloon gets a 3/10
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~ daisy
It's not only the red sky that's causing the fanatics (ok, the radio announcers) to call for the end of the world, but today is the spring equinox, (where apparently you can stand an egg on its end and it'll stand up - I haven't tried this....) there have also been earthquakes in Melbourne and the chance of bush fires up in QLD, so all in all, the Australia forecast is looking quite biblical today.
The paper's are saying we should stay home and not go out unless necessary. But my house is so old and dusty that I think its almost as bad as being outside. I stayed at The Pilot's last night, so when I walked into my house this morning I was greeted by a fine layer of dust settled on top of everything and the windows blown open wide. Awesome, that's going to be fun to clean up tonight.
Weather bureau has also forecast winds up to 100km this afternoon.
It's kind of strange outside now. It's like I'm in a sepia photo. Everything has an yellowish tinge to it.
Apart from the weather, not much else is happening with me. Boring as hell. I tried to write a couple of emails to friends but realised I had nothing to tell them. I've even taken the week off the gym, after going too hard last week and nearly killing myself.
OK, if you'll not update your posts more I'm forced to go and do work on work time even when the bosses are away and I should be taking my chance to bludge *stomps foot and grumbles*
G's post on age bought it back to my mind, but I was thinking the other day about when I started showing 'the physical signs of aging' and ironically it was AFTER I stopped smoking, dabbling in recreational drugs and drinking myself (literally) under a table two or three times a week.
This strikes me as a little bit unfair. Now, when I'm healthy I get punished?? I mean, had the lines or the bags under my eyes shown up while I was dancing on a table while gut-dragging a malboro under the influence of whatever I'd stuck up my nose/down my throat/inhaled, I'd most likely have taken a bit of notice and thought about stopping it all sooner than I did...
So now, its when I'm not smoking (almost one year!), and am drinking in moderation, and haven't touched any drugs in as long as I can remember, that the wrinkles jump all over me and everything starts to head south.
Not fair.
Everything hurts. This 'next level' of fitness is bloody painful. Even my fingers are sore. It kind of hurts me to type.
I don't know quite what is out the back of my house. Well, obviously there is a backyard and a walkway to the lane, but its the business across the lane that I don't quite know about.
There are no signs. There is a skip that is full of boxes and other rubbish. I never see anyone coming or going. But every Monday morning at 4am an industrial truck pulls up and does 20 minutes worth of scrapping and making so much noise that it must wake up the entire neighbourhood. Maybe they are emptying the skip? My place is pretty sturdy, but it shakes like a Tokyo apartment in an earthquake, whenever this truck arrives. It's so annoying. So, I've been awake since 4am.
I'm tired and grumpy and its only Monday.
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It's going to rain too. After yesterday I'm not surprised. We had a 32 degree day. Was beautiful, but very, very hot.
I went for a walk to Newtown to get an ice cream around 4pm. I nearly died. Came home and passed out on the couch... Did my nails (bright pink for the toes and light purple for the fingers) then dyed my hair and watched 5 episodes of Arrested Development. It's a little better than before, but not by much. I still have reverse regrowth - light roots and dark tips. I dyed it dark brown, because I couldn't go black... the tips of my hair are black though. I look a bit strange.
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I did the Bay Walk on Saturday. It's a 7km walk, which was nice. Beautiful day for it. Then I came home and washed my car before going to boxing. The class was soooooo hard. Most of the class were men and they weren't there to mess around. I went so hard, and I'm still hurting now. I think that with all my walking, this weekend I probably clocked about 20km...
No wonder I'm exhausted.
Which explains why this post is so boring...
The Amazon Conduit will be working again on October 15, 2009. Thank you to everyone for your patience.
Have a great weekend,
daisy, Team Vox
