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He’s got a boat, Baldrick.

Today was compulsory voting day for Queensland (well.. in Australia ALL voting days are compulsory).

I’m not even sure what the Liberals or anyone else stand for. All I saw on TV were anti-ads against Labor. One woman lamenting that her darling son was ‘killed’ by Paul Beattie, the current leader because he didn’t fix the health system or roads or something… WTF?!?!?!  These kinds of ads I find disgusting. The only other advertising they offered were to slander and attack the current party’s failures but I haven’t seen anything about what they stand for. I even read the local newspaper where the member for Labor (Jo-Ann Miller) talked about things she had done and some plans for the future, while the opposition were once again slandering her and talking about her failures and not mentioning once what they have in plan to fix things. What’s the bloody point? Stupid Liberals. I’ve no sympathy at all.

I’d not even heard of the name of the Liberal member who is trying to get elected. No idea at all. Yet, I’ve heard all about Jo-Ann Miller in the paper and met her at the train station and read her spam in the mail.

Today, we got busy with washing the clothes and dishes and did that voting thing above.  We got home and finished washing then went shopping. I wanted a cheapish frying pan as mine is rusting. Usually in the shops I can find one Teflon one for $14 or more. Today at Crazy Clark’s I found THREE for $10! A small, medium and large one together in a pack. SWEET!  I also bought some underwear from KMart. Found a pack of 3 for $20 so got two packs. I have too many holes in my current drawer full of underpants. Must be too big for them and keep tearing holes in them

After we put that stuff in the car, we went to Coles and bought some groceries and stuff. I wanted a good mop as my tiled floors get really scuffed and dirty. My current sponge mop seems pretty useless. All I could find was a $17 microfibre super mop thingy, so I got it to try out. We got home about 3-ish and I packed everything away then took Sienna to her room for a nap. She fell asleep about 3:30pm and didn’t wake up until about 5pm.

In the meantime, I put “Sin City” on the TV to check out. A friend at work told me about it so I taped it last night with my funky Foxtel IQ box (they tell me hopefully by the end of the year they will be able to transmit Channels 7 & 10 to the satellite people. No idea why cable subscribers can get it and not satellite ones.. oh well). It seems watchable. I had it on in the background and watched it in bits and pieces while searching the web for some sort of CPU cooling application. My PC randomly reboots and I’ve no real idea why yet. I guessed maybe it was something to do with the CPU overheating.. although that sort of thing should not really happen these days. I downloaded SpeedFan and installed it. It has no clear instructions so I fiddled a bit with the numbers and crossed my fingers something good will happen.  The other reason I’ve had problems with reboots seems to be due to my PC running out of IRQs. If I had all my stuff plugged in and hit DIAL on the XP dialup program, the PC would spontaneously reboot! I unplugged my PocketPC, Webcam, SE K800i phone and printer to see if that helps. It let me dial up again to teh interwebbeh so that’s something I guess. As I said it still randomly reboots but not so often. That’s why I’m trying this CPU cooling idea. I don’t want to spend $50 on a cooler fan to suck hot air out thru a PCI slot in the back if it’s not temperature causing the issue. Then again, if the software DOES work I won’t need the fan either hehe

Things I’m going to keep an eye out for:

Dead Man’s Chest Exclusive 2 Disc Collector’s Tin!

Da Vinci Code, The - Extended Edition (EXCLUSIVE Collector’s Tin

House, M.D. - Season 2 (6 Disc Set) (FREE Thermometer)

Tru Calling - The Complete DVD Collection (8 Disc Box Set)

My Name Is Earl - Season 1 (4 Disc Set)

What The Bleep!? - Down The Rabbit Hole: Deluxe Collector’s Edition!!!!! OMG OMG OMG!!!@$#@!

What the Bleep Do We Know info c/o Wikipedia:

What the Bleep Do We Know (according to the makers “Bleep” is a bowdlerization of “fuck” — William Arntz has referred to the film as “WTFDWK” in a message to ‘Bleeps’ “Street Team”) blends a fictional story line, discussion, and computer animation to present a view of the physical universe and human life within it, often relating this to neuroscience and quantum physics. Some claims discussed include: that the universe is better thought of as being constructed from thought (or ideas) than from substance; that what has long been considered “empty space” is anything but empty; and that our beliefs in who we are and what is real are not simply observations, but rather form ourselves and our realities. Additionally, a brief discussion of the theory that peptides manufactured in your brain can cause a bodily reaction to an emotion is used to claim a new perspective to old adages such as “think positively” and “be careful what you wish for.”
In the fictional story, a deaf photographer (Marlee Matlin) acts as the viewer’s avatar as she experiences her life from startlingly new and different perspectives. In addition to the story line, a team of purported experts in quantum physics, biology, medicine, psychiatry, and theology discuss the roots and meaning of Amanda’s experiences. However, the viewers are left in the dark on the credentials of the experts until the credits at the end of the movie.
Marlee Matlin as Amanda in What the Bleep do We KnowThe comments of those presented as scientific experts converge on a single theme: “We all create our own reality.” This is not a widely held view of physics by the scientific community, but it correlates well with subjective experience.

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