My sticker. The original.
Zibi or Beata told Paula that one can buy cheddar at Alma, on the way to Capgemini. So after we get back from the concert this weekend and we have some more money ...ch33s3.
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
I can't be bothered to think of a title
Went in for an interview at Capgemini for a credit collections position. It's not open until someone quits, then I get the job. Here's hoping it's soon.
Oh and I got enigmail working again. I'm at work now and I shall proceed to goof off for the next six hours.
Oh and I got enigmail working again. I'm at work now and I shall proceed to goof off for the next six hours.
Monday, June 25, 2007
Bad as usual
We did nothing this weekend, being poor as hell. Sunday was just as lazy as Saturday, although we did visit grandma (free dinner).
Today ...well, also lazy. No classes today although I did spend a few hours re-working a bunch of mid-term reports that my boss just got back to me four days before the term is finished. Good one. In his defense they never even gave me the paperwork to fill out until about a week or two ago.
Not sure what else to say. Oh, my pgp stuff in my email is broke. Gotta fix that.
Today ...well, also lazy. No classes today although I did spend a few hours re-working a bunch of mid-term reports that my boss just got back to me four days before the term is finished. Good one. In his defense they never even gave me the paperwork to fill out until about a week or two ago.
Not sure what else to say. Oh, my pgp stuff in my email is broke. Gotta fix that.
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Tsk tsk
See? I'm so bad at this.
Thursday I meant to go to the immigration office but just couldn't get there in time. It closes at a reasonable 3pm you see. I got a call from the woman that runs the credit collections team(s) at Capgemini and I have an interview next week. We'll see how that goes.
Friday I went to the immigration office and got the decision that says I'll be getting a residency card (in 5-6 weeks - typically 6 weeks) and that little piece of paper means I get to work at any job now since the card will be based on the fact that I'm here because I'm married, not because of any specific job. This means I can easily change employers. Friday night I tidied up here a bit. It's been getting messy again.
Today has been sleepy and lazy so far.
Thursday I meant to go to the immigration office but just couldn't get there in time. It closes at a reasonable 3pm you see. I got a call from the woman that runs the credit collections team(s) at Capgemini and I have an interview next week. We'll see how that goes.
Friday I went to the immigration office and got the decision that says I'll be getting a residency card (in 5-6 weeks - typically 6 weeks) and that little piece of paper means I get to work at any job now since the card will be based on the fact that I'm here because I'm married, not because of any specific job. This means I can easily change employers. Friday night I tidied up here a bit. It's been getting messy again.
Today has been sleepy and lazy so far.
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
It's in Polish?
That's weird. All must stuff on blogger.com is in Polish now. I guess they noticed where I was coming from.
Not much else but we're full of pizza and tired.
Not much else but we're full of pizza and tired.
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Monday, June 18, 2007
Late!
Getting this in on Monday with minutes to spare. Did nothing today, really, except watch STTNG which I downloaded and played a lot of Travian.
Someone was just trying to attack me or steal from me. Unfortunately, for them, they're a ways away so I had an hour's notice. Unfortunately, for them, they didn't scout me first despite the fact that I have a population of 250. How they thought I wouldn't have several platoons of people of my own at this point is unthinkable. How does someone like that manage to actually advance in the game? They scouted me after the attack but just sent one scout, which died which means they get ...no report back. So my osada is still a black hole to them but theirs is not to me and it's ripe for the plucking.
Someone was just trying to attack me or steal from me. Unfortunately, for them, they're a ways away so I had an hour's notice. Unfortunately, for them, they didn't scout me first despite the fact that I have a population of 250. How they thought I wouldn't have several platoons of people of my own at this point is unthinkable. How does someone like that manage to actually advance in the game? They scouted me after the attack but just sent one scout, which died which means they get ...no report back. So my osada is still a black hole to them but theirs is not to me and it's ripe for the plucking.
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Oh stuff
Quickie. We went up to Belchatow and grabbed Ania #2, had lunch at Belchatow grandma's and went back home. Oh and while we were up there we checked on the Belchatow Brown Booty cache. It hasn't been found yet but I wanted to see how it was holding up. Seems fine.
Friday, June 15, 2007
I've been bad.
Oops, been ignoring this. Sorry to myself.
Wednesday: Uhhhhh nothing much happened apparently. It was probably too hot.
Thursday, yesterday: Hot. Met with Alex after work and had a few beers. Afterwards we went and found the "Misterious Gate" geocache. That was Alex's first and my 150th or 151st depending on how you're counting. It was a micro, which I normally hate, but actually in a mildly interesting location and well-hidden, so no worries.
Today: Nothing much yet, although I woke up at 7:45 so I could be at school at 9am and, of course, my lazy, good-for-nothing Pepsi student has decided to skive off class.
BBC had a "Have Your Say" on whether or not the UN ought to send a peacekeeping force to Palestine. I'm happy to see that most people say "no." As they rightly point out, why the hell aren't local countries doing that stuff? Every time the UN or someone else sends a peacekeeping force it turns into a big, shitty quagmire. Let the Iranians give their troops some exercise and build up some desperately-needed moral fibre.
Speaking of the Iranians: Some retarded students decided to disrupt the UK embassy's "Queen's Birthday" party because some Iranian officials were invited. The stuff that stupid people do and say never ceases to amaze me.
Of course, Poland is no exception to the "doing-n-saying stupid shit" game. Some tabloid here got all uppity about a few British tourists drinking too much and acting like yobs. As I commented on Beatroot's blog ...they're basically hypocrites and should cram a ham in it.
Wednesday: Uhhhhh nothing much happened apparently. It was probably too hot.
Thursday, yesterday: Hot. Met with Alex after work and had a few beers. Afterwards we went and found the "Misterious Gate" geocache. That was Alex's first and my 150th or 151st depending on how you're counting. It was a micro, which I normally hate, but actually in a mildly interesting location and well-hidden, so no worries.
Today: Nothing much yet, although I woke up at 7:45 so I could be at school at 9am and, of course, my lazy, good-for-nothing Pepsi student has decided to skive off class.
BBC had a "Have Your Say" on whether or not the UN ought to send a peacekeeping force to Palestine. I'm happy to see that most people say "no." As they rightly point out, why the hell aren't local countries doing that stuff? Every time the UN or someone else sends a peacekeeping force it turns into a big, shitty quagmire. Let the Iranians give their troops some exercise and build up some desperately-needed moral fibre.
Speaking of the Iranians: Some retarded students decided to disrupt the UK embassy's "Queen's Birthday" party because some Iranian officials were invited. The stuff that stupid people do and say never ceases to amaze me.
Of course, Poland is no exception to the "doing-n-saying stupid shit" game. Some tabloid here got all uppity about a few British tourists drinking too much and acting like yobs. As I commented on Beatroot's blog ...they're basically hypocrites and should cram a ham in it.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Gina
Gina. TCGina. I've got Paula using it, along with - of course - Truecrypt. She formatted her laptop last night and installed WinXP from a corp CD I had but, of course, the code on her laptop is for WinXP Pro from ...not the corp cd. So despite the fact that she has a legal code for windows xp pro, she's using an illegal key because we didn't have the right CD. Lame!
Her new laptop is nice but the screen res, at 1600 something by 1000 something is hard to read for me. I would prefer something in between, around 1300-1400 by 800-900.
It's hot out but not too humid.
Her new laptop is nice but the screen res, at 1600 something by 1000 something is hard to read for me. I would prefer something in between, around 1300-1400 by 800-900.
It's hot out but not too humid.
Monday, June 11, 2007
Total hell!
A bunch of stuff.
Thursday morning we left for the mountains. Picked up cousin Ania aka Ania #2 then picked up Marcin and Ania. Got down to Szczawnica with no problems. Didn't do much Thursday; just went walking around town and got something to eat and drink. We got rained on walking back to the hotel (about 5km!) but we were in good spirits nonetheless.
Friday we parted company for the afternoon. Ania #1 and #2 went with Marcin somewhere up on some mountain to lay out in the sun. Paula and I went after the Haligovske Skaly cache in Slovakia. You can read our log on geocaching.com. Basically: beautiful but too many - way too many - flies. Paula hiked 16km round-trip, I hiked about 19.5km. She stopped at a picnic table/shelter area a bit before the cache and I went the rest of the way. By the time we got back, around 7:30pm, we were way tuckered out and a bit sunburned. Gosia, Greg and Gabby showed up around this time.
Saturday we rested. We went on a little rafting trip, ate and drank a lot and didn't do a heck of a lot else. A good day.
Sunday we parted company again and took Ania #2 back home. Glad to be back.
Today, Monday, Paula and I had to drive over to DHL's office which is inconveniently located across town. I bitched at them a bunch for making us drive over there after we explicitly told them when we'd be around so they could drop off her new laptop. They ignored those instructions and tried times when we weren't around. I'm burning her laptop in now; but so far so good. It's a big laptop but looks like a fairly good one. It's a "multimedia" laptop meaning it has speakers and a widescreen (16:9!) type screen plus some other goodies. Lots of connections via usb, wireless, bluetooth, s-video, etc. I had forgotten, though, how horrible it is to get a new machine and have to set it up - especially for someone else. Do you wipe the drive and install new? What software do you install?
This time I am letting Paula do everything. I'm sure it will be a good experience for her to deal with all the little crap that comes on a new computer.
Thursday morning we left for the mountains. Picked up cousin Ania aka Ania #2 then picked up Marcin and Ania. Got down to Szczawnica with no problems. Didn't do much Thursday; just went walking around town and got something to eat and drink. We got rained on walking back to the hotel (about 5km!) but we were in good spirits nonetheless.
Friday we parted company for the afternoon. Ania #1 and #2 went with Marcin somewhere up on some mountain to lay out in the sun. Paula and I went after the Haligovske Skaly cache in Slovakia. You can read our log on geocaching.com. Basically: beautiful but too many - way too many - flies. Paula hiked 16km round-trip, I hiked about 19.5km. She stopped at a picnic table/shelter area a bit before the cache and I went the rest of the way. By the time we got back, around 7:30pm, we were way tuckered out and a bit sunburned. Gosia, Greg and Gabby showed up around this time.
Saturday we rested. We went on a little rafting trip, ate and drank a lot and didn't do a heck of a lot else. A good day.
Sunday we parted company again and took Ania #2 back home. Glad to be back.
Today, Monday, Paula and I had to drive over to DHL's office which is inconveniently located across town. I bitched at them a bunch for making us drive over there after we explicitly told them when we'd be around so they could drop off her new laptop. They ignored those instructions and tried times when we weren't around. I'm burning her laptop in now; but so far so good. It's a big laptop but looks like a fairly good one. It's a "multimedia" laptop meaning it has speakers and a widescreen (16:9!) type screen plus some other goodies. Lots of connections via usb, wireless, bluetooth, s-video, etc. I had forgotten, though, how horrible it is to get a new machine and have to set it up - especially for someone else. Do you wipe the drive and install new? What software do you install?
This time I am letting Paula do everything. I'm sure it will be a good experience for her to deal with all the little crap that comes on a new computer.
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Quickie
Met Karl-Olav, Ania and their families yesterday (Wed) so no time for blogging.
Going to the mountains with Paula, cousin Ania from Denver and a bunch of friends. Will be back Sunday.
Going to the mountains with Paula, cousin Ania from Denver and a bunch of friends. Will be back Sunday.
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Fuck the Czyzyny Carrefour
This is the email I wrote them:
This is in regards to the "Hipermart" section of the Czyzyny Carrefour. I live just 500 meters away from this particular Carrefour and yet I will never shop there again. Why, you ask?
- Every single time I visit that Carrefour I spend about 10-15 minutes shopping ...and 10-15 minutes in line.
- Every time I am I am checking out I discover that one or more of my items is missing a barcode or the barcode isn't in the system so I have to stand in line like an idiot while the checkout person makes three phone calls and takes five minutes to find the barcode. Most of the time I tell them to forget it and put aside an item I was going to buy but can't because Carrefour is too damn lazy to put barcode labels on all of their products.
That's it. Just those two reasons and I assure you, you've lost a customer that you would have otherwise had for the next 30 years - because I am utterly tired of the stupid crap I have to go through each time I visit your store just so I can give you my money in exchange for your products.
As I told Paula, this isn't communist Poland and I don't have to do business with ANYONE I don't want to. I want to feel as though the people taking my money in exchange for semi-decent (occasionally good or even great) food, goods and services realizes that my money can verrrry easily go elsewhere. That's all part of the global economy, bitches. Kiss my ass or kiss my cash goodbye!
This is in regards to the "Hipermart" section of the Czyzyny Carrefour. I live just 500 meters away from this particular Carrefour and yet I will never shop there again. Why, you ask?
- Every single time I visit that Carrefour I spend about 10-15 minutes shopping ...and 10-15 minutes in line.
- Every time I am I am checking out I discover that one or more of my items is missing a barcode or the barcode isn't in the system so I have to stand in line like an idiot while the checkout person makes three phone calls and takes five minutes to find the barcode. Most of the time I tell them to forget it and put aside an item I was going to buy but can't because Carrefour is too damn lazy to put barcode labels on all of their products.
That's it. Just those two reasons and I assure you, you've lost a customer that you would have otherwise had for the next 30 years - because I am utterly tired of the stupid crap I have to go through each time I visit your store just so I can give you my money in exchange for your products.
As I told Paula, this isn't communist Poland and I don't have to do business with ANYONE I don't want to. I want to feel as though the people taking my money in exchange for semi-decent (occasionally good or even great) food, goods and services realizes that my money can verrrry easily go elsewhere. That's all part of the global economy, bitches. Kiss my ass or kiss my cash goodbye!
Monday, June 4, 2007
Another day
Met Paula's cousin, Ania, from Colorado. She's visiting for three weeks. Seems pretty nice. The three of us met Piotr from the UMP at Fabryka Pizza. We had a good conversation and I picked up a few useful tips.
Afterwards the three of us went to Galaria Krakowska and Ania bought some clothes cause LOT had lost her suitcase(s). I bought a new pair of pants. Paula got some underwear and socks, of which she already has so many pair that she could go a month without doing that laundry.
Today my one class/student cancelled so I'm at home, theoretically cleaning.
Oh and yesterday I also got Wheetabix at an imported foods store. They're awesome.
Afterwards the three of us went to Galaria Krakowska and Ania bought some clothes cause LOT had lost her suitcase(s). I bought a new pair of pants. Paula got some underwear and socks, of which she already has so many pair that she could go a month without doing that laundry.
Today my one class/student cancelled so I'm at home, theoretically cleaning.
Oh and yesterday I also got Wheetabix at an imported foods store. They're awesome.
Sunday, June 3, 2007
Lazy weekend
Playing Travian, reading now the first HP book.
We went over to Dominika's and sat around talking with her and Agata all evening. A very good time. Paula drank too much and she's hung over now. I'm fine, despite having drank the same amount.
We went over to Dominika's and sat around talking with her and Agata all evening. A very good time. Paula drank too much and she's hung over now. I'm fine, despite having drank the same amount.
Saturday, June 2, 2007
More stuff
Just finished reading the Half-Blood Prince for the 2nd time, I believe. Paula and I are both looking forward to the film for Order of the Phoenix and the next book in July.
Not much else to say, really. We didn't do shit today since it rained most of the morning and early afternoon - pissing, really. Travian and tv and such.
Not much else to say, really. We didn't do shit today since it rained most of the morning and early afternoon - pissing, really. Travian and tv and such.
Friday, June 1, 2007
Some stuff of course
Occasionally I get the urge to tell someone about this. Then I realize I don't really want anyone to know about it. I kind of like being anonymous in a crowd. Visible if you look, invisible if you don't. Paula knows about it but she didn't seem overly curious.
Speaking of my beloved wife, she is going to buy an IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad Z60m laptop - almost definitely. It's a pretty good deal at 3900 PLN for a 2ghz, 1gb ram, 100gb HD, fancy graphics and big screen. Her dad is transferring her the money to get it now and we'll have him fully paid-back by August. She's excited about it.
And speaking of buying things: my old pendrive ...err what's the name of it? Oh yes, Simpletech. Anyway it's finally starting to go belly-up. The last few times I've plugged it in I've had to unplug it slightly to get the laptop to see it. I got the Simpletech SD card reader/pendrive back at Benchmade, so that would have been... sometime in late 2004 I think. Autumn 2004. So it's lasted two and a half years; pretty good considering it's been on my keychain the entire time. So Paula bought me a new one from Kingston! Nice. BTW, how come Google saw that on Amazon.co.uk but when I specifically searched Kingston's site Google didn't see it? Web page authors are idiots.
We watched the Bond film, "The World is Not Enough" last night. I love how Denise Richards, of all people, is a nuclear physicist. The Bond girls are hot, though so WTF.
Gonna back up the ol' pendrive and continue screwing around.
Speaking of my beloved wife, she is going to buy an IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad Z60m laptop - almost definitely. It's a pretty good deal at 3900 PLN for a 2ghz, 1gb ram, 100gb HD, fancy graphics and big screen. Her dad is transferring her the money to get it now and we'll have him fully paid-back by August. She's excited about it.
And speaking of buying things: my old pendrive ...err what's the name of it? Oh yes, Simpletech. Anyway it's finally starting to go belly-up. The last few times I've plugged it in I've had to unplug it slightly to get the laptop to see it. I got the Simpletech SD card reader/pendrive back at Benchmade, so that would have been... sometime in late 2004 I think. Autumn 2004. So it's lasted two and a half years; pretty good considering it's been on my keychain the entire time. So Paula bought me a new one from Kingston! Nice. BTW, how come Google saw that on Amazon.co.uk but when I specifically searched Kingston's site Google didn't see it? Web page authors are idiots.
We watched the Bond film, "The World is Not Enough" last night. I love how Denise Richards, of all people, is a nuclear physicist. The Bond girls are hot, though so WTF.
Gonna back up the ol' pendrive and continue screwing around.
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