Well, after waiting days for the Fedora upgrade to work … it failed.

It came to the end and said it didn’t have enough space for the  boot sector [gees, I’ve only used 130GB out of a 1TB!!!  THat’s 870GB left!!!], but, it had a message saying that not to worry, it’ll fix that when I reboot, and the install will go ahead.  So, I rebooted … and the thing started flashing on and off.  As I did that this morning and had to leave for work, I left it and when I returned checked it … it was still having the same problem [of course I had switched the monitor off].

So, I rebooted … and my old Fedora 8 came back up.  No Fedora 9.  Hmmm, wonder where all those GB’s of downloading went to?

Needless to say, I’m not happy!!  :~E  See how I’m gritting my teeth!!!!

I had an excellent day at work.  Day didn’t start so good, with my brother getting up [even though he was going to the Doctor] at 5AM, and he started tidying and cleaning his room again.  Argh!  I was trying to get ready around him, whilst my mother talked and talked.

Got home, missed the early bus, and when I arrived home dinner was cold.  Argh!   My mother had expected me at the earlier time.

My family have an intolerable habit of talking through shows they don’t want to watch [or shows they are watching].  I was watching Time Team whilst eating dinner and they decided to talk … and then when I was watching the brand new Simpsons my mother decided to annoy me.  She sat beside me and kept saying, ‘David, you’re going grey.  David, you’re going grey.’  She did this over and over except when she and my brother had a small loud talking match.  Then she started again and said, ‘You know, you can dye your hair.  You don’t have to go grey.’

When I  didn’t respond as I was trying so darn hard to listen to the Simpsons, she asked me what was wrong.  I told her I was trying to watch the show.  She asked me what was really wrong.  I’m TRYING TO WATCH THE FRIGGIN’ SHOW!!!!!  ARRRRGHHHHH!

Anyway, I didn’t lose my temper.   I guess I just resigned myself to having missed half the show.

My computer is running a tad slowly.  I’m loading up Fedora 9.  I started on Saturday and on Sunday it was still half way through.  I think it was yesterday that I turned it off to help webpages load quicker … the message box says that if you cancel it’ll start loading from where it left off … WRONG!!!  I started running it again and it started from the beginning.  It’s still not half way through.  *sigh*

So, with very slow speeds I think I’ll not be visiting too many blogs tonight.  I’ll let the upgrade to Fedora 9 continue [the site said it takes over five hours … mines going to take four days minimum I think].  So, if I seem to have disappeared for a few days, just think of me, curled up in a nice warm bed reading a book! 

One day I hope my mother and brother Jeff will stop fighting.  Was woken up Sunday by their arguing.  Today Jeff returned home and he has been told to take time off work till his eyes clear up because they claim it’ll infect the women at work.  Due to this, Jeff and my mother had an argument over how clean his room is, and part the way through it my mother turned on me and somehow it was all my fault.

She kept demanding I do things in order to fix the problem, and I kept saying, ‘No!’

She claimed I was saying, ‘No’ as I was lazy and had no excuse not to do what she asked.  I pointed out that she was just turning on me as she’d been arguing with Jeff and was in a bad mood.  SHe shut up!

Jeff agreed to lower his bed tomorrow.  My mother decided he had to do it tonight.  [Jeff’s bed is like a bunk, except he’s got only the top level so that he can store stuff below it.

Anywat, my mother came and told me to go help Jeff get his bed down tonight.  So, out I went to the living room, only to find Jeff was still of the impression that he was doing it tomorrow.  Once again my mother manipulates things to get her way WHEN she wants it.  So, out of his room came all the boxes and stuff he had stored beneath the bed.  My mother then started telling us the boxes etc weren’t allowed in the living room because she needs to exercise tomorrow morning.  WTFrigg????  The boxes would be going back in Jeffs room tonight.  NOPE!  She demands we put them in the corner away from everything!  *sigh*

Jeff informs me the bed is a one man job.  Still, my mother insists I help him … Jeff insists I can’t!  More fighting with my and Jeff over dust and everything. Which reminds me, one of the things I’m supposed to do is make space in my room to accommodate Jeff’s stuff.  *sigh*  Why do I have to store his stuff in my room when I have little space myself to store anything???  Well, because apparently Jeff is sick and I’m just a hypercondriact whenever I have anything wrong with me.  *sigh*  If I die my mother will think I’m faking that as well!!  Bloody Lazy David, refusing to get out of his coffin and carry it himself.  Lazy bugger!!!

Anywat, the fighting made me depressed, sad, sad and depressed!!!  Now I’m in a ‘Who the FRIG’ Cares’ sort of a mood.  Bad enough I’ve been exhausted all day and not feeling well … but, that’s just me … nothing really wrong according to my mother.  Just a lazy old fat so and so!!!!

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Was going to blog about this morning at work … so I will anyway, even though I’m now no longer in the mood.

Anywat, got my mother a beauty yesterday when I told her we could buy ‘Twin Homer’ fridges.  She said she didn’t want ‘Twin Homer’ fridges.  She figured they’d be ugly.  Then I said, ‘Oh wait, I misread it, they’re twin Simpson fridges.’ [Simpson being a make of fridge].   My mohter didn’t make the connection straight away.  She still thought they were ‘Homer Simpson’ type fridges.  lol  Then when she finally clicked she wasn’t too happy. 

At work this morning two of the ladies were talking.  One is going to Europe soon, and the other was giving advice about her experiences in Europe.  She suggested that the first girl buy Laundry Detergent tablets to take, as it’s a lot easier than laundry powder.  I said I ate two of those tablets and had to call the Doctor as I still wasn’t feeling too well.

The second lady asked why I ate them.  I said I was cleaning myself out.  Then I said I was cleaning my socks.  I said I ate a tablet, then swallowed two socks and jumped up and down till they were clean and then regurgitated them.  She laughed and warned me if the boss heard me he’d think I’d gone loonie. 

I came home and told my mother about it, and when I got up to the regurgitating the socks bit she told me she was surprised no one thought I’d gone loonie.  I pointed out that it was exactly what the lady at work had said! 

Anywat, don’t send your socks for me to clean.  I’ve had a big dinner and can’t clean another thing! 

Stole this Meme from Yvyv and decided to extend it a little … just to make it more interesting.

The rules : Use the first letter of your first name to answer all the following questions.

WHAT IS YOUR NAME? David [aka Dabido]
4 LETTER WORD: Dumb
VEHICLE: Dharmicism [hee hee!  That’ll confuse some] … um … Ducati.

TV SHOW: Deadwood
CITY: Dover City, Delaware, USA
BOY NAME: Dale Doolittle
GIRL NAME: Dianne Dunnhill

OCCUPATION: Deep Sea Elephant Wrestler Diver Dude
SOMETHING YOU WEAR: D’Socks … no, wait.  Diapers.
FOOD: Pizza … I mean Durian!
SOMETHING FOUND IN A BATHROOM:  Drugs [Prescription of course]
REASON FOR BEING LATE: Dead

SOMETHING YOU SHOUT: Dangdiddlydangit Doodely!!!

TV Character: Danger Mouse
Rock band: Deep Purple
Fictional Detective: D
Animal: Dangerous ones … no wait … dugong.
Something which smells: Nose … I mean Dung.

Musical Instrument: Dog if you squeeze it hard enough … or Dulcimer

Computer Game:  Defender of the Realm
Movie: Deliverance

Something found in an art gallery: Drawing [or a Dali]

Something you wouldn’t do: Drag Dinosaurs indoors.

Body Part: DNA

A 60’s actor: Doris Day
Comic Super Hero: Super Da Man … No, Daredevil

Something King Kong might say when falling from the Empire State Building:

Darn it, I forgot to brig my dinner back down!

Some food you wouldn’t want on your pizza: Dog
Something you can hide in a shoe:  Dynamite

A word ending in Y: Dry

As you might realise, I did a little work on the blog image again. Forgot to save a back up in case it gets hacked again! *sigh* Silly me. Anyway, still some more work to do. I’ll save it then.
Got the rotating headers back, got the clickable header back, got the hit counter back [still going strong].

Just need to get the nice white background back to blend the buttons back in, and update some links to include buttons. Might also work a little on a different background as well. Nothing too overwhelming. Just smurfs attacking a woolly mammoth or something. Nothing too busy. [Just kidding about the smurfs and woolly mammoth].

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1. What have you realised recently?
That I need more sleep.
2. Have you given your first kiss away?
Yes. I can’t remember all the ones from when I was a little kid. But, my first girlfriend [who asked ME out, not the other way round], was Maree Jongernelg [Hope I spelt that right], and she kissed me first too.
3. If you were to be stranded on a deserted island, who are the 11 blog buddies you would take?
Suanie, Lainie, Erna, Jemima, Cynthia, Kimberley, Fire Angel, Chen, Rachel, Reta, and Xaviera.

4. Where is the place that you want to go the most?
Bed. Maybe one day with someone of the opposite sex who is sexy and stuff too. But, just bed alone will do for now.

5. If you can have 1 dream to come true, what would it be?
That I have two or more dreams come true.
6. Do you believe in seeing a rainbow after the rain?
Actually, rainbows appear where their is water [either rain, or fog etc]. Often the rainbow we see is actually where it is raining though we aren’t in the rain. We actually have to have a light source behind us to see the rainbow as well. It can form from the sun, street lights or even car lights. I saw a rainbow around the moon the other day and it hadn’t rained at all, but there were a lot of clouds in the sky. When in Penang I also saw a rainbow around the sun [unusual as the sun was the light source … but that also happens] after a particularly heavy downpour.
7. What are you afraid to lose the most now?
What little sanity I have left.
8. If you win $1 million, what would you do?
Go to bed. The $1 million can go in the bank. I’ll spend it when I get up!
9. If you meet someone that you love, would you confess to him/her?

Maybe. Asking girls out and confessing my love hasn’t been a forte of mine for the last ten years almost always resulting in arguments and put downs by the other person.