Upgrade: Chidade 3.1
I’ve been accepted into university. I’ll be attending Swinburne University of Technology’s Hawthorn campus for another three years of I.T. training. I’m relieved in a way, because I’ve technically been on holiday for the last two years now and my brain has been dribbling out my ears. I need to have a regular schedule again. 4 hours of evening classes 5 days a week in an eikaiwa didn’t count. They were complete no-brainers.
So, I have two weeks left before orientation. Surrounded by 17 and 18 year olds who are going to go batshit insane over the free alcohol. Vodka lost it’s novelty for me a while ago. I wonder how I’ll cope surrounded by kids?
Anyway, I digress. What I was going to say is that I have 2 weeks left to get myself organised for school and my tight budget that begins February 19th. So, while this list is probably quite boring for you, dear readers, deal with it. What follows are the system requirements to be able to install the upgrade to Chidade: version 3.1.
- Purchase replacement Razr V3x and mod it so that it has all necessary ringtones, images and the Final Fantasy victory fanfare as the SMS alert.
- Install the calendar syncronisation program that’ll keep my Google Calendar and keitai in sync, via Outlook.
Note: this will require installing Office 2003 at last.
- Deauthorise the iTunes on Akiba and convert AAC files to MP3 then backup on PC.
- Backup Akiba and reformat, see if you can get an English OS instead. Learn how to actually operate the tablet features since that’s why you bought the bloody thing.
- Try and get Joomla installed and running for the Aug. website eventually so they don’t hassle you for free web design work during the semester, the tightwads.
- See if you can get a good chunk of the planning done and some psuedo-coding for the fundraising website.
- See if any of the textbooks you spent thousands of dollars on during the first degree can be recycled for this second one.
- Upgrade the blog to Wordpress 2.1 Ella, which looks very spiffy.
- Get Chidade to job level 50 and bloody job change into a Blacksmith already!
Two weeks should be enough to get all of the above done, except for the fact that this weekends seems to want to rip me apart with social engagements. Good grief. I don’t think I’ve ever been so over-booked.
- St. Kilda Festival
- The inaugural Discworld convention and gala dinner Nullus Anxietas - the first outside the UK. Yay! I finally get to do what everyone else already seems to have done - meet Terry Pratchett!
- Snark’s 25th birthday and party
- Madman’s free open-air cinema again on Saturday night. This time, it’s the awesome Read or Die
- R’s Shindig and catching up with Mi
- An old high school friend’s birthday party
- K’s Singstar party
The Gala Dinner, K’s party and the school friend’s birthday party have already become victims. Most of this weekend is going to be taken up by Nullus Anxietas, I guess. Hopefully St. Kilda Fest and Madman get a look in. Ross Irwin and the Soul Special are playing at the festival.
Gah! Busy!