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It strikes me as odd the way on one hand, one person can be having a rather fluffy day, and on the other hand, another person can be defining who they are. My day started strange. Almost as if God was taking a hand. When I woke up the internet to the Gold Coast was down. If anything could force me into a day of not working, it was this. Not that I didn't do everything I could without the internet, but with my current state of affairs, this was over by 7. Luckily, my mobile phone made a successful intermediary for sending a few choice emails.

Once best friend was up, we ate and headed to barefoot with lawless brother and niece. Niece was in fine form. She successfully conned best friend out of half of his banana bread with simple clapping and her practiced point. A true manipulator in the making there. I was so proud.

At nine, the internet still was down, so we decided to collect the mother and head up the mountain for a long lazy lunch. The lack of edible food turned me into a raving cunt and we had to leave our first choice to find something I could eat... Steak and chips, revolutionary. I despise this diet. Seriously, if i cannot fly by the end of this 6 months, intolerances can jump off a cliff.

With three words I managed to get the restaurant owner into a review of his premises. By the time I was done he was asking for my contact details; seems as though I cannot not work even when the coast is struck down with a case of 1960s-itis. Oh well, might mean I can get them to discount my cousin's wedding there.

Lunch over, we all headed back to our respective homes. I returned to find the internet up and made some big steps in the development of the wholesale store. After lonely water rehab with my rag tag team of seniors, I had the usual dinner with dad and headed for bed.

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Well, if it couldn't get anymore infuriating, think again. As per usual, I started exploring alternatives to the overpriced englishman. Low and behold, America has a solution for next to nothing, and in US dollars. But then this dower Indian bloke from the same company as the pushy englishman calls. The stories of doom and gloom he wove. The dangers of internet quotes and people mis-understanding their clients needs. "No! stay with us" he was trying to say. Unfortunately, all I heard was him describing the incompetence of his own company.
Incompetence aside I went to work on the patenting and the trademark. For some reason the government, in all their wisdom, have made it a requirement that all transmissions regarding patents or trademarks must be posted or faxed. Gotta love efficiency at work. So now, while I wait for a public servant to scamper from his seat to the fax machine, a journey akin to Frodo and the one ring, the seven months of waiting have begun.
On the positive side, the website and online services systems seem to be making progress. The mongrel I am creating of parts from china, america, australia and new zealand, should work out quite well in the end. Besides I prefer the extra security of using multiple servers; if anybody gets an idea to hack me, they will have to hack the systems of not one but three major companies.
After a half a day of waiting for people to return enquiries on systems, best friend arrived for best friend day. He is learning to surf. Or had just spent half a day with professionals teaching him where I had failed. Still can't duck-dive though. I maintain it is because he is built like a rock. The professionals advised him just to hug the board and hold on for dear life. Not really a duck dive, more like an icebreaker but whatever works.
Within an hour of him arriving I had to leave for the Physio. Bloody spell check keeps changing that to physic. The dictionary tells me that physic (pronounced fizic) means healing in archaic english. But moving on, physio went well i am physicing well. Ultrasound even found well developed core muscles. I had to make them dance on the screen by hissing like a parclemouth from harry potter. Now I have exercises to develop them. And wouldn't you know it, everybody I was waiting for contacted me while I was glued to the bed with electric stickers attached to my spine.
Got home after the physio within 20 minutes this time. Finished off my work for the day and proceeded to tuesday-dinner-making with the best friend. Butterflied lamb roast and winter vegis. Was good, except I let the lamb overcook. I am not experienced enough with the webber yet. After dinner we planned to see Cars2, which ended up being quite gruesome for a disney picture. Can't say i was happy with it at all. The story was better than most james bonds that have come out recently, but overall not a kids movie.
As I was lying in bed, at my grandpa 8:30 bed time, the vivid thought of a first conversation intruded with such force. When I came out, everyone already knew. It was just the nicety of me giving the words my voice. My family were ecstatic I finally had taken the risk to confide in them. I remember the fear that they would reject me. But what I remember the most is, separately (because I told them all one to one) each of them had always been on the journey with me, so it came as no surprise. It wasn't like I just jumped up and said it one day out of the blue. I was lucky that they had been able to follow my whole story; from figuring it out and the fear, to boxing it all up for years, to one day meeting a man and falling in love. Things do work better when they come as a story. I think that is what humans are designed for. Sharing knowledge and experiences so that everyone else can know what their life has been like.

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It was one of those days yesterday; everything I did I had to redo, nothing went to plan. The day started with trying to set up on an American finance server. According to their technician all I had to do was delete the items and then I could clear the expenses. But true to form, I brought down their global server instead. I think the man actually sighed into the help chat room. Bit of a fiasco there, but I made some progress after with finalising accounting for the year, trademarks and patent claims.
The Chinese got back to be early and by the middle of the day we had both agreed to exclusive trading. With the statistics in Australia doubling over the last year, it cannot happen soon enough. Lunch was an event. I discovered the joys of adding a scissor chopped sheet of sushi seaweed to rice and tuna. My ordinary lunches have now become a thing of the past... First pepita seeds now, seaweed!
After lunch I had another chat with a recruiter in Sydney. I am getting tired of the emphasis on university qualifications. The world is fast approaching financial oblivion and people still haven't cottoned onto their dependence on lessons from the generation that caused this mess. Then, to make matters worse, I had an annoying conversation with a english ex-pat who proceeded to quote me for my new web-site; that I hadn't asked for. He was quite pushy at first, then couldn't wait to get me off the phone in place of sending email. His quote then came back, and I swear the writing had an english accent, instead of $35 dollars per month $4000 start-up then some other ridiculous fee.
I will call them again today, this man has actually been telling me what I want in my own website. Outrageous! That debacle aside, I went back for more aqua therapy, and got montezuma takeaway on the way home. In place of dairy and salsa, the lovely les attendant gave me extra olives. Gotta love that. Physio asked me to join some indoor cricket thing, which I will have to try. Can see this ending with broken fingers. I ended the day by watching the second Star Trek movie; the wrath of kahn. It was infinitely better than the first. I swear if I saw one more passover of the model ship on camera I would jump off my balcony, but the second tried to focus on having a story line, albeit thin. But at least this one was watchable.