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Wednesday, 1:20 pm in Life

Driving Yareth the Yaris is a funny experience and has lead me to believe one thing; people in Canberra speed like there’s no tomorrow.

Yareth has a numeric digital speedometer, so in other words if you’re going at 87k’s the dash tells you; no parallax error, no mental fudging to make up for the fact that the needle is bigger than the increments or whatever. This in turn has a tendency to make me sit either on or just below the speed limit, since as soon as those big aqua letters creep up to 81 (or 61 or 51 or whatever) I start feeling guilty. I think I’m still in P-plater “must not get demirit points” mode; or maybe it’s just my annoying tendency towards honesty. Either way, I’ll be coming down over the hill towards home sitting dead on 80 and the number of people who get agitated and go screaming past me is hilarious. I used to think people were overtake happy because I was a P-plater and it seems that open lisenced drivers have this violent paranoia about driving anywhere near P- or L-plated drivers. Now I probably have to admit that the real reason people go screaming past is because I’m a young woman in a bitchy bright blue car, and if there’s one thing drivers hate more than learners it’s young women drivers. It’s probably not entierly unjustified; I’m not the best or most confident driver in the world and I do stupid stuff sometimes (I cut a truck off the other day; sorry Mr. Truck), especially on the drive home from work. It pisses me off to be such a stereotype, but I dunno; maybe I’m just overly conscious of it. I do stupid stuff when driving, but so does everyone else, so…

Who knows. Canberra drivers really do speed, though; all other things aside. Maybe they all need numeric digital speedos too.

TV in the mornings is playing Tokyo Mew Mew Mew Mew Power and One Piece which has made me feel like watching anime for the first time in like four years. Too bad dad plays WoW all day; I need to find some way of throttling Azreus and eMule. I want to allow them to trickle through most of the time, but give them free reign between 4:00am and 7:00am. NetLimiter 2 Pro reckons it can do that sort of thing, but I think it’s a lying whore since whenever I try and put time constraints on a rule it just totally stops working. Hmm. ~Mat [h] recommends 1.3, so I might have to downgrade. Pity, I like 2 Pro… if it worked.

And that’s lunch half-hour gone. Back to my stupid SAP error…

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