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[Wednesday
November 11th, 2009 at 9:04am] |
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Morning everybody! Once again, it is so bloody cold here that I'm wondering why I even bothered leaving Ohio. I still get that stupid, too-cold-to-leave-the-bed-this-early thing happening, but without the added charm of a yard full of snow to ease the pain. Bah. Still, the island is being promised thunderstorms soon, so I'll keep my fingers crossed.
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And now for your rerun of the week. This was one of my favorites for a lot of different reasons -- it has its roots in a real experience, it has an amusing literary reference, and best of all, a giant monster, which just makes any comic more fun. Enjoy!
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[Thursday
November 5th, 2009 at 7:08pm] |
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A list. Of things I wish to attain in the next six months in my life. (We call them key performance areas at work. I figured since I do a performance review at work, why not do one on myself at home?)
At work • Learn to troubleshoot common client sequencing problems. • Move into or learn a different area at work and/or a different skill set. • Become more confident and able to deal with clients. • Offer a few ideas about sequencing procedure and improvements to the national team rather than just the Melbourne lab.
At home • Keep the house clean. This means doing some form of cleaning every weekend, whether it's vacuuming or mopping or even (shudder) dusting. • Do more spontaneous baking! I like baking, and I don't do nearly enough of it. • Finish cleaning out my wardrobe and getting rid of clothes that I haven't worn or that don't fit or that are looking tired and old. • Get rid of all the cardboard boxes and foam packing lying around the house, and get rid of the clutter ( parthenia14, you made me think of this point!).
Me • Go for a half hour walk at least five days a week. • Find a GP and go for your pap smear already, sheesh. • Save at least half of my take-home pay each fortnight. • Contribute to the gourmand fund every fortnight.
In Azeroth • Finish levelling my mage, and gear her. • Get dual specs for Dal, and learn to holy pallie! • Work on Loremaster for Thysan (30 lousy quests to go, grrr). • Get to Exalted with Cenarion Circle, Argent Dawn and Cenarion Expedition.
Things to finish • Thank you cards from the wedding. • My cross stitch, and the binding on the patchwork quilt. (Yes, this means you have to get the sewing machine up and running). • Biting my nails.
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[Wednesday
November 4th, 2009 at 9:09am] |
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Helio Sequence: "Repeater" |
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I wish I were outside today, riding round the North Shore in a little boat with a sputtery motor, feeding sharks and watching for whales to fluke near the boat. This morning, Wahiawa was freezing cold, gray and rainy, and it was all I could do to drag myself out of bed, wrap myself up and get on the even colder bus (why they insist on cranking the A/C full blast first thing in the morning when it's still sludgy cold outside is beyond me). Still, in spite of all that, I can see the sun now and I bet it's a good hot day out there in the real Hawaii, on the water, under the sun.
I am in the office, with more detestable air conditioning, feeling like a creature on exhibition, looking outside through glass in a Lysol-scented terrarium.
Today, I wish I were a fisherman. Or something.
Happy Wednesday, 'roos! I have another rerun for you. This was one of the earlier Finn strips (funny how different he looks now) where he's trying to assert his demonic nature. I guess I was still playing with his personality, but I still am. Enjoy!
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[Wednesday
November 4th, 2009 at 7:23pm] |
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So, I'm still alive.
Tasmania was amazing. We landed in Launceston in a horde of giggling Japanese schoolgirls, who didn't seem to understand what the quarantine man meant when he tried to demonstrate in charades that you couldn't bring apples into the state. Then we picked up the smallest car I have ever seen Dave fold himself into, a Nissan Micra, and I got to steer it round all the bendy roads in Tasmania. Wheeeee! Railton, town of topiary (and Dave with a mummy elephant hedge and a baby one). Wood fire. Cows, sheeps, ponies. Rufous pademelons. Terrible honey tasting. Schoolgirls appear to have followed us to the lodge. Breakfast is amazing. Set off smoke alarms thanks to clogged flue. Dave wants to take a rufous pademelon home - they sit on the slope outside our door. Reading in bed all afternoon. Wine and cheese tastings - apparently Dave now likes Brie. Meeting other honeymooning couples and getting drunk with them. Wombats outside the main lodge. Spas at 10pm. Squelchy mud. Blocked chimneys. Playing Pokemon Diamond. Roasting marshmallows in the wood fire. Dinner at the main restaurant - amazing venison and red cabbage. Wombats everywhere! Dave pats a pademelon. Enchanted walks. Dave has to make his appointment. Pony riding with Moose and Peggy up to the top of the hill, complete with a tiny canter and some bumpy trotting for Dave. Crazy hippies at the Tassie Devil park - we did get to pat one, though. Pokemon while lying in bed with the fire going. 5 course degustation with paired wines, culminating in the development of the gourmand fund. Oh god, think fancy restaurant has turned me into a pea eater. World MUST be ending.
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[Tuesday
November 3rd, 2009 at 6:08pm] |
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Shirley Bassey: "History Repeating" |
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Say what you will about the insanity of downtown and the virtues of staying home in your PJs and watching Star Trek. Any other day, I'm right there with you with a caramel apple and no inclination to step out there. But on Halloween night, which I first experienced only a week before the Boyfriend and I became official nearly two year ago now, the city is a good place to be.
Nevermind that that year we saw two different guys open their respective car doors and puke on the street as well as a rhinestone Elvis giving me the eye all before we even got to the center of Waikiki; it was wicked good fun.
This year, Sue drove me up to meet The Boyfriend with his homemade Day of the Dead mask as he got off work, and while Sue went home to chill and pass out candy, Skullface and I drove to the heart of Honolulu, into a giant music and art festival taking place in Chinatown.
All the bands were fantastic, just plunked down at different areas of the city and rocking out, but in particular this New Orleans-derived blues/rock group that would make The Black Keys pee their pants. They had a man on tuba who was using it to play the bass part. Have you ever HEARDA that shit? Well it was great. Band was called Anders Osborne. During their performance two different guys, Cheech Marin included, spilled their beer on my same foot. But it was chill.
 ( Rock the Casbah... )
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