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The rest of Wellington
Seeing as the conference was on a Friday, I decided to stay up in Wellington for the weekend. Discoverylover, as well as offering me a bed, arranged a bookcrossing meetup for the Friday evening, so after the conference finished I walked down to the railway station to meet up with her and the other bookcrossers…
300km to see a paddock
We’ve discovered a great new internet game, called Geodashing. It’s a bit like Geocaching, in that you follow gps coordinates to obscure places, but there’s no cache. Geodashing is all about the journey. And a new GPS game was all the excuse lytteltonwitch, rarsberry and I needed for an expedition. We checked out the 40…
Errata
It seems some of my newer readers were a bit mystified by the nature of George, and read entirely the wrong meaning from my opening paragraph last night. Meet George: See? Definitely a cat, not a man. I hope that alleviates your fears about my morals 😉 (He normally looks a lot darker than in…
What I read in 2006
Total: 140 books January (16) The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold Disappearing Rain by Deena Larsen (hypertext novel) Under the Duvet by Marian Keyes Diary by Chuck Palahniuk Clara’s Heart by Joseph Olshan The Color of Television by Stuart Moulthrop and Sean Cohen (hypertext novel) Joe’s Heartbeat in Budapest by Ruth Nestvold (interactive fiction) Star…
I forgot to mention the goodies!
I knew there was something missing from my description of the day – the Dunedin goodies. boreal and rarsberry had sent me up a box of goodies to take over to Brisbane with me, as a promotion for the NZBC convention to be held in Dunedin next February. The goodies consisted of mini Crunchie bars…