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Having a week off sick but not really sick was great, but the downside was when I got back to work on Monday I had to catch up with everything I missed, and as this week was my last before a few weeks of Christmas holiday (HR’s been on my back again about not using…
Otakuu and the Prickly Dick
Meetup tonight, at South of the Border. I haven’t been there for years, and unfortunately it wasn’t as good as it used to be. Otakuu (who’s up in Christchurch visiting family) seemed impressed by her dessert, though, described in the menu as a “Prickly Dick”:
Dreaming of America
Registrations have opened for the BC in DC convention, and I’m so tempted. I’ve been investigating costs, and I reckon it would be about NZ$3000 for flights and the cost of the actual convention (registration plus hotel), and I’d probably have to allow the same again if I wanted to stay a bit longer and…
Breakfast and things
Greetings to all the LiveJournallers who’ve managed to figure out the comments system here! (and to those who haven’t, keep banging the rocks together clicking on the “Add” button guys :-)) Someone left a private comment asking what the logo on the bags looked like. I wasn’t sure whether you meant the logo on the…
Learning stuff
I had to make a tough decision today. The downside (yes, there is one!) of my exciting travel plans is that doing any study this semester is going to be virtually impossible – even though most of the time I’ll be away is during the university vacation, I’ll still be missing a week and a…
Progress Report
It’s just as fiddly as I remembered it, but I’m slowly making progress. (Oh, and Yetzirah, I do sometimes use the multi-needle trick, but I don’t think I have enough needles to cover all the colours just in one of those swirls in the border!) My other creative project for the weekend was baking a…