ctually, it’s suprisingly unpainful – except of course at those moments when I bump it against something, which happens every time I forget that I’ve got a giant sausage of bandage on my finger, making it twice the size it normally is and therefore needs a lot more clearance room than normal… I am discovering,…
I just got back from spending two hours at the emergency clinic, having managed to cut a lovely big slice into my finger. The culprit was my lovely rotary fabric cutter, which I was enthusiastically wielding while starting a new sewing project, when a moment’s inattention meant that my little finger on the hand that…
ou might not believe it, but I actually released two books today! The first was Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married by Marian Keyes, which I released in a cafe where I stopped off for breakfast on my way to Riccarton this morning (the Riccarton expedition was to replace my computer’s mouse, which has been playing…
We had the boss’s 15 year old son in the office today for work experience. He actually did some really good work for us (after a bit of a false start when the computer he was using (which runs Linux – all the Windows machines in the office need you to log in with a…
he problem with celebrating Guy Fawkes in the Southern Hemisphere is that it doesn’t get dark until very late at night. Which means that just when I want to go to bed is when the neighbours’ fireworks hit their peak. So I was awake reading for a long time last night, because there was no…
fter the stinking hot nor’westers at the weekend, the last couple of days have been cold and wet and miserable and back to feeling like winter again. Someone said it even snowed in some parts of town last night! There was definitely a lot of thunder – it was quite weird, actually: I caught the…
I can’t remember if I mentioned that I’d volunteered to host the Christchurch Bloggers’ Christmas party this year. The usual host, Miriam, has moved to Australia, and at a meetup a while back Tartankiwi mentioned she hadn’t found anyone else willing to host, so I said if she couldn’t find anyone then I’d step up…
The two main programming languages we use at work to build helpful little tools to speed up the tedious jobs are Javascript and Python. I’ve been making reasonably good progress at learning Javascript, but the Python stuff I’ve been leaving to Lucy-Jane, who is a much more skilled programmer than me. On Friday afternoon, she…
hat I’d intended today was to spend a few hours in a relaxing game of Minecraft with the nephews. What it turned into was a frustrating afternoon struggling to get the server to play nice. Still, it was a lot of fun for the first hour or so, until the server crashed… Nephew #1 had…
ytteltonwitch came over this morning so I could help her tidy up her CV (hopefully the advice I gave her turns out to be useful – I did once have a job polishing CVs, but that was a lot of years ago and in another country, so I’m not exactly up to date on current…