Well, Friday’s sale went spectacularly well, and I managed to cope ok with the new money. I was seriously exhausted by the end of the day, though – I’d forgotten just how tiring working in retail is – all that endless smiling and being nice to people, not to mention the wear and tear on…

Just when I thought I’d seen every possible weirdness that DD could throw up, now all my entry titles have disappeared, to be replaced by something like “Test 1287182”. I bet poor Steve is wishing he’d never started this server move. DancingButterfly (who I’m guessing is Australian – s/he has a friends-only diary, so I’m…

Well, it looks like that although DD is back up and running again (well, apart from some weirdness with comments – it looks like there’s a bit of a delay happening between posting a comment and it actually appearing, which means that silly people like me double-post comments because we think it didn’t work the…

Yayy!!! I can write diary entries again!!! I don’t think they’ve quite fixed everything yet, though, because I just tried to change my index text (because I use my index to store my list of books I’ve read, and I wanted to add a couple I’ve finished over the last couple of days) and the…

Written 9.26 am, Tuesday 1 August 2006, to be uploaded whenever I get a chance… Why is it the moment DD goes down I have an uncontrollable urge to write a diary entry? It’s not even as if I have anything particularly interesting to report (except that evienz caught one of my books from the…

Yesterday was Christchurch’s 150th birthday, celebrating the anniversary of the day when it was declared to be a city (it was only a tiny village at the time, but Queen Victoria wanted to appoint someone bishop, and to have a bishop you need a cathedral, and cathedrals can only be built in cities. So she…

Despite the fact that my cold has come back a bit, so I really should have had an early night last night, I went with the Chick Flicks group to see The Lake House. For the first third of the film it didn’t really capture my imagination, but I ended up quite enjoying it –…

A mass release takes a lot of preparation to be successful, so I spent a large chunk of the weekend getting ready for next weekend’s 150th birthday celebrations, registering and labelling books the books I got at last weekend’s booksale. (And that’s how you fit far too many weekends into one sentence). I even created…

Yep, MrPloppy and I finally made it to see the second episode of Pirates of the Caribbean this afternoon. After all the “well, it’s ok, but…” reviews I read, I wasn’t expecting great things, but I really enjoyed it. Totally silly, and loads of fun. And a great opportunity for a few themed releases in…