I’m shattered, but it’s done*. And added to the wood Dad brought up in January, means I’ve got more than enough firewood to last me through the winter. I won’t show you a picture of the finished stack, because it’s nowhere near Yetzirah’s standards for elegantly-stacked woodpiles (partly because the base stack I was adding…
That is three cubic metres of firewood. And the forecast for tomorrow is rain. Which means I have to get all of it stacked this afternoon if I want to keep it dry. And I’ve still got a cold. This is going to be fun… In my defence, I ordered it months ago (because they…
It’s been a tiring week, that’s my excuse. So I got home last night, had dinner, crashed in front of a mindless video for a while, then went to bed. And completely forgot I hadn’t written a blog post. So my streak of (if I’m counting correctly) 244 days is now over. I missed a…
The university’s file servers have been playing up for the last couple of days, so all the computers have been running incredibly slowly, and today it got even worse. Every time you try to open a folder (or even just switch from one window to another) it would take a couple of minutes to respond,…
I probably should have taken another day off, because I’m still not feeling great (this is the worst cold I’ve had in ages – apparently there’s loads of people laid low by it), but I was feeling just well enough to come in to work (and enough of a combination of bored and guilty to…
You’ll all be relieved to hear that I made it to the supermarket (it’s stopped raining, but still very cold, so I compromised by taking the bus there and a taxi back, to minimise my waiting around in the cold time) so Parsnips is now replete with catfood and very happy. And I’m stocked up…
It’s a cold and miserable drizzly day (I assume this is the far edge of Cyclone Pam that’s sitting somewhere over the North Island at the moment), and I’m feeling cold and miserable and loaded with the cold. And I can report that daytime TV is just as lacking in entertainment value as it ever…
(Yes, the picture is sideways – I took the photo this morning, but didn’t realise until now that I’d put the block up the wrong way. So rather than try and re-photograph it in the less than ideal light now, I just rotated the photo, even though it looks weird 🙂 ) Anyway, Buzzard done. …
ook the day off yesterday, partly because I’d volunteered to help out with the Red Cross street appeal, and partly just because my annual leave is starting to build up again and HR are making noises that I really should be using it. The trouble is there’s always something interesting going on at work, so…
eard the sad news this morning that Terry Pratchett has died. I’m sure I won’t be the only fan feeling slightly guilty that my first thought was the selfish “but I want more books!” Even though I’ve known every book since his diagnosis in 2007 could potentially be his last, there’s always been that irrational…