eleasing all those books at the weekend gave me quite a few catches. As well as the one I got on the day, I’ve had three more (three new members, too): 101 Cataclysms by Rachael Hale The Master Cat by David Garnett Time for Paws by Barbara Maguire Not bad going! And looking in my…
oday marks 11 years since I joined Bookcrossing. Not that I’ve done a huge amount of bookcrossing in the last year or three – I got out of the habit with the earthquakes and never really got back to it. Not having any other active bookcrossers in the area doesn’t help much either. I’d blame…
k, ignore everything you’ve ever read or seen about how spending Christmas alone is a terrible thing. It’s not – in fact, it’s been a very pleasant experience. Of course, it probably helps that I’ve never really thought of Christmas as that big a deal anyway. Yes, I have a lot of fun decorating the…
DD has been down again, or at least, the ability for some of us to log in properly has been, so these two entries are ones I wrote over the last couple of days but haven’t been able to post until now (so the “yesterday”s are several days ago now – I’ve added in the…
here is a woman at work who thinks she is my great friend. In fact, I find her a bit of a pain, but my polite tolerance is apparently interpreted by her as close friendship. Anyway, she’s also got it into her head that I am utterly bereft and lonely ever since the separation and…
It’s been a strange sort of week. We knew we’d be shifting offices sometime this week, and that we would have to stay away from the office on moving day so we didn’t get in the way of the movers, so we’d talked about having some sort of team field-trip, maybe involving a site visit…
A few of the Christchurch Bloggers were meeting up at the Craft Love Fair at Mairehau High last night, so I went along. I didn’t intend to buy anything, but there was a lot of temptation on offer (and all right, I may have bought a few small things…). I was a bit braver about…
seem to have drastically expanded my social circles all of a sudden, joining two new groups in the space of just a couple of weeks. For a start, I’m now officially a Christchurch Blogger. I’m even on their list of blogs! And there’s like an official-type button I’m supposed to put on my diary somewhere…
Sometimes I really love my job. This afternoon, the university’s HITLab (which stands for Human Interface Technology, for the uninitiated) had an open day. And as we have quite a bit to do with them (we collaborated on the CityViewAR app, for example), our boss suggested we go and have a look around the other…
What’s making me smile right now: A brisk walk home under a dark and threatening sky – I made it home without getting rained on, plus I’m feeling energised from the exercise. And now the fire is roaring away and soon the house will be nice and warm. I made a start on a big…