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Bibliophile Lass' LiveJournal:
- Clean the downstairs bathroom with a bald toothbrush.
- Varnish my cats'
toenailsclaws. - Finish my tax paperwork for next year.
- Wash the dog (that I don't have).
- Analyse the wear patterns of each of
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rotwang's socks. - Read Les Miserables again.
- Alphabetise the bottles in the recycling bin.
- Find a pattern online for a macrame bra.
- Scan all of my non-digital photos.
- Finish Rock Band on all difficulties and all instruments.
- Shave my hair off.
- Design a program to graph phone usage down to the minute from a scanned British Telecom bill.
- Write a letter to my local paper.
- Find a TRS-80 emulator online and retype some of the old programs for it. (Bonus points if it was a program which did something completely useless.)
- Hook my TRS-80 up to the network and post to LiveJournal from it.
- Make pasta from scratch.
- Arrange my book collection in alphabetical order of the seventeenth word on the twenty-third page of the books.
- Count the sheets of paper in the stationery cupboard.
- Petition Royal Mail to put William McGonagall on a stamp.
- Write a set of haiku describing the ways in which static IP addresses make life easier.
- Give rotwang a foot massage.
- Swim the English Channel.
- Finish reading the World's Biggest Dungeon.
- Learn to play the accordion.
- Get a life.
- cat litter
- cat food
- washing tablets
| Monday, June 29th, 2009 | |
| 7:02 pm | |
| Thursday, June 18th, 2009 | |
| 12:06 pm | Happy birthday rotwang! |
| Sunday, June 14th, 2009 | |
| 10:15 pm | Borrowed from maviscruetThe problem with Live Journal is that we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other. Hence, I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don’t know about you. |
| Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 | |
| 12:13 pm | libellum give me an email address for her, or ask her to email me at my LJ address? I have a lead on a costume for her in Greenwich, per her earlier post crossposted from Dreamwidth, and don't have a DW account to reply there. Comments screened. Sorted, thanks! |
| Sunday, May 3rd, 2009 | |
| 12:30 pm | |
| Saturday, April 25th, 2009 | |
| 11:29 am | |
| Sunday, March 22nd, 2009 | |
| 12:28 pm | |
| Friday, March 20th, 2009 | |
| 9:28 am | "a great-priced ticket", "Mr McGuinness said tickets would vary in price from 30 euros (£27) to 95 euros (£85)." Apart from the ones which were nearly twice as expensive, of course. Would someone kindly pass the lubricant? |
| Thursday, March 19th, 2009 | |
| 11:35 pm | |
| Thursday, March 5th, 2009 | |
| 10:17 pm | Happy birthday chomper99! |
| Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 | |
| 10:17 pm | You want geeky, I got your geeky right here: Lou Zocchi talking about the science of dice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR2fxoNH http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxmkWrDb |
| 11:45 am | Happy birthday bytepilot! |
| Monday, March 2nd, 2009 | |
| 8:57 am | |
| Sunday, March 1st, 2009 | |
| 11:57 pm | This is NOT a test. I repeat, this is NOT a test. SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE |
| Friday, February 20th, 2009 | |
| 11:00 am | |
| Thursday, February 19th, 2009 | |
| 2:06 pm | The Case Of The Missing Pond My cats, beloved little creatures that they are, think that it is nearly Spring. I can tell: they brought me the first frog of the year yesterday. They evidently considered it too hard to get that frog out of our pond, though. This morning I glanced out of the kitchen window while making the first coffee of the day, and noticed a certain lack of... well, a certain lack of pond, really. The infrastructure was still there, as were the plants. And some mud. The most important component -- the water -- was mostly missing. This is not a beautifully well-kept, manicured pond. It has a pump which recirculates the water through a filter, and returns the water to the pond via a hose which used to be mounted into a pottery jug so that the water poured out of the jug. (Sounds twee, I know -- but it was there when we bought the place.) Unfortunately that jug succumbed to the elements a couple of years back and so, at the moment, the hose itself is sat on the side of the pond with its end pointing down into the pond to drain. Or at least it was yesterday afternoon. I'd turned the pond pump off during the recent very cold weather (we don't have any fish* -- as far as I know -- so it wasn't going to be a problem for them). Yesterday I restarted the pump and went outside to check that it was working; the hose itself was caught in some weed so I pulled it clear and left it draining into the pond, just where it ought to be. At some point since then, the Furry Felons must have thought "Hey! This moves! Let's play with it." So when I went out there this morning, the hose was draining next to, rather than into, the pond; the lawn and bushes behind the pond had been extremely well-watered, and the pond itself was all but empty. There followed a bit of a scramble to unroll the nice new garden hose from its ties, to put the pond hose back in place and to start refilling the pond... oh, did I mention I was still in my dressing-gown at this point, and the whole "not yet caffeinated" bit? I suppose it could have been worse. I didn't have to fish either of the cats out of the mud. Yet. * Well, there was the incident last autumn when the cats brought me in a live fish. I didn't think we had any fish... luckily for the fish, I had a glass of water handy, and put it into that before tipping it (back?) into the pond. Whether it survived that adventure, I have no idea. |
| Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 | |
| 2:34 pm | Epsom Book Fair, 19th -- 21st February Anyone in the Epsom area who reads, this is your chance to It's at the Epsom Methodist Church (Multimap here, postcode for the satnav-enabled is KT18 5AQ). The best place to park is at the Ashley Centre multi-storey just round the corner. Opening hours on Thursday and Friday are 10am - 8pm, Saturday 10am - 4pm, entrance 50p. As far as the SF goes this year, there's the usual wide-ranging selection, but special mention goes to the several people who appear to have donated their entire collections of Anne McCaffrey, to the extent of a box and a half of her books... Be there or pay full price for your summer reading. |
| Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 | |
| 6:21 pm | 25 Things I Would Do Ahead Of Bothering To Hack Someone Else's LiveJournal Account |
| Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 | |
| 3:13 pm | |
| Monday, February 9th, 2009 | |
| 8:25 am | Dear Tesco techies.... You are a bunch of useless f**king morons who should be taken out and shot for daring to present yourself as fit to work in a technical environment. Your appreciation of the social factors inherent in your system is rudimentary at best and, I fear, entirely bloody missing in the majority of you. Let me explain your shortcomings... When one places a grocery order on your web site -- the site, I remind you, which belongs to the country's largest retailer of such items -- one can generally go back and change that order until 0429 on the day on which it is to be delivered. This means that some of us lowly customers -- such as me -- tend to do a "placeholder" order to hold a specific delivery slot, and then go back and change it later on when we know exactly what we'll need for the forthcoming week. Imagine my surprise and delight, then, when I logged onto your system yesterday evening at 0015 to make some additions to the order that is to be delivered this morning. No, actually, don't bother to imagine my surprise and delight, as those were not two of the emotions present when I read the message saying "system down for upgrades between midnight and 5am; sucks to be you!" (I paraphrase just the tiniest bit). Now, I work in a technical environment, and I appreciate the occasional necessity for system upgrades, system improvements and the like. However, in the world of grown-ups, we tell people when they're going to be so that they can plan around them. Emergencies happen, sure, but emergencies tend not to have pretty pre-prepared graphics about them and they are also not usually at scheduled times. I have seen previous evidence that you are capable of warning people when the change cut-off time for a particular order is not what they would normally expect (around Christmas the time is sometimes 2359 instead of 0429). An email would have been all that it took; just one little email saying "we need to do some upgrades, the system will be down between midnight and 5am on 9th February". You need only have sent it to those people who had an order due for delivery today. Armed with that useful piece of information, I could then have made my necessary changes before midnight, and had a delivery of gasp ACTUAL FOOD. While I appreciate your offer to refund my delivery charge when the delivery has been made, it does not solve my problem, that being that will be arriving at my front door in approximately three hours' time is: and nothing else. My cats will be happy. Sadly, since I feel that a dinner consisting only of those three ingredients might be a little unpalatable to a human, I will instead be going to the Sainsbury's down the road later on and spending my money there. (It is somehow tempting to put together a little box containing samples of the above ingredients and send it, with a knife and fork, to the Tesco technical department. They'd probably think it was some tasty new gourmet food, though.) |