Spent the day at the cricket, which anyone who follows me on Twitter could tell you as I was rather more spammy that I tend to be. Oh, New Zealand. Not even Vettori could save us. I was talking about meeting a friend, but in the end went by myself, which was okay, had a couple of beers, sat in the sun, read a book and happily had wi-fi. I can now ( Read more... )

Cannot say I achieved a lot over the long weekend. I watched Body of Lies with a friend (not bad but Ridley, you've done better), caught up briefly with china_shop and watched a lot of Outrageous Fortune (which I also have to thank China for :p). I am quite addicted. I don't quite know how many eps I watched yesterday but I think it was over ten. *sheepish ( Read more... )

I don't feel like I've stopped all weekend. In fact, I kinda feel like I need another day off to recover.

First off, work on Saturday, which went fine right up to the point where it really, really didn't but that was followed by book purchases (Black Powder War!) and my very first fangirl dinner with shihadchick, blue_raven, china_shop and arysteia which was awesome. There was talk of ( Read more... )

To be honest, quite drunk. Had pleasant after-work drinks followed by pretty awesome curry with work friend. Mmm, Prawn Masala. So good. I really love beer ( Read more... )

So, it was Armageddon time again (Wellington's answer to a sci-fi con, but mostly a way to separate geeks from their money) and I spent about five hours there today with my 14 year old cousin, which was really cool. We don't hang out that much, but it was really cool to spend the day with her and she held up under my geeky ramblings very well. ;)

( Armageddon 2007: Brian K Vaughan, Aaron Douglas, Don S Davis and other geekery )

So, I may have spent all day at Armageddon. *sheepish look* However, it was well, well worth it.

( X3, Serenity, Jewel Staite, Claudia Christian, Phil Jiminez and All Manner of Geekery )