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So, all over the Translink system, there are these little signs - they popped up right before the Olympics and are still hanging around. They say “The world’s best pickpockets work here ( Read more... )

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That is, of the five things I wanted to actually get done today, I got two of them finished. And one of them was a genuine work-thing! So that's good.

I also did productive sewing-things. I did get the Random Sundress done last night.

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Went to the Gastown button shop (which is more or less the cutest button shop ever) and acquired buttons for the sundress I started a week or so ago from a discarded unfinished skirt and the bits left over. I have been calling it the Random Sundress in my head, since I more or less pinned the skirt to Mum's dressform and then sort of pinned bits ( Read more... )

Hey, kids! Drive-by reminder that Sweet Charity bidding has started. There are dozens upon dozens of clever and talented people selling themselves for excellent causes, and you should absolutely give up your money for them. I'm also up for sale - a McShep fic, a Team!fic, and a pair of socks are on offer, so you should go and check that out. :)


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Today I brought my bike home from the doctor (Took four hours and fifty bucks to replace the front innertube and both tires, another sixty to buy night-necessary flashies required by the City of Vancouver - Very Very Bright LED because of my paranoia of instant vehicular death - for the front and back. There were cheaper ones, but not by much, and ( Read more... )

1. Still a year older than I was last week. Keep forgetting my proper age.
2. Filled up my desktop RAM to capacity to 4gb, rebooted and I think Poddy made a happy little sighing noise. Might have been imagining it.
3. Installed Adobe CS4 Master's Collection. Not sure, but think I am having a religious experience. (So. Pretty.)
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Have just ripped out this for the third time, about fifty rows in. Not sure if I just keep screwing up or if there's a mistake in the pattern - I just keep getting to a certain point in the pattern, everything looking good, all look, pretty leaves! and then wtf, I have extra stitches at the end of the row, and hang on, I didn't last row ( Read more... )

-Ants in the Christmas tree. Mum's, not mine. Which was funny, as while watching a movie veryverylate the night before last, hunched over my laptop with my back to the fireplace because the house was bloody cold, I thought I saw one crawl across my slipper. However, as it was 1:30 in the morning, I'd decided it was a hallucinatory ant after I'd ( Read more... )