I have been successful in my caffeination experiments ( Read more... )

Well here we are, and Taipei is very foggy and rainy. It's tipped to rain all week, in fact. The lush green hills around the city look like traditional Chinese ink paintings ( Read more... )

*cracks knuckles*

As recommended by the lovely murg, I have gone shopping on eBay. And have bought a nice stack of shirts - thank goodness for a strong exchange rate and combined shipping! - all the way from LA ( Read more... )

Am haunting eBay again, with the flimsy justification that the local exchange rate is very good for Paypal right now - 94.1 cents! Eee! - so I can afford to throw out old and despised Tshirts for new, nicer ones ( Read more... )

Happiness is waking up sore, and being brought a Bloody Mary* in bed by a lovely man with a gorgeous grin and a huge
...stalk of celery.

Mm, Tabasco..

*Okay, so it was sans vodka so was technically a Virgin Mary, but that didn't quite have the same ring to it.:P

A quick break from the microscope, to let my eyes cool and get a little less sizzly around the edges.

Had a relatively fun day today, starting with removing a very snuggly, affectionate fluffypurrypuss from my left armpit, so I could shower. So that I could go and have lunch and meanderings with mandragora2003 and her friend E. Lunch was noodles at Nao-san's, ( Read more... )

I've been so busy getting things together and organised that I (shock, horror) have neglected to post ( Read more... )

I finally got to have a quick look at Bioshock, just to see what all the kerfuffle is about.

My, it's a really pretty game. Hey, henchwench, you'll love the pervasive Deco feel of it all; very OldTech and atmospheric. That is, dodgy science aside - I've been finding this suspension of disbelief thing harder and harder to do lately.:P ( Read more... )

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Shit series of shifts, due to a combination of new-staff-not-yet-trained-up-enough-to-help-with-workload, people off sick and machine hiccups.

Bad news and possibility of worse news for someone very dear to me has me fretting too.

Shinyboots arrived and unfortunately will require a hell of a lot of resuscitation. Lucky for me that 1) I only paid ( Read more... )