Gods, I love the OED

nippy sweetie, n. - A drink of spirits, esp. of whisky; whisky.’
Pronunciation: Brit. /ˌnɪpi ˈswiːti/, U.S. /ˌnɪpi ˈswidi/, Sc. /ˌnɪpi ˈswiti/
Forms:  19- nippie sweetie,   19- nippy sweetie.
Etymology: < nippy adj. + sweetie n. In sense 1 perhaps after nip n.4
It would seem likely that the word was first used in sense 3, ( Read more... )

Fair warning - this is a HUGELY photo intensive post - this was probably the prettiest day of a gorgeous vacation, so I just could not help myself. Enjoy! Considering the disappointment I had had with the museums the day before, I blew off the Akureyri museum in favor of having an outdoor day. In preparation, I picked up a tasty breakfast - ( Read more... )

Sunday morning, bright and early, I went down to the car rental place and both got the car insured with pretty much every insurance option offered and got switched into the most wee little Volkswagon you have ever seen, all under the supervision of a much more competent car rental dude. Yay!

( Frustrations, disappointments, and a drive a quarter of the way around the country )

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." ~JRR Tolkien

Quest was an amazing event as usual. It's all the way on the other edge of the Kingdom, but the 13-14 hour drive is entirely worth it. I drove out with gflower and we chattered nearly non-stop for the whole ride. You really need to like someone to spend that kind of quality time and still be sort of sad to see them go...

This year I finally got into the ( Read more... )

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So, the day after WW, I had a very eventful and mostly good day.

It started with going into work to face my GIANT pile of work and emails, but happily, one of those emails was from the Feds, telling me that my 2012 Formulary had finally passed the approval process and had conditional approval. Of course, that was immediately followed by a message ( Read more... )

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I think I need an "insane travel" icon. I've been to Schattentor twice and Fargo twice in the last five weeks. Ooof.

( Quest was amazing... )

So, the day until 5PM sucked truly epic amounts. Work was unreal - hundreds of emails piled up - some of which had been dealt with by my minion, but many others she could not or would not deal with. There was one major nastygram from the Feds, which does not seem to be based on reality, so I still need to figure that out. On the other hand, the ( Read more... )