I learned today that Kassie/

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Feel I should explain my increasing internet absence and general crapness as a correspondent.

My general condition for the last year and half is that I took a redundancy and am writing full time, which means all my writing energy is taken up in for-RL-publication activity and it's hard to summon any more words to be sociable online at the end of ( Read more... )

I just wrote 98% of a long post about my travels, which dreamwidth ate in the transition between the rich text and html tabs. When I attempted to reload the autosave, it was a blank page. After all, it's 2002 so obviously that sort of thing is totally normal in web apps ( Read more... )

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Bushfires - 126 now dead. Donate here to Red Cross bushfires appeal.

NB I was having technical trouble with their website earlier. There are direct debit/in-person donation details here. The excellent karenhealey was passing on donations via paypal for those with credit card probs at last count - although please ask her first; she may be a bit inundated ( Read more... )

Update on bathroom mayhemI just went to the toilet in there. After first removing concrete rocks the size of dice from the seat, and wiping it down ( Read more... )

OMG YOU GUYS so, like, tradespeople in the bathroom upstairs woke me up at 8.30 this morning nailing and drilling in the ceiling. And I was like, WTF RAGE. And then the dude came to the door to say, okay, sorry, now we are going to jackhammer; it will be about 1 hour ( Read more... )

Argh, my intarmesh has long outages at the moment - eg, all night last night. I have gotten as far with tech support that we think there's probably as issue with the phone line itself. But every time I call them back, the person I talk to doesn't trust me to bring him/her up to speed on what the previous technicians did, so it takes 3+ hours of ( Read more... )

I take it back about the I-like-to-wash-lollies-to-make-them-cleeeeean person. Because they may have washed their lollies good and proper, but at least they didn't take my keys after I LEFT THEM IN THE SCREEN DOOR ALL DAY ( Read more... )

If there were ever a proof that communism will never work, it is the way people treat communal laundry rooms ( Read more... )