(and her five daughters? as a certain lady said to me the other night)

For those others who expressed their interest, we'll be eating at Tulsi (Cuba St.) at 6.00pm.

Whitcoulls currently has the first three series of BattleStar Galactica, plus the mini-series, selling at $89.00. I only have the first series in hard-copy which alone cost me about $50. Very tempting! Should I do it? Tell me, please!

So there's another NiN album out, Halo 27 - The Slip, again available free. Get it now!

This article on food ( Read more... )

Estimates are boring and inherently a waste of time. One day they'll realise, if they let us just go ahead and do it, it will always take about five or six weeks, regardless of what it is.

My phone was feeling humorous this morning, after starting off with Shakespeare's Sister and Stay, it followed up with Steve Conte's Wolfs Rain theme-song, ( Read more... )

This is my first LJ post from my new Athlon 5600+-based system with a 22" monitor. Things went well yesterday afternoon, other than plugging the speakers into the wrong socket, and gettng terrible interference. It's great for playing anime lik GiTS on! And for Half Life 2But things fell apart today when I got an MBR and boot record virus because ( Read more... )

I'm in the Manchester Airport Raddisson. Like most of the good hotels I've been in over here it's got free wi-fi. You can also get a cable connection if your laptop is so old it doesn't have wifi, but to do that you have to go sit in the lobby ( Read more... )

It may be Friday morning back home, but it's Thursday night here so seeing as I haven't had an actual dinner meal since G left last Thursday, I thought I'd be with TNC in spirit, and went had my normal murgh tikka masala at The Saffron Club. It has to be the least Indian Indian restaurant I've eaten at, with sparkly colour-changing lights and music ( Read more... )

In a month I will be preparing to return. Though this is a nice apartment and life is good, I'll be pleased to get back. Today it was sunny but really cold. For the first time I actually wore a thick top. This weekend will be a lazy one, some shopping and buying of tickets for next weekend ( Read more... )

Laurel gives you ten. Laurel also tells me why I like spicy food :
University of New York at Buffalo scientists found that capsaicin (hot-factor in chilis) triggers the pain receptors in your mouth,causing your brain to release endorphins and improve your mood.

I've got out of the habit of updating. Perhaps because these days there's very little happening in my life that's worth updating about that doesn't get mentioned already by seraphs_folly, so it seems like I'd just be repeating stuff ( Read more... )

To alleviate the fears of those who worry about my diet (thanks for caring, BTW), this evening I actually made myself a pasta dish

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