I took ferrouswheel along to the Destination:Earth premier at Indigo City last night, as I had to drop him into the airport afterwards. This confused a few people who either didn't realize, or had forgotten, that I had an older son than panda_pitt. So he got to experience both the waiting for confirmation that the cut had been delivered on time, and the first screening ( Read more... )

I got to seepanda_pitt's crew do Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, or What You Will last night. I feel quite blessed to have been able to go as it was very much one of the better Shakespeare performances I have seen, as it was (and is) booked out, with significant waiting lists each night. Deservedly so.

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I've been away from home for nearly a week, since last Monday evening.

( Christchurch )

I'm about three quarters through Bloody Bones, an Anita Blake novel by Laurel K. Hamilton.

I got five of these books for a dollar each at Armageddon, and as a dollar read this one is certainly worth it.

It was quite a jolt moving from flowery prose of Daylight to this more down-to-earth sort of book. What immediately annoyed me though was the ( Read more... )

Well, I'd really like to do the paranoia meme like xenogram and evie_fae. But I don't think I can get away with it!

First let me pass on (from taniwha_nz) this link to Downhill Battle, a site dedicated to activism against DRM technology and the RIAA and their stooges. Contains a lot about what youcan do to fight the music inductsry and get money back to the artists you ( Read more... )

So after spending an hour and a half drinking the company's booze in the board room with our new graduate trainees, I moseyed on down to Katipo.

I arrived just in time to say hello and goodbye to stephanie_pegg, sorry luv, didn't expect anyone to arrive at five just to say hello, but thanks for coming!

Then I joined the regulars for food, beer and chat. bekitty & ( Read more... )

Watched From Hell last night on TV ( Read more... )

( Mmmmmmm )