You know you're drunk when you have to check you spelt your surname correctly in your email address. I'm just sayin'.

Also: Bushmills and Laophroig whiskey - fucking epic.

I have been in Christchurch since Tuesday; thesane gets married on Saturday. maudlinrose came down on Wednesday and she and I are minions. It's good to be here.

As a minion, my primary job has been handsewing assorted things for thesane while she does other trickier pieces of sewing, such as our bridesmaid dresses. She got me to do some of the crystal beading on the ( Read more... )

thesane and her fiancee are visiting us for the weekend, so it the improvement in weather was just in time for lots of walking around the city, although thesane may have preferred rain, as there is not proper rain in Christchurch. After a relaxing morning and sleeping in, we ventured out to shop. Well, look at things anyway. Bello, the men's shoe store, the ( Read more... )

After the disaster that was Thursday, Friday turned out quite well. Had lunch with a friend (sushi and edamame - does anyone know where I can buy fresh soy beans in Wellington other than a sushi restauarant?), and then a fandom dinner at Istanbul with maudlinrose, tamarillow, deepbluemermaid and a bunch of fandom people who we met as fellow fandom people for the first time: astolat, china_shop, aworldinside, morebliss ( Read more... )

From Alessan, who got it from straightdope:

Within the last half-century, we've gone from even relatively small computers filling rooms and requiring special power supplies to computers of much greater speed and power being etched into a flake of silicon that could reside comfortably on the top of your thumb ( Read more... )

Have had an awesome weekend so far: Confusion yesterday was lots of fun and even though I was late, I still got to play first round. Why do I always forget there's no such thing as an 8.30am Mairangi on a Saturday morning? I think I was slightly hungover yesterday morning and ended up spending most of the day on a caffeine high, compounding it ( Read more... )

Annabelle the new computer is proving to be a great distraction - more specifically Heroes of Might and Magic V, which I'm sorta addicted to, only I've started dying more easily so the addiction will probably wane over the next week or so, unless I manage to succeed. Still, I completed the first set of missions and have just started the second ( Read more... )

After a busy weekend, I am experimenting with embroidery stitches. I have borrowed tamarillow's A-Z of embroidery stitches and I have a scrap piece of linen, which I suppose, technically, is a sampler and am trying out a few stitches before I start bl9_knt and purplesparkler's wedding present. I'll get the linen for that next week.

We had tamarillow's mum and brother up for a ( Read more... )

The cats got their first visit to the vet today. I'd tired them out previously by sitting outside in the sun on the kitchen chair watching them race around outside, so when the three of us went inside again, they settled down very easily and which made it a lot easier to put them in the catboxes ( Read more... )

I am drunk and am seriously thinking about writing a small (ten - fifteen people) LARP based off the Amber Chronicles with one of the people I wrote Once Upon A Time with ( Read more... )