Bad news: Desktop printer is refusing to print and flashing an error code ( Read more... )

Finished work early. Dropped off drycleaning before the closes-ridiculously-early drycleaner closed. No rain today, so was able to bring in lots of washing and put out another lot. Went shopping and bought fresh fruit. Found three jobs on the net today which were in this city, for a better employer, which matched my experience, and paid better than ( Read more... )

That's weird. Either I've gotten slightly skinnier, or the watch I've grumbled about for years as having one band-link fewer than it needs has suddenly decided that it not only fits, but is very slightly loose ( Read more... )

Nostalgia was what led me to Google for a webcomic character I vaguely remembered from many a year ago, and then to see what the artist (who I'd once had a very short email exchange with) was doing these days ( Read more... )

Supanova hit Perth for the first time this weekend, so I wandered along to have a look ( Read more... )

Found a copy of Simon Furman's The Ultimate Guide in a local coffeeshop-slash-bookstore. Who'da thunk?

Freakin' weird. For some completely unknown reason, my right big toe has been freezing cold for the entire day. None of the other toes, or the feet, or anything else. Just that one toe.

OHNOES IT'S TEH LUPUS COLDTOE!!!11!1!!

There's now Centrelink the MusicalThis kind of smacked me across the forehead, as a squiz at the reviews showed it to be almost exactly the same thing that I wrote (and performed, with other staff) more than ten years ago at one of the Christmas parties there ( Read more... )

Heh. I may have accidentally introduced my classically trained singing teacher to the brain-bending genre which is filk, after warming up with a few bars of And The Bass Sings Low and Profoundly.

For values of 'accidentally' including "Let me scribble down a couple of Google phrases and names of filkers: Leslie, Julia, Kathy, Bob, Tom, Seanan..."

An interesting side-effect of the prolonged vacation - my day-of-the-week sense, never terribly strong, is getting weaker. It can take up to a minute of cogitation at times to work out whether it's a Saturday or a Wednesday today ( Read more... )