This week: I won a prize! We have a bi-monthly (as in, once every two months) all-department Zoom meeting, about sixty people. Since we have been working from home, as a morale-boosting thing, our great-grand-boss created the Wheel of Joy as a way to end the meeting. The Wheel of Joy is an animated roulette wheel (on a PowerPoint) that gives out ( Read more... )

Sundry catch-ups

1. January books read

A light reading month. It was a long book and I was busy doing other stuff.

* Reynard the Fox - Anne Louise Avery (2020) ★ ★ ★ ★ 
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Three more days of work this week, and I have to go to the office on all three of them. I'll have to dress nicely! I'll have to think of what to have for lunch! I'll have to talk to people in person! How will I cope ( Read more... )

I'm doing a weekly update, not a daily one, and I still have no news. All I did this week was work - my job and filling in for one colleague still on leave - then flake out on the sofa. Towards the end of the week I forced myself to actually do something, so I made a cake ( Read more... )

What better way to start the weekend than contemplating the pandemic?

1. Where do you get most of your pandemic-related news?
Probably on the ABC (Australia's national broadcaster) website, or via the daily newsletters from The Conversation and Crikey, which often link to sources elsewhere.

2. How do you feel about your local government’s ( Read more... )

Some festive season questions going around today. A bit early.

1. Have you started decorating for holidays yet or are you going to skip it this year?Neither. We will put up decorations, but not for ages. Not in November. An Advent calendar (Body Shop this year) at the start of December. We have a real tree, a small one in a pot, which lives ( Read more... )

Making a daily entry easy on myself by doing another question meme. Primary school memories this time.

What was your favorite piece of playground equipment when you were a kid?
I don't think I had a favourite. Swings?

What do you remember about your first-grade teacher? Pick the earliest grade teacher you remember, if you don’t remember anything ( Read more... )

I have spent all day on Zoom meetings. Not much to write about there, so here's a question meme about cakes.

What’s your favorite cake?When I was little, my mother had a recipe book bought as a fundraiser for something or other. Recipes from the hospital auxiliary or some such. That had a simple chocolate cake in it that we made so often that the ( Read more... )

A meme (feel free to ask if you'd like to play too):

Reply here and I'll give you 3 subjects I don't think you know or care much about. Then you talk about those subjects in your journal. It's interesting to see who knows what about what.

emma2403 gave me:

1) FashionFair call that I don't know or care much about fashion. My fashion sense could be ( Read more... )

Hello, f-list. I am unemployed! For two days. I finished work on Friday and I will start the new job on Monday. I've never done that before. I've always had at least a couple of weeks between jobs. I hope I remember to go to the right place. It's just across the road from where I've just finished, so that's not entirely out of the question. I must ( Read more... )