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I've had an absolutely delightful week. The Acquisitions christmas lunch went rather smoothly despite some emergencies the restaurant was suffering, and I think everyone very much enjoyed the food. Half of us had gone there the night before for happy hour drinks... in fact I went there the next night for drinks too. The Manager must think I'm going to move in soon.
I met sweet_minstrel and jchakotay there for drinks and to see each other for Christmas before I jumped a plane home, then we wandered around the CBD just looking at stuff. It was a very nice evening, considering 4 hours earlier the sky was black and dumping curtains of rain and threatening to hail.
Next day I was on a plane. The baggage chuckers didn't manage to break any of the glass presents in my check-in luggage, and the flight ran on time and I had an empty seat next to me on one side and the ilse on the other so I was most comfortable. I read half of Neil Gaiman's latest book for kids, Interworld. Finished it this morning. I really liked a lot of the ideas in it and many of the lines were very clever. For something that was first visualised as a serial TV cartoon for kids, it works quite well as a book. It does have a real "first episode" feel to it, though. They could easily turn it into a series.
Had drinks at my Grandfather's that evening, followed by a very humid and lazy day yesterday. I just about died... or melted as the case may be. I kept begging for airconditioning, but was not allowed to turn it on until the house filled up with 20 people for dinner. My Uncle was up from Sydney just for overnight, so the family had to put something on for him. One of our BBQs that we do so often they work seamlessly like clockwork.
Today I might cruise the vineyards with aspectsofathos, or I might go for a drink with my sista in Newy.
2 sleeps til christmas!
I met sweet_minstrel and jchakotay there for drinks and to see each other for Christmas before I jumped a plane home, then we wandered around the CBD just looking at stuff. It was a very nice evening, considering 4 hours earlier the sky was black and dumping curtains of rain and threatening to hail.
Next day I was on a plane. The baggage chuckers didn't manage to break any of the glass presents in my check-in luggage, and the flight ran on time and I had an empty seat next to me on one side and the ilse on the other so I was most comfortable. I read half of Neil Gaiman's latest book for kids, Interworld. Finished it this morning. I really liked a lot of the ideas in it and many of the lines were very clever. For something that was first visualised as a serial TV cartoon for kids, it works quite well as a book. It does have a real "first episode" feel to it, though. They could easily turn it into a series.
Had drinks at my Grandfather's that evening, followed by a very humid and lazy day yesterday. I just about died... or melted as the case may be. I kept begging for airconditioning, but was not allowed to turn it on until the house filled up with 20 people for dinner. My Uncle was up from Sydney just for overnight, so the family had to put something on for him. One of our BBQs that we do so often they work seamlessly like clockwork.
Today I might cruise the vineyards with aspectsofathos, or I might go for a drink with my sista in Newy.
2 sleeps til christmas!