There we are then. Sorted.

[byslantedlight]

Well, this may be a mistake, based on recent experience, but... hello. *g* It's Sunday. It's wet outside (but not cold), and... *gulps nervously*... *whispers*... I've finished Job Two for the session. Yes, again. (To be fair I accepted a contract for the next bit of Job Two, which will go on until around November, but that generally comes in

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[snailbones]

Whoohooo! You're back, and with two legs and all! Yay! Though I'm being careful not to hoot too loudly, and I'm touching wood too, because, yeah... don't want to push our luck here *g*

Thank you for all the lovely astronomy bits - and wow - nice photo! And OMG the thing with the laser totally freaks me out. Yikes!

[byslantedlight]

Whee for two legs! Definitely appreciate them more when you have them... *g*

I've been a bit hijacked by astronomy again, and amazing futuristic things, and all - partly due to the article about the laser (I mean, what else is possible that I've not been paying attention to?!), partly due to a Doctor Who re-watch as I was collapsing from various works (nice nearly-hour-long fragments of time... *g*) I've even been wondering about changing my lj to some gorgeous, stardust-type layout... (not that I don't still love the lads, but it's been... nearly 8 years now... *g*)

[miwahni]

The FGM restoration surgery sounds amazing. I fervently hope that one day soon there won't be a need for it.

And yay for showers and no more staples! That has to feel good.

Your moon photo is amazing, and those Milky Way photos reminded me of two things - firstly, how much I miss a wide starry sky, and secondly how very small and insignificant we are in this universe.

[byslantedlight]

The FGM restoration story really gave me some faith back in people - even though there are only a few of them doing it and/or paying any attention, even... But it's a start, and everything has to start...

Showers and lack of staples feels fab - although I'm rather Frankenstein-legged right now... Frankenlegged... *g* They cut along the line of my old scar, so I should still only have one, but... yeah, Frankenlegged, I am right now!

Oh, and yeay moon photo! I was so pleased with it... I always thought the Milky Way photos must be manips, but its just that we've gotten so much better at taking photos - they really really are just what we'd see if we could see... I'm not sure about us being small and significant though, it's never felt quite right to me. More... more, we're a part of something that's huge and wonderful... *g* Oh, I want to go out there and see it now! Now, now, now! *g* (Too much Doctor Who just lately, perhaps... *g*)

[miwahni]

More... more, we're a part of something that's huge and wonderful...

I'd never thought of it like that before! That point of view actually gives hope that there is some purpose to our presence here.

[byslantedlight]

We are stardust, and we are butterfly wings! Just as much as anyone else out there is... *g*

[heliophile_oxon]

Wow, what utterly fabulous images - and your own moon shot is a first step (craters! real craters!)

So glad to know you're de-stapled and back to normal mobility, and yay for an actual free weekend. (I'm stressing over helping with Zoic#2's dreaded Personal Statement this weekend .... argh!). Now make sure you stay mobile, all right? *g*

And don't say anything private near windows ... makes me wonder how on earth they could sort out a multi-person conversation, complete with interruptions, and background noise, and body movements (massive computing power, I suppose?)

[byslantedlight]

I'm so chuffed by the craters! *vbg*

I'm also wishing I had bank holiday Monday off now (I could get used to this decadence of thought... *g*) but hey-ho... Good luck with Zoic#2's statement - where's he up to with what he wants to do? I shouldn't have, but I have a feeling I've lost track... Doesn't time fly...

I suppose when I think of the bugs our lads were using in Pros - quite wee little things even then - I shouldn't be surprised that in this day of mobile phones, space elevators and other sorcery, they're bouncing conversations off windows and all, but... I was reading somewhere this morning about future tech, and how some of it goes past so fast... How many people hadn't even worked out how to programme a VCR before they became obsolete? The cinema hadn't been going all that long for my mum and dad, and one of my grandad's was born the century before last! It's just... we're proper whizzing along, aren't we...!

Now they just need to make leg staples that aren't quite so... stapley looking, even when they're gone! *

[heliophile_oxon]

Hey there.

I haven't posted much (um, probably haven't posted at all!) about that so there's no way it could be you losing track, I never seem to get around to leaving a track to follow! *g* He's finished year 12 just about to start year 13, so it's applications time now and it's CUKAS all the way, it seems (no UCAS, I mean. Took me a while to get used to the idea, but I realise now it's absolutely the right way for him to try to go; whether he gets anywhere with it is of course quite another matter!) . And yes, time bloody well does fly, I can hardly believe it. Zoic#1 is about to start her sandwich year, which is year 3 of 4 ... where did the time go

[byslantedlight]

I thought I hadn't seen you around much... but look - here's your track! You're still there! *g*

Year 13 still sounds odd to me (Year 12 was the end for us, doing HSC down under - bloody hours I spent working out how I collided with you lot over here to start uni when I arrived...at the same age. *g*), but wow anyway... And wow - I had to look up CUKAS too, but wow! Go Zoic#2, I hope it works out! How cool does a conservatoires sound?! But what do you mean Zoic#1 is in her sandwich year? You were only just in Cambs. and buying her a thing before she ever went away...!

Don't get me started on the whole women-allowed-to-control-ourselves thing... I mean, even the idea that there's any kind of "allowed to" is just... We fucked up though, didn't we - or I know I did. Eye off the ball, thinking it was the 2000s, so of course it was better... And the environment. My HSC (A-levels) English year was 1984, and our theme was - of course - "confronting the future". I've still got the books somewhere, though probably not the notes

[mab_browne]

Walking and driving are good things, yes indeed. Good luck for the ongoing recovery. :-)

[byslantedlight]

Thank you! They really are good things - and showers, showers are reeeeally good things... *g*

Hope your shakey land has quieted down for you too - I'm guessing so, since NZ seems to have been quiet on my flist lately... (I think I'm coming down south again over Christmas, and I'm eyeing NZ sideways again too... I liked it, the other year... *g*)

[mab_browne]

Well, my bit has been at the far end of the exciting stuff, but my MIL lost two treasured dishes when another heavy item fell on them. Better than poor old Seddon and Ward though, which were closest but are little titchy towns so 'don't count'. :-(

Still, I don't think that you should let a bit of the wobblies stop you from enjoying the glories that are Nyu Zillund. :-)

[byslantedlight]

Ah, the wobblies wouldn't keep me away - unless they had to close the airports.... I had wobblies in Alaska. In my very first one I was sitting at a table by a window with my friend, and we saw the ground moving like a wave towards us before we felt it - saw it... I still can't quite believe it. Amazing it was... but luckily only a relatively little wobbly. My biggest was something like 8.2, but luckily a fair old way away... from anyone. I was on the phone to a friend at the time, and after it'd gone on a few minutes, and got worse not less, we both decided that actually we should hang up and go and find a sturdy doorway or summat... it'd stopped by the time I got down, though! Still felt impressive, even 100 miles or so away from the epicentre. The aftershocks went on for days, too...

And of course there's Nyu Zillund (*spoken in accent of one who is trying* *g*) coffee as one of the glories to balance against a bit of jigging around.... nearly as good as Aus coffee... *vbg*

[minori_k]

Yay! It's nice to hear you're getting better and better! Taking a bath with one-leg sounds horrible though... Hope your leg will fully recover!

And your photo looks great! You captured the moon well! I've actually seen the Milky Way once by my own eyes before in the country side, couldn't take a photo of it because I didn't have a good camera. But it was an amazing experience!

[byslantedlight]

Thank you - I hope my leg will fully recover too! It could have been worse - trying to take a bath with only one arm, for instance... Actually I've broken both arms before, but I can't remember at all how I managed... Perhaps they were easier to put a plastic bag over, though! *g*

I grew up with the Milky Way in Australia - I rather miss seeing it, and the coalsack across it... I've seen it here in the UK too (from the garden here at home, even) but it's soooo much paler, and harder to see. Too much light pollution! You need special equipment to take a picture of it, otherwise you'll end up with a startrail picture (which I also love, but differently!). One day I'll do it, though! *g*