Look what happens when I have two days off work... honestly! Let's catch up with Thursday and Friday's happy-making things.

Thursday
At one end of the day, another breakfast outside, under the sound of songbirds, and my landlords colourful flower bed.
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Loving this vid right now (though it's from way back in 2011!) Vid by Charmax, original music by Eliza McCarthy and Imagined Village.

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Back to the ordinary Virtual Office... I had a cunning plan for yesterday's virtual office, which was to take the day off Job 1 and dedicate it instead to Writing Virtual Office! This was slightly scuppered by going to bed at 2am the night before, so that I started even later, and then having many other niggling tasks that niggled at me to get done ( Read more... )

I ran out because there was a really low plane passing by a little while ago - really low - and, you know, I like interesting things, and as I looked up, a shooting star flashed across the corner of my eye and I remembered that it was Perseids night. It wasn't very dark yet, but there were a scattering of stars, and I thought oooh - and then was ( Read more... )

...cos look how pretty it was outside at twenty to ten tonight... *g*
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Morning - happy eclipse, everyone who was under it! This was going to be an entirely different post, about how it was cloudy, and my camera was broken, and I'd not sorted out glasses or even an old Pringles container... and then just as I was about to put out my porridge, there was a shout from the yard "Come and see this!" and I thought oooh - ( Read more... )

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Today's NASA apod (definitely worth looking at full-screen).

And here's Erik Wernquist who put it together...

It makes me want to re-read The Cook and the Warehouseman, and Echo, and all the other Pros science fiction stories, and get started on the Science Fiction reading challenge (which I'm not doing until January, despite the fact that I ( Read more... )

I love the NASA APoD picture for today
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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 ( Read more... )