Michelle and I are recovering from a serious bout of that intestinal malady which are notorious on cruise ships. We got it from a friend of ours we visited on the weekend. She was recovering from it, and we caught it. We both woke up with a chunder on Tuesday and spent most of the day in bed. It made me feel like I had been thoroughly beaten all ( Read more... )

Christmas day was a nightmare, as always. I don't think I can imagine a Christmas which isn't. The best moment by far was on Christmas eve. I was alone in the house, when a couple of Jehova's Witnesses knocked at the door! How sweet - fresh meat! ( Read more... )

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On Friday we saw the film Kill Your Idols, the documentary on No Wave bands in New York, at the Mu Meson archives. Aspa was busy out the back. She has been working at Reverse Garbage a lot recently, and they had given her a special commission. She had to make nearly 200 bags out of old advertising banners from the Opera House. The labels for the ( Read more... )

Time moves on, and we all get older. Or at least, every one else gets older, but I enjoy good health year after year and don't seem to age as fast as other people ( Read more... )

Here's a secret - Michelle and I have been on a diet for the past few weeks. It's the Tony Ferguson diet. It's your regular no-carb calorie control diet. Pretty easy to follow, the rules are simple. Very low carbs, meaning for the first 3 weeks no carbs at all, nothing from grain like bread or pasta. After that, there are strictly controlled ( Read more... )

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Today's amusement courtesy of the AACR2 rules:

22.14. SPIRITSPurported communications from spirits are entered under the name of the spirit (see 21.26). If the spirit is supposed to have been a real person, follow AACR2 rules and establish the name of that person (if not already in the authority file). Add the word (Spirit) in subfield ‡c to the ( Read more... )

I was talking with some friends recently about the large number of brothels in the area. In Sydney brothels tend to advertise their existence by putting up their street number in large red neon on the front of the building. They usually also have the front windows of the building obscured in some way, and there are other signs ( Read more... )

Bah, spring! I hates it. But, it does make plants grow, and that means it's time once again to kill some seeds.

Each year I buy a few seeds from these guys and kill them by planting them in little pots of seed raising mixture and then watering them and then forgetting them until they dry up and die. Actually I usually get them started okay, but ( Read more... )