So Connotations ended two weeks ago, but I spent the next two weeks in a hotel with no internet access! Actually the longest stretch I've ever been without internet for a decade, I think!

The Fandom Pimping Session has worked its devilish charm on me. fides put duct tape over her mouth and promised that the boys of a German soap opera whose name I can' ( Read more... )

"At least eight people have been killed in explosions in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, marring celebrations to mark 50 years since independence from the UK."I pass the residence of the Nigerian ambassador on my way home from work every day. Today, I saw something which wrung my heart a little: two big blobby silver helium balloons tied to the gate ( Read more... )

Oh, since I scandalously did not update through all of the UK election campaign, I must show you: I got this as a surprise slashy present recently!

http://www.coalitionmug.com/

It's time to update my profile on LibraryThing, which begins ( Read more... )

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Hi all.
Still alive.
Miss you a lot, and wish you a happy and prosperous new decade.

Poll Counting on from the thumb

http://eleveninches.livejournal.com/377436.html?thread=8292444#t8292444
Preliminary polling suggests that the Yanks were not laughing at me. A relief! Yes, marksykins, something like http://bit.ly/5fAre. Though Hillary ( Read more... )

"'I suppose you wanted to make an entrance, did you?' Snape continued. 'And with no flying car available you decided that bursting into the Great Hall halfway through the feast ought to create a dramatic effect.'

Still Harry remained silent, though he thought his chest might explode."

-Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, p.154 ( Read more... )

Wikipedia: divot: the chunk of grass (either fairway or rough) displaced when club is swung. The indentation on the green caused by the ball on an approach shot is called a pitch mark or ball mark, not a divot.When I was out of my head on morphine on Monday afternoon, my surgeon came by and said the dreadful words "You'll have to stay in the sling ( Read more... )

Tomorrow: Lasair goes on a well-deserved holiday to the Baltics ( Read more... )