We hit Sizzlers for dinner and were not poisoned, and were not poisoned most deliciously. Two-for-one until Thursday on the salad bar meals, folks.

Accidental happiness is grabbing random albums from the shelf for night-time round trip to jelashke's house and finding an MP3 CD of favourite driving tracks left inside one.

Yawn.

There are apparently no movies out at the moment, so jelashke, jellico and I went book shopping instead. I picked up Batman: Year One and The Long Halloween, which I've appended to my running table of stuff I liek. Also on this list is Nandos, which apparently provides essential nutrients for some unique internal organ. A third spleen maybe. It had been a ( Read more... )

As the birthdays of macross and leo inched closer, iainrobertson and jelashke had organised a trip to the Ashmore Rd steakhouse. This place is infamous in our small circle of starving third-world initiates as serving portions beyond the appetite of mortal men and most immortal women. There was a roadhouse opening to the teamster episode of The Simpsons that hides more ( Read more... )

Since alice had been unable to display /Network since I wiped and pushed Tiger onto it, I spent a bit of time yesterday morning blowing away preference files until I found the right source of woe. The theory is that a file gets a little corrupted and served configd.mDNSresponder a bad host name, after that point the Bonjour service discovery stuff ( Read more... )

I have eaten banana bread, written a sea shanty and breathed doxygen.

And yet, I am only a middle-sized star.

It's been a year, but I finally caught up with misatokitty. Happy birthday, mate! I'm glad you finally met jelashkeWe all took turns exchanging tazers for dinners at the Elephant and the Wheelbarrow, a pub in the Valley opposite Chinatown. Now, unfortunately, I'm reminded of how much I like garlic mash. I guess I'll have to find some way to get at it again ( Read more... )

FED

Many days later, I can pick up the pen.

In the meantime, we've been reasonably busy. Finally we got round to refreshing asciian's and subtlenasha's icons on Sunday morning (our caches were expiring) over Pancaex at the Manor. We had the usual crepes, waffles, pancakes and an hour to drool helplessly, while the staff appeared to suffer small, hilarious accidents. I ( Read more... )

I get to the bottom of my tea and there is an eyeball bleeding at me, the deliciously sweet brew suffused with the bloody palp of a torn and mutilated hunk of gore, and I am startled.

I almost forget to remember that this is what happens when you put Jaffas into hot drinks.

After the surprise party of surprisedness¹ on Saturday, the Advanced Driver Training course took most of the Sunday, so we barely had time after to wish the diesel off of the cars afterwards and get the smell of burning rubber out of the cars. We brought both the little red car and the Nissan Patrol along so that I could practice both ways. I ( Read more... )