| Life is good! |
[Dec. 2nd, 2009|01:10 pm] |
(Life also may or may not be goo, as I originally typed.)
Life is good, seriously lovely and warm. Life is good.
Poll #1493355 Life is good poll.
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 19Life is good? My life is good because... Yay! |
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[Dec. 2nd, 2009|12:50 pm] |
( Boring SCBU considerations for my grandson. )
The upshot is that Reo can technically come home once the nurses are happy that he's feeding well enough to remove his tube completely (it's still there as a fail-safe measure). This may well be very shortly.
Archie is utterly lovely and is fitting in very well, following his humans around, getting underfoot, commandeering laps and other body parts, purring almost constantly and crying at the doors when we have the audacity to shut him out in order to get a bit of peace and quiet.
This evening, I'm off with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ev1ldonut, jinx_lbc, azekeil and Jordan to eat a Christmas meal with Dad and Des. The thing that shocked my mother the most was the fact that Des was the person to suggest this, and Dad was the one to organise it. He gave a selection of dates for us to choose from, emailed a menu to me, took care of the booking side of things... I'm still not sure who that man is or what he's done with my real father. ;) |
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| How strange |
[Dec. 1st, 2009|11:22 pm] |
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Last month I went to Borders, in Cambridge town centre, and bought a pile of paperbacks. This evening I was sitting on my sofa reading one of them; I turned a page and found a receipt stuck between the pages. A receipt for the book I was holding – from WH Smith, in Cambridge town centre, dated February of this year. What happened there then? Best explanation I can think of is that somebody bought it from Smiths and then managed to leave it behind somewhere in Borders – perhaps in the café – and when the Borders staff came to clear up they saw a pristine paperback, assumed it was part of their stock, and shelved it. How strange. I wonder if I ought to notify somebody. |
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| Picture of the day - Boarderless |
[Dec. 1st, 2009|07:48 pm] |
( End of an Era ) |
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| Anyone seeking an Oracle job in London? |
[Dec. 1st, 2009|07:18 pm] |
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If anyone out there is looking for an Oracle job, DBA and some related systems admin, and data mangling and so on, leave a comment. It's a permanent position in London with several available at several levels of seniority.
(It's not where I work) |
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| Ha ha ha meow |
[Dec. 1st, 2009|05:15 pm] |
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You know the Internet has taken over your brain when you find yourself typoing ‘relolcation’. Or ‘allolcation’. |
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| Getcha exercise here! |
[Dec. 1st, 2009|11:22 am] |
Remember the Revolutionary Cycling Cinema? And the Cambridge stage with instruments and PA powered by the audience?
More peoplepedalpower.
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[Dec. 1st, 2009|08:29 am] |
From booklectic, This made me giggle.
I actually don't think her skirt was that bad, but it's still a pretty cool stunt! |
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| Flashforward 8-10 (spoilers) |
[Nov. 30th, 2009|10:02 pm] |
( Spoilers ) |
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| Video |
[Nov. 30th, 2009|04:40 pm] |
Today, I appear to be grumpy and crampy and frustrated and just generally annoyed. It's probably mainly for hormonal reasons that I feel taken for granted and disappointed and a whole load of other negative stuff. Bearing this in mind, I am attempting to ignore how I feel, mostly because of the fact that I cannot name a single source for this ill-feeling as it appears to be firing off in too many directions to count.
( So, have a cute baby: )
I shall now proceed to view this post concertedly until my grump goes away. |
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| Living under a waterfall |
[Nov. 30th, 2009|04:15 pm] |
A waterfall is thundering off the terrace roof. I'd take a photo, but that would mean going out there...
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| Cambridge Physiotherapist |
[Nov. 30th, 2009|03:11 pm] |
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I'm having ongoing problems with very stiff shoulders and resulting RSI. Can anyone recommend a physiotherapist in central Cambridge? |
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| Virgin on the ridiculous |
[Nov. 30th, 2009|01:13 am] |
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http://shortcipher.insanejournal.com/85807.html
So, I'm on Sky Broadband, because it's cheap, and has been adequate so far. Unfortunately they've now set the monthly cap for the cheap package at 10GB, which is not adequate, and they're going to enforce it (by bumping people up to the Unlimited package). Paying for "up to 20Mbit" ADSL, when BT says our line can only do 6Mbit, would be silly. So. The only non-ADSL option: Virgin Media, formerly NTL. How bad is it in north Cambridge? I used to hear a lot of complaints; now, not so much. Did it improve or did you all just get used to it?
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| Happy Tartan and/or Shortbread Day |
[Nov. 30th, 2009|12:58 pm] |
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It hasn't escaped me that today is St Andrew's Day. I shall therefore be annoying my Sassenach boyfriend by bombarding the house with Saltire stickers, and spending about an hour cooking up a haggis brought from home, with either clootie dumpling or cranachan for dessert. Ask me about these tasty delights sometime, they're great if, well, unhealthy.
While you all crack open your whisky and toast the more refined Northern neighbours of yours, I think we should spare a thought for the People's Republic of Alex Salmond and his fishy comrade Nicola Sturgeon, in these trying times for the Nats. So, it was heartening to see their offering for the 2010 party political broadcast at the weekend, replete as it is with rousing generic Scottish music, harmonious scenes from around the country and a man shouting FREEEEDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM SCOOOOOOOOOOOTLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND. Now, where did they get the inspiration for that....
...Oh. Well, I guess McGlashan is as good a representation of how we barbarians feel about you than any. Roll on independence, or something :P |
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| Sunshine |
[Nov. 30th, 2009|12:32 am] |
Review: Not so bad it's funny, but not so good I'd recommend it other than a decent portrayal of hard1 sci-fi and the sun as an antagonist.
1 Well... kinda... ish. Look, just ignore the things which are obviously plot points ok. And that no one in their right mind no one uses plants to recycle oxygen in outer space. It feels hard. |
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| Reminder |
[Nov. 29th, 2009|11:40 pm] |
The Calling
Tuesday 1st December 9pm-2am @ The Kambar, Cambridge.
This week's DJs will be The DJ of Bath and Wells, Loki and The Naked DJ.
(Sorry, the links are down at the moment due to ongoing hosting changes. Should be back this week some time.) |
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| Calling all interested sopranos.... |
[Nov. 29th, 2009|10:21 pm] |
I'd really like to do the Pergolesi Stabat Mater at some point. It's competing with Purcell's Yorkshire Feast Song and the Bach Christmas Oratorio for earworm space in my brain. |
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