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RT @QueenBeeInc: The Fall/Winter line is up, and if we do say so ourselves : it’s purdy…. http://bit.ly/EbC9M <- WANT. Rita shall be mine!


@QueenBeeInc Love the new line! Question though: my beloved Truckette looks a bit dirty. Best way to clean vinyl without taking off colour?


@ScottRhodie In my experience: send out press releases to businesses and bloggers that are only tangentially related to the topic at hand.


@ScottRhodie PR folks called shop often to get knitters for media events. Always last minute, demanding, no respect for our time, etc.


@ScottRhodie I know… Just got burned one too many times!


@eileenDCoE You reminded me I need to give my plumber some love. BLOG LOVE!


@rhagern I just started a few months ago. Just finished Season 3. I love it! (The podcast commentaries by Ron Moore are great too.)


@QueenBeeInc How did I miss that? Thanks so much for the link… Just what I needed.


@ScottRhodie It’s just like Mad Men, isn’t it? 🙂


Looking for a plumber in Sydney? Go with Thomson Plumbing. I blogged our experience with them: http://bit.ly/9ohPT


Despite the arguments of @chrisgander & @jpalmer81, I remain unconvinced as to the cinematic merit of Rutger “Blind Fury” Hauer’s career.


@rhagern Plus she has pretty, pretty hair. I spent most of the first season being obsessed with Grace Park’s pretty Cylon hair.


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Given that I may or may not have whooping cough, I probably shouldn’t go to #SMCSYD tonight. Anybody want my ticket?


Literary Euphemisms for… you know. http://bit.ly/3owSA I have to say, “Touring Rosings with Mr. Collins” made me laugh and laugh.


Blood drawn to test for whoopage. Now rushing to Broadway to pick up my new specs. Head hurts.


I got new glasses. They look a lot like my old glasses. But these ones are brown and not black. http://bit.ly/1buB0O


@steven_noble Sorry I missed it! But trust me, me hacking up a lung during your talk would’ve been distracting.


@CleaSan It might be Australian/British? This USian has never heard of it.


@gilmae Oooh, thanks for the link! I’m in the draw. 🙂


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@knitabulous Thanks, a bit better. Fever is down. Going to the doctor shortly…


Doctor wants to test for whooping cough. I have to pull out of the race. If you’ve seen me in the past week and you feel sick, get checked!


@devvyleys Yikes! Glad you made it. Will be emailing you shortly… 🙂


The Snook has ruined me for milk chocolate. RUINED.


I built another very quick-and-dirty website on the weekend: http://www.morrisyarns.com/


Should’ve mentioned that @devvyleys gets full credit for designing the morrisyarns.com site. 🙂


@DianneKing I like the swirly bits. Unconventional for yarn store but pretty, yes!


Faxed my withdrawal form for the Half-Marathon. My first DNS. That sucks.


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Miserable. Coughed all day. Bailed on SSK because I felt like a leper. Running a fever now. Swine flu? Pneumonia? THIS SUCKS.


Today I went from wondering whether this sickness would hurt my time in the half-marathon… to wondering if I’ll be running it at all.


Hot toddy making *everything* better…


@knitabulous Yeah, thinking that too. Will do.


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Wow. Plumber called to tell us the quote we thought was ex GST was actually inc GST, which saves us like $80. Lee Thomson Plumbers = honest.


Candi (of candi.com.au) came in for a lesson on using her new site, and she brought me a SPARKLY! http://twitpic.com/fjj9d


Oooh, new version of Facebook app for iPhone. Didn’t show as an update, but found it with search. Much, much better!


Contemplating a trip to Bunnings in the rain. And I suggested it!


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I want to go try out my new shoes, but I feel awful. I might feel better after I run. Or I might not.


Screw it. The sun is shining. I’m going to try out my Newtons even if cough up a lung afterwards.


Just completed a 4.13 km run with @runkeeper, check it out http://bit.ly/HHhvu #RunKeeper


Did 3 x 5min run/walk intervals to break in my Newtons. Headache & cough coming back now, but hour after run was best I’ve felt all week.


@knitabulous I’ve been resting for a week! I’m sure headache is related to sudden sloth.


Heading to BA workshop, so no knitting for me tonight…


Voluntarily gave up hour of my night to listen to talk about Business Requirement Analysis. I am a sick individual.


Over 60% of IT projects fail (over budget, over schedule).


“Companies with poor business analysis capabilities will have 3x as many project failures as successes.” IAG Consulting (2008)


All done! Going to have a drink with the Knitters. 🙂


@dwwright99 Thanks for the RT. Just an interesting quote from a Req Workshop I went to tonight. Didn’t learn much new, but a good quote. 🙂


@ironbrandon Did my 1st trial of forefoot & Newtons today! Just 15 minutes but calves & ankles tired quickly. I felt fast & happy though.


Up bright and early waiting for the plumber to arrive. I’m looking forward to the hot water not being orange anymore.


Plumbers are here! Only 20 minutes late. Let’s see how quick they work.


I have been informed that when workmen are around, the lady of the house is meant to offer them tea and coffee. Sure, whatever. #fb


@Thehabygoddess I’m guessing they’ll be done before 9am, so a six pack’s probably not appropriate! 😛


I wrote a review of my first run with the Newtons: http://bit.ly/4AT1ZP
(Attn: @ironbrandon @steverunner )


Plumbers are done & new water heater is in! Guys from Lee Thomson Plumbing did great job for LOT less than Chiswick Plumbing quoted.


@knitabulous By the Snook. I think it had more to do with him being shy about talking to strangers though. He made the tea and coffee. 🙂


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Oh wow. I think I’ve turned a corner. I suddenly feel much, much better. Maybe the sleep – even drugged sleep – did me a lot of good.


@redambition STAY STRONG. You and I will be the last holdouts against the deadly shawl zombification.


@DianneKing Actually it does to me too, when I’m awake. (I felt awful til it wore off this morning.) But sleep was more important.


@Alacaeriel ?? You just throwing out keywords to confuse the spies? 🙂


@Roceal Dr. Chin at Broadway? He’s my doctor too! Dr. Chin = the best.


Hahaha… You guys are killing me with the subversive Guild tweets. Remember, THE CROW FLIES AT MIDNIGHT.


Chippendale Food for the Future Fair – Saturday, October 24. Put it in your calendars! #food4thefuture


Congrats on leaving, @richbuggy! Best of luck with the new job. 🙂


@bellsknits I don’t mind ‘babe’ so much. People from Midwest USA use it a lot. (Right @gadgetgirl70?) I think it can be folksy and charming.


@lachlanhardy My husband is another. Shocking, really. He doesn’t even have a blog! I’ve only just got him to use an RSS reader!


I smell beets.


I must be feeling better. My knitting mojo has returned! Decided that 3st off-centering was unacceptable, so frogged. Knitting heel again!


@Justacogitating We get them in our weekly veggie box. Roasted with olive oil and balsamic? Very, very nice.


Limited self to prescribed dose of codeine, then spent past half hour coughing brains out. About to cry. Lozenges not helping.


@bowenvale321 Thats the exact stuff sitting on my nightstand.


@imdominating I didn’t get it, so Rodd had to explain. Now I am even more disturbed.


Was having a bad morning til I got to the story about teabagging: http://bit.ly/1KvrIA. And then I laughed and laughed and laughed.


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I am going into the city today to check out Newton Running Shoes. @ironbrandon and @steverunner have convinced me to give forefoot a try.


@ironbrandon It’s at hert.com.au. They’ve got a beginners running course starting up in Oct too, so I may do that. BRING ON THE MARATHON! 🙂


Ok @ironbrandon, I now have some (very ugly) Newtons! Now what? Start slow, I’m guessing.


Forgot the pic: http://twitpic.com/f6s17


I’ll be fine for like 15 minutes, then have an unbelievable coughing jag. Really sucks when someone is trying to demo code at their desk.


Just got home – without my new running shoes. I must be sicker than I thought. I HOPE LIKE HELL I left ’em sitting in the office. 🙁


Chemist didn’t want to give me codeine. Said I should just cough it all up. I told her I MUST SLEEP, so she relented. In bed now.


3.30am. Codeine wore off. Unable to stop coughing. Nothing working. Poor Snook; I’m ruining his sleep too.


I eventually got back to sleep, but I had to practically OD on codeine to do it. The comedown is not nice. But at least I got some sleep.


And hey! My voice is coming back! Maybe my co-workers will stop making phone sex jokes now.


@stufromoz Exactly. The consensus was that I’d make a great ‘sexy Russian housewife.’


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Aha! I think I know what’s up. I changed my email address on FB on the weekend. That must have reset the notification settings.


@scrubbles Love it! You’ve got like a whole portfolio of blog redesigns happening… 🙂


Just registered for BA talk/discussion on Thursday night: http://bit.ly/2rdy6a


@devvyleys Really? It’s still pretty nice in the city. Wonder if that means it’s on its way…


Whoa! Window washer is working his way down the building and is right above my window…


@Kat13v Heh. Yeah, I’m a BA with a BA! 🙂


@misswired We’re in GoGet too! Love them. Used them yesterday, in fact, to drive to a wedding in Lane Cove.


@stufromoz Westfield building on William Street. You?


UK Yarn Forward mag apparently has story on yarn shopping in Oz including rave about M&S & mention of SSK! Anybody seen it? @witty_knitter?


@DDsD Actually not so much n00bs as a concerted hack effort from 4chan: http://bit.ly/gLxcv


Blackmore’s Half Marathon site says we run over the Old Glebe Island Bridge. Isn’t it permanently open??


@kdelarue That’s what I’m wondering! Seriously, check it out: http://bit.ly/3KJ7ps. The elevation profile doesn’t look like ANZAC. But how??


I have eaten so many VapoDrops today, my blood type is now “Butter Menthol.”


I’ve got a voice so husky it could pull a dogsled. No, really. I think we’re in the realm of laryngitis here.


@Justacogitating Earlier today my boss was suggesting I could record some sexy messages for one of the ‘adult’ mobile services we run. Ha.


@Justacogitating Diversification is important. We do B2B development, general mobile retail, and yeah, a bit of the naughty stuff!


Phew. Just finished the side project I’ve been working on for the past few weeks: http://www.candi.com.au. Friend is a jeweller!


@venks79 That banner was meant to be temporary. My photoshopping SUCKS. Allan’s daughter looks cut out with scissors! 😛


@knitabulous I like bananas, but sheesh, they give me awful heartburn. Can’t eat ’em.


@Diepdin Cool! I guess not many of us will be able to say we’ve run across it then. 🙂


Awake. Still no voice. And judging by the technicolour goo coming out of my nose, it’s time to go for the antibiotics.


@Opheli8 It landed on my face.


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All dressed up in Lane Cove, waiting for Steph & Eva’s wedding to start. http://twitpic.com/ey1z2


The best possible day for a wedding. It was at Carisbrook House (http://bit.ly/FWXDI). The wedding party: http://twitpic.com/eyhit


We blew bubbles instead of throwing rice. http://twitpic.com/eyhli and http://twitpic.com/eyhn7


@lahondaknitter And in very different parts of the world! Must have been an auspicious day for it. 🙂


@RTRR I’ll be running the half-marathon in the same day… and we coincidentally have the same goal time! Man, you’re fast. 🙂


@venks79 Nice job… but what happened to phone? Dead battery?


Heading to Chatswood for wedding reception. I’m hungry!


We finally got to the bride & groom. We love you guys! http://twitpic.com/ez0di (Yeah, I changed into something more comfortable.)


Eva made adorable table toppers. We appear to be at the non-Chinese table. The food is AMAZING. http://twitpic.com/ez47h


Shark fin soup. There’s a first. It’s FANTASTIC. http://twitpic.com/ez5mx


The other reception attendees have worked out that I have Internet. Therefore I am the designated cricket score updater. So far: suckage.


A hangover is bad enough, but a hangover with sinusitis as well? Kill me now.


The Twitter FAQs should warn that if you tweet all through, say, wedding receptions, you won’t be able to chuck a sickie the next day.


I have seen literally ten 470 buses go by and not a single one of mine. I hate the 470.


I have suddenly started getting emails with every Facebook notification. When did this happen? Some settings change?