Month: September 2004

  • Board Games Night

    PS – Still recovering from Board Games Night with Andrew and Kathleen last night. At least both my teams – Pictionary and Scrabble – were victorious. I think “Treasure tits!” ranks up there with “Baby fish mouth!” in terms of all-time bad Pictionary guesses, though…

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  • Cancel the hog trough.

    Cancel the hog trough.As the news should’ve reached most of our immediate family by now, I guess it’s safe to let the cat out of the bag. It didn’t seem to come as a surprise to most people, so I doubt it’ll shock you folks… but for the record, yes, the Snook and I will…

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  • A friendly face!

    Many thanks to Mary-Helen for stopping by in the shop today to say “hello.” Some days a friendly face really makes a big difference!

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  • RD’s birthday

    Ack. I forgot that Roald Dahl‘s birthday was on Monday! If any of you Sydneysiders are interested, Amy has put together a Dahl exhibit at the Mosman Public Library using a lot of my Dahl materials. (Memo to Self: Get down there and take a picture…)

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  • For, uh, no special reason or anything (*cough cough*), I’ve been doing some research on knitting cables without a cable needle. I guess I’ll give that a shot tomorrow. Can’t go any slower than I am now, huh?

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  • Good and Bad

    Good: Schlubby Vince Vaughan in a flannel shirt. Hummina!Bad: Snookums (jokingly) making me do ten squats before I could have some gelato, thus causing me to strain my hip because I’m disgustingly weak.

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  • TV Thoughts

    Can I just say that our “TiFaux” has officially changed my life? Now when I watch TV, I have a whole backlog of shows that I actually want to watch! Time-shifting is the bomb. This allows me to watch a lot more TV in less time, which gives me additional good feelings because I feel,…

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  • The Face of Tomorrow

    Huh. So this is what everybody in Chippendale is going to look like in ten years. Neat.

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  • Oh, Spike.

    Oh, Spike. *sob* I feel like Drusilla when she realized how lame you were for liking Buffy.

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  • Star Wars on DVD… Finally!

    Kevin pointed me to this excellent review of the new Star Wars original trilogy DVD box set. I especially liked the shots showing exactly what George has changed from the original. Greedo still shoots first (but only barely), Jabba looks better in the new scenes, Ian McDiarmid has been inserted as the emperor, and (yuck)…

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