Month: December 2005
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Jon just posted a huge and fascinating photo-essay about his recent trip to Seaside, Florida. He and his colleagues were studying New Urbanism, which as I understand it is a form of city-planning that Seaside (and a few other towns) exemplifies. I actually visited Seaside with the fam a few years ago as a break…
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Oh. My. God. We just had our company Christmas Party at Una’s on Broadway… and I have never seen such an amount of food in my life. I’d made the booking and I repeatedly called the guy to confirm that we were bringing twenty people, and since we were having the set banquet menu I…
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Um, just in case you Hoosiers missed it, the actually VOICE OF FROGGY (from Froggy’s Pad) left a comment on my site! I can die now.
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DietBlog: It’s like the best Christmas Present ever. As our company Christmas party is Tuesday night, the night of my regular WW meeting, I decided to weigh-in at the CBD lunchtime meeting Monday. A bit of a cheat, sure, but at least now I’ll have a week to work off the party before the next…
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Ferrets, Farmer’s Tans, and a Trail NoteIn case you’re wondering what happened to CouchCam, it’s currently facing the wall to avoid offending your delicate sensibilities with the sight of a half-naked Scotsman. That’s right, folks, Ben (aka WeeB, aka The Ferret) is visiting us in Sydney for the first time. He flew in Thursday night…
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*Gasp!* Two new knitting bags from Jordana Paige. We haven’t gotten these in the shop yet, but I am SO ordering in this pink and black tweed messenger bag. I like the satchel too, but it’s not the sort of bag that I’d ever carry. And dude, did I mention that we actually sold one…
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New sunnies!Damn, it has been hot and sunny these last few days. I’m frantically trying to get the shop website ready for the start of our Christmas sale on Saturday – Shhh! – but I took a few minutes at lunch to buy these from a dodgy geezer outside Coles. They’re supposedly “genuine Ray-Bans” and…
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DietBlog: I don’t want to jinx it by being too optimistic, but I had a good week. I ain’t breakin’ out the red Crocs just yet but we’re nearly there. And while I did take the night off from exercise, I didn’t use Moron Customer’s comment as an excuse to self-destruct tonight. That’s a Good…
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Serenity as performed by hand puppets. That’s pretty funny. I liked that they referred to Mr. Universe’s “girlfriend” as the Buffybot. (Link courtesy of PCJM.)
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Customers Who Can Bite Me Today: Italian lady in the acid wash jeans who asked a hundred questions and swore up and down that her friend bought some ball of wool here that we Just. Don’t. Sell. She then proceeded to pile up four hundred dollars worth of yarn on the counter only to decide…