Month: May 2006
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My pottery class was very zen and relaxing tonight, mostly because I went very slowly and didn’t screw anything up. I started by turning my kinda crappy straight-sided pot from the first week, which had finally dried to the “leather hard” stage. Peter showed us how to put a “foot” on the base. It turns…
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I’d totally buy shoes that talk to my iPod! And I’m not a sheep either, for I have waxed rhapsodic over interactive shoes before…
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DietBlog: We all got Bravo Stars tonight just for turning up. That’s how nasty, cold, and wet it was outside. (Note to self: I know your Crocs are your lightest footwear, but next time rethink the decision to go out in a gale wearing shoes with holes in them.) It was nevertheless a good meeting…
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Ooh, Mary-Helen just alerted me to the fact that World Wide Knit in Public day is coming up soon! Any of you Sydney knitters interested in joining me? I’m trying to think where the best place might be. We’ve done the park before… How about Darling Harbour or the Opera House? I love the shirts…
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Yay! Congratulations to my good friend Nat on defending his thesis and earning his PhD as, like, a rocket scientist or astrophysicist or something. (I suppose I should feel guilty for enabling all the beer he drink in London. I probably helped kill of the brain cells that might have gotten us to Mars!) And…
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Huh. Rob dialed 911 last night (in a legitimate emergency) and it worked just fine! (The Australian number for emergency services is actually 000.) I probably would’ve done the same thing. When we last got robbed in the shop, I went to ring the cops and got paralyzed when all I could think was “911!…
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The Baby stares into my soul…
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I’ve started making my training public again, down there on the right. Might keep me more honest.
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ARGH. As we were walking yesterday I was admiring out the Snook’s new cotton jumper – yes, I’m a very narcissistic knitter – when I noticed that one stitch on the back was sorta distorted. I started picking at it… and suddenly a centimeter-long end came poking out! At first I thought it was just…
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Trail NoteHoly crap! When did Google Pedometer start working in Australia? THAT RULES. The Snook and I just went for an hour’s jog down through Newtown and Erskineville, and as we got home we wondered how far we’d gone. “Use that Google Pedometer,” he suggested. “It doesn’t work here,” I said. “See?” And then it…