Month: March 2007
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Reason #412 Why We Haven’t Reproduced:The Snook and I have been laboring under the delusion that our washing machine was broken all week. We called the nice folks at Direct Appliance Service to come take a look at it. The guy fiddled with the knob and know it works perfectly. There wasn’t anything wrong with…
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“Once a jolly knitter sat beside a billabong…” Mary-Helen has given us a new patriotic song for the ages. And she’s not even Australian!
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The Snook and I joined Rob and Amy tonight for the taping of the first episode of The Chaser’s War on Everything‘s new season. After spending more than an hour penned in by Security, waiting for the boys to finish rehearsal, we were ready for some laughs. The set looked great (including Miss Fee‘s Trojan…
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Yoshimi battles the pink robots… on Broadway. I predict Amy will be ALL OVER THIS. (Link courtesy of John.)
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Minus: The coffee shop was out of Diet Coke this morning. Plus: Albert and Mrs Morris went to see Scoop on the weekend, and apparently Mrs M kept saying through the whole movie how much I looked like Scarlett Johansson. W00t!
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Note to Americans: Daylight Savings has finally ended here in Sydney – *sob!* – so the time difference has changed. We’re now ten hours behind Indiana time (plus one day), and seven hours behind LA time (again, plus one day).
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For anyone who missed us on the Internet this morning – like, oh, my MOM and my SISTER and my COUSIN and probably the whole rest of my family, not that I’m bitter, except that them seeing it was the WHOLE REASON for getting up at the BUTT CRACK OF DAWN anyway, GAH! – Amy…
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Doing my Civic DutyIn addition to knitting on the Internet this morning and finishing the Kitty Kat Cardy, I had one other important task for the day: VOTE! Today was the NSW State Election and, as voting is compulsory in Australia, I got to vote here for the very first time. The Snook and I…
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And with eighteen minutes to spare, the Argyle Kitty Kat Cardigan is finished! Later: Pattern notes have been added after the jump. Okay, now that she’s been safely turned in at the Easter Show, I thought I’d better record some pattern notes. This cardigan was knit out of Eki Riva Superbaby Alpaca. I probably used…
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And don’t forget… I’ll be appearing here tomorrow morning at 8am Sydney time (which is 5pm Friday Indiana time). The phone number to SMS or ring us is +61 424 875 224.