Month: March 2008
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I was a little worried about Obama’s losses in Ohio and Texas, but Kevin’s spelled it all out for me: Hilary’s still done. Stick a fork in her. I especially liked the football metaphor. Obama is up 34-7 in the fourth quarter. Clinton just scored a touchdown. The score is now 34-14, but now there’s…
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Clearing the decks before vacation…They’re renovating the office area at the shop, so I worked from home today. At first I was looking forward to it, like, “Woohoo! I get to ‘work’ from ‘home’!” But instead, I found that without the random disruptions of calls from the shopfloor, I was able to slip into a…
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Oxtail StewI had another good customer service experience tonight. I went over to the Broadway to get supplies for this beef stew, and I stopped in at the butcher for the meat. “Would that gravy beef be good for a stew?” I asked the guy at the counter. He nodded. I opened my mouth to…
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Oooooooh! The cops say that the Nando’s explosion a few weeks ago was DELIBERATE. I’m not sure I buy the story about the brother-in-law. If this were a TV movie, he’d have been the one there setting the fire to collect the insurance money…
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What would Cary Grant do? Sage advice.
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The Happy’s Place post just keeps getting more surreal….
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I was reading this article about the repainting of an Aboriginal mural at a Redfern community center when I realised that I knew one of the people quoted in the story. Lyn Turnbull is (was?) a member of our inner city Guild group. Looks like she’s still fighting the good fight.
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Dude. I would totally go to the Japanese girly schoolboy cafe! (Has anyone else been surfing Google all day, trying to track down an English translation of the original manga? No? Just me then? Okay.)
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Wow! Tessuti is a fancy fabric store down the street from us in Sydney, and we recommend them to people all the time. I just found out they have a blog! It looks great so far…
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The Snook was all excited to jump on the hat bandwagon… until he saw this photo. Good grief.