A week away
Jun. 20th, 2007 10:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lederhosenSpent a week down in Melbourne with Rey for her birthday, visiting a few friends & family. Had a lovely time, including...
- Pirate clubbing. Photo here of yrs truly attempting a menacing 'Arrrr!' and managing... I'm not sure quite what... along with the wonderful![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
silverblue.
- Meetingshadow_5tails and asagwe's new cats, and seeing their Ninja Skillz in action. It was a short step from their deciding that the world is more interesting when seen through bubblewrap to their figuring out how to wear a bubblewrap bag as a Ninja Hood... and I was especially impressed by the Ninja Door-Opening Methods.
- Rey's birthday dinner, during which I caught up with my brother and learned some v. interesting family gossip...
- Visiting my great-aunt. She's not been well and was a little frail, but for 87 she's still holding up pretty well.
- Seeing Merlin Bird performing before they head off overseas.
- The weather, which alternated between 'dry', 'wet', and 'wet plus burst water main'.
- A dinner date with my beloved. Verdict: we really ought to do that more often.
- Talking to Mel Uni about prospective back-to-study-ness (specifically in psych). Looks interesting, although paying job that doesn't require a year of study first would be preferable.
Got back to discover that Rey's mother, while house-sitting, had tidied the kitchen (including cleaning the stove!) and thatda_norvegicus had brought home a respectable school report, go him. Also that Dog-Or was overjoyed to see us, no surprises there.
Meanwhile, viavito_excalibur, advertising execs are still morons. Or possibly a significant portion of people are morons, and ad execs are just cynical bastards who exploit that. Either way, I think several people on my f-list will find that photo far more attractive than it was intended to be.
- Pirate clubbing. Photo here of yrs truly attempting a menacing 'Arrrr!' and managing... I'm not sure quite what... along with the wonderful
silverblue.- Meeting
shadow_5tails and asagwe's new cats, and seeing their Ninja Skillz in action. It was a short step from their deciding that the world is more interesting when seen through bubblewrap to their figuring out how to wear a bubblewrap bag as a Ninja Hood... and I was especially impressed by the Ninja Door-Opening Methods.- Rey's birthday dinner, during which I caught up with my brother and learned some v. interesting family gossip...
- Visiting my great-aunt. She's not been well and was a little frail, but for 87 she's still holding up pretty well.
- Seeing Merlin Bird performing before they head off overseas.
- The weather, which alternated between 'dry', 'wet', and 'wet plus burst water main'.
- A dinner date with my beloved. Verdict: we really ought to do that more often.
- Talking to Mel Uni about prospective back-to-study-ness (specifically in psych). Looks interesting, although paying job that doesn't require a year of study first would be preferable.
Got back to discover that Rey's mother, while house-sitting, had tidied the kitchen (including cleaning the stove!) and that
da_norvegicus had brought home a respectable school report, go him. Also that Dog-Or was overjoyed to see us, no surprises there.Meanwhile, via
vito_excalibur, advertising execs are still morons. Or possibly a significant portion of people are morons, and ad execs are just cynical bastards who exploit that. Either way, I think several people on my f-list will find that photo far more attractive than it was intended to be.
