Forecast: 8-14
Attained: 6-13

In the next house I'd like to have a nice, wide, sunny window ledge for the cat. Not that I could put anything else on there - unless it was glued down - cos, you know, cats... :)

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Went to Penny's for dinner. The plan was to have homemade dumplings but circumstances conspired and it didn't eventuate. We did however feast on leftover pumpkin soup, and dahl, and roast lamb sammiches. Nom.

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'k!
Tee hee hee...
(By rocket-typo, nicked from Deviant Art)

Forecast: 15-20
Attained: 14-19

Proper Friday, finally! Holiday! [happy dance]

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Saw this at the supermarket this evening, nestled amongst the rest of the xmas stuff.

This wasn't saying to me 'Buy me, I'm keeeewt...!. No, I was hearing, 'Grant me a swift death, I beg of you...!'


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Hee. Loki clips from Thor. Which I haz now. :)

Forecast: 16-27
Attained: 18-26

Every day this week has felt like Friday, which means that I've been having a 'oh, what...?!' grumpy moment every morning I've had to get up for work. Eh well, tomorrow actually is Friday so all will be well. :)

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Dreaming last night I was at my parents' old house. I discovered that the back-door didn't latch and that anyone could've let themselves in at any time. This made me very uneasy.
I found a bunch of old, mixed keys and carefully sorted through them for the key to the back screen door. I thought that while it wasn't that much of a barrier it would at least be something.
Having done that I looked further and found the key to the back door! At first it looked like the door could only be locked from the outside but I checked again, and lo, I could actually lock the door from the inside as well. The house was safe again, and I felt I'd done my duty or something, considering I really don't like the place...

Forecast: 8-23
Attained: 7-22

Cubs are off to their dad's for a few days. Party time for me an' the cat!
Not really, I still have to go to work, for the next 2 days at least...

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Joules found this tumblr for me. Little Loki Lost. It's wonderfully distracting. Hee. :)

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This made me snorfle.
It's a panel from a First Dog on the Moon cartoon (which is behind a paywall, sorry, so can't share.) But this bit says so much.

(That's Mr On The Moon's depiction of our Prime Minister Julia Gillard. Tony Abbott, the Oposition leader, is a rabbit in speedos... [snicker]

Edit: Joules asked me to explain 'sooking'. It's basically whinging and complaining like small, tired children. :)

Forecast: 6-18
Attained: 6-18

Cubs and I went to see Hotel Transylvania this evening. It was fun, if not capital F fun. A few really funny bits, and the rest was amusing. Won't lose anything on dvd.
(We had sort of planned to go and see The Bourne Legacy, or rather that'd been my suggestion, cos Jeremy Renner's in it, but the cubs decided they'd rather see something else...)

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Wallpaper on my phone.
Srsly, I haven't fangirled this hard in a very long time.

Forecast: 8-15
Attained: 8-15

Took the cubs to the dentist today. Their first visit in far too long. One cub is doing all right, only one filling needed and there's not going to be a problem with his wisdom teeth. The other cub has a few more holes and one of his wisdom teeth is growing sideways. Eh, we'll deal with that eventually.

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I had some excellent dahl today at Penny's. The secret was the herby/spicey stuff had been cooked seperately to the lentils then mixed in for a couple of minutes at the end. Delicious! Coriander is best herb, yes it is...

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[happyburble...!]

Forecast: 13-18
Attained: 14-20

Napped this afternoon. Had a very intense and detailed dream where my procrastination brought me regret and guilt but also that odd sort of relief that comes from it being too late to do anything. Still shaking off the tendrils of that one.

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Hee, funny :)

(From Snarky Little Stitcher on Etsy.)

Forecast: 11-23
Attained: 12-21

I have one more week of work then I've got a week off. Unfortunately, I'm already in holiday mode which doesn't bode well for the amount/quality of work I'll be doing next week. :)

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Watching the Avengers, it took me a little while to start seeing Tom Hiddleston as Loki and not Magnus Martinsson from Kenneth Brannagh's version Wallander. When did I start seeing Loki? When he smiled like the devil incarnate.

Forecast: 13-18
Attained: 15-18

... I really just want to witter about Loki.

Have an Avenger's gag reel instead.

And a screengrab.

Forecast 19/9: 12-23
Attained: 11-17
Forecast 20/9: 13-18
Attained: 12-22

Tonight after work I trotted along to a Library meet-up thing with ex classmates and teachers for snacky noms and drinks, and lively discussions about library stuff. :)

Last night the cubs and I met up with Aaron at the Astor to see The Avengers. Fun movie, very quotable! ("Dost Mother know thou wearest her drapes?" :)
I find myself slightly obsessed with intrigued by Loki. Not sure why; like most of those 'beyond reason' he scares the daylights out of me!
And, he called Black Widow a 'mewling quim'! I gasped. No one else did. I wondered if I was the only person there who knew what it meant. That, or I was the only person there who hadn't seen the movie yet...

(My current desktop)

(Little tiny bit obsessed.)

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Disturbingly catchy song with bothersome lyrics. Interesting clip...

Forecast: 9-18
Attained: 9-17

... I have 'db' noted on the back of my hand. I have no idea why. So much for reminding myself to do something.

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The monitor on one of the library computers was playing up today. Both myself and a colleague carefully checked for air-gaps and concluded that there might be a problem with the powercord.
Of course, when the IT guy came down to check it was an air-gap, dammit! [headdesk]

Forecast: 10-18
Attained: 11-17


KittenKong, tucked in to the crook of my arm. This is where she is most of the time I'm on the computer.

"Oh good, you're home. Noms and/or cuddles, please..."

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Awww... :)
If I had a little bit more room I could do something like this for KK. I've still got a bunch of boxes left over from moving.

Forecast: 10-16
Attained: 8-16

2nd anniversary of Mum's death.
Still miss the madwoman :)

December 2009. Hanging on for dear life 15m above the ground at the Warburton Rainforest Gallery.

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Been having fun with the laptop. I was going to call it (him) lappy, and said as much to the boys, at which Badger said: "Odd, I thought you'd call it something like Nigel, or Edward..."
So, Nigel it is. Nigel Coriolus. :)

Current desktop.

Forecast: 7-16
Attained: 10-16

From Penny. This made me giggle. :)

Tony Abbott looking at things.

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It took five hours for the software to d/l last night. Five flipping hours for slightly less than a gb. It was like the bad old days of dial-up modems. [shudder]

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Clouds and puddles. Two of my favourite things.

Forecast: tba
Attained: 6-16

I'm currently sitting at the cubs' father's place, hooked in to his wifi with my laptop. I bought a copy of Office 2010 from work - very cheaply, under staff perks - but it's taking a ridiculously long time to download.
On the plus-side, I've now got Firefox and AVG loaded as well, so I don't feel quite so vulnerable sitting online for hours on end. Still grumpy though...

Forecast: 9-15
Attained: 9-14

Browsing online for books and this cover caught my eye.

Egad! It's Snape!
His dinner's the wrong gender though...

Vampires, a very peculiar history. Fiona McDonald, 2012.

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This is an oddly unsettling clip.

Forecast: 13-23
Attained: 11-22

One of the things my tax return went on was renewing my flickr pro account. At last I have all my pics there available to view. All 1000+ of them. There's a big gap though, between 2007-2011. That was a busy, uncomfortable time full of things. Will at least have to get some of the 2009 Qld trip up there. I'm sure the cubs would like to see them. :)

My photostream.

I had a pro account a few years ago but it lapsed. Hopefully this time I'll be able to get some sets etc sorted out. Organising that should keep me happily amused for hours...

Forecast: 8-22
Attained: 8-21

'twas interesting at work today. The new library management system is coming online soon and we've had to shut down the old to transfer data across. Unfortunately, we're not able to use the offline version of the new LMS yet - that problem is 'being looked in to' - so a spreadsheet is being used temporarily to keep track of loans and returns. Cataloguing, updating records and registering new users will just have to wait. Hopefully it will be sorted by the end of the week.

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I haz anti-virus software on my phone now, thanks to AVG. I feel a bit safer browsing. :)

Hee, and oddly enough, my laptop picks up our neighbours' - on either side - wifi thingies. This makes me think we might be able to use wifi in our concrete house. Still not sure how I feel about that, though. I haven't poked the tech with a stick for long enough yet to be sure of it.

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Forecast: 9-19
Attained: 8-18

I went here today - Reboot-IT - after the cubs' father sang their praises. I now have a refurbished, 2nd hand laptop for less than half the price I was willing to spend retail!
It's not terrifically interesting just at the moment, except to the cat, who wants to sit on it, but will be once I've loaded up the software I need. Soon.
(Lucky I spent some time this weekend clearing off the kitchen table, eh, cos now I've got somewhere to use the thing. There, and on the fold-down writing desk in the bureau in my bedroom.)

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Bought the cubs some clothes tonight, then we had dinner at the Piggy Place... and that's about it for my tax return. It's been mostly well spent. :)

Forecast: 10-18
Attained: 10-19

Spring. :)

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I'm wondering what did this. At first I thought someone had kicked the shit stuffing out of it but now I'm not sure. Could've been a critter after the termites...
Possum? They're insectivorous, apparently.

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I had to go in to the shed this afternoon...

I was not alone.

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Pics from last weekend's jaunt to the NGV up at flickr.

(... apparently I've shared them on blogger. Not sure how... Here's the link in case something's gone awry.)

(Ok, clicking the share link of blogger meant they were posted as a seperate post. Didn't want that. Let's try something else.)



Not ideal - couldn't work out how to post a link to the set the way I have before - but clicking on the pic will take you through to flickr.