Last night in my dreams, Sophie and I had a threesome with Dave-my-ex-from-many-years-ago. For some reason this involved quite a lot of me telling him not to pee in my pot plants! Prize for the most accurate depiction of what Freud would say about THAT. We had a house full of witches last night, so I lit the fire for them, because I've heard the saying "Cold as a witch's tit" and I just couldn't...

This morning I accidentally caught the early train in, and consequently ended up doing the Salmon Run* with pombagira , and having morning coffee with her. On the way to the coffee stand of two-cute-baristas-ness, there's a large intersection where a four-lane road meets a six-lane one. We arrived at said intersection and there were around a dozen people waiting to cross, yet nobody had pushed...

In an email this morning, someone described yesterday's cold as brutal. While I understand that there are loads of places in the world that are colder (notably Antarctica, Twizel, and the proverbial witch's tit*), I definitely felt brutalised by it. Luckily, today is warmer. I'm told the wind will swing round to the northwest (ie we'll actually get some), and it'll rain. The clouds are hanging low...

This morning I had to scrape ice off my car. Last night, empom , pombagira , thomasdequinc , some guy called Dave and I were running around playing with fire in this biting cold. The cold bites less when you have flames. We were trying to make a promo-type video for a firespinning thing we've been asked to do in July. So we pulled out the toys and played with them while Dave...

Our internet is back! I faithfully printed out and followed the instructions given to me by various helpful geeks, went home, checked lights (all working), cables (all fine), powercycled everything (no problems), attempted to ping the router (total fail). Figured the problem must be somewhere in the wireless router, maybe to do with the power blips we'd been experiencing resetting something. Went...

Yup, it's that time of week again - Thursday! Locked In A Room With Concreters Day! Today's flavour is Placing and Finishing of concrete. tieke , would you like me to butter these guys up so you can get your hole lined faster? *cough* So I was in the supermarket last night, buying drugs (tea) for pombagira . It must have been Couples Night or something, there were lots of them there...

Phonetic definitions #275 - Philately - A combination of flatulence and fellatio. O.o So I sat down last night and started to write out the methodology for my TIME article analysis thingy - and very quickly realised that I'd have to go through them again. This time I really am simply counting words, and it's going a lot more quickly. You see, the positive and negative references on their...

Endorphins are awesome. Also, the firewood mission got all the muscles that the shearing missed an now I officially hurt all over. My Mum will be warm this winter. Yes, that's pombagira using a chainsaw! My friends are awesome. You spending time working hard to get firewood sorted for my Mum is the coolest thing. I am very grateful.

Last night I got attacked by a breadboard, that leaped out of the cupboard and smacked me in the knee. I am embarrassed to admit that this turned me into a gibbering wimp for a while (although I didn't flake out the way I normally do with knee whackings). Today my knee is stiff and bruised. Yes, I win at the lamest ways to hurt myself. I also have sore bits from Speed of Sound. I did some playing...

I actually had to tell one of the QSs not to patronise me yesterday. He called me a "good girl" - this may not seem so bad to some people, but to me it's like a red flag. There are two people in the world that get to call me that, and one of them is my Mum. Anyone else calling me that, especially in a business meeting, will get a polite and clear statement of my boundaries. Credit to him that he did...