Today I had part of my cervix removed. It wasn't pleasant. I am uncomfortable, woozy from the pre-op drugs and prone to fits of crying ( Read more... )

I post this here because the person who caused the keyboard imprint on my forehead doesn't read my LJ ( Read more... )

Yay! David has a MoP beta invite! Boo! I don't. Oh well, I shall console myself with the knowledge that he can't download the beta client yet because it's 18.7Gb (WTF Blizzard, some of your customers live outside USA with piss poor excuses for internet connections) and we've almost hit our monthly download limit. That and red wine.

I've been meaning to write about this since we got back from Sydney on Sunday afternoon, but I was too tired and lazy ( Read more... )

Been playing email hide and seek with one client. A simple "please confirm" email takes a week to get a reply. Usually with something like "I'll have an answer for you by Wednesday". Which translates in practice to receiving a cryptic email on Friday evening. Fortunately they're not the type that expects you to drop everything and work on their job ( Read more... )

So I was bold and chased down a lead I found in a roundabout fashion. This was a good thing, he has potential long term work available and would prefer to use local people where possible. For now he needs photographs of the products he is selling. I can't do any of the other work if he doesn't have images of his products. So I was upfront and told ( Read more... )

In the lead up to making the leap for creative freedom I've been doing business research. Part of that research has involved dull things like finding out what tax arrangements I have to make, working out hourly rates and what on earth I'm doing about superannuation. One task I am yet to do-but will do on Monday when I'm officially working for ( Read more... )

Anyone on my F-list want any patterns from the Butterick/Mccalls/Vogue website? They're having a BMV members $3.99 sale on Butterick patterns and as I'm going to get a membership there's a discount on the McCalls and Vogue patterns too. I need some new work clothes, so I'm thinking of ordering a few suit patterns and we might as well save postage ( Read more... )

In positive news, my brother and his fiance have found and moved into a new place. Needless to say last night was a little bit celebratory in our now rather quiet house.