My phone carked it :< After years of loyal service it's just given up the ghost. It was the perfect phone: green, reasonably cheap and, best of all, waterproof. I've taken it in the pool on multiple occasions, been running with it in the rain, swum in the ocean with it shoved in my bathers. Apart from that one time last summer that I forgot to dry ( Read more... )

Happy Australia Day two days later! This summer has been absolute balls and I feel like Australia Day this year was really all about the CFS volunteers et al. One of my Dad's mates is a CFS volunteer and has been doing stints in NSW, obviously Cudlee Creek and over to Kangaroo Island. The amount of time these people are sarificing to go into the ( Read more... )

Happy New Year! I feel I can more properly say that now because on Friday night, I took myself down to the Horizons coctail lounge overlooking the (highly smoke-affected) sunset and I finished Silent Harmony. I feel like, since beginning of NaNo, I've kinda had just EVERYTHING on hold in favour of finishing this thing, so now I have it really feels ( Read more... )

"A Reduced Threat has been issued for the Cudlee Creek fire which is now Contained."

FUCKING CONTAINED. I'm so happy. That last incident update made me teary to read. Incident/advice/warning updates are more like this sort of thing. Y'know, fire is here, travelling that way, crews in attendance, locals advised to be vigilant/activate their ( Read more... )

Three weeks ago it was still winter. I was at the cricket and it was cold and wet and everyone was in winter gear, complete with Crows scarves and beanies cos Cricket Australia doesn't make scarves and beanies. Last week it was spring! We got, like, a solid six days of spring this year. That's a lot of spring because spring is a lie. It's winter up ( Read more... )

I'm 1500 words off of winning NaNo with Steel with a full Saturday still to play with, so I thought I'd take a bit of a break to... write about writing. YEP. I was going to go to the cricket this evening after work, but the weather is shit. It's cold and wet and there's no heating at the Oval. Despite that, it's day one of the Test and we've ( Read more... )

I'm calling that done :D ( Read more... )

My poor melty Europeans :< 40+ sucks enough when you live in a country prepared for such occurrances. I think I've given all my hot-weather advice over the years. Best thing is having a cold shower with just a liiiiittle bit of hot in it, enough that you can stand under it but that it'll still cool you down. Get the water especially where your ( Read more... )

It's happening again :O None of the links work yet except those that link out--tpyo, Fig Jam and [Snapshot Henchman]--but the splash functions! Hooray!

Saw Toy Story 4 on Tuesday with new frand! I think I have a new favourite Toy Story, maybe. Best line: 'I think Daddy needs to say some Words now so we'll just go over here, okay, Sweetie?' I want ( Read more... )

Tax return done! This year, I think due to my pay rise back in January, I'm getting about triple back what I normally get. This, plus the aforementioned pay rise itself, almost makes up for the extra $10 a week I'm now paying because they dropped the HECS* threshold. All that research and waiting and shitting myself to get that first pay rise in ( Read more... )