In 2004, I was dying. Not at the usual rate, you know, the kind of dying we do on a daily basis, but a special faster kind of dying. At one point, I went to the emergency clinic as I'd finished a course of antibiotics and the infection was still there and still causing all the pain and bleeding and difficulty walking. The guy should have taken a ( Read more... )

Anyone interested in donating to the Queensland flood relief appeal: a handy official link. Thanks for reading.

Today, I have been mostly stabbing adjectival hyphenation. Apparently, this is something that the world struggles with, yet it's something that I seem to have learned really early on. Perhaps all that misspent youth reading dictionaries and encyclopaedias is to blame. Anyway, for reference, a few links for adjectival hyphenation:

The Word Blog
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O hello internets. For your viewing pleasure, I present a fort. Followed by a fort. Please enjoy!

So today is kind of weird. A lot of fail has happened ( Read more... )

( A dream )

Today's craving: raw cake mix with raisins, the kind that would make a nice fruity sponge.

What's your craving?

So the thing that I've been doing for the past many many weeks, in my copious free time, is setting up the new version of my website. There's still some content to fiddle about with, but it has a number of advantages, mainly being that it doesn't have Joomla! any more and hence I don't loathe it quite as much. Time will tell if I end up hating ( Read more... )

So this evening there was a powercut in the local area. Alarms went off, then they stopped. I imagine some people get weirded out when there's a powercut in the dark, but I think I managed OK. All through my childhood we never managed to get into the habit of buying enough replacement lightbulbs, so I got used to moving around in the dark, so ( Read more... )

Am I easily amused, or is it appropriate that I chuckled for ages at this cute, SFW cartoon?