When the family were here the other week, I had to make three rounds of tea, owing to the rather titchy size of my teapot. It's a great little pot for one, but any more than two and you have problems.

Today, a package arrived from Australia. You don't even want to ask how much it cost to post.


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Pretty pleasant evening with the family - hadn't seen my aunt since about October '01, my grandmother since... I have the feeling I'd seen her at some point after my granddad's funeral that November, but I'm buggered if I can remember when. Natalie, who's from St. Petersburg and not actually related, nevertheless we hadn't seen in about five ( Read more... )

Needs moar Simon Pegg

Also: Cap'n, the fourth wall, I dinna think she can take much more o' this!

Om nom nom nom

5-Minute Review:
It's not often I go out to eat in Bloomington with my dad and don't end up disappointed. Puccini's, Scholar's Inn, even Shanti, while good, aims their spiciness at the average Indiana restaurant-goer. Le Petit Café, on the other hand, is a proper French restaurant - the food is straight out of Elizabeth David's ( Read more... )

The Republican party's budget... uh... blueprint of a blueprint of a budget is going a long way towards cheering me up at the end of a hard week ( Read more... )

Still alive, sort of ( Read more... )

Spectacular sets and costumes, as I've come to expect from the opera department here ( Read more... )

It's been a long time since I've done anything with Java. I had forgotten how much I disliked Swing. Object-oriented programming I love, but Swing can take a running jump.

Took all damn evening to finally remember how to make an applet actually load and do stuff. But it's loading and doing stuff now, so I can pass out.

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In lieu of a first-day-of-school report, here is a hedgehog stuck in a loo roll.

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My system's up and running again, although I'm running an ultra-low-power config until I can get a new PSU ( Read more... )