In GMail it shows correspondence between someone else and me as "TheirName, me".

Today I found it rather amusing, since I was writing to someone called Sue.

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So much for global warming, it feels more like the start of the next ice age here. 2°C, 50km/h wind gusts and ice pellet rain, just fantastic.

All the more reason to stay indoors and play Portal 2, I suppose.

Oooo goody, Portal 2 has appeared for preload in my Steam client. Only 5 days to go :)

I treated myself to a big latté coffee this morning. Going off-program once in a while (once per month, at this rate) is fine and a very far cry from the 1-2 per day I was drinking before, along with the obligatory breakfast roll or sugary snack of course ( Read more... )

My definition of difficult: trying to stick to a stone-age style diet during the month where every other family member has a birthday, and both the mother and I enjoy baking cakes. Although I feel like something of a drug dealer nowadays when I make stuff with flour and then proceed to only eat the smallest slice ( Read more... )

Albert Einstein is quoted as having said "The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest."

This video shows why:

Is it just me or has LJ slowed to an utter crawl? It wasn't even loading last night, and today it's taking a minute or more to load each page...

Interesting day, from a culinary point of view. I've recently gone "primal" in my eating (a bit like paleo, but less fundamentalist about it all, with allowances for modern healthy conveniences such as dark chocolate, tea, some dairy, and red wine) and so I've had a period of adjustment getting used to making things that don't contain grains or ( Read more... )

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