Well, the spectacular All weekend mid-winter Sleepover was an unqualified success! People slept over! Never so many people the place felt crowded, but we had crossword puzzles in one area, board games in another and vampire movies in a third. Much MUCH pizza was consumed and it was a near biblical deluge for the first two days, encouraging ( Read more... )

It is COLD down here today, in fact it froze last night (the second time I've seen frost in the 18 months I've been here ( Read more... )

So I've been wondering if I should have a party before I go, what sort and all that. And decided to do an all weekend long mini-con kind of thing. But then even better! Slumber party ( Read more... )

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Thursday I was contacted by the Foreign Service Institute (where State Department people train) and asked if I would please oh please consider leaving New Zealand to be the coordinator of the new Ambassadorial Seminar ( Read more... )

So it's the first Friday of the month and that means boardgaming in Featherston on Friday followed closely by Amercian Civil War Shit for Real Men in Khandallah on Saturday! I lost the only board game we played, but it had fabulous mechanics for determining battle outcomes. you throw all the armies (represented by little cubes) into a tower and ( Read more... )

Not that I favor child abuse or pedophelia or anything like that. And sadly I learned of the tiff from Slashdot.

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Going through a bit of a bad patch, if you don't hear from me for a while, don't worry, just sorting some things out.

L

I actually had another bicyclist ask me if it was "Windy enough for you" on my way around the point this morning. And yes, it IS thank you for asking!

Off to see Spiderman 3 at the Embassy tonight, the largest screen int he southern hemisphere! I like to sit in Legolas's seat. (It's where they premiered RotK and all the seats are marked.)