My goodness. L'Oreal have a new lash architecture in 4D! Quick, put these people in charge of the space program!

My grandmother reads a lot of Mills and Boon. I've been picking these up in the evening. Just for research purposes, you understand. I've discovered that several of them use the phrase 'carte blanche' to refer to a man making a woman an offer to become his mistress ( Read more... )

The decision's been made. My application for an extension has been rejected. I now have a little over three weeks to leave the US ( Read more... )

Happy new year, UK people.

I've got another 8 hours to go.

An odd and hugely frustrating thing is happening. If you know how to fix it I will love you forever ( Read more... )

America is generally all about the convenience, so it baffles me now and then when I come across something which to me just seems rubbish ( Read more... )

From today's Pepys Diary:

"Up, and with my wife to church, it being Whitsunday; my wife very fine in a new yellow bird's-eye hood, as the fashion is now."

Anyone know what a bird's-eye hood is?

Happy May Day. Io Floralia. Beltane blessings. Etc.

I'm in desperate need of tech support - please help! This morning I've been getting the blue screen of death every ten minutes. This may or may not be related to the fact that I uninstalled some stuff last night. It was mostly the pointless freebie crap that came with the pooter, but perhaps I accidentally deleted something I shouldn't have. ( ( Read more... )

Strange things have started happening with my connection. First I started getting an occasional message complaining that another computer on the network is sharing my IP address. There is no other computer, unless someone is poaching my wireless, but that's entirely possible, as it's unsecured (they tried to secure it and failed). And now Eudora ( Read more... )