I have used an old profile picture from when I met Jay Lake ( Read more... )

We are currently on a fabulous road trip with jaylake and his family. First stop Oamaru. Now that we have been thoroughly cheesed, steampunked and penguined, we are preparing to head to our next stop, Kaikoura. Sleep now, for tomorrow we drive.

Have made a number of deletions from friends list. If you were deleted in error, please let me know. Thanks

Did some poking around at my friends list. Haven't posted much lately. It seems that this journal isn't as important to my life as it once was, but I don't want it to go stagnant, as I strongly believe it will be important again.

As you were.

I started out unsure about what to write, but I do believe it is important to write something, as most people don't seem to understand how disabled people get treated day-to-day. I've decided to go with the story of my last flight out of Wellington, as the treatment of disabled people in Wellington airport is the worst I have received anywhere in ( Read more... )

We had a grand weekend. We met up with many lovely people at Fidel's on Friday night, then we went out to dinner with rivet and rikan_feral. We did not, alas go to see the Watchmen movie with them, because as we were leaving the Satay Kingdom, we saw Brian, Mike and Sheri, husband, college buddy and Mother-in-law of luminel. We decided to hang with them and make sure ( Read more... )

I can't believe that I haven't posted for four weeks. So much has happened. Our Chinese New Year dinner was a great success ( Read more... )

Tonight we had pumpkin soup, steamed cauliflower and grilled salmon on an onion focaccia with an avocado and cream cheese dressing. It was very yummy, but I think I may have done myself a mischief with my portion size.

Early for you!


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I wanted to take this opportunity to thank all of you from around the world for donating money to help our friend pay for health care. May we someday live in a world where this is unnecessary. I have a message from the friend in question:

So, um ( Read more... )