And it was the best two days on the Hill in a long time. Sun, few queues, and amazing snow coverage.

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Up to the skifields for the weekend. See y'all when I get back!

My dreams are typically vivid, and even the nightmares play out with some degree of control over my own actions. This makes them into very fucked up action movies usually ( Read more... )

Said upon waking from an incredibly vivid dream involving a skiing lodge on Mt. Ruapehu, sentient robots, and a car chase down the Hill between a ATV and a AT-AT to my cat, Fractal

'Monkey, why didn't you save me from the robots?'

Like most of the rest of the civilised geek world, I've been playing the latest installment of the GTA franchise.

And it strikes me that one could easily make the point if one wanted that it teaches basic social interaction skills.

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Somehow, and I'm still not sure how it happened, this weeks Guitar Hero / drinks / bitch about life whilst Rocking Out™ session has, uh, exploded.
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...this is my hope, as well.

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Ganked from kobold

I was woken up at 1 AM by that most welcome of sounds - a flatmate bearing a formerly missing feline.

I suspect she got shut in someones house as they escaped the madness of 7's Weekend here in Wellington, but she's healthy, back, and in fine voice.

Now, if you'll excuse me I have a cat to pamper and some posters to take down : )

/sigh

My cat, Fractal, has been missing for four days now. To put this in perspective - I can count the number of times she's missed a meal on the fingers of one foot.
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Looks like we'll be starting initially at ~4PM. If you wanna show up earlier, feel free, but there's a distinct possiblity you'll be amusing yourself as I frantically run around tidying the house ( Read more... )