It rained yesterday. First time in a month of blue moon sundays. The day before, the clouds had come seeking the limelight (jealous, perhaps, of the suns radiant beauty), only to crowd the sky in a jostling drabness. Which is not to deny individual clouds their right to be quietly beautiful. Indeed, there is much to be said even for the stark, drab ( Read more... )

A big ol' pancake moon trails softly, soaking up the ghostly bright treacle sky. An inconsistent chill of an August breeze ruffles the hairs on the back of your neck as it churns the bubbly clouds which block the pallid twinkling of the skulking, buttery stars. Somewhere, a dog attempts to put an end to any mystery in the night-time as it cuts ( Read more... )

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So, about three months after I was given them for my birthday, I seem to have hopefully found someone who will give me piano lessons! Hooray!... Wouldn't want to rush something like this, you know? I was given a couple of recommendations by my friend Richard, but they were all either full with students, or not even teaching anymore. Always ( Read more... )

( There's apparently no 'emoticon' in the livejournal moods theme for 'proud.' Weird. )

I was in a bookshop recently, when I found a truly wonderful book. The complete collection of the Grimm Brothers Fairy Tales. More than 200 stories, for only $20. That's less than 10 cents a story, for those playing the math game along at home. I've truly enjoyed reading them. Something about them just really appealed to me, with the evil witches ( Read more... )

( I went for a walk today! )

It would seem that I have been spoiled silly by my first real job! (although being ignored by the general public for $2.50 an hour might seem enjoyable enough to be labeled as work, I like talking about that as much as the general public did me) I've been working for a group at the ANU called icam, or the Integrated Catchment Assessment and ( Read more... )

One day, a long long time ago, all the way back to early yesterday morning, the Christiano Bear woke up with A Thought in his mind. The Xn had recently discovered that the house he was staying in had a copy of the complete collection of stories of Winnie the Pooh, and being, like Pooh, a bear of Very Little Brain, and thus much Plagiaristic ( Read more... )

Today is going to be a sublimely swell day! You woke up this morning, and somehow just knew that it was going to be so; that something incredibly exciting and exhilirating and enrapturing was going to happen today!... Or, at least, so you thought. Unfortunately, so far, nothing much has really happened. Currently, you’re sitting at your computer, ( Read more... )

Dear The People Who Spend Their Time Putting Better And Better Cameras Into Mobile Phones ( Read more... )