Kate’s allegedly a human (although increasingly right-wing bigots would say otherwise). She’s definitely not a vampire, despite what some other people claim. She’s also mostly built out of spite and overcoming oppositional-sexism, racism, and other random bullshit.
So she’s either a human or a lizard in disguise sent to destroy all of humanity.
Either way, she’s here to reassure that it’s all fine.
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Oh ah, ugh.
The first bit of test equipment arrived for the lab. I checked it over, and having seen nothing alarming at all (even the capacitors look in good health at the moment), I’ve tried it out. It’s within about 0.4v of what it says on the scale, which is good enough for me at the moment…
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I suspect this gift horse is a trojan.
So, apparently the origin of “Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth” is the latin phrase “Noli equi dentes inspicere donati”. Which is all very well when it’s actually a gift. However, when looking at land that’s surprisingly cheap, it’s not really a gift so much, so looking at the reason the price-tag’s so…
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Of course we did.
So, we went to look at property yesterday. 5 viewings, scattered across the Oly area. There was the first plot that was wet and surprisingly noisy, the second plot that was wet and had a home that needed pulling down and you’d have to build right on the road, the fourth plot which has utilities…
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Settle.
Life continues to be more or less the same as it ever was. I’ve been working, at least intermittently, and I’ve even been paid. That has been rather nice, although it’s led to a bit of a flurry of spending as I’ve taken a bunch of stuff off the ‘want list’ which included several things…
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I believe the term is ‘Buzzkill’
So we’d made up a list of questions regarding our nice, potential property. We’d had a look at the county website and had some ‘concerns’. But, the realtor seemed to be of the opinion that at least some stuff was permitted, and so I went with cautious optimism. See, it’s a pretty bit of land:…
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Hitting the trifecta
So yesterday we headed up to Seattle. Although we’ve been up there on holidays before, we’d not been to visit the city since we got back. We’d been up to see people, but not just trailed around doing fun stuff. But Kathryn spotted this artist called Basia Bulat who looked very cool (hey, Autoharp), so…
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After about 20 minutes doing battle with the IRS phone system
I found a human. An actual real human. I asked him about whether I need to file a tax return. Given I was in the US for 14 days of 2015, and I didn’t work for any of them, it seems ridiculous to do so. A friend of ours reckons I don’t need to. I’d…
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Of course after I ordered the stuff I remembered the other things I was meant to order. I’d Grr, but there’s free shipping, so it was irritating, rather than costly.
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Onwards and upwards
So, Kathryn and I are planning, in the marginally longer term (as in not this week) to start a business. This is partly scary because we’re planning to invest a chunk of the money we made on renovating our last house in it. It’s also scary because my last attempt at running a business was…
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I distinctly remember a time
when ‘sleeping’ did not consist of 8 hours of me lying there, periodically waking up and going ‘is it morning yet’, then spending half an hour trying to get back to sleep.