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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In which we return home, eventually.
The journey home… Now, after all that joy (and I wrote this bit first, because it’s still a little bit of a pants end to a lush week), we slipped out of our apartment at 0530 (0430 UK time) and hopped in the car to head home. Our host had told us not to follow…
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In which we see Slovenia.
And so at Marco Polo airport we wandered around looking lost having missed the LocAuto booth. Kathryn eventually spotted them and fairly soon after we arrived they said ‘is it just you two’, then offered us a free upgrade to a VW Golf Convertible. I’ve never driven a convertible before, always imagined I’d not like…
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Aaaaand back to the house…
So, the time has come to start working on the house again (although I have other tasks I want to do, including reinstalling this laptop with a shiny, fresh version of OS X). But first up, my mother is coming to visit in a few weeks, and our Library* is still full of boxes. Boxes,…
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Just a brief desire
So, while we were at my mum’s we went down to a second hand / house clearance place in Cornwall (also to the Eden project, so I’ll post some pics from there soon). There were a few things there we were interested in, a nice mini chesterfield sofa*, a mangle**, a nice office chair for…
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In which we go away and see Venice.
So, back from holiday. Everyone ready? I’ve got some slides to show you…
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And it spirals upward
So, the idea for what has become Kathryn’s anniversary present came to me a while ago. About a year, I think. I thought “Oh hey, that’s a cute idea”. I pitched myself some costs and decided it was a cute/fun idea that I could probably pull off in a few days. Maybe a week or…
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I thought it was me
I’m often a dozy cow. I’ll order the wrong thing because I’ll miss something blatant on the packaging, like it being the wrong size, or I’ll forget to check the shape, or whatever. I think I use up all my exacting caution at work, checking drugs or sutures, or what have you. So this morning,…
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The Amp
So, I spent some time changing out the capacitors (well, the electrolytic and the damaged ceramic one) on the Armstrong 227M amp that I nabbed from ebay. It’s a mono valve amp, so I’ve also made up a rather nice little 1kohm inside the plug shells stereo-to-mono phono lead. Anyhow…
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Augh
In my dinking thinking about the bookshelf I need above my desk, I came across this: It’s a concept for a bookshelf. Concept. Bugger. I wants it.
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The list
So, I’ve got a little list of things to do when I finish my dissertation…More for me than anyone else, really.