Stuff:

Cleaning old place - a lot;

Piraeus Blues;

Fleur's 30th;

Loud's cousin's birthday dinner, Honky Tonks and Sunny;

Um...

11:01:00 PM

 
Cool!
Colour coded bookshelves (explained)
5:50:00 PM

 
Heh:
'A MESSAGE FROM
PAT ROBERTSON AND
THE "VOTE NO
ON JESUS" CAMPAIGN'
5:16:00 PM

 
"I asked for tuna, they gave me ham".
They should make it into a song. I'm quite disappointed. Was so ready for tuna.
9:00:00 PM

 
We did the *massive* move on Saturday, practically 9am to 9pm packing and lifting and shifting and bloody stairs. We had the very welcome help of Evan, Ean and Nora (and her trolley). We hired a massive truck and took three trips for all the beds and fridges and couches and washing machines and thankfully only one wardrobe (a problematically large one) plus assorted everything else. Very tiring.

Was supposed to go out Saturday night to a housewarming and also Ilk Bar for drinks, but didn't make it. Beers (several) at home settling in, and then bed by midnight instead! Soft!

Slept in on Sunday. A bit more moving. Out to dinner at Ghurka's up in Carlton with Haclev and Xerxes and friends. Then met up with Ean and Loud and Lamprey for an Improv Comedy night at the Comic's Lounge - some really good stuff, will have to go again.

6:51:00 PM

 
So I hit 1000 posts about 10 posts ago! woo! (or oops, missed it!)

Other news is that I got headhunted last week. A reasonably large consultancy emailed me and asked if I was happy where I was, and said they'd heard I might be doing something "aligned" with what they do, and that perhaps I might like to discuss my plans for the future over coffee. I was going to just reply that, "no, I'm quite content here, and of course want to finish my projects here and my contract, but maybe I'll contact you late next year to discuss possibilities". The officemates were all "nono! you have to have face time! network! make sure they remember you! meet up and discuss things and then you can always turn down any offers, and then go back to them later next year and say 'remember me?'". So I agonized over a reply and sent "sure, I'd like to meet for coffee to discuss my long term plans" and gave them a couple of times this week I was free. Haven't heard back. Blah. Anticlimax.
3:30:00 PM

 
The elitist bastard in me comes out: USA, state by state election results listed by average IQ. Totally totally meaningless, but perhaps amusing.
9:50:00 PM

 
Just read:
"Bony cows with calves so skinny they looked like stray cats..."

I wondered for a good second how having especially skinny legs could make a cow look like a cat.

(From NY Times article on solving world poverty).
9:49:00 PM

 
Germane to speshal_k's sighting of Christian Slater last week, Christian was also featured in the Improv Comedy I went to last night. He was off stage, but he'd just dropped a 16 year old home to his worried parents after taking him on a date to a dumpster, and then poled off in his gondola. "The Crew" who put on "Impro Sundae" are very funny and very good - will have to take other friends to check it out.
4:28:00 PM

 
*mmgrnghgm* really was avoiding saying anything and was going to ttoally avoid reality, but looking at the exit poll details OHMYFUCKINGGOD HOW CAN THEY BELIEVE THAT?! ARGH!!!
4:52:00 PM

 
:P Haven't made it to work early *once* this week - bloody daylight saving! Is quite nice to get home while it's still light though, and even go out for dinner before the sun is fully down.

While I'm whinging: why does blogger still say I've only made 988 posts here? I've been waiting for it to hit 1000 but it hasn't changed for weeks :(

What else can I complain about?
4:33:00 PM

 
Is this true?! It's so believable, and it's like in the paper, but I know I shouldn't be so credulous...

"Now cast your mind forward 28 years to August 2004. While campaigning in Iowa, and sensing a photo opportunity, Mr Bush stopped his motorcade and bounded over to a vegetable stand, bought an ear of corn and, as cameras excitedly clicked, proceeded to try to eat it raw, discovering in the process what all other grown people know already - that eating raw corn is like eating raw wheat or raw rice, which is to say not remotely satisfactory".
2:55:00 PM