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| 10:25pm 04/09/2010 |
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With livejournal once again providing me with reasons to move away from it more permanently I just wanted to check if there is anyone already on Dreamwidth that I haven't added yet.
Originally posted at my Dreamwidth account. |
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2 sad insects - caught an insect? |
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| *puts on CIV hat* |
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| 04:40pm 25/09/2009 |
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mood:  busy
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A reminder to all those wonderful people planning on attending Canberra IV, early bird registration closes on the 18th October. If you want to take advantage of the early bird discount, payments must be completed by this date. Plus giving us money now allows us to pay deposits and purchase scores :)
*removes CIV hat* |
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4 sad insects - caught an insect? |
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| Things that are bugging me |
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| 09:32pm 13/09/2009 |
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mood:  annoyed
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Weekends are never long enough and I never seem to achieve as much as I would like to in the limited "free" time I have.
Despite moving across town, there are bad neighbours no matter where you live in Canberra. Case in point, someone in our complex in Bruce is stealing our Sunday paper. It's an improvement on the person in Griffith who would steal both halves of the Saturday paper, but it's still just as cruel and dishonest.
*shakes her tiny fist* |
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caught an insect? |
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| Amusing Ash Wednesday related comment |
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| 08:59am 25/02/2009 |
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So my sister and I were standing at the bus stop in Manuka after attending morning mass at the cathedral, and we had ashen crosses on our foreheads from the service. Cue the following comment from random dude at the bus stop.
Random Dude: "Hey ladies, do you mind if I ask you a question? Are those for the fires?"
At the moment I am amused. I was less amused at the time seeing as my sleepy state and lack of food made my brain process it as being a question about the bus (seeing as a 5 was just pulling up) so I had said yes before my brain kicked into gear so I could say "no, it's for Ash Wednesday".
( on a side note ) |
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6 sad insects - caught an insect? |
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| D&D meme |
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| 12:01pm 22/02/2009 |
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( Why does nerd always equal magic user )
What doesn't make sense is listing Sorcerer second - it sort of makes sense that a character would have a level of Sorcerer to begin with and then enter into the "years of study" required to become a wizard, hence the two levels of Wizard. But then again, depending on the setting, there's meant to be a certain amount of distrust between "book learners" and those with "natural ability", so the combination isn't something you would find in all campaign settings. Having already played a wizard I'm in no hurry to make another wizard character although I'm intrigued by what a Warlock with the Arcane Initiate multi-class feat (giving some elements of wizard) would be like in 4th Edition.
/end nerdy D&D ramblings |
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5 sad insects - caught an insect? |
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| Copied from Schubomb |
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| 09:11am 26/01/2009 |
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( tv shows )
There are a few in there that I would watch more if I had the time. Majority of the bolded ones are those I own/can borrow the DVDs. The DVD collection of the ACT libraries is awesome like that. |
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caught an insect? |
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| *does the happy "has internet" dance* |
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| 09:03am 22/01/2009 |
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mood:  accomplished
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We now have wireless broadband! - (optus 3G network resold through Exetel).
So my Huawei 169 modem arrived yesterday and after being told not to install it on Cathy's laptop (because she wanted to be there when we first connected it... aww) I attempted to get it to work on my Eee PC (Flea - now with Ubuntu - Intrepid Ibex to be precise) because I was assured it would simply be a case of plugging it in.
Nup, couldn't get it to work last night so I brought my Eee into the uni this morning to try and do it with internet assistance. After half an hour of googling and reading through various forums I discovered that I actually had to log onto the exetel website and active the sim. Guess who didn't read the email they sent correctly. *oops*
Anyway, I did that, and 2 minutes later received the confirmation SMS, then tried plugging the USB modem into Flea and selecting the 3G network from the menu and ta da - all connected.
If I haven't said it before, I really do love linux, Ubuntu in particular. I loved Flea anyway, I wouldn't have survived in Japan without my Eee PC, but Flea is so much more usable running Ubuntu than Xandros (which comes pre-installed). The only thing that is still an issue - the microphone doesn't work, but since I haven't used Skype since I returned to Canberra (kind of difficult without an internet connection at home) I'm happy to wait it out to see if someone comes up with a fix. |
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1 sad insect - caught an insect? |
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| Ewwww.... |
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| 09:24am 15/01/2009 |
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mood: annoyed
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I haven't had the best start to the day. I arrived at uni and went to the fridge to put my food in the fridge and in the process knelt down in a puddle of water seeping from underneath. Naturally my skirt went "weee" *absorb* and so I had to deal with a partially soggy skirt while attempting to solve the issue with the fridge.
This fridge has many issues, mainly the result of neglect. The major one is that people abandon food in there with no labels and then forget about it. I'm guilty of not labelling my food, I'm also guilty of forgetting about stuff in the fridge, but I usually remember before it goes all moldy and blergh. I also massively make up for it by being the one who clears out the fridge and mops up the puddles of water when the fridge floods. The flooding is actually caused by the freezer section - last time the flooding happened when the freezer section was allowed to become a big block of ice. This time it was the "melting tray" that was frozen solid - a 40cmx40cm sheet. No wonder the excess water just flowed down the back of the fridge where it congregated in a big puddle underneath.
It's all cleaned up now, and I took this opportunity to toss out obviously moldy and expired food in the fridge, but it really isn't the kind of thing you want to do first thing, particularly when you haven't eaten any breakfast yet.
I'm hungry, but I really couldn't face food at this point... |
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caught an insect? |
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| Hooray for easy installation! |
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| 10:47pm 10/01/2009 |
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mood:  bouncy
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So with assistance from my nearest friendly linux geek (thank you Mr ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.2) uniqueid) I can now has ubuntu on my EeePC... much more friendly and customisable than the Xandros OS that came pre-installed. Having followed the advice on the ubuntu documentation wiki ( here, the biggest hurdle was the wireless and it's now working fine, so the only major issue now is the fact that the microphone doesn't work. No doubt I'll find other issues along the way but I must say I am very impressed with the ease with which Ubuntu was able to be installed. I think I've been scarred too deeply by the frustration of Windows while growing up and now I have MacOS at the uni to battle with these days. Having to wrangle with three operating systems on an almost daily basis is an interest challenge. |
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6 sad insects - caught an insect? |
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| Blergh need brains |
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| 03:48pm 18/12/2008 |
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Have managed to turn my brain into mush by spending two hours on the microscope examining just one fiberFISH slide.
I think I will go have a coffee and introduce the lab to the wonders of tim tam slams :p |
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1 sad insect - caught an insect? |
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| Hmm... quarantine question |
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| 10:51pm 07/12/2008 |
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So Takahashi-san joined in the expedition to Atami today (more detail about that tomorrow) and gave me a small farewell gift of some small bags containing incense - for putting in a drawer etc. The issue is - it's incense. I carefully opened one of them up and inside a bag inside the bag (so not sitting loose) - the incense is a powder, probably like powdered pot purri. I think it's correct to assume that I won't be able to bring them back to Australia because of plant quarantine concerns.
So do I carefully open the other two up and remove the incense bags? That way I at least get to keep the "shell" of the gift and the outer "bags" will smell nice for a while. If I don't do anything and wait until I arrive in Australia and declare it to customs, then I risk losing all the gift which would suck. |
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4 sad insects - caught an insect? |
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| Anyone want a postcard? |
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| 11:44am 05/12/2008 |
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mood: bouncy
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So, the days are flying past (hooray!) and in two and a half weeks I will be returning to Australia (hooray!).
Now I have a nice bunch of blank postcards here and a desire to ramble. Would anyone like a postcard?
Comment below with your address (comments are screened) and I'll send you one from Japan. |
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caught an insect? |
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| *giggles* |
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| 10:57am 05/12/2008 |
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On the twelfth day of Christmas,  frodolover sent to me... Twelve phasmids drumming Eleven basses piping Ten butterflies a-leaping Nine androids boingboing Eight sums a-singing Seven atreides a-snuggling Six insects a-reading Five ba-a-a-ass rumbles Four veronica mars Three black books Two ian simmons ...and a tripod in a kamikaze cookery. |
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| *shakes tiny fist at the sky* |
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| 06:03pm 01/12/2008 |
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Grrr. The curse of the overcast sky strikes again, even though I'm in a completely different country.
I wanted to see what the moon/venus/jupiter thing looked like from Japan (as in, would it be visible) only the sky has decided to be overcast and ruined my plans.
Woe. |
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5 sad insects - caught an insect? |
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| *is highly embarrassed* |
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| 11:11am 27/11/2008 |
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You know the website I made at the height of my Wil Anderson fandom, back before I moved on to concentrate on university? I've only just realized it's still linked on on Wil's official website. Oh dear. My teenybopper-esk fannishness preserved in crappy html (because I insisted on coding it myself without the help of programs like dreamweaver).
There once was a time when I would be bouncing off the walls with the excitement of being acknowledged. Now I just cringe. I mean I didn't even make it to Wil's show this year (the preview/development show for BeWILdered was in Canberra in late February but I was in Victoria at the time for a conference/catching up with Melbourne friends).
I really must remember to go to his show this year. *makes a note to keep an eye on the Canberra Theatre website* |
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bored
chipper![[info - personal]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crushed