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posted by [personal profile] bugshaw at 06:25pm on 01/02/2006
Good news - [livejournal.com profile] major_clanger has got through his meeting so fast, that they've managed to squeeze tomorrow morning's meeting in this afternoon. He'll be home this evening instead of having yet another night away! He should arrive, er, 15 minutes before I'm due to go out to gaming :-(

I don't think this quite counts as a gremlin; I was absolutely bedevilled by them on Monday, I was visiting [livejournal.com profile] hawkida and what with the oversleeping/clothes/bins/lost keys/out-of-order ticket machines/trains/gate-barring-shortcut I got there what, two hours late? I fear I passed at least one gremlin to her - I texted her phone, and it broke. Still, it was a nice visit which included a can of the increasingly rare Vanilla Diet Coke and the best part of an hour on the Ungainly StompingDance Mat. I started off poorly through lack of practice, but got more uncoordinated as we went on. It's much easier when you're just following the steps alongside the mat, without having to actually hit the footpads.

Ouch - it hurts when my brain goes in two tangents at once. What do I follow "hit the footpads" with? I'm torn between "Sort of like Batman" and "Sort of like Air Dance Mat."

I shall leave you with a Tip Of The Day, specially targetted at [livejournal.com profile] major_clanger:
When loading sharp knives in the dishwasher, try putting the sharp points downwards - this way your wife will not risk gouging parts out of her arm when fishing around for a bowl.

I also have tips for cleaning teeth and baby leeks.

P.S. And this is why I don't update much - when my fingers hit the keyboard, it all turns to drivel.
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posted by [identity profile] purpletigron.livejournal.com at 07:10pm on 01/02/2006
Hooray for Clangers coming Home! :-)

(We have the Knife Rule in our household, for that very reason - apparently, a child died stabbed to death on an uppointing knife?)

We like your stream-of-consciousness :-)
 
posted by [identity profile] bibliofile.livejournal.com at 05:00pm on 07/02/2006
Not that my opinion carries more weight than anyone else's, but I find this not to be at all drivel but entertaining. If nothing else, we learn that you're alive and socializing. Yay for both.
 
posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 10:40am on 10/02/2006
Yay indeed! [livejournal.com profile] purpletigron just touched a nerve - I want to do another fanzine but am worried about my writing ability. For the past four years all I've written is instructions and proposals for database marketing software, typing up lecture notes for the student I support, and this kind of thing which I had hoped had more structure than a stream-of-consciousness... but perhaps not. Still I've practiced some more and don't feel so bad about it now.

May I visit, if I win TAFF? I keep meaning to enquire in a more formal manner instead of piecemeal like this, but that will have to wait until After Eastercon™.
 
posted by [identity profile] bibliofile.livejournal.com at 04:13pm on 10/02/2006
Uh, sure. You do realize I moved? (Goes off to send email.)

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