Back to work

Well, it's Tuesday and after my extended long weekend (I'm not sure if being ill on friday counts) I'm feeling....well not exactly raring to go but certainly working on it. Today I learnt what you have to do with CSS to make IE center elements.

Andrew and I get together with some friends most mondays, and while usually this can be as few as 5 people in total (if you include the 3 year old) last night was quite large what with the visitors from the playstation game writing company and a few other people who don't normally come. I think we'll have to start another roster for food though. Getting a little fed up with pizza.

Lily's talking about book club reminds me, have to get a copy of the sword in the stone for our local one.

Got home midafternoon yesterday, then it was spring clean day! (except for the study and the back room which need more sorting than actual cleaning.) Place is looking much better and I need not fear people dropping by.

Am being asked for ideas for Xmas and birthday already. Help!

A Lazy Sunday

Ahh, a nice lazy Sunday, or so I thought. True the day started off relatively leisurely, but then Andrew's spring cleaning list of things to do hit its next item: Buy shelves at bunnings warehouse. This is my first experience of an actual Bunnings Warehouse as opposed to their smaller stores and all I can say is Wow! That place is huge! We managed to resist most temptations and left with only shelves, brackets and a few tiny other items.

Then we popped in at the Midland Military markets, which Andrew thought was very much like the Royal Show in its types of stalls, but without having to pay to get in. Did browse through their 2nd hand book section but nothing we wanted. (Interestingly they had the adult erotica right across from the feminism books which seemed a little odd)

We managed to meander around there for half an hour and only buy some minimal confectionary.

Then shortly after returning to the house we were off again to help take down some paintings from an Art show. There were some nifty dresses on a theme there. And the dragons! Lots of ceramic dragons. :)

Ahh well, back in, relaxing and doing some more copyright renewals.

The addiction struck

Well, so much for that idea. Intended to play Galactic Civilisations but the siren song of Distributed Proofreaders sucked me in and I found myself proofreading copyright renewals and the grammar of english grammar's (pt 2) which is a tome which was in total 1100+ pages, of large size, in small font. Thankfully the pages were scanned well and you can zoom in quite well.

Oh dear ... I think I'm going to do another page.

On the bright side, I'm still feeling well. I wasn't sure if the tiredness was going to kick in midafternoon, but I seem to be holding out, mind you I haven't exactly been exerting myself. Looking forward to spinach & ricotta lasagne for dinner.

(Oh and Lily, my topic link seems fine ... sometimes quicktopic gets a little glitchy ... try again.)

Feeling better!

Ahh..the benefits of a good night's sleep.

Feeling much, much better. Slept much better last night than I did Thursday night, got up at 8:30am, managed to get breakfast, do dishes, get shower and get stuff together to go off to gaelic class only running 5 minutes late.
Lethargy seems to have reduced significantly.

Have decided that my favourite scottish gaelic word at the moment is dòigh, (pron doy) which means way or method, but also can mean path. A gaelic euphemism for getting something repaired or fixed is to put it on its way. Gaelic uses put a lot, put the kettle on, put the kettle off, put your coat on, put your coat off :) Lots of putting.

Trying more or less successfully to ignore the 'big game' going on on the TV. Alas watching sport on TV is one of the innoculations that didn't take when I became a Aussie citizen. I seemed to be immune when living in the UK too.

Think I might play a bit of Gal Civ now :)

Not feeling well

I'd expected to be out at the Unisfa 25th thing tonight (in spite of never actually having been a member - but Andrew is so that would be close enough) however wednesday I was very tired, Thursday I was even more so, to the extent that midway through thursday afternoon I felt too tired to function and the nice people at the medical centre lent me a bed to lie down on for a few hours. However being tired does not equate to sleeping well, I had an extremely unsatisfactory night when it came to sleep and stayed off work today. I did manage to get up the energy to shop for some essentials I was out of and to get some fast food because I didn't have the energy to cook. Decided that even if I got up the energy to go to the unisfa thing I'd not be very good company. Hope those that go have fun though. With another earlyish night I hope to have enough energy to make it up the hill tomorrow, and maybe even get to my scottish gaelic lesson.

Simon's meanderings about the UK countryside has made me consider how little of it I've actually seen, in spite of having grown up there. Leaving before you're independently mobile (I was 14) did tend to crimp my travelling, but I do have some significant memories. Wookey hole is a nifty little cave system and I'm sure Simon will like it when he stops by (I'm sure he will, if only because of the Dr Who episodes filmed there). I'm not sure where I lost my hanging witch from there. *sigh*.

Another memory is of swimming in an outdoor pool at North Berwick, in autumn. 'Cold' does not even begin to describe it. I can't remember why on earth we went in originally. The pool was theoretically heated, which meant that if you hovered near the 'hot water' outlets your lips didn't quite turn blue.

Marine movies

Went to the movies last night to watch 2 films with a marine theme, starting off with the very cute Finding Nemo, and following that with the swashbuckling Pirates of the Caribbean(sp?). Both films enjoyable in different ways. Spent half of Pirates trying to remember where I'd seen the Governor before, still imdb is your friend there. Tomorrow Never Dies and the Master in the spoof of Dr Who a while back (The Curse of the Fatal Death)

What with yesterday's early morning and late night I'm feeling very sleepy now. Meant to be going to badminton this evening, we'll see how awake I'm feeling.

Bleah - Tuesdays

Tuesdays. My not so favourite day. Mainly because I have to get up much earlier than normal. I guess I could train my body into it by getting up early every day, but it's not sustainable throughout the rest of the week. That's one of the penalties when your partner is an astronomer who thinks that 2am is an early night.

Been watching Dr Who on the ABC, ahh those BBC sets :) Most of them actually pretty good, the most glaring problem set yesterday being in the city with one of those fake long corridors.

To someone whose exposure to Dr Who was from the Tom Baker era onward the selfishness and manipulativeness of the Hartnell Doctor is a little unsettling and it will be interesting to watch the character develop as it were.

Thinking rude thoughts about the Swen virus creators, though it seems to be calming down...only 55 overnight as opposed to 76 the day before and in the hundreds before that.

Got an unanticipated night in (Decided I was not up to driving an hour and a half in yesterday's yucky weather) where I played TV catchup, caught bits of the emmys and got the baking bug, I'm sure I'll find someone to help me eat the choc chip muffins.

Monday morning and the monday blues have hit again. Not helped of course by commuting in from Kalamunda this morning. Yay for bad weather. At least Simon seems to be getting some good weather on his UK trip.

This is of course not reducing my pile of work so only the short note today.
I figure that I might get a chance to veg out Thursday evening. Here's hoping.

Seems to be the latest thing this blogging, so what the heck. Not promising anything as my diary keeping in the past has rarely gotten past January.

This is of course distracting myself from the work I should be doing. Bleah. Like any pile of large tasks, the problem is working out where to start...and stopping myself from doing another page on distributed proofreaders. (Highly addictive.) I'm doing some copyright renewals and have hit Tarzan, I've never seen so many ways for the OCR to misread Edgar Rice Burroughs on one page.