Blogette

Just a quick entry tonight, as I've got to get myself organised in the morning.

Did my first tour at the observatory for this season a week or so back, was a good night, though we did have a bit of trouble with high humidity and dew making the tarantula nebula look more like a faint smudge, still with the aid of that wonderful piece of equipment, the hairdryer, the telescope was de-dewed and the tarantula seen in well, as glorious as it gets to the naked eye. Alas that nebulas are one of the things that really look better in photographs than through a scope, if you want to see the colour anyway.

Met some of Chris's other waifs and strays last night. A good time was had by all, much food was eaten including the pineapple turnips, and all bouts were taken outside, except the armwrestling.

Nifty

Yay, the set daily puzzle now has a nifty feature that keeps the sets you have already found as small images in the webpage itself, rather than you having to look at a popup which went away as soon as you started back on the main webpage, saves a lot of 'no, I already got that one' stuff.

Ho hum, install install install

After my work computer died a few months back I finally have the replacement (instead of the temporary replacement) and yet again am trying to locate and reinstall all the software I need.

Luckily it has happened on a fairly quiet day and there's no urgent jobs requiring me to have the computer working.

I've been sharing my place for a few days now as Chris needed a place to stay between her housesitting stint and the shared household she's moving into at the weekend. Which should give her some breathing space for looking for a new place to buy. So far we've managed to avoid getting on each others nerves, though I'm not sure how much of that is due to the little time actually spent there while not sleeping.

It's baaaad...

Someone gave me a URL for a review of one of those self-published/vanity press books. I really, really pity the reviewer and am awed by their sacrifice and endurance that enabled them to finish the book to review it. Not to mention the pain of typing in (exactly) some of the passages.

I encourage you to read the review, but whatever you do, don't read 'Night Travels of the Elven Vampire'.

Oh the strawberry scented elegance! Oh the red onions!

(See, I do too blog occasionally)

To-to-ro Totoro!

Ahh, an interesting day. My usual Scottish Gaelic study (Hallo a h-uile duine!) then off to Splanky's for a party where I failed to invest in any lingerie. My scottish training and upbringing makes it hard for me to buy expensive things that I can't see me getting any use out of. And I'm not sure what I'd wear hot pink under.

Then it was off to FTI to at least see ONE movie in the Miyazaki Showcase while it was on. (I really wanted to see Laputa again but it seems deliberately scheduled against all my other activities. :( Perhaps I shall just buy the DVD. I think, yep, it and Kiki's Delivery Service are out in October.
I can wait.)

So, in case my subtle use of the title has escaped you, ;) I had a lovely evening watching My Neighbour Totoro. It's been quite some while since I saw this one and I fell in love with it again. If people tell you that anime's just violence and X rated stuff, show them Totoro, heck show them any Miyazaki movie (subtitled for preference provided said people are literate).