Part the first: having words.
Meep has words with the gas heater.
I have words with some kind of toy robot dog thing.
Part the second: various discoveries.
Tomato and, um, large furry fruit discovered in Cape Town garden.
Miniature Loch Ness monster discovered in Cape Town restaurant.
Woo, what a weekend!
Friday night was Parafit’s company winter conference thingy.
Despite the general bad vibes about work at the moment, we had lots of fun.
Good food and wine, followed by some serious boogie action. Parfles cunningly booked the DJ from carnun’s wedding.
Saturday we managed to roll out of bed just in time for lunch at Overture for a Teh Doc birthday celebration.
Fantastic. Great food (all new! all tasty!), great people. Best four hour lunch I’ve ever had.
Then spent the evening lounging at Doc and Eck’s house watching the last half of The Lost Room.
If you haven’t seen it yet, ask me for the DVDs. They’re on our shelf, begging to be lent out.
Sunday we went for a walk with Jim and his canine companion, Max, in Cecilia forest. Slightly chilly, but we managed a good long walk. The views from up high were amazing. Low flying cloud, mountains peeking over the top, sun up high. Fantastic.
The BLTs we had for brunch at home were very, very, tasty. Finally started watching Cold Comfort Farm that we borrowed from Aki about one bajillion years ago… Surprisingly funny!
Then Rice Soup with Many Bits for dindins with the usual suspects, and sitting in front of beeg fire.
Today’s To Do list goes off the page, but I’m taking it slow.
Spent a while adding stuff to my last.fm wotsit earlier this morning. I’m adding lots of old stuff, lots of new stuff, and then fiddling around with it to see what it says. I’m most interested in the “similar artists” thing, which seems to be quite groovy.
Dinner last night.
In case you can’t quite see – it’s a big braai grid in our fireplace.
Those of you who’ve had this before will know that this is not madness, but Chuck, and It Is Good.
We also had a side salad.
Some facts.
A consequence:
Sproing on his favourite pillow
Early morning coffee with Parfles in Tyger Valley the other day.
Walk around Constantia Nek this morning. Bit drizzly, but otherwise lovely.
In an attempt to sort my days out a bit, I’m playing with various ways of To Do listing.
Since I’m doing a couple of different jobs at once I need to keep some kind of record of what’s happening and when.
I had a look at a couple of web To Do wotsits and a play with the Lightning Add-on for Thunderbird over the weekend, and I’ve come to a conclusion.
I like paper.
I like writing stuff down (and I like crossing it out when it’s finished!).
So, I’m splitting my To Do stuff into today, this week, later and spreading them over my diary and my sketchbook. I seem to be carrying both with me most of the time, so this is good.
I have a vague plan to make my own diary, maybe for next year, that has a better day-per-page layout than my current one, and lots of note-making pages at the back for listy making.
To do this week (oh ho): research layout stuff for diarising.
Also over the weekend: finally finished changing Shop site to Not Shop Anymore site.
A little bit quick and dirty, but it will definitely do for now.
It’s been hanging around my head since the shop closed, and it feels great to have actually done it now.
I had webber’s block about it.
Now I’m feeling inspired and stuff again.
Shooting Peeps project: you’re next, beehatch!
Ho hum.
While I’m enjoying this working from home thing, I’m struggling to settle.
I feel like my days are a bit too sliced up and in pieces.
I’m sort of half on holiday all the time.
I want to take some actual time off, a proper unplug, but it’s not quite feasible.
So instead I take slices of the day off as I trot along.
On the woo side, I will be getting a proper holiday soon – a few of us are off to Grahamstown for the festival, which I am predicting will be awesome.
Not so much the festival itself (although I expect awesome of that too), but my experience of it. I plan to be all creative with drawings and photos and things while I’m there. This will be tempered slightly by the legendary COLD. And possibly also by the vast amount of eating and drinking I plan to be doing.
Boing!
AHS and C recently threw some Blk Sonshine at me.
(Not a lot of linkage, but check out this rock.co.za proflile, this music.org.za one, and a you tube search for them.)
They are fantastic.
Exactly the kind of music I’m looking for at the moment.
It’s foot-tappy, butt-shakey, one voice, one acoustic guitar kind of stuff.
I must now purchase their CD.
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