How was your day dear?: January 2013 Archives
Australia Day morning we went to Black Pepper for breakfast, and then did some shopping.
In the afternoon we went out to the club with new tent in tow. Even though there were storms forecast. Hrmm.
So we got there and assembled the tent. It took quite a while because we'd never done it before, and the instructions were pretty crappy. Got a bit hot and bothered. So had a little break in the middle to have a drink and a chat with some of the people there.
Continued on.
Made it in the end.
Inflated the air mattress, and filled the tent with all our crap, then went up for a swim. And it being nearly 5pm, we declared it beer o'clock.
The swim was really nice .. until they setup the water volleyball net. Hrmm.
Dinner was a lamb broth for entree, then another lamb stew, and haggis! and tatties and salads. Lamb for Australia Day, haggis for Burns night. The haggis wasn't quite as good as I remember from Scotland, but not too bad.
Desert was a cranachan made by Chris
Did I mention the storm? It *poured*. And continued to rain for hours. Apparently not as bad as back in Canberra though.
So we got back down to the tent to assess the damage. The tarp on the vestibule had been covered in water/mud/leaves, but the interior of the tent was ok. Just the end of the mattress/sheets were a bit wet from being pressed up against the edge of the tent. Unfortunately neither of us could get to sleep. The air mattress is quite sensitive, so each little movement rocks the other person around. So I think we kept each other awake. For hours. Plus I was stressing about my bladder. And of course the more you worry about needing to go, the more you think you need to go, even if you don't really need to go. Blah. I think I got to sleep around 2am. Woke up at 4am for at least another hour. Then another couple of hours sleep til 7am. Yeah four hours sleep is probably not enough.
So we got up and had leftover haggis and tatties for breakfast. Stu fried it, so it turned out more like the haggis we'd had in Scotland.
Then back down to disassemble the tent. After removing spiders.
I wiped the tent down with a towel and we didn't try to properly fold it up, would do that at home after properly drying it all. Just a quick fold and put it in the back of the car, with all the rest of our crap on the back seat.
And then home.
To find the power had been out since 7:10pm the night before :( Fortunately the seals on the fridge are pretty good, so everything was still cold to touch, and stuff in the freezer was still frozen (a bit of meltage on the ice cubes but still mostly frozen).
Rest of the weekend was pretty quiet. We did go over to Potty's so he could build a Cornetto stand for the sweetie. Because he's a manly man. And has power tools. :)
So there's this system at work that's been annoying me for literally *years*. I've begged various people to fix it over the years, but to no avail. So this week I thought screw it, I'll just do it myself. I started to write my own script, but very quickly realised that was a silly idea, when chances are there'd be plenty of scripts out there on the internet to do what I wanted to do. And sure enough there were. So downloaded one, hacked it a bit, and by this afternoon had something that will work. It's possibly not the most elegant solution, but it's certainly better than what we have, and that's got to be a win!
So a relatively quiet Sunday.
Well sort of!
This morning Doc came by to play with his Christmas present - a hedge trimmer! He hacked away at the side hedge, and only tried to electrocute himself once (the house decided it didn't want to comply). And he took me out to show me the free greenwaste recycling centre out at Holt - who knew!
Lunch of salad, then Doc and the family came by for a swim which was very pleasant.
Stir fry for dinner, to use up the last of the vegies, then Tristan came over to drop off some guppies before he moves to Brisbane. And there was much chattage and story telling for an hour or two.
And there's been rain! So much wonderful rain!! :)
And sadly the weekend comes to an end...
So one of my cousins has lived in Canberra for something like three years, yet we've still only managed to catch up with them once. Definitely something that needed to be rectified!
So today we went over for lunch - some thoroughly delicious pizzas (that were also so filling I didn't need dinner!)
Yum yum yum!
And there were Magnums!
After lunch we played a game of Alhambra
So yeah, a nice relaxing lunch/afternoon.
So I'm reading out a stack of movies that I'd be happy to watch with the sweetie tonight .. and it included the likes of Gladiator, The Hunt for Red October and Terminator 2 (amongst a bunch of others). So initially the sweetie picked Gladiator. But after we watched an episode of House, he said we could watch Gladiator or Terminator 2. And I'm like.. holy crap, you'd watch a James Cameron movie?? But you're allergic! It says so on the label! (him and DC think alike on this one). So as soon as he said he'd watch it I put it on before he changed his mind ..! heh
Yeah so survived the week.. spent two days fighting with documentation in a new system that's html-based and not nearly as friendly as doing doco in Notes (give me notes any day **please** !! ) and only achieved four documents out of a possible twenty or so. Guess what I'll be doing in the next couple of weeks (until other projects fire up again for the year) ...
Quiet morning, not as hot as yesterday.
Went over to Annie's to drop off a jigsaw I forgot to give them the other night.
Then food shopping and back home to watch the clouds roll in.
Annie and the kids came over for a swim, and while they were here the change came through. But no rain here sadly (well a few drops, but that was it).
The other day someone linked to a game called Sugar Sugar 2 on the RiotACT and I proceeded to play through all thirty levels. Tonight I went and found the original Sugar Sugar. Sadly now that's over, maybe there'll be a third? :) (looks like there's a Christmas version, will have to have a play of that).
