Miscellany
Sony recalls copy-protected CDs. Good to see them doing the right thing, though they opened up a Pandora's box with the rootkit. I'll be checking the label on the CDs I buy from now on, I don't want Sony software on my system. If
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Personal
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Can I stop now?
Got to be Monday.
* Two doctor's appointments.
* Embroidery skills evaporated sometime in the 1990s.
* Took the day off work, but spent whole day running around like crazy woman.
* Car died (bad battery, AAA replacement, excellent technician chap).
* Hubby stranded at work after giving me working car to get
Coldplay!
Went to the Coldplay concert at Riverport on Saturday night, it was fantastic! The best part was when the band played "Yellow." 2ft yellow balloons filled with yellow streamers were bounced across the crowd, at least thirty of them. It was the largest concert I've ever
Good sci-fi
Dr Who praised at TUC conference.
Writers have praised BBC One hit sci-fi series Doctor Who at the TUC annual conference in Brighton, in a call for more funding for UK TV productions. It showed there was "still an audience for quality family entertainment", the Writers' Guild
Signs of Friday
* The song lyrics going through your head are badly wrong (Ballad of San Francisco by Caedmon's Call - "I love anonymity and I love eating carrots just the same as anybody else.").
* Saturday is already planned in detail (breakfast, knitting morning, swimming with Rox and Eric)
Born abroad
I'm always interested when immigration is in the news. The BBC have a story (and map) of immigration to the UK in the last decade, many of them land in the Southeast. I am a first-generation immigrant to America. Maybe that's why the Ellis Island Museum
Surprise!
Trip to Nashville TN: two tanks of gas.
Birthday present arranged in May: two autographed Rich Nathan books.
Surprising Sehlat on her birthday: Priceless!
It's all about the planning. You have to ask for the boyfriend's cell phone number well in advance of using it to
Roundup
Donate something to the Red Cross to help the survivors of Hurricane Katrina, even if it's only a little.
Added a new section to the site for yarn reviews. This is my opinion on yarn I've used, including fibre content, who makes it, and whether it&
Maintenance lessons
My first car was a silver Rover Metro 1.3S made in 1981 with a four speed manual transmission and Pirelli P4 low profile racing tires, the license plate was something like SPV 918 W. Dad bought it in 1992 and we cleaned it up, repaired it, and I drove
Good things
* Sehlat coming to visit this weekend.
* Misty mornings.
* Finding the latest state quarter (Oregon) in the change pot.
* Seeing a deer and faun on the walking trail at work.
* Faina's Scarf is still going well.
* Brown Cow Cream Top Maple yogurt.
* Battlestar Galactica season 1 on DVD at