I have returned.
In my absence, a letter arrived for me from World Vision. My sponsor child has graduated from the program (she turned 18 last April and moved out of home some time last year) so they gave me a new one. How about that then? She’s from the Philippines (like my other one) and [...]
Archive > February 2009
The eagle has landed
the end of an era
I’m going home tomorrow
Actually it’s kinda sad – it takes a couple of weeks to settle in to a new hospital and department, and then once you’re all comfortable, it’s time to go home.
My leaving gesture is to donate the (computer) mouse that I have just replaced to the emergency department. One of [...]
free!
Merry Wednesday everyone!
It is indeed a merry day because I have liberated my car from the carpark at the apartments. See apparently an email went out to say that the end of the driveway was being fixed on Monday and Tuesday. Sadly, because I don’t go to the uni that owns the apartments, I was [...]
Entomology
How do ants move so fast? I can’t be bothered to ask google whether anyone has calculated how fast an ant would move if it were human sized. Google is more work on a slow connection.
The weather has heated up again, but the ants have not yet emerged in force. I left some watermelon rind [...]
sold
There’s a face cream advertised on tv that will leave your skin replumped and tautened.
And neologised.
Antwatch
It’s raining and (relatively) cold today. There is not an ant to be seen. Where are they? It’s not like it’s raining in here. I even left the chopping board (with rockmelon juice on it) on the bench last night. They would have been out in force last week. Are they all watching the West [...]
Oy! Plane-makers listen!
So I was just watching the West Wing episode where Airforce One can’t land because the light that says the landing gear is down didn’t go on and hence they had to wait for an F-16 to go and look at the plane to see if the landing gear wasn’t down or if the light [...]
Progress!
Bold and the Beautiful is on in the background – I am really not watching, just waiting for 5 o’clock to arrive. I just heard (?) Stephanie say “Well SOMEONE deleted the podcast!”
I always thought that nothing ever happened in B&tB. But clearly it does! They’ve discovered the internet!
And the rest?
I was just at a place that sells meat (not a butcher or a supermarket… it’s… sort of… a strange shop) and noticed that they were selling ox heart and ox liver. That’s all very well and good, but who eats the rest of the ox? I’ve never seen ox steak or ribs or chops [...]
Antwatch Report
Yesterday my ants had a day off. I’m not sure what they were doing, but other than a few patrolling the floor, there was not much action. I think they come out more when it’s hot – yesterday was relatively cool (it only made it to 31 degrees C). Today feels warmer – at least [...]
