Friday, April 29, 2005
Bert shouldn't smoke cauliflower, especially when you've not had any
In some ways, a very different birthday from last year's. In others, quite scarily, not at all!
Work. Lots of work. At least I'm not there for another 5 days now.
On that topic, I ended up having a bit of a rant about the same thing as I did last year (no. 1 on the list) - a year later, and people are still trying to make the same mistakes in the interests of being able to ignore "externalities." When your project is meant to encompass absolutely everything, it's not a great idea to start off designing your solution by excluding vast swathes of the present setup in order to make things easier. You do all the hard work up front, then you don't have to do it again. People never get this.
I managed to eat in 2 different places today. Really gorgeous meal this evening, of which more later...
Being serenaded by an animated pink hippo and yellow dog. Twice.
Shying back from the edge twice today. I can wait till the weekend for one of them.
Finding out that Wellington, Auckland and Chicago are all the windiest city in the world, and that Perth, Wellington, Auckland and Chicago are all the second windiest city in the world. (Perth is also third, an accolade shared by none of the others. They're all first and second only.)
Getting to use the "I remember my 20s like it was only yesterday" line I thought of in the shower, only yesterday. Sadly, the recipient doesn't often get my jokes. Still, I laughed. My "first rule of valuation" gag I thought of in Australia went down quite well, though.
Only one Logan's Run reference, followed by multiple overlapping explanations of said reference.
Proposing a head-and-beard-shaving event for charity. Only on a warm day in July, though.
Neooooooooooooooooo!
Thank you to everyone for all my presents. In order of delivery, I received :
A warning there was another exam paper on the way for me to mark.
A large latte, with one brown sugar.
A mug with pictures of lots of types of sushi on it, and 5 sachets of (we think) miso soup mix. Speculation that this was in fact some nanotechnology that, if opened, would start the proverbial grey goo scenario, is likely to prove unfounded.
More types of spicy food than I could shake a stick at.
A book of over-30s jokes.
A picture of me looking a little damp. (No. 1 on this list too. Actually, looking back at that link, item 12 seems a little bit academic now!)
A CD containing 20 tracks from the year in which I was born (although unfortunately not the actual no. 1 at the time I was born, namely
A Giant Poking Device™, which also served as the aforementioned stick to shake at the chillies, and also as an aid to walking, for which purpose I will be using it over the weekend.
A Nautical Beard, complete with strap that's much too small to fit over my head.
A gingerbread man.
The official book of the World of Beard and Moustache Championships, complete with entry form for the 2005 event.
Meltons Too for the meal. We ended up with quite a brilliant setup. We were in their top floor room, and we were the only ones there - plus a waiter all to ourselves, frequently decent music that we could actually hear (although my phone couldn't when I tried to 2580 one song), and that ever-so-slightly-freer feeling you get when you're amongst only friends (that's quite inappropriately derogatory towards the waiter, actually). The few downsides were
Tonight's Restaurant Malfunction (for there was one) will be going in to the chart at no. 3. Strictly, it wasn't as disastrous as the one it's ousting, but as it further reinforced the fact that Neal is possibly some form of restaurant malfunction catalyst, and also that Tom (Helen had earlier warned me that he gets upset when he's not got a detailed plan of when he's going to eat for the next day or so) didn't get his, it just has the edge over Christine's birthday. 17 of us, and they delivered 14 meals. A minute or two later,
However, given the quality of the meal, I was quite happy to overlook this! I had a Moroccan lamb tagine, which was delicious, although far too filling and also possibly served in a magical bowl that was refilling itself nearly as fast as I could eat. Sadly, I didn't have room left for the cheese plate, which, given the choice of cheeses, was definitely a bad thing.
Thank you to everyone for all my presents. In order of delivery, I received :
Meltons Too for the meal. We ended up with quite a brilliant setup. We were in their top floor room, and we were the only ones there - plus a waiter all to ourselves, frequently decent music that we could actually hear (although my phone couldn't when I tried to 2580 one song), and that ever-so-slightly-freer feeling you get when you're amongst only friends (that's quite inappropriately derogatory towards the waiter, actually). The few downsides were
Tonight's Restaurant Malfunction (for there was one) will be going in to the chart at no. 3. Strictly, it wasn't as disastrous as the one it's ousting, but as it further reinforced the fact that Neal is possibly some form of restaurant malfunction catalyst, and also that Tom (Helen had earlier warned me that he gets upset when he's not got a detailed plan of when he's going to eat for the next day or so) didn't get his, it just has the edge over Christine's birthday. 17 of us, and they delivered 14 meals. A minute or two later,
However, given the quality of the meal, I was quite happy to overlook this! I had a Moroccan lamb tagine, which was delicious, although far too filling and also possibly served in a magical bowl that was refilling itself nearly as fast as I could eat. Sadly, I didn't have room left for the cheese plate, which, given the choice of cheeses, was definitely a bad thing.
posted by Chip : 23:59
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Don't worry - the title's not a dig at you, for once :)
It was something Lint said while incoherent on Friday night - both Iasonas and I heard it as written. He claims he actually said "Burps shouldn't smell like cauliflower, especially when you haven't had any."
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It was something Lint said while incoherent on Friday night - both Iasonas and I heard it as written. He claims he actually said "Burps shouldn't smell like cauliflower, especially when you haven't had any."
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