Ramblings

We found these bizarre devices in one of our closets… none of us are sure what they are. We can’t seem to get them to do anything, not matter what we try… must require some assembly or something. Bizarre. ;)

So I was surprised tonight to see this in the supermarket… What fun! Finally, some decent chocolate. At least, by my tastes. But alas, upon closer inspection, the deception is revealed… Yes, it’s that “Mfd. by The Hershey Company” that does it. D’oh. So it’s not actually Cadbury, it’s just a licensing of the name.… Read more

Albert left us some “juice” when he left, although I suspect he has ulterior motives… you see, by day it masquerades as a simple fruit juice drink… …but by night it is pure vitamin A, C & E… …although closer inspection reveals, oddly enough, that aside from food colouring, the vitamin content comes in as… Read more

Every time I publish some photos using iPhoto, I have to manually edit the resulting files, move stuff about, and rejig stuff to get things setup as I want them on my site. I can’t ever really change what I’ve published, without going through the whole process over again – and then some. Consequently, it… Read more

I tell you, it’s tough putting up with Brett. All that emotion and anger! ;) Good thing we’ve got this handy monitor widget to tell us what times we’d be better off pulling an all nighter at work. :D As you can see, Brett’s having a real bad time at the moment. Looking forward though… Read more

I’ll note, too, that all TV here is heavily censored. Anything sexual is removed completely. Even for late night movies. Even if it’s a key part of the storyline. In fact, they’ll remove random scenes just to shrink the movie down to a multiple of half hour blocks, since they refuse to allow anything to… Read more

Well, the weatherman seems to be having issues with my plans for the weekend… I braved the haze and dampness this morning to go to the gym, but it’s definitely threatening rain… I’ll be going down the shops after a shower, but I don’t think it wise to stray too far from home today. 😕… Read more