I think it’s about time I started writing in here a bit more often. Maybe if I put Semagic in my Start menu it’ll remind me.

Lately I’ve been all about the Plurk. (although admittedly that is mainly for Second Life stuff). Anything SL-related is also going on my SL blog.

1.What is your occupation right now?
Customer service advisor

2.What color are your socks right now?
Black. All my socks are black, so I dont have to worry about pairs. I just grab any two and they always match.

3.What are you listening to right now?
Nothing. I turned music off because the computer’s going slow as treacle with the virus scanner running.

4.What was the last thing that you ate?
Toast and cheddar cheese for brekkie

5.Can you drive a stick shift?
Used to. Not any more. Bad eyesight sucks.

6.Last person you spoke to on the phone?
A customer at work.

7.Do you like the person who sent this to you?
YES!

8.How old are you today?
36

9.What is your favorite sport to watch on TV?
Rugby Union

10.What is your favorite drink?
Merlot

11.Have you ever dyed your hair?
Yes. You’ve seen how bad I look blond.

12.Favorite food?
Greek salad. Or really, any kind of salad or plate of raw, fresh veggies.

13.What is the last movie you watched?
Christ, it was so long ago I can’t actually remember.

14.Favorite day of the year?
The day my Heste comes to visit.

15.How do you vent anger?
Go for a run, or a walk

16.What was your favorite toy as a kid?
My collection of Star Wars action figures and ships.
My bike.

17.What is your favorite season?
Summer

18.Cherries or Blueberries?
Cherries

19.Do you want your friends to e-mail you back?
Well I’m not emailing this but comments would be nice

20.Who is the most likely to respond?
no clue

21.Who is least likely to respond?
Probably Jack

22.Living arrangements?
Do you have any idea how complicated that answer would be? :-D

23.When was the last time you cried?
Yesterday

24.What is on the floor of your closet?
Some camping gear, a battered old suitcase, an old exercise machine that there’s no room to have assembled, and some boxes of unwanted clothes that really ought to go.

25 Who is the friend you have had the longest that you are sending to?
Heste

26.What did you do last night
chatted with friends online

27.What are you most afraid of?
losing people I love. Something bad happenning to my son.

28.Plain, cheese, or spicy hamburgers?
A burger without cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze.

29.Favorite dog breed?
For looks, husky or malamute. For temperament, Labrador.

30.Favorite day of the week?
Friday. Day off work and (usually) the start of a 3-day weekend.

31.How many states have you lived in?
US states, none.

32.Diamonds or pearls?
I would look silly wearing either.

33.What is your favorite flower?
Nasturtiums.
 

Well, a little bit, at least. This is the view outside my front door this morning. This is about as much as we get round here. It was enough for it to be on the national news with traffic experts predicting "chaos on the roads".

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So today I ripped the new CDs we got for Christmas and then I put them away in the cupboard with the rest of the CDs. At which point I noticed one that hadn’t been ripped yet. So then I went and looked more carefully… and there’s DOZENS of CDs in there that haven’t been ripped yet. Some of these are things I’ve not played in years. So guess what I will be doing for the next couple of days. This could theoretically double the size of my mp3 collection. Which is a very good thing.

We just got back from the Christmas travelling and visiting, half the week at Anad’s parents and the other half of the week at mine. Our sister and her family were supposed to be there too but at the last minute her husband decided to go early, so they left about two hours before we got there, so we missed them, and missed the chance to give our neice her christmas present. And it can’t be posted because it’s fragile. *headdesk*

Also discovered that someone we knew from school, a guy who was a couple of years older, was killed in a car accident last week. This news I discovered by chatting with a random stranger while out walking the dog.

Aside from that, it was a nice relaxed kind of Christmas, without a lot of rushing about that we usually do. My haul included 3 Apocalyptica CDs, (well okay Russ has been wanting those for months), a fleece jacket, a giant coffee mug, two bottles of wine and some of the usual smellies. I’m actually sitting here wearing the fleece now, and cradling a cup of coffee in the mug, because this house has been empty nearly a week with the heating and hot water off and it’s EFFING FREEZING IN HERE.

But it’s not as cold as it was walking round the sea wall at St Lawrence on Boxing Day afternoon.

(picture by PaulHP - not of exactly the same place but near enough to show what it looks like).

Maddie Blaunstein died today.

As well as her anime work, she was also a campaigner for the transgender community (she was MTF), and she was a player of Second Life. Many of my SL friends knew her in SL and in RL.

just testing a new crossposting tool

I’m supposed to have been at work today but I have the dreaded lurgy. It was effort enough dragging myself out of bed and downstairs to phone in sick, never mind actually get on a bus and go in. I’m supposed to be meeting a friend in town tonight too, but looks like that will be cancelled as well. Nasty sinus headache feels like my head wants to explode. Blergh.  Can I just go back to bed?

Sindo will be here in 16 hours…

*bounces*

I’m so excited. I don’t think I will be sleeping much tonight.

Our clocks went back last night for the end of British Summer Time (Did summer ever begin this year? We had two or three nearly-hot days). Actually I was awake still, at 2am when my computer changed automatically, and it made Firefox crash. That was weird. But now its like I’m jetlagged. The clock says 11:10pm, the body thinks its after midnight. I think I’ll be going to bed “early” tonight.