...over the hill

[shapeofthings]

I have the most ridiculous craving for Japanese food, especially ageashi tofu, though some good sushi and miso would be nice too. Who wants to hit up Azabu this weekend?

In other news, I just made Anzac biscuits, but because I put in a little too much liquid they spread instead of rising and made anzac slice. They also needed cooking for longer, so now have that lovely caught golden syrup flavour. Mmm! I'm going to make muffins in a moment though I'm waiting for the bananas to thaw (we're in a massive banana shortage, thanks to Cyclone Larry back in March, so when i find them under $5/kg I buy up and freeze), because I'm making banana and honey muffins. I made some yesterday too, but they're so good I need more!

In other news, the last 2 dyas have actually been chilly, so the weather feels quite late-Autumn, rather than the mid-Spring temperatures we have been having. Never mind that it's mid-Winter. The jacarandas haven't even lost their leaves yet. This week has seen me either hugely productive, or unamble to overcome the inertia experiences when perched in front of the computer. Now I'm just putting off cleaning up the desk, thoguh I don't really know why. I think I might just need another coffee as I'm a bit zonked today. Yesterday and this morning I prevented myself from having the full 8 hours in order to rise at a reasonable hour, as my body clock was drifting towards vampiric and I'm actually rather fond of daylight. Yes, another bucket of coffee... *wanders off*

Right, coffee's brewing. Where was I? Ah, I also had to be up at a reasonable hour because Natasha was coming by to collect the tarpaulins we borrowed from her in November to go to Earthcore. We're so slack we still hadn't taken them back, so I gave her a lovely bottle of shiraz and some G&B organic Maya Gold chocolate. I also momentarily forgot how to spell tarpaulin. Anyway, as well as Natasha, the wedding photog, Andy, was coming around to drop of the DVD of our photos. Yay! I like Andy - he's a bit of a native fish nut, and did a degree in Environmental Science before studying photography - and he stayed for a bit of a fishy chat. He also caught my excitment at finding planaria in BlueFish's tank this morning. Planaria are so cool, as is any other animal that can re-grow it's head. I have never forgotten them since we created a two-headed one in first-year invertebrate biology. In 13 years of keeping fish I've never seen one in a tank before, and this morning, there are two of them crawling along the glass! Yay! From memory, they're hermaphroditic, so soon I should have many planaria! And then I'll take over the world! Mwahahahahaa!

*cough*

So now I have all the wedding photos and the photos from the trip to process and post. Except we're having computer trouble. Argh here (yes, the computer is called Argh) keeps locking up and frequently crashing. The [program that triggers the most crashing? Photoshop. Grrrr! A quick remote assessment by Master Nick suggests the IDE cables are shoddy; a diagnosis I agree with after burning some CDs yesterday. It would take several attempts for Argh to read the newly burnt files: it would consistently tell me there was no CD inserted, until on about try 5 it would find the files and play them, then not find them again on try 6. If it is the IDEs, that means every non-spec part of the box barring the floppy drivehas needed replacing. Why did we go to Game Dude instead of Umart? (Ok, so we didn't know Umart existed at the time, but still...) Meanwhile, Umart doesn't sell loose IDEs, so replacement may take a while. How painful. Yet I still spend far too much time sitting in front of it.

I should be on my own tonight, so I'll have to make a special effort to resist the screen. Alex is supposed to be going down to his parents place to borrow his dad's ute. He'll borrow the ute to fix the car, he'll fix the car so I can drive, I don't know why he wants me to drive; perhaps he'll die... *brainsnap* G, that so reminds me of dinner. =o) Anyway, the clutch plate in our car needs replacing, and the machanics wated $700 for the priveledge, so Alex is taking the train down the Coast to borrow his dad's ute for a week so he can get to work *and* do the clutch. And after the clutch, he needs to figure out why the red machine isn't idling properly and fix that. When that's done I can drive again because the car won't keep stalling. Yay! I think the coffee is starting to kick in.