I know I announced a little while ago that the bunnycam was back, but within about 24hrs, one of the little rotters sabotaged it. It took me ages to get the right cable (no, you can’t splice a rabbited firewire cable), and now, finally, Live Nude Buns on the web is back.
Emma and I spent today doing a yarn shop crawl, and choosing a project for the plane. Previously I’d looked online to find out whether or not knitting is prohibited on planes leaving Sydney Airport. Mijal has flown out of Sydney with knitting in her carry on luggage, and had no problems. I, on the other hand, am a magnet for security at airports, and if there is a chance of having my knitting taken away, it will happen to me.
So I’ve picked a project, bought yarn, and I’m ready to go. And then I found this. Note page 3 –
DON’T:
1 Make jokes about bombs or security threats.
This is now a criminal offence.
2 Pack sharp objects such as knives, scissors,
corkscrews, or knitting needles in your hand luggage.
3 Refuse screening.
4 Leave your hand luggage unattended at any time.
5 Refuse random explosive trace detection (ETD)
screening if you are asked to participate.
How rude.
Small problem with out hosting company not being overjoyed about the growing popularity of my blog. Apparently, more traffic = more downloads, and once we went more than 15% over our bandwidth limit for the month, we got shut out.
So we gave them more money, and we have double the bandwidth for the next 12 months. I am going to have to host my images somewhere else in future though – especially for picture heavy posts like the Nundle trip.
Glad to be back, but a little stressed – in the next 2 days I have to pack, tidy and clean the house for the wonderful Damian who is housesitting for us, sort out a knitting project for the plane/train/bus, and sort out what is going on with my lungs. Got a doctors appointment at lunchtime today to review my asthma treatment plan, and then a wee yarn crawl with the lovely Emma.
We tried bonding Custard With Blueberry and Monkey, but Custard ended up with a torn ear, and I am loathe to put him under that pressure again, but I also hate the thought of him being lonely. Grasshopper is mending well, and hopefully will be able to join the general population in the condo when we return from Vietnam.
James Brown is dead at 73.
Though I’ve never been one for raving about musicians, this is one man that I have loved since childhood. The Godfather of Soul was a living legend to me, particularly after The Blues Brothers became one of my favourite movies.
He was also very politically outspoken – he once said that “When you hate, you blind yourself. When you hate, you can’t communicate.” He lived hard, and was generally known as a drug user and heavy drinker, but his charitable and political side is less well known.
I’m going to turn up the stereo, and blast out a tribute to the MAN.
I’ve been struggling a little with trip planning – trying to convert Vietnamese Dong into Australian dollars has been doing my head in. There are around 12,900 Dong to the Australian Dollar, so even though 200,000 Dong sounds like a lot of money for accommodation at the Banh Ma National Park, it’s really only about $15 in aussie beer vouchers, and a small price to pay for a chance to see endangered primates.
If you have the good fortune to be running Os 10.4, then you’ll already know what a widget is. And you probably have the default currency converter installed. But it has never been to Vietnam, and will only convert one currency at a time. This widget will convert multiple currencies, and has a huge range available (including legacy European currencies). So next time I need to know whether I’ll be paying more in US dollars, or if it would be cheaper to pay in Dong, I won’t have to take off my shoes to do the maths!
Click Here for the rest of the Alphabet.
I finally finished and blocked Mum’s Swallowtail, and here it is. Nineteen repeats of the budding lace instead of fourteen, and it is big enough to sit nicely on her shoulders.
I hope everyone had a wonderful day.
Today was Kerry’s birthday, so we joined her and Adam in Kangaroo Valley for a day of paddling on the river. A little more active than my usual Christmas Eve activities, but now that I’m a Nettle I think I’d better get used to it. 🙂
We had a lovely day, Bev packed a great lunch which we had on the river, and we even had cake – and tea, which Adam cooked up on his camping stove.
Unfortunately the camera was in the barrel to stay dry, so no photographic evidence, but we saw about 4 different varieties of gorgeous reptiles, heaps of ducks, ducklings, cormorants, plovers, some kind of wading bird, a kingfisher, a few different kinds of very tiny (and very cute) birdies, and on the way home, Bev skillfully avoided hitting a pair of kangaroos with a deathwish.
And on friday, I got new shoes.
Crocs Mary Janes. A few more pairs of these (black, lime green) and my collection is almost complete.
I had my last day at MacMedic yesterday (and Emma’s new iPod showed up finally). We had a Christmas party, and I celebrated a very positive interview with my “last ditch” job prospect. They offered me more money than I was originally going to ask for, and I’m going in to meet the other partner on wednesday.
And of course, the google Australia homepage has a festive image of knitting kangaroos. What could be more perfect?
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