Cheap Therapy

So if you want to compete in the WA round of the Barista championships you need to go to the Australian Specialty Coffee Association site and download the appropriate entry form.

WA heats are held in Perth on 15th and 16th of March at the Perth Town Hall.

via CoffeeSnobs.

• Up before 0700hrs (”What does the Oh stand for? Oh God it’s early!”) as Puggle was restless so he may as well be fed breakfast and not wake anyone else up.
• After breakfast, turn off the water, replace washer in tap (it had been wasting water, annoying me, and annoying me during the night). Again. Need to find better washers or a better seating tool. Or a new tap.
• Turn on the water, discover that with the mains tap on almost full the bathroom tap outputs water faster than the bathroom sink can drain. Puggle is attempting to turn off the bathroom tap, somehow it reminds me of The Sorceror’s Apprentice.
• Discover that the bathroom lacks a floor drain (or someone installed a barrier between the main floor and the shower drain). Either way, mopping is necessitated to contain the flood to the bathroom. Tap now only drips minimally. Turn mains tap down 5 turns or so.
• Puggle wants to put his AppleWorks clip art creations on a blog for other people to see. And write music. His ‘typing of search terms’ skill has been translated from YouTube to the AppleWorks on-line clip art library, which is kind of cool.
• Inspired by the early morning productivity, catch the bus to work, with a nice walk from the Hospital in a continued attempt to up my energy expenditure for the week.
• SF@Pub. Meet new folks. Eat black pudding (not bad) for the first time. Have dinner with a snake, for the first time.

• Pizza on Friday, Monday, Thursday. Fish and chips. This week, appointment with GP to discuss cholesterol test results
• Bucks night on Friday. Much beer and oglage.
• Shopping with Puggle on Saturday. Dug more trampoline pit. Pushed more swings for Puggle and Bilby. Bilby has really got the hang of this walking thing and can climb up the ladder and slide down!
• Wedding on Sunday with many old friends, which was lots of fun, thanks! Congrats to Adrian and Lin. Balloons!

MMOGChart charts active subscriptions to MMOGs (massively multiplayer online games). Impressive graph of WoW v everthing else here.

Anyone I know who wants a garbage bag of shredded office paper should let me know before it goes on freecycle. Presumably for your pets or if you’re particularly bored to reverse the crosscut shredding process and steal my identity.

• An extra 50 minutes of walking as a result of getting off the bus at earlier stops. Yay for exercise!
• MacGeeks dinner at Tsunami
• Sorry day, and Rudd further restoring my pride in being Australian.
• Valentines day (ignored, with apologies to greeting card, flower and chocolate companies)
• A summons to the GP as a result of the cholesterol test.
• Watching Bilby walk around the house without assistance, even carrying things when she’s asked to tidy up after Puggle
• Pushing the swing for Bilby and Puggle and friends. Need to find some way to bolt it to the ground better, they’re all getting heavier.
• Taming of the Puggle (well, more attempts thereof)
• Dinner with the workmates (anchovies, anchovy oil and caramelised onion makes a great pizza if you like anchovies).
• Crossing minor achievable tasks off the list (dug up the fig for a refund, updated car rego and parking stickers)
• Dinner with Skip

America’s Department of Homeland Security tells you how to prepare your pets for a disaster.

However, if you are going to a public shelter, it is important to understand that animals may not be allowed inside. Plan in advance for shelter alternatives that will work for both you and your pets.

And make sure you have pets with a lot of meat on them.

Some mob called Tilting Vehicles Australia have a car they’ll be entering in the Automotive X Prize.

I imagine this sort of stuff is what Spock did all the time.

Fabulous last paragraph in this article about the new Iranian “Be alert, not alarmed” national security hotline. Or watch the video (requires Windows Media or Flip4Mac WMV plugins)