Cheap Therapy

Really this is meant to be ‘Two months redux’, but I still need to work out what I want to say about them, so here’s the last week instead, and hopefully we can work on getting on track, seeing as some of my adoring public are requesting updates

• Played “Dominion”, and the Seaside variant. Pretty cool.
• Finished Richard Morgan’s “Woken Furies”. I do like his stuff, but I’m reading it faster than he’s writing it…
• 500Gb Western Digital Scorpio Blue is giving I/O errors. Fortunately looks like it may be still under warranty. Might go Samsung for a change this time though.
• Movember morning tea raised some $100+
• Tempura Fish and Chips in Mosman Park. Basa, white snapper, and red spot emperor. The red spot emperor seemed the favourite (IMHO as well) but of course is smaller and more expensive
• Made it to team breakfast
• Ordered some bearings for my reprap, thereby committing myself more to building one. Assuming they don’t go to Washington or Austria or something. Now all I need to do is find a source of the circuit boards who aren’t Makerbot supply constrained.
• Buying more chook food, getting some freebie mulch, walking around Lake Monger, buying a replacement HD, getting annoyed by a JB Hi Fi salesdroid who suggested maybe I should buy something other than what I wanted.
• Zoo visit with our generation of the family (and the next one, I guess Got to see the elephant (I’m assuming Tricia) get taken for a walk through the park at lunchtime, which was great
• Astrofest at Curtin Uni. Puggle got to launch water and air rockets. Saw the Scitech guy get his arm sliced up by plastic shards when the LN2 demo exploded prematurely. Good thing he was wearing his safety goggles and didn’t get hit in the face. Don’t try this at home kids!
• Excellent dinner at the Essex restaurant in Fremantle for our ‘kiddie dinner’ (ie no kids . I must remember not to order chowder, it’s rarely remarkable. The rest of the food was great. The French botrytis semillon from Saint Croix du Mont (Something de Pavillion) was astounding. Service was excellent.
• Unfortunately Cygnet was upchucking so we didn’t get to linger over dinner and were recalled.
• Cutting down the rat access paths to the roof. Unfortunately I think that means they’re now trapped in the roof…
• Bunnings doesn’t look much good for Reprap parts, they either don’t deal in sizes that small or they don’t have the bits in the quantity I need, so Radio Spares it is.
• Making lamb and spinach curry. Lacked something, not quite sure what
• Cygnet is taking multiple steps. Bilby is playing the recorder. Puggle is playing the recorder, and is getting pretty good at associating new information with what he knows so far (frequently, in Latin . And both are speaking a lot of French vocab.
• Not going to have much of a novel at the end of this NanoWriMo