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[19 Nov 2009|05:58pm] |
Shakespeare in the Gardens, Midsummer Nights Dream
I got busy and haven't got around to this, but I have to do it before the $25 ticket offer expires.
Which means I plan to do it tomorrow evening and I will then post bank details for people to pay me back ASAP.
Shakespeare in the Gardens - 9th January 2010
List of names - please confirm you want a ticket and can pay me back asap.
Fi
Adam
Halo
Maia
Me
Nigel
Travis
Emily
Lirion
Arienmir
Megan
Jai
That is 12 people - which is the limit I can book for.
If you don't confirm that the date works for you I won't book for you.
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| As people keep asking. |
[18 Nov 2009|05:27pm] |
Photo of car accident posted to Nigel's lj
When I say I got rear-ended, it is not what people normally assume by that. I was traveling at approx 50kms per hour down Hoddle St, something must have happened to the driver behind me as he accelerated into me at speed. I don't know why, he got carted away very quickly in an ambulance.
See the greyish coloured car behind mine in the photo, that is the car that hit me, he then ricocheted off me to that point. I was about a car length behind the taxi and as you can see from the photo, I did a lot of damage to it. 5 cars all up were involved.
I am very badly bruised, I have a spectacular set of bruising on my legs. I feel like I did about 300 sit ups without the benefit of exercise. The drivers seat in our car broke, so I sub-consciously braced my body to stay upright, hence why everything is sore. I've damaged my right wrist (scraped the skin off it on the steering wheel) and hurt my shoulder, back and neck. Big thanks go to the lovely Emily who came over to help me and Nigel cook a big dinner on Saturday for guests when I couldn't use my left arm. My osteopath was rather impressed with what has happened to my back.
Luckily - the TAC pays for the ambulance, hospital and subsequent osteo visits - I suspect there will be quite a few.
I seem to be going up and down. I was very bad Saturday (thanks Emily for helping). Sunday was a lovely day where we went up the Mornington peninsula and soaked in the hot springs, thanks to Adam for driving and Fi and Nicki for carrying my bags. I managed to walk around the city doing site surveys on Monday which was good, but then I spent today and yesterday in the state library studying and am all stiff and sore. Moving around seems to hurt less than sitting or lying down. Its a shame I have lots of research and report writing to do. I can't even play warcraft for more than about 30minutes without pain.
Thursday and Friday I have to be in Healesville for an excavation from 8am. Sensible people would call in sick at this point, but if I don't work, I don't get paid and they are relying on me to be on-site and this is a time critical project. That said, they have said they will give me the easy jobs, I need to be doing the recording, section drawings, photography, auto levels etc. I need to write up the report for this site, so that will be an exciting challenge. I won't be lifting buckets of dirt, but I will probably take a turn troweling if for no other reason than moving seems to be helping more than simply sitting down, writing and recording.
The other news is the celica is totalled, if that wasn't obvious from the pictures. That said the insurance company in a surprising gesture is actually going to give us more money than we expected.
So we get to go car shopping this weekend.
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[18 Nov 2009|12:16pm] |
Batman died of syphilis in 1839!
The history of Melbourne is full of cool factiods!
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| Car accident |
[12 Nov 2009|03:30pm] |
So I was pootling down Hoddle St at about 9.30 this morning, having dropped Nigel in the city and heading out to Healsville when someone smashed, rear-ended my car.
If you look at Nigel's lj - you can see our car no longer has a rear end.
http://nigelw.livejournal.com/34493.html
The police, ambulance, vic roads incident truck and firemen showed up.
The driver of the car who's fault it was got carted away in an ambulance so I haven't got his details, but the police and ambo says they did.
I then hit the taxi in front who hit the mazda in front who hit a fifth car.
I then managed to exchange numbers with the other drivers. But basically I sat on the edge of the road while nice person who worked in an office near the accident got me a chair, a cup of tea and used my camera to take photos.
They got a second ambulance for me because I'd hurt my neck, leg and arm.
My car and the one that hit me got towed, I don't know if the taxi did.
I got taken to St Vinnies, and was xrayed - luckily nothing is broken, but I'm pretty bruised and sore and the doctor said to take it easy for the next couple of days.
Once they let me out of the hospital, we went down to were the car got towed to get our stuff out of Nigel's car. Basically the car is totalled and I'm very lucky to have walked away from that accident.
It's a good thing to have comprehensive car insurance.
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[12 Nov 2009|11:49am] |
dear lj
I was in a car accident. 5 car pile up on hoddle st, some one rear ended me i hit the car in front and it domino'd. Currently in hospital awaiting xrays. Think i am ok tho.
angelique (celica) appears to have been totalled. Glad i was in a car with crumple zone.
Poater from phone.
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[09 Nov 2009|06:13pm] |
If you don't like the heat, or even if you do, I have some advice for you
Vodka slushies make everything better!
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[09 Nov 2009|03:44pm] |
I can haz redundancy please!
woohoo!
I was thinking about wishes for midsummer, and well, this year has turned out pretty well all things considered :)
Todo list for next year
- Finally make a serious commitment to Nigel and the bank and buy a house*
- Buy a 4WDrive
- Be an awesome archaeologist.
Now, back to that report writing for UCA.
*Alternative plan involves doing a runner to Mexico with Megan:)
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| Midsummer 2009 |
[09 Nov 2009|01:36pm] |
Yes, its that time again, is this our 11th Year?
Midsummer is the longest day of the year, and what better way to observe the passing of the year than with friends and family.
We'd like you to join us to celebrate Midsummer. There will be food, there will be music, there will be candles, and most importantly, there will be friends and family.
As actual midsummer falls on a Tuesday this year, we have selected the nearest Saturday :)
When: 19th December, 2009, from 5pm.
Where: Nigel & Renee's house.
BYO: drinks, food to share, candles, fire wood, wishes and dreams
We will provide music, BBQ, ice, tea lights and salad.
Please RSVP
Jai also promised acrobats and Russian techno, and hopefully not to get so drunk this year :)
Usual house rules apply, respect the cats and books, clean up after yourself and if you would like to bring others along, you are welcome, but please ask first.
If you would like to bring some music on an external hard drive to plug into the decks, feel free.
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| Tentacle Rack (unscheduled) downtime |
[05 Nov 2009|09:04pm] |
We are in the slow long drawn out process of switching the tentacle rack to a different plan with Internode.
Internode appear to have been more efficient than expected and have swapped it over this evening.
Nigel has poked things and your normal tentacle/vurt access should be restored now.
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[02 Nov 2009|03:54pm] |
Web-hosting has never been something I've looked into, given I have my own web server.
But I've currently got several people who would like to set up a domain and website and I'm wondering who you would recommend for web-hosting.
Bear has decreed that we can't offer web-hosting for commercial sites, which is fair enough, because we can't guarantee a commercial level of service. While vurt is there as a community resource, its not there for commercial enterprises.
Also - how does one go about getting a domain name, others have done that for me.
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[02 Nov 2009|11:53am] |
This link is for Rhys and anyone else who might be interested. It is about archaeological work going on at the Royal Exhibition building.
http://museumvictoria.com.au/reb/about-us/world-heritage-world-futures/
ROYAL EXHIBITION BUILDING ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIG OPEN DAY
Saturday 14 November
Come along and see the progress on this major project to restore the 1880 garden layout of the western forecourt of the Royal Exhibition Building.
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[02 Nov 2009|09:23am] |
So I have 3 days of holiday/being an unemployed slacker, and one of them is a public holiday.
What are you doing cup day?
It might be fun to organise something.
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[30 Oct 2009|11:43am] |
Forecast for the rest of Friday
Cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms, becoming more extensive this afternoon. Winds north to northwesterly averaging up to 35 km/h.
City Showers. Local thunderstorms. Max 28
Why do I pick some awesome weather days for parties??
I might need a volunteer to drive a friend to the airport later this evening :)
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| Thesis: The End! |
[29 Oct 2009|10:54am] |
Submitting this afternoon.
BAM! It's Red!
Drinks at my place tomorrow after work to celebrate!
I'll provide some salad and sausages, BYO Meat and Booze.
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[27 Oct 2009|11:51am] |
power failure at our house has broken the router. I've managed to get the machine up again, but it isn't routing properly and i can't get beyond the home network. I also can't get to vurt so am assuming the tentacle rack is also currently fail.
EDIT: fixed it
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[26 Oct 2009|12:35pm] |
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So what is the correct way to write Bachelor of Arts, Honours, Double Major Archaeology/History on a CV, and am I supposed to add my thesis title?...
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| Knitted Quilt |
[26 Oct 2009|11:47am] |
So I'm basically finished knitting together our patchwork quilt. I've got all the patches sewn together with the exception of three patches. However, now I'm knitting a few more patches as I need to even it up.
I'm knitting with some strange 'silk thread' that is made from sari off-cuts - or something. Megan left the end of a ball in my knitting box and well its really bloody annoying to knit with, but it does look pretty, its all shiny and multi-coloured and leaking little strands onto my lap that make a nice pattern.
Badly taken phone photo.
But now the awesomest bit
Knitted Quilt! Yes that is my couch it is covering.
Here are two more photos, one of each half.
I think I should edge it, but I'm not sure how, so I am going to wait until Megan gets home and see if she knows how to do it properly. It also needs to be mounted on a backing sheet/blanket.
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[23 Oct 2009|02:13pm] |
Last night I dreamt that Mr Fluffy aka Andrew Smith was GMing me, Neef, Andrew (Del), Bear and Fi through a dark future/cyberpunk/SLA style game set in a futuristic Pentonville Prison, it was rather scary...
Does this count as my first thesis scary dream?
That said - it could make for a really interesting roleplaying setting.
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