What’s inside a Slim Jim? I’m not sure I want to know.
Woot, my knee-jerk don’t-overthink-it pub-quiz answer was Iran which seems to be [✓]. I ‘knew’ it was more populous than…
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St. Brigid
Thinking about the Easter Show. Thinking about St. Brigid. Thinking about making it fitted, like this or this. Thinking about wools. Thinking…
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Nerd Cupcakes
Nerd Cupcakes. Lots of fondant there. I don’t think I like fondant. (Link courtesy of the Snook.)
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Shared today on Twitter
Oh wow. I think I’ve turned a corner. I suddenly feel much, much better. Maybe the sleep – even drugged sleep – did me a lot of good.
@redambition STAY STRONG. You and I will be the last holdouts against the deadly shawl zombification.
@DianneKing Actually it does to me too, when I’m awake. (I felt awful til it wore off this morning.) But sleep was more important.
@Alacaeriel ?? You just throwing out keywords to confuse the spies? 🙂
@Roceal Dr. Chin at Broadway? He’s my doctor too! Dr. Chin = the best.
Hahaha… You guys are killing me with the subversive Guild tweets. Remember, THE CROW FLIES AT MIDNIGHT.
Chippendale Food for the Future Fair – Saturday, October 24. Put it in your calendars! #food4thefuture
Congrats on leaving, @richbuggy! Best of luck with the new job. 🙂
@bellsknits I don’t mind ‘babe’ so much. People from Midwest USA use it a lot. (Right @gadgetgirl70?) I think it can be folksy and charming.
@lachlanhardy My husband is another. Shocking, really. He doesn’t even have a blog! I’ve only just got him to use an RSS reader!
I smell beets.
I must be feeling better. My knitting mojo has returned! Decided that 3st off-centering was unacceptable, so frogged. Knitting heel again!
@Justacogitating We get them in our weekly veggie box. Roasted with olive oil and balsamic? Very, very nice.
Limited self to prescribed dose of codeine, then spent past half hour coughing brains out. About to cry. Lozenges not helping.
@bowenvale321 Thats the exact stuff sitting on my nightstand.
@imdominating I didn’t get it, so Rodd had to explain. Now I am even more disturbed.
Was having a bad morning til I got to the story about teabagging: http://bit.ly/1KvrIA. And then I laughed and laughed and laughed.
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Food for the Future Fair
Food for the Future Fair
I’ve just been told that this year’s Food for the Future Fair will take place on Saturday, 24 October. I’ll post more info as it gets closer, but so far it sounds like it’s going to be a great day: local & sustainable food, launch of the Chippendale Fresh Food Coop, tours of the area, fresh produce available for purchase, Michael‘s ideas for urban farming, entertainment… I’ve even floated the idea of the Inner City Guild group having a stall to teach folks to knit!
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Toodledo now in Gmail!
Neat! If you’re a Toodledo user, they’ve just released a Gmail Gadget. Now you can embed your To Do list in your Gmail. I heart Toodledo.
Update: On second thoughts, I think I still like having my list open in another tab. I turned off the gadget.
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RunningBlog
Last week started so well and then fell apart. Tuesday I had a fantastic 5km run in the Domain at lunchtime. Afterwards though, I developed a little bit of a cough. I figured it was just from pushing myself a little harder than normal, but it didn’t go away. Wednesday I did a workout at Spudds and felt okay, but when I got home that night, I suddenly realised that my throat was sore. A headache soon followed, and I ended up staying home from work Thursday. I saw my doctor that night and he told me no running for the rest of the week. So here I am less than four weeks out from the half-marathon, not having run in the past 7 days. ARGH.
This week: 5.25km (3mi)
Last week: 20km (12.5mi)HOWEVER – things are looking up. I feel like I’ve turned a corner today, and I’m not coughing nearly as much. I’ve been thinking about running form, and specifically whether forefoot running would help with the persistent back pain I’ve been having. Brandon is a big proponent, and Steve Runner is a recent convert. Brandon is always raving about his Newton shoes, which promote landing on your forefoot. On a whim, I looked them up and saw that there were a few retailers in Sydney. So I emailed HERT and Mark told me to come on in and check them out. I went over at lunchtime to try some on. He was clearing out last year’s models, so they were $60 off. What the hell. I decided to go for it. So I am now the proud owner of some very ugly shoes. I’m hoping to try them out tomorrow for a very short run around the neighbourhood. (I know you really have to ease into the forefoot technique.) I’m excited to see if it helps at all!
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Piranha!
A dude in Lafayette, Indiana caught a piranha last weekend! That’s, like, my Dad’s dream. (The DNR guy says it’s probably just a pet somebody released. One would hope so.)
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Darling Harbour, 1985
Darling Harbour, 1985. Amazing photograph. I’m really looking forward to the Powerhouse’s 80’s exhibition.
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Shared today on Twitter
I am going into the city today to check out Newton Running Shoes. @ironbrandon and @steverunner have convinced me to give forefoot a try.
@ironbrandon It’s at hert.com.au. They’ve got a beginners running course starting up in Oct too, so I may do that. BRING ON THE MARATHON! 🙂
Ok @ironbrandon, I now have some (very ugly) Newtons! Now what? Start slow, I’m guessing.
Forgot the pic: http://twitpic.com/f6s17
I’ll be fine for like 15 minutes, then have an unbelievable coughing jag. Really sucks when someone is trying to demo code at their desk.
Just got home – without my new running shoes. I must be sicker than I thought. I HOPE LIKE HELL I left ’em sitting in the office. 🙁
Chemist didn’t want to give me codeine. Said I should just cough it all up. I told her I MUST SLEEP, so she relented. In bed now.
3.30am. Codeine wore off. Unable to stop coughing. Nothing working. Poor Snook; I’m ruining his sleep too.
I eventually got back to sleep, but I had to practically OD on codeine to do it. The comedown is not nice. But at least I got some sleep.
And hey! My voice is coming back! Maybe my co-workers will stop making phone sex jokes now.
@stufromoz Exactly. The consensus was that I’d make a great ‘sexy Russian housewife.’
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