Yowch. My partner Karen and I just played our first game of the foosball competition here at work… and we got SPANKED 10-0. Of course, we were playing against the top seeds. We’ll get better.
I had a great long run today. I set the iPod workout to 100 minutes and headed off towards Centennial Park. I was doing 4 minutes running / 1 minute walking, and that seemed to work pretty well. I managed two full laps around the park before heading home, which ended up being nearly 14km in total. (Hey, that’s 2/3 of the distance of the half-marathon! I’m nearly there.) The real improvement was in my hydration level. I started drinking water the night before and kept it up throughout the morning today, and on the run I hit every water fountain in the park. It was GREAT! I really only felt dry and thirsty in the last twenty minutes (when I was farthest from a fountain). My legs felt pretty good while I was running – no injuries to report – but by the end, I could tell I’d be sore and hurting afterwards. I’ll take a day or two to rest and recover…
Wow, we’re getting a female governor-general! Pretty sweet. That Kevin is on a tear these days, I tell you.
I spent a couple hours back at the shop today putting some new yarns up on the website. We finally got the long-awaited Noro Kureyon Sock yarn! And according to the discussion on Ravelry, the price is pretty competitive…
Oh man. When did Television Without Pity change layouts again? It’s AWFUL. There are crazy huge images in your face everywhere, and you can’t see what reviews are new without scrolling down. They seem to have done away with the drop-down nav menus too, which means you can’t go straight to a show or forum anymore (artifially inflating pageviews). It sucks.
Oh, wait! I just discovered that you can go straight to shows and forums; they’re just hidden in a stupid huge javascript rollover menu. What was wrong with the old version? The rotting yet beloved corpse of Dawson’s Wrap must be spinning in its grave…
Five minutes later: Ahhhh. The founders left the site last month. That explains it. I went to Sars’s site to see if there was any word from her. Nothing but a link to a forum post that’s already since been erased. Wow, I’ve been reading that site for more than ten years and suddenly it’s just… gone. That sucks.
Oh! I forgot to tell you about my other new podcast obsession: Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me (the NPR news quiz). At first I was a little annoyed by the smug liberal intellectualness of it (I’m a self-loathing smug liberal intellectual), but I was won over by the fact that it’s the FUNNIEST THING EVER. Tonight I made the Snook listen to an episode from February when one of the “fake” news stories was about women in Fort Wayne, Indiana who had an irrational fear that dingoes would eat their babies. Good stuff.
Taking a shower at night instead of in the morning: what do I do about my crazy morning hair? That’s another one of those AskMeFi questions that I could have written.
As she did with Penn, my sister has put her Photoshop skills to work creating a suitable birth announcement for my new niece. Presenting… Indie Marie Carbo!
A few weeks ago I picked up Neil Gaiman’s new book Odd and the Frost Giants, a short little tale written for World Book Day. Then I pretty much forgot about it. Earlier this week I happened to spot it and threw it in my bag for some lunchtime reading. I was hooked! I finished it later that night. It’s a charming tale of Norse mythology, definitely suitable for younger readers. I loved the humour of the writing – especially the dialogue between the gods – and the way Gaiman created such distinct personalities. The story doesn’t shy away from “grown-up” issues though, like how Odd’s father met his mother and how Loki isn’t always a nice guy. And I really like that Odd wins not because he’s the biggest or the strongest, but because he thinks and observes and knows how to read people. It’s a really good story.
It really put me in the mood to re-read American Gods… but my copy is missing! Did I lend it to any of you? I can’t remember.
The information for the Sydney City WWKIP Day event has now been added to the official site. We are on like Donkey Kong, folks! June 14th, 2pm at the Bayside Lounge in Darling Harbour. More details to come…
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