Entries Tagged 'What I’ve been doing' ↓

At a WordCamp conference this weekend – a collection of people using the tool WordPress primarily for blogging – we use it at work and it’s what my ‘new’ blog is now running on. It’s up at the Mt Vic Bowling Club – a very yesteryear type establishment inside – complete with flowers in the toilet and engraved boards of lifetime members. It’s in a lovely sheltered spot and the bowling green out the window was incredibly green and lovely and sunny and warm for our coffee and lunch breaks.

The founder of WordPress was a guest speaker today, very charming and inspiring. This is my first conference like this, the few work things I’ve ever been on in my career have been training type things and I think today was fairly typical of events like this based on the stories The Mister brings back from the ones he’s attended. The people that are used to presenting, especially Americans (like the WordPress guy) are really good and really inspiring. I couldn’t stand up there and speak as freely as they do. And answer questions from left field with such aplomb.

The guys from Coffee Supreme were there and them (the actual Supreme guys) making coffee was fantastic. Enough to make me switch from Fuel even except there are absolutely no guarantees when you go to a Supreme cafe that you’ll get a decent barista.  I just can’t explain how good it was, perfect temperature and it was like drinking silk – thanks Ralph, Olivia and girl who’s name I don’t know.

Went for a wander around the block at lunch time and found this great house with an orange car, orange front door and orange picket fence!

Whew I do have a brain up there, and a normal one at that – “age appropriate” whatever that means!! I only had 236 black and white images to peruse so not sure which portion of it is coloured orange or is the cause of my orangeness.

Anyway, despite the trauma of waiting for the MRI and results I feel quite excited to be able to look inside my own head, a literal look being far less dangerous than a metaphorical look I suspect!

Recognise me?

As is customary when parents are in town, little fixit jobs are found around the house for Father. Means I can go off to work and know he’s got something to do … as much as he loves trailing around the shops after Mother!

So I went off to work yesterday morning to leave him fixing shower rail, hole in wall and broken garage door handle. But when they opened the fridge at breakfast time and found a note I’d left, he wasn’t sure what he was supposed to do to fix this problem!

In our house we’ve got pairs of cups and saucers that sit on top of the coffee machine, latte cups and espresso cups, and we use them every day because there’s always 2 of us having cups of coffee … as you know, one of my favourite pastimes is to have a coffee and bikkie gathering. But, there are a couple of one-offs: a Ritzenhoff latte glass that Basel Lisa sent me years ago and my new present from New York, a ceramic version of the classic blue New York takeaway cup.

I only get to use either of these cups when the Mister is not around – so typically once every 4-6 weeks when there’s a Xero product release and he has to get up in the wee hours of the morning to go into work, or stay there all night like he did last night – and because a) I have to drink my morning coffee alone and b) because the cups don’t have a mate, they’re referred to as a ‘sad cup’.

Maiden voyage for the New York sad cup this morning. Good brew too!

A very orange sunset reflected in the building across the road. I guess a sunset and visible clouds is proof that it has stopped raining for a while now!

I’m not very good at being sick. Just getting over a head cold now – thankfully no more than that but it was still a pretty awful one to bear. My head (not my nose, just my head) felt so blocked and aching. Couldn’t even work for a day – gasp! I just lay on the couch and watched re-runs. I never realised CSI Miami is a totally ‘pretty’ version of CSI – everyone in clothes that matched the office, flawless makeup, slow-mo forensic analysis shots and David Caruso being all moody and mono-syllabic in his sun glasses. Was a bit of a laugh really.

I’m not very good with the drugs either, just lemsip and vitamin C. Only lasted 2 days but the weakness will hang around for a while.

After my excitement about the first ever marigold seedling last spring and the subsequent transformation to a small marigold bush, imagine my excitement with what’s in the pot at the moment – an absolute explosion of seedlings! Just in one half of the pot mind you.

I discovered when I pulled out the one dead plant (that grew from the aforementioned seedling and bush) that the dead flowers are actually all new seeds so they all fell down into the dirt as I was getting it out. So I used my tiny apartment gardening fork to scratch them into the dirt, even though it’s not the recommended planting time according to the back of the marigold packet, and wa la! More plants. Hopefully they’ll do the full cycle but there might be too many in there. Might have to transplant to the other pot …

Last yoga class last night. However, I’ve been saved in my quest to find a new place to go because last week our instructor started to gather up interest in people sticking with him if he ran one class a week himself. So I wrote my name on the list. Only thing is, he’s not doing it at beginner level (yes I know in your minds I’m probably not a beginner seeing as I’ve been going for 3 years) so I’m guessing that there might be a few new poses to learn or I’ll not be as bendy as others in the class.  Seems like it might be going ahead. It’s going to be in the same place at a later time. So good news is I get to keep the same instructor, bad news is it’ll be harder which will mean I hurt even more the next day and I’ll have to have dinner really late on a Thursday night. Might have to start having a Thursday afternoon snack that’s more than a bikkie – god, might have to bring bread to work and store it in the kitchen like everyone else. Yick.

Yikes – had to take the camera in for repair, it’s started to have a pink tinge and pink border on all the photos. Not sure I can cope without it for 2 weeks but hey, who knew after all these years it might be fixed for free as a known fault!

Well it’s done. ER. I’ve just watched the final of the show. I was in tears by the end of the opening credits!  Several years ago they swapped the original green credits with theme music and montage of actors for much quicker blue credits which only had a couple of bars of the theme and no pictures – for the final they brought back the original theme music and used a mix of old and new actors to reproduce the original credits. For die hard fans this was such an amazing trip. The final show was great. People all saying goodbye in ways befitting the story, a few things left unfinished but you were left imagining nothing but a good outcome and the lights went down on a huge trauma involving everyone running about and loads of ambulances, business as usual which is how it had to be. And a nice reversal of Dr Carter and ‘Dr’ Greene. I thought the last scene that faded to black was perfect – I don’t think in the entire series we’ve ever seen the hospital in location – the ambulance bay, entrance, hospital sign, L running around the front and Chicago buildings behind. God I can’t believe I’ve been hooked on the show for 15 years.