Day, in short (work, pet store, chatting, groceries, chatting, Tilley's & Liz

[skreidle]

Ron & Dave back from NZ, no commentary on their trip.

Got a fair bit of work done today.

Ron mentions that I might be leaving within the next few weeks, as the team needs to get smaller--not everyone stays to the end, and lucky me, the first to go. Bah.

On the way home, headed for grocery store, stopped at pet store instead--Jillian recommended, and Friday things stay open late. Played with a gorgeous, friendly rainbow lorikeet that a salesman had out for some other customers, who ended up putting a downpayment on him (and I got photos); played with a blue-fronted Amazon named Astro who was younger, not as social, but still friendly to me, got a photo; played with the shop dog, Missy, who was adorable (but no photo, batteries died); assisted the bird-buyers with advice, had a good old time. Learned that they were originally Croatian, and found Americans very friendly and talkative, with Aussies more reserved.

Outside grocery store, chat with some random girl by the bike rack who's waiting for a ride. She was born in Chicago, but moved here quite young. We chatted for a good while, I shopped, we chatted a bit more, I rode home. (I also ate a Violet Crumble, which seems just about identical to Crunchie--honeycomb in chocolate.)

Replied by phone to Jill's message asking how tonight's logistic would work; I planned to shower, dress, ride to Tilley's. Liz is on her way into town by bus, and they were to pick her up. However, another call from her explained that Liz will instead be coming to my hotel, and they'll pick us up from here. So!

Later, Cube. :)

Update: Call from Liz, who's taking a bus in from Woden, and expects to be less than an hour--good, plenty of time for me to actually shower and whatnot. :)

Photos of birds forthcoming later. :)

Comments

[r-transpose-p.livejournal.com]

Thank you, Scott, for being in a strange, fucked-up time zone.

Posts in the middle of hte night are greatly appreciated (despite the fact that they distract me from "prime programming hours", i.e. when noone else is online, except the intersection of "those of my friends who are also programming like freaks" with "those who life in Pacific Standard Time".)

Also, I am trying the work-at-home thing, which allows me to imbibe quite a fair amount of california wine while attempting to program.

I claim it doesn't affect my abilities to reason geometrically or algorithmically, though I may have slightly more trouble staying focused now.

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[skreidle.livejournal.com]

Doesn't work too tell for me--I'm 16 hours ahead, or for practical purposes, 8 hrs behind, which means that for the entirety of my evening and early night, most of the US is asleep, and I'm bombarded with LJ posts in my morning and mid-day.

[lanikei.livejournal.com]

omgomgomg

which is the thing by cadbury with the honeycomb?! i would KILL for one of those... *drools* and timtams. mmmm australia.

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[skreidle.livejournal.com]

I think the Violet Crumble is Cadbury's, and Crunchie is someone else's, both about the same thing.

Tim-Tams are pretty good, especially when you nibble two opposing corners and suck coffee or hot chocolate through it. :D

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[lanikei.livejournal.com]

oh god i love the cadbury thing (and i think you're right, it was purple)

and taht's how i've had timtams. yumyumyum.

[aus-silja.livejournal.com]

Hello. I am willing to send all of those poor, Cadbury-deprived people in the States a whole bunch of chocolatey Australian foodstuffs, if they are willing to exchange this service for sending *me* American stuff that companies charge stupid postage for. Let me know if you are interested, and remember, I have the power to send you Tim Tams. And Mint Slices. And big blocks of that Cadbury chocolate with the hazelnut mousse inside...