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Mutterings continued.I've decided to let Blogger lapse in favour of Live Journal as I was having a lot of probs with the former and not so many with the latter.My LJ site is: http://possbert.livejournal.com/Come on over.

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Mutterings continued.I've decided to let Blogger lapse in favour of Live Journal as I was having a lot of probs with the former and not so many with the latter.My LJ site is: http://possbert.livejournal.com/Come on over.

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Mutterings continued.There was a thunderstorm last night - I heard the thunder but didn't get to see any lightning. L and R said it was very cool forked stuff.The fish recipe I threw together last night worked out rather well. I discovered I'd run out of breadcrumbs so I made it with diced onion, garlic, paprika, cumin and lemon, basil and thyme. I baked the fish and served it with green salad

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Mutterings continued.I have MP and the HG on in the background - one of my very favourite movies. Love the music, the photography and the very silly, highly quotable lines. "And Saint Atilla raised the hand-grenade orn high..." "...five is right out!" and of course, the ever-popular, "Run away! Run away!!" It's one of my desert island disks - one of the movies I'd want with me if I was

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Mutterings continued.From The Stage: "Awards shows such as the National Television Awards (ITV1, Wednesday) are all very well, but they do have a tendency to concentrate on the visual figureheads of each programme — pretty much the only awards given out in terms of technical skill are the Actor and Actress gongs, and even then (especially with the NTAs) the award often ends up in the hands of the

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Mutterings continued.From The Australian: "Platypus colony 'fixed' in minutes A PLATYPUS colony in southern NSW is holding up construction of a new section of the Hume Highway but the delay could be fixed in 10 minutes, a government senator said today. Liberal senator Bill Heffernan told a parliamentary committee today the delay could be quickly fixed if commonwealth roads staff took an

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Mutterings continued.You Belong in London You belong in London, but you belong in many cities... Hong Kong, San Francisco, Sidney. You fit in almost anywhere. And London is diverse and international enough to satisfy many of your tastes. From curry to Shakespeare, London (almost) has it all!What European City Do You Belong In?

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Damn! but we've got some talent in this State. When auditions were called for Cosi, we had more callers than we could comfortably look at, and director Grant Malcolm had the enviable/unenviable task of whittling down over 30 auditioners to a cast of 11. So, what we've ended up with is the best of the best. And it shows.For a play like Cosi to succeed, it depends upon teamwork, timing and the

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Mutterings continued.Just when I get all excited about the future, in the mail pops a letter from National Seniors inviting me to join. But I'm far too young!Also in the mail was the Xmas cattledog from Oxfam - they will def. be getting some of my money (and yah boo sucks to National Seniors).Cosi opens tomorrow night. I shall be on the door, ushering the multitude to their seats and telling

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Mutterings continued.Finally worked out which flights will get me to and from Heathrow for 112,000 points! It means flying into London at 6.45am but at least it's Qantas all the way and there's only a 3 hours stop in Singapore. Flying back, however, is with British Airways (rats!) and I arrive at half past midnight. The last couple of times I've flown to the UK, I've landed early in the

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Mutterings continued.There were three parcels waiting for me at the PO agency. One contained Terry Pratchett's The Science of Diskworld II - The Globe; the second had clothes in it; and the third 3 DVDs - X Men III, Cotton, Keayes and Morris Live at the Basement and the Moody Blues. Basement has a live version of The Real Thing, which I heard performed unplugged on the Coodabeens one Sunday

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Mutterings continued.Had yesterday off, which was nice. I met Director Pat in Nedlands for a coffee and a trip to the bank. Underground power is being installed in the streets surrounding the bank and I had a bit of trouble finding somewhere to park; in the end I opted for Broadway. I met Pat in the bank carpark and asked her how she got in when the streets were blocked off. "Oh, I ignored

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Mutterings continued.It's been humid and not at all pleasant today - and that means headache weather.The morning was spent running a desktop disaster recovery scenario as part of our business continuity plan. As a member of the Risk Management Committee I got to participate by scribing for our particular crisis team sub-group. And then the head of our team had to report back to the rest of the

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Mutterings continued.Seems I got my dates wrong and the PA I was filling in for came back today - I was sure she was retuning tomorrow. Still, at least we could have a decent handover.The goodie waiting for me at the Post Office turned out to be the Crumpler camera bag I'd ordered. It's very nice and has some highly amusing tags. The fabric is called Chicken Tex - the fabric of the future.

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Mutterings continued.Warm to the point of having to put the air-con on in the car whilst tootling about.Superb dins last night - roast turkey and lots of vegies. Poor Rob had to go into work as something important had gone kar-blooey. Leece and I watched X Files (the one with Arthur Dales' brother, Arthur Dales. They also had a sister called Arthur. And a goldfish.) - The Unnatural (a play on

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Mutterings continued.Well, that's the housework done. Ok, some of the housework done. I still have the washing to do but I'll do that tomorrow morning.Shiny thing purchase - a can opener, $2.26. Oooh, last of the big spenders, me. Also bought Rob's B/D present. And boring groceries.There was another card from the PO agency in the letterbox yesterday. Forgot to go and get it this morning.

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Mutterings continued.Oooohhh!! Tempting! The 20th anniversary tinbox set of Withnail and I. Oooh....but I've got the DVD already...but I want the tin box and extras...aaaghhhh!!!"Something new and important is coming to Perth! UPstageWA is a new company that wants to improve the standard of theatre in WA. They're not doing this by producing plays, rather they're organising Panel Discussions

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Mutterings continued.Another wintry day - some showers, some wind, very little blue sky.Long, but amusing - the scammer bit. Looks like the op Leece's dad had yesterday has been successful. Whew! And hurray! When my dad had his heart attack in '92, he was in a ward with 3 others. One of the chaps came in looking just awful, went for a triple bypass and came back looking a million dollars.

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Mutterings continued.Quite a bit of rain this morning and lots of wind all day. This morning, the bedroom curtain blew the lamp off my bedside table and broke the bulb housing. The bulb is still in one piece, thank the small gods.WA moves closer to "centre of the universe". Introduced L and R to this oldie but goodie on Saturday: Lions and tigers in Kenya. One million years BC is also

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Your Brain is 60% Female, 40% Male Your brain is a healthy mix of male and female You are both sensitive and savvy Rational and reasonable, you tend to keep level headed But you also tend to wear your heart on your sleeveWhat Gender Is Your Brain?Temp was mild - 24.7c, though it's come somewhat humid. Lots of rain and wind forecast for tomorrow. Huzzah!Walked to the food court in Mends St for

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Mutterings continued.HowManyOfMe.comThere are:6,276people with my namein the U.S.A.How many have your name?Humph. Still, that's not as many as I thought there would be. I know of two other Pamela Smiths in this state alone - one of them is a raptor rescuer.

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Mutterings continued.Last night I used my new vegie julienner to slice up carrots for dinner. You know what's coming next, don't you? Yup, julienned my thumb. Grabbed a clean tea towel to staunch the blood, ran to the bathroom for a quick run under water and then kept sticking bandaids on it until the blood didn't come through any more.I didn't faint, which I have been known to do, but felt

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Mutterings continued.Rain was forecast for this morning but I don't think we got any. It's shiny and bright outside and I've done the washing (3 loads), the vacuuming and general tidying up. I have a meeting in a couple of hours and L and R for dinner tonight. I piked out of making something and have bought 3 beef swags from the Garden City butcher's. They are seriously good and I'll be doing

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Mutterings continued.Despite having Monday off, it's been a bloody long week. I've worked about 4 hours time in lieu so far this week, which is nice. Well, it will be when I get to take the time off.I don't normally like to plug multinational bloodsuckers, but this ad cracks me up.Busy weekend coming up - have a GRADS committee meeting in the arvo and L and R for dins tomorrow night. I was

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Mutterings continued.From The Australian - "Grazing dieters do it the hard way FOOD grazers beware. Numerous small meals during the day may crank up your food intake, not decrease it. The warning comes courtesy of new US and British research revealing that the first bites of food trigger key hunger centres in the brain. "The drive to eat is massively stimulated by the start of eating," said

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Mutterings continued.Just back from dinner with TUS-L-R. S and M and I went to Han's in Leederville - very tasty and cheap it was. Nice to catch up with them both.Very busy couple of days; today I didn't get a lunch break. Started work at 8am, went straight through to 5pm, so I'm a leetle weary. The day started with a walk around the Zoo, which is always nice. It's school holidays, so most

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Mutterings continued.It's 9.45am, I've only just got up and the sky is a very pale blue.Visited L and R last night at the Emerald. It was the tail-end of Fandomedia and there was much activity and giving away of booty. I have a dragon inna box sitting on my kitchen table; it belongs to Rob, who won it in a raffle, and who doesn't have any space on his bike to take it home. So I shall look after

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Mutterings continued.Sunny Sunday follows a Soggy Saturday. Muggy Monday coming up.Yesterday was spent shopping in the morning (no shiny thing purchases - just groceries and clothes) and hennaing my hair in the afternoon. Putting henna on one's hair is a messy business and my bathroom looked like an explosion in a chocolate factory. I left it on for 6 hours, which meant I couldn't leave the

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Mutterings continued.Reading this Guardian article about a Monty Python fan convention put me in mind of a very silly conversation my boss and I had the other day. We were working on the wording of one of the landing pages for the new Zoo website (which can be seen here) and were trying to put, succinctly, why we breed animals. It sort of went, "There are numerous reasons why we breed animals.

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Mutterings continued.Busy, busy day. I'm currently doing three jobs, with bits of a fourth added on. I spent all of it inside in the office and the temp had dropped to a very manageable 23c by the time I left work.More coolness from Google Earth - the Gombe Chimpanzee blog by the Jane Goodall Institute.The Trocs - lovely interview with the Trocadero dance troupe.

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Mutterings continued.It feels like a Friday. For the next couple or so weeks from tomorrow I'll be acting PA to the CEO, which means moving temporarily to an office on t'other side of the Zoo. This afternoon I packed up my desk, put the phone through to my new extension and sent out a message telling everyone where I'd be and to help themselves to the stationery (silly move, I know) and now I

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Mutterings continued.One of my favourite places to visit in London is the Theatre Museum in Covent Garden. It's a fascinating place, with a wealth of theatrical history. And now it's closing. Bugger. The Museum has a vast collection of videotaped performances that people can view (much the same as the Shakespeare Library in Stratford-upon-Avon) - where else could you watch Ian McKellen's

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Mutterings continued.It's been a depressing and eventful day. I've spent the last couple of days researching into the palm oil crisis and the devastation rampant conversion of endemic rainforest to palm oil plantations is having in Malaysia and Indonesia. Friends of the Earth research has concluded that if things continue unchecked, orangs will be extinct in the wild within 12 years. Read this

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Mutterings continued.This time next week it will be October. Where has the year gone? There was a letter from the Health Dept in my mailbox telling me it was time for my next mammogram. But I've just had one! No, I had one two years ago.We had fun at the Genghis Con's quiz arvo yesterday. Our table was leading for most of the rounds but we was done in by the music round. As much as we like

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Mutterings continued.Received this from Ezydvd:"Hi Pamela,Thank you for ordering Mission - Impossible (1966): Complete TV Season 1 (7 Disc Box Set) from EzyDVD!We would like to inform you that Paramount have changed the release date for this title to Thursday, 30 November.We apologise for any inconvenience caused." Ah well. Gives the old credit card a bit of a breather.Shiny Thing Purchases:

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Mutterings continued.Spent most of the morning with the new rep from the hardware company with whome we have a (mandatory) contract discussing hose cocks and screws. I had lunch with friends old and new and some in between. I had the very healthy cus cus with vegetables, followed by also healthy (ahem) carrot cake. We had a long natter, mostly about the stage and horticulture. And travel.And

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Mutterings continued.A couple of weeks ago I changed from Eudora to Thunderbird on the recommendation of several people. Today I opened Thunderbird and it was completely blank, with a message box asking me to set up a new account. Where's my existing account? More importantly, where are all the message I've received over the last couple of weeks gone?? It's ok, found them. The Inbox was

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Mutterings continued.Just back from the Thaimarind restaurant in Leederville, replete with yummy food. We had the banquet for four which included prawn blanket, chicken satay, spring rolls for entree, followed by chef's special lamb (or lump, as we read it), chicken with cashews, beef and prawns with basil. Followed by steamed banana with ice cream. I love Thai food - it's not hot, just nicely

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Mutterings continued.Before I forget, this is on ABC Digital 2 tomorrow night - Good Game - 8:30pmTuesday, September 19, 2006"It's game on with ABC2's premiere episode of the exclusive series GOOD GAME; the program for gamers by gamers with it's entertaining and informative look at the Australian gaming scene.In the first episode, hosts Junglist and Kapowski meet the developer of Australia's most

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Mutterings continued.20c, overcast but with some sunshine. Rain is forecast, which is nice, and the temps are staying moderate for the next couple of days.Yesterday, as I was doing the weekly (boring) grocery shopping in Coles, I thought to myself that the Xmas stuff will be in the supermarkets soon. Walked into K Mart and was accosted by a line of Xmas trees at the entrance. *sigh* Still, I

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Mutterings continued.Back from grocery and other stuff shopping. I bought a few shiny things this morning, including a pineapple corer and Vols. IV and V of the original Star Wars trilogy. They were going for $19.99 each at K Mart, which is a bargain I think as the disks have both the original (yay!) theatrical release as well as the remastered (boo!) release. I didn't buy Vol. VI (aka Return

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Mutterings continued.These are from the latest Reproduction, Fertility and Development Journal:Variation of sperm head shape and tail length in a species of Australian hydromyine rodent: the spinifex hopping mouse, Notomys alexis M. Bauer and W. G. Breed - Appropriate name for someone working in the field of reproduction. Similarities between female meadow voles mating during

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Mutterings continued.5:47pm and it's 24c. Hmmm....not happy. It bodes ill. Actually, today was really pleasant. Caroline and I went to the lunch bar opposite Wesley College for dins - I had intentions of getting something healthy, along the lines of chicken, avocado, tomato and cheese and ended up buying a bacon and egg roll. It did have salad, but! The sky is a lovely lavender colour

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Mutterings continuedOk, two seasons. Lots of rain overnight and this morning, fined up to a nice sunny afternoon. We had lunch at the cafe and sat in the sun for a while to get our levels of vitamin D up. Then took a stroll back through the Savannah, where lions Alistair and Manzi were having a roaring competition.I've finished writing Thespis and have sent it to the editor for proofing.

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24c, thunderstorms forecast - means only one thing. Humid!!Last night's noodle dish turned out very well, even if I do say so myself. And I realise that self praise is no recommendation, as my mother used to say. I doubled the ingredients, which meant I doubled the amount of red curry paste, which meant that it was bordering on thetoo warm for this wuss. However Leece and Rob didn't mind as

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 We wuz promised a thunderstorm yesterday and I don't think it eventuated.  It's just started raining, however, which is nice.  The city is obscured which means it must be nice and heavy.  And now it's stopped.Sendit.com have opened an anime arcade and have some interesting things going out (reasonably) cheap, including volume 1 of Miyu and Magical Shopping Arcade for 8 and 5 quid respectively. 

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Mutterings continued.I've got Friday on my mind.And I've got a runny nose. *sniff*I had a quick look at Google News Archive earlier - it could prove to be very addictive. It's a good thing most of the news articles are pay per view as I think I could easily spend a lot of time in the past. Could be useful for future productions.More Google goodness - Google Video, much like Youtube.

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Mutterings continued.I've been feeling fluey and odd for the last week or so - hot and cold, achey bits, etc and yesterday when I woke up I thought that the lurgi had finally hit. Spent the morning in bed and then had to go to Garden City to pick up my asthma prevention medication. I shop there every Saturday, so I took up the chemist's offer to look after my scripts for me. Theoretically, all

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Mutterings continued.No wonder we're near the end of the year at the rate the days go by.L and R made nachos for dinner last night (mmm...nachos...) and I provided the lemon tarts/apple parcels/marshmallowie thingie with eyes on it that kept following Rob around the room. The eyes, not the marshmallow.Evening's viewing was a little disjointed - we started watching the pilot of Eureka, stopped

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Mutterings continued.Thank you Elton.Nice day - not too cold, not too warm and I think there was a drop of rain overnight.Did the usual boring grocery shopping this morning and the only shiny thing purchased was a Virgin SIM for my spare phone. I got a phone call from Telstra this afternoon - the young chap was most surprised that I don't use my land line very often. Or my mobile, for that

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Mutterings continued.Been a long week, it has. A lovely drop of rain this morning, followed by some pretty harsh sunshine at lunch time. We had lunch at the cafe and had to move under an umbrella as we were getting too hot. And I was starting to go pink.Sendit.com have got a Studio Ghibli sale - 2 DVDs for 15 quid. Even with postage, they're still cheaper than Ezydvd.And speaking of Ezydvd,

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Mutterings continued.Got an email from Scoop magazine with info about some upcoming gigs, one of which was a tour by Brian Cadd and Russell Morris. Tomorrow night's gig is at the Civic Hotel in Inglewood - felt appropriate to me as I was living in Inglewood when I first listened to Russell Morris and Cadd's band, Axiom. We're talking 37 years ago, people. *sigh*I am having an increasingly hard

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Mutterings continued.How I didYOUR SCORESHere's your scores from the National Memory Test, just in case you've forgotten them...Long Term Memory - Sandra's Homework - CorrectWorking Memory - Shopping List - 7/10Facial Recognition - 6/6Name Recall - 5/5Occupation Recall - 5/5Visual Memory – Correct AVERAGE SCORES:Shopping list recall (working memory) – 7 out of 10 itemsFacial Recognition – 6

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Mutterings continued.Two words. No explanations.1. YourselfAgeing juvenile2. Your boyfriend/girlfriend:Non existent3. Your hair?Bright red4. Your mother:Greatly missed5. Your Father:See above.6. Your Favorite Item:My cats.7. Your dream last night:Probably confused.8. Your Favorite drink:Malt whisky.9. Your Dream Car:Manfred Fiesta.10. The Room You Are In:Lounge room11. Your Ex:Which one?12. Your

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Mutterings continued.It's Thespis time again. Thespis is the GRADS members' newsletter and I volunteered a few months back to take it on. I have photos from Hedda, I have an almost complete cast list for Cosi, all I need are the President's 'bits'.Too warm for winter today - 27c! Made for a warm walk back from the cafe, through the Savannah and past the orangs. Most of the Painted Dogs were up

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Mutterings continued.24c today, 27c tomorrow. Noooooooooo!!!! Fortunately we're back to showers and 23c by Wednesday. Phew. My whining about the weather is index-linked to the temperature.I had left-over curry for lunch and then took a stroll to the cafe for a real coffee (as opposed to the unleaded I usually drink. High blood pressure and all that.) and a meander back through the World of

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The temps are heading towards the mid 20s mark by Wednesday - today feels very summery indeed.Dinner last night consisted of vegetable curry, jasmine/wild rice, puppadums and naan bread, followed by chocolate cake and mint fondue. Mmmm....fondue....And the viewing consisted of the pilot of Stargate:SG1 (on a medium called video tape. Altogether now: Yes, we've got a video!!!"). I know there

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Mutterings continued.Over on angriest's blog a few days ago, the comments, which started out talking about the delisting of Pluto as a planet, somehow turned into a discussion about Carry On films. This was my suggestion for a new movie:The Kenneth Williams/Julian Clarey character would be the owner of a dot.com company, which his wife, Hattie Jacques/Dawn French, would be trying to turn into

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Mutterings continued.Four jobs have become available at the Zoo. Have a look here for more details. The Fundraising Officer and Receptionist positions are part time, one of the Ed Officer positions is permanent full time, the other a 7 month contract.

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Mutterings continued.Not that I actually receive a pay packet, more a computer generated pay advice, but you get my meaning.Went shopping this morning and have come home with five tops, five DVDs and $60 worth of groceries. Oh dear and all before 10.30am. Fortunately, all the clothes were bought on sale - two of the tops are rather groovy (I'm from the 60s - I'm allowed to say 'groovy')

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Mutterings continued.I only have tomorrow off, so it's not a very long holiday. I plan to go "me" shopping in the morning and then lunch with Pat, Genette and Shirley. The forecast is for rain, and we'll be sitting outside, but the table is under cover. Which is nice.And today I had lunch with Kim. We went to the noodle house in Mends Street - I had the three flavour noodles (the flavour

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Mutterings continued.Just back from dinner with TUS. This week we went to Duende, a Spanish tapas (and I think that might be an oxymoron) restaurant, in Leederville. Little pricy but the food was wonderful. We all raved about the duck proscuttio and would happily have had it as a mains. Finished it off with an evil rocky road semi freddo which, surprisingly, had nothing to with chocolate

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Mutterings continued.Make your own Einie pic. This is mine.It's been a wild and woolly day. Woke up to the sound of thunder (how far off I sat and wondered) and couldn't work out what the noise was. Mid morning, the rain came in horizontally. Sure made Temara, one of the orangs, move. She'd been sitting on the top of her tower with all her worldly possessions (sacks, branches, leaves, food)

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Mutterings continued.I'm beginning to think that online news articles aren't run past an editor before being posted. This piece about the Trekkie convention in Las Vegas is a prime example. Mr Spock is called Doctor Spock a number of times (I can understand the confusion in the 60s when there was a Doctor Spock, but I'm sure the writer of this piece has probably never heard of him!) and a

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Mutterings continued.The pies and Yorkshire puds I cooked for dinnner last night turned out rather well. I used sandwich steak which turned out to be very tender and tasty. Simple recipe with steak, onions, mushrooms, carrots, ale, beef stock, thyme and bay leaf and puff pastry. Rob cooked a really nice spicy plum pudding dessert with custard.The night's viewing consisted of Space:1999 (

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Mutterings continued.More rain, hurray!Usual Saturday - grocery shopping (no shiny stuff - I think I've bought enough DVDs for a while. Until I find A Knight's Tale and Maid Marion for less than $20, that is) for provisions for tonight's dinner (I'm making the beef and ale pie I saw on a cooking show set in Yorkshire. I've even got some Yorkshire puds to go with it!) and a trip to the Post

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Mutterings continued.Wee!! Yippeee!!

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Mutterings continued.Felt long, but. Achieved a lot, saw a lot, didn't get to eat with TUS (bummer).From New Scientist: Caps Lock Must Die!More interestin' stuff from NS: Shattered art can be digitally rebuilt. And this, which really tickles me: "The reincarnation futures market IDAN BEN-BARAK, signing himself as president of

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Mutterings continued.Got a lot done this morning, including finishing off the monthly report to the Board, had lunch with Kim at the Italian place next to Secret Squirrel (we're boycotting SS because its prices are too high and the food at the Italian place is much fresher) and then went onto the orang roof with the Docents to give the red people their behavioural enrichment. The highlight was

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Mutterings continued.Another late meeting this afternoon so no dining at Sienna's with TUS. *sigh*It's been a busy couple of days - GRADS committee last night and a couple of meetings today.Hsing and Utama, two of the orangs, have been moved into an enclosure that has had new climbing poles and ropes installed and we've been watching Hsing slowly and cautiously work his way across the ropes.

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Mutterings continued.Manfred had a service today. He's only done 15,500km and according to the log book his next service was due at 45,000 or 12 months after the previous service. He'd had his 3,000km in May last year, so time-wise he was 3 months over or mileage wise 30,000km under. Confused? Anyhoo, it cost $154 at the local garage and he has new oil, filters, etc etc.Leaving him at the

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Mutterings continued.Watched an old favourite from the 70s on UKTV this morningh - The Sweeney. Starred a very young John Hurt as a computer teacher ("This is a VDU, which stands for Video Display Unit."). I know, I know, the Sweeney and its ilk (the Professionals, etc) are politically incorrect, sexist, blah-de-blah but they're still great viewing. And tonight it was Wiseguy with lots of big

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Mutterings continued.* Dr Who and chocolate mini muffins excluded.Home made pea and ham soup and crusty bread from L and R and chocolate mini muffins from me. After reading the review on floppy woppy baking products in Choice, I bought a silicon muffin tray made by Wiltshire and used it for the first time yesterday. It worked really well and didn't set the smoke alarm off (I'd been warned by L

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Mutterings continued.I have been known, on occasion, to, shall we say, delicately enhance the [cough] natural [cough] colour of my hair (and if you believe that, have I got a bridge for you!). The post colour removal scene is always the same: I open my eyes to find the shower walls, curtain and soap dish beflecked with fluffy, blood coloured foam (think the shower scene in Psycho if, instead of

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Mutterings continued.The sun keeps coming out, briefly, however the city is shrouded in clouds.The usual grocery shopping this morning - no shiny thing purchases, I did that yesterday.Silly (and probably old) joke on The Men in White: Two atoms are walking down the street. One of them says, "I've lost an electron!" "What?" "I've lost an electron!" "Are you positive?"When IS it ok to walk out?

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Mutterings continued.Thanks to Leece and Rob for introducing me to Hal Spacejock and thanks to Martin Livings for telling us all about the Support Crew.I joined Hal Spacejock's Support CrewI didn't pay anything,I didn't sign anything,and I didn't read the fine print.Just like Hal!No space pilot can exist in a vacuum (hah!), and behind every successful pilot there's a talented and dedicated

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Mutterings continued.Back from the hairdressers - lighter in pocket and hair.I've had a nice afternoon; knocked off work at 12 and headed off to JBs (two DVDs - The Corpse Bride and Underworld Evolution (yes, yes, I've read the reviews, but it has Derek Jacobi in it wearing some very fetching clothes. Plus it was cheap.) and a CD - the Clarion Call, R and B, mod and pop-psych from down under.

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Mutterings continued.Cold start but a shiny day. Sat in the sun at lunch time and scoffed the Staff Special - beef stroganoff pie and chips and a large coffee.The huuuuuge crane was at it again this morning - we had a diverting morning watching large poles with structures attached being raised into the air and lowered into enclosures. We were thinking of serving tea and cakes, for a small sum,

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Mutterings continued.Transparent duct tape?? Duct tape that's transparent??? Who the hell wants transparent duct tape? How are your actor and director types going to be in awe of us techies is they can't see what we've done? How will they know where their marks are? Or where the set furniture goes? The whole point of duct tape is that it's visible. Highly, nay, extremely visible. It's

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Mutterings continued.I subscribe to A Word A Day and get interesting emails popping into my inbox telling me of words that I'd either not heard of before or should use more often. Or both. Yesterday's word was arithmancy - divination by numbers. This is very apposite as today is census day and the Bureau of Statistics will be doing its own version of arithmancy using the results. Wonder how

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Mutterings continued.Headed home all ready to roll up the sleeves and do the final tidying up/vacuuming/floor washing/shower descumming before the estate agent's inspection tomorrow, only to discover he'd been today. Dammit! Not that the place was a tip, it wasn't, it's just that my washing is all over the place, there are Red Rock crisps crumbs on the carpet (left overs from Saturday night)

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Mutterings continued.I have another rent inspection on Tuesday, so I've been doing some desultory tidying and dusting.Last night we had a great meal prepared by Rob - seafood paella, with Morten Bay bugs, scallops and Red Emperor. Mmmmmmm.... Dessert was apple parcels and chocolate hedgehogs.I bullied L and R into watching the X Files episode, Bad Blood. Glad I did as it was very funny and a

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Mutterings continued.The usual grocery shopping this morning was followed by fun shopping at JBs and Spotlight this afternoon. JBs have got their X Files DVDs going out for $12.95 so I bought a couple - one features Darren McGavin (Agua Mala), the other has the very funny vampire episode (Bad Blood) I've raved about to L and R. We might get to see it tonight.It's been an expensive couple of

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Mutterings continued.Just back from the Dolphin after a stint usheretting. An audience of about 60 - small but appreciative, laughed in all the right places.Another day of meetings - Full Staff Day (which, as the name suggests, is when all the rosters overlap and there's a full complement of staff), and then an IT Committee meeting.In the right menu - it's over thattaway ----> is a map which

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The day started rather soggily but warmed up to 23c. Took a nice stroll across Windsor Park at lunch time and had lunch at Dome. Kim and I both had the burger with the lot - so big, we had to eat it in halves.A good review of Hedda on the ITA website.This is rather cool - the State Library has got the WA Post Office Directories, 1893 - 1949, on line. "The post office directories provide

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No dins tonight with TUS as I didn't get off work until 5.30pm. Had a meeting about elephants for the last two hours. This was preceded by a 1.5 hour meeting to discuss research. This was preceded by lunch and a wander past the White-cheeked gibbons and a chat with young Jermei. This was proceeded with an interview with a potential supply officer.It's been one of those days.Thanks to Angriest

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That's two months of winter....goooorrrn. We're on the slippery slope toChristmas, I tell 'ee.Still, we've had a nice few wintery days - bit windy for my liking but you get that. The clouds keep coming over but nothing much has fallen from them this afternoon.Had coffee and a bikky at the cafe at lunch time and then went to check on the baboon boys. Chad had a fig branch with small fruit and

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A bit of rain, a bit of sun.Last night's goulash turned out ok - I forgot to take the recipe with me when I went shopping and had to buy the ingredients from memory (not always a good idea).  Forgot the carroway seeds.  Still, it tasted rather nice.  And Rob made a very yummy dessert with berries, exclusive ice cream and a choc baskety thingie.Interesting night's viewing:  Black Books 3.1 (Manny

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I know I say this (nearly) every weekend, but, by the gods!, the weeks are spinning past.  It's another weekend.Ushered and tore up tickets at Hedda last night.  Hello Grant!  I know I'm biased, being the secretary of GRADS and all, but it's a really, really good production.  Very funny in parts and not at all grim.  And the set looked lovely.  Seems I really am replaceable.  *sniff*No shiny

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It's been sprinkling on and off for most of the day; a heavy downpour was loosed just as I left work.  Fortunately my car is parked right next door to the building so I didn't get wet at all.  Was dampened a little when I checked the mailbox when I got home.Off to Hedda tonight - I'm ushering (ie telling people where to go, to shut up and to turn their bloody phones off) tonight and again next

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Windy too. I didn't get to go to lunch with Kim as that was when the storm was forecast to hit (not so much a storm, more a heavy shower of rain); I did pick up a parcel from the PO (goodies ordered from the nice Dusk candle people).Dinner last night was had with TUS at d'Tandoor Indian restaurant. We ordered the banquet, and I ordered a side of onion baghi, which consisted of starters, three

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Well, not an overwhelming response - was it too hard??1. For some reason I recall it as just me and Bunce. - Stephen Fry, Moab is My Washpot.2. I was going to stick it out and do it cold this time. - Graham Chapman, Liar's Autobiography.3. This is my lounge. - Joe Orton, Entertaining Mr Sloan.4. I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. - Dodi Smith, I Capture the Castle.5. Who is there who

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Had a lovely lot of rain today.  Of course, it fell at lunch time while we were out in the grounds but we didn't really mind.  We were watching a crane trying to manouver a large tree past the orangs, up the hill and into the new Sun bear enclosure when it started to pour.Had a training session this morning, then lunch at the cafe, followed by a stroll through the Savannah to see what the baboon

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Mutterings continued.BOM issued a weather warning for Perth and surrounds - possible thunderstorms, high winds, etc. The day didn't turn out to be too bad, though the gum tree outside my flat did shed a rather large limb during the day.However did we live without....tattoo sleeves?!The children, Gus and Milo, found a large bug in bedroom last night. It was last seen hightailing it under the

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Mutterings continued.Another great weekend over.L and R for dins last night. We had some great viewing - ep 1 from series 2 of Battlestar Galactica, Round the Twist, Kolchak and MST3K's City Limits ("Shouldn't we be carefully placing these comic books in plastic bags?" "No, we have lives." -Crow/Tom Servo.) (Lee: "Hey I'm not really a skull, lady" Kim Catrall: "I'm not really an actress.")

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Mutterings continued.Just back from Parrots 2. Loved it! Just loved it! Wasn't too long - was a lot of fun.Will Turner: What vexes all men?Tia Dalma: What, indeed.Gibbs: The sea...?Pintel: Sums...?Ragetti: The dichotomy of good and evil...?Jack Sparrow: A woman!I especially enjoyed the intellectual intercourse between Pintel and Ragetti as to the pronounciation of Kraken. Oh, and I

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Mutterings continued.Woke up this morning hurting in every limb. And I'd been sleeping with my right hand under my head and my fingers had gone dead. Felt too ill to go to work and rang the doctor's at 8.15 for an appointment, only to be told there was nothing until 10.15 tomorrow. Julie, the receptionist, did offer to put me on the waiting list but there were two people ahead of me.

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Mutterings continued.Yet another shiny day. *sigh*My little printer is working overtime, printing out labels, tickets and invites to Hedda. Tonight will be spent envelope stuffing. Poor me had to call into Office Works on the way home to get some paper, labels and envelopes. What a hardship. Not.Claudia Christian alert. Stumbled on the very funny Broken News on SBS last night and there was

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Mutterings continued.*thank you George Tessman.1. For some reason I recall it as just me and Bunce.2. I was going to stick it out and do it cold this time.3. This is my lounge.4. I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.5. Who is there who has not felt a sudden startle pang at reliving an old experience, or feeling an old emotion?6. If you shall chance, Camillo, to visit Bohemia, on

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And enjoyable it was too.L and R came for dinner last night - Leece caught a flounder! Rob performed surgery and removed all the yucky bits and then baked it in foil with lemon, garlic, bay and pepper. Mmmm... nice fleshy fish. My lamb hotpot turned out ok but wasn't as tender as it could have been. I suspect the lamb had been chased around the paddock a time or two before it was caught.The

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