Strange Days
18/01/2018 11:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
izmeinaSo the first month of the new year is just over the half way mark. And what does the Serpent have to show for this bright shiny new opportunity to shed old skin and be all bright shiny and new?
Well more than expected actually.
Everyone these days has apps for all sorts of things. Decided to go retro and to dig out an old diary for a bright shiny To Do list. Unfortunately the supply of 2012 and 2007 diaries has already been exhausted. One of them has been conscripted as the Scrooge Diary. So in the spirt of the new year motto - to live lightly and chew the cud, figures that there is no way to justify buying a bright shiny new 2018 model when I have 8 2016 diaries grabbed from the 50 cent remainder bin. Some of these were Day Planner refills and others A4 and A5 Moleskine diaries with an original price tag of $$30
At 50 cents a pop, they make perfectly good note books.
So while the Tweet Stone is still good for appointments and events with built in reminders, it is still nice to have a low tech, week at a glance little notebook for putting things in on the fly.
One item had been on the To Do list - including the 1 and 5 year plans - for the last 3 years. Kept getting put on the very long finger. But when the rumours started circulating that the State Goblins want to sell off the land registry, that is the perfect excuse to get the serpent skids on before they triple the price of the most basic transaction.
Aside from lack of organisation, the main obstacle to ticking off this item on the very long To Do list was having a spare $160 just lying around with nothing to do.
But between the new year and reading a fascinating book called “Hell Week” (courtesy of the Cat) figures that it is time to put some times and dates on some of these long neglected goals
Original date of Wednesday 10th got delayed by a week but after all the drama, aside from the pain of wasting a stash of cash, it took a total of ten minutes to get the goblin business done and dusted. For God sake, I had spent more time writing this item in the quarterly lists for the last few years than it took to actually get it done. Well of course it aint over until the bright shiny mortgage free title deeds are once again in the serpent clutches.
And now with that out of the way, the next domino should be the last will and testament of the emerald serpent.
Another tiny little tweak to the new year is getting into the habit of eating grated ginger on something at least once a day. This is a habit stolen from Vernon Dursley who also adds grated apple, carrot, onion and garlic. It was actually Izzie who suggested adding ginger to the mix as it is famous for its stomach soothing antibacterial properties.
I have become addicted to peaches and with ginger on top they are even tastier than usual.
Was shocked to discover that this delicious delicacy that normally costs around $25 per kilo in the shops and $15 at the markets had shot up to a ridiculous $40 everywhere. Did find an unexpected source at $15 which is especially astonishing as they are normally one of the most expensive green grocers around.
The new ginger is coming out now so slowly the price will return to its usual level.
Of course I have the stuff growing in the garden along with lots of turmeric but it wont be until March onwards when I get the harvest.
The unexpected rains brought other blessings including a new lease of life for the patchouli patch. Poor thing was looking very miserable and now it is all boom and bloom and the smell of the leaves is intoxicating matched only by the wicked fragrance of the angels trumpets.
Soon the Fringe Festival is coming. Still not yet properly looked at the program. The font gets tinier every year as the program gets bigger. One must see is the intriguingly titled “Mein Camp” and there’s also Madame Nightingales Poison Garden
Been busy getting together a war chest so that there is no need to be tempted getting into the red with the plastic fantastic but still not yet drawn up any battle plans.
Must get organised soon before all the best tickets are gone. It is getting tricksier to get the cheap tix so I guess this year I will be seeing not as many shows but will have to choose them more carefully. Wednesday 31st is already off the agenda due to the full moon with a free lunar eclipse thrown in.
And now with an certain anniversary just around the corner, it has been a veritable feast over in Trumpland. Last year there were 4 or 5 Fringe shows dedicated to Don the Con and his minions. This year there should be at least twice as many.
Must be off. There’s some Fake News Awards to attend to, a Wall to build and some David Rowe drawings to drool over.
And in the real world there is some more Malaysian Airlines drama. More will be revealed tomorrow
The odds are most definitely not in their favour
Well more than expected actually.
Everyone these days has apps for all sorts of things. Decided to go retro and to dig out an old diary for a bright shiny To Do list. Unfortunately the supply of 2012 and 2007 diaries has already been exhausted. One of them has been conscripted as the Scrooge Diary. So in the spirt of the new year motto - to live lightly and chew the cud, figures that there is no way to justify buying a bright shiny new 2018 model when I have 8 2016 diaries grabbed from the 50 cent remainder bin. Some of these were Day Planner refills and others A4 and A5 Moleskine diaries with an original price tag of $$30
At 50 cents a pop, they make perfectly good note books.
So while the Tweet Stone is still good for appointments and events with built in reminders, it is still nice to have a low tech, week at a glance little notebook for putting things in on the fly.
One item had been on the To Do list - including the 1 and 5 year plans - for the last 3 years. Kept getting put on the very long finger. But when the rumours started circulating that the State Goblins want to sell off the land registry, that is the perfect excuse to get the serpent skids on before they triple the price of the most basic transaction.
Aside from lack of organisation, the main obstacle to ticking off this item on the very long To Do list was having a spare $160 just lying around with nothing to do.
But between the new year and reading a fascinating book called “Hell Week” (courtesy of the Cat) figures that it is time to put some times and dates on some of these long neglected goals
Original date of Wednesday 10th got delayed by a week but after all the drama, aside from the pain of wasting a stash of cash, it took a total of ten minutes to get the goblin business done and dusted. For God sake, I had spent more time writing this item in the quarterly lists for the last few years than it took to actually get it done. Well of course it aint over until the bright shiny mortgage free title deeds are once again in the serpent clutches.
And now with that out of the way, the next domino should be the last will and testament of the emerald serpent.
Another tiny little tweak to the new year is getting into the habit of eating grated ginger on something at least once a day. This is a habit stolen from Vernon Dursley who also adds grated apple, carrot, onion and garlic. It was actually Izzie who suggested adding ginger to the mix as it is famous for its stomach soothing antibacterial properties.
I have become addicted to peaches and with ginger on top they are even tastier than usual.
Was shocked to discover that this delicious delicacy that normally costs around $25 per kilo in the shops and $15 at the markets had shot up to a ridiculous $40 everywhere. Did find an unexpected source at $15 which is especially astonishing as they are normally one of the most expensive green grocers around.
The new ginger is coming out now so slowly the price will return to its usual level.
Of course I have the stuff growing in the garden along with lots of turmeric but it wont be until March onwards when I get the harvest.
The unexpected rains brought other blessings including a new lease of life for the patchouli patch. Poor thing was looking very miserable and now it is all boom and bloom and the smell of the leaves is intoxicating matched only by the wicked fragrance of the angels trumpets.
Soon the Fringe Festival is coming. Still not yet properly looked at the program. The font gets tinier every year as the program gets bigger. One must see is the intriguingly titled “Mein Camp” and there’s also Madame Nightingales Poison Garden
Been busy getting together a war chest so that there is no need to be tempted getting into the red with the plastic fantastic but still not yet drawn up any battle plans.
Must get organised soon before all the best tickets are gone. It is getting tricksier to get the cheap tix so I guess this year I will be seeing not as many shows but will have to choose them more carefully. Wednesday 31st is already off the agenda due to the full moon with a free lunar eclipse thrown in.
And now with an certain anniversary just around the corner, it has been a veritable feast over in Trumpland. Last year there were 4 or 5 Fringe shows dedicated to Don the Con and his minions. This year there should be at least twice as many.
Must be off. There’s some Fake News Awards to attend to, a Wall to build and some David Rowe drawings to drool over.
And in the real world there is some more Malaysian Airlines drama. More will be revealed tomorrow
The odds are most definitely not in their favour
