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Dazed and Confused
22/02/2003 01:12 pmWhen you live in a graveyard you can't weep for everyone. Nothing but endless doom and glooom these days. The subway in South Korea and fires and stampedes in USA nightclubs with countless people dead. Reminds me of my years in darkest Durmieland where a resident in a hostel had a fireworks party in his room to celebrate new years eve...set the whole place on fire and four people died. Fireworks are not toys and this group "Great White" will have a long time to contemplate the cost of their razzle dazzle glitz and glamour pyrotechnics performance. All this suffering in around one week and the war hasn't even officially started yet.
I guess in the grand scheme of things, the disappearance of dragons doesn't rate too highly but that is yet one more reason for Izzie to be raiding the chocolate larder.
Recently returned from my adventures in Middle Earth. It was a lot bigger than Iz ever expected and the three places that Iz absolutely had to visit... Queenstown, the Glow Worm caves and the grand scenic alpine train across the mountains... didn't do a single one. Two weeks was just too little. But we will be back. Not amused to discover that Iz had been within 1 hour of Hobbiton but didn't find out till too late. At least we did get to see the mountains of Mordor.... Magnificent. And of course the wickedly wonderful One Ring and all sorts of stuff from the movies. The REAL cloak of Saruman... not to mention his sinister assortment of Snapish stuff. (http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/rings)
Iz must ask herself.. was it really worth 6-7 weeks of house elf wages? Not really but at least we have learnt stuff for the next expedition.
It is very tiring and time consuming travelling in Middle Earth without a horse or at least an army of orcs to carry your supplies.
The Map is not the territory and ignorance is extremely expensive.
And of course .... proper planning prevents piss poor performance. Never really did believe we were going until Petunia came home with the tickets 4 weeks previously.
Oh and the place is full of hordes of hobbitses all looking for nesty little nooks and there is just not enough hobbit holes for them all.
But now Izzie has lots of maps, addresses and timetables and all sorts of stuff so she can do the organizing for the next time that she should have done.
But Izzie needs assistance. All you ringwraiths who can explain the intricacies of Middle Earth Economics.... it is all beyond Ickle Izzie's house elf intellect.
Izzie and our most faithful friend Wormtail absolutely and utterly adore CHEESE. We were most confuddled and confused to discover that the scrumpliciously delicious smoked cheddar that sells at the local supermarket here for $2.99 costs a mere 5 Middle Earth dollars in the aisles of Orcland and the stuff is actually MADE there!!!! The so called cheese capital of the known universe...second only to Switzerland..... there is just about nothing for less than 25 ME Dollars per kilo and most of it is 35 $ and more. Such deprivation and despair.
Then there is the nasty little den of Dementors and Black Riders in noxious nasty Dunedin. The most beautiful LOOKING place..... but that's where it ends.....Izzie had endless evil fantasies of arising at 2am to adorn the streets with spikes and teach a lesson to those filthy foul noisy nazgul. An absolute abundance of revheads and urban assault vehicles..... Can see why middle earth is the adventure capital of the world... crossing the street at the lights has a rambo rating of 7. And when the little green man appears it rockets right up to 10. Truly Lord Sauron devised their transport network in cahoots with Lord Voldi. The green lightseses is the go ahead for the nasty nazgul to squash the poor pedestrian hobbitses into a slimy sludge and scrape it up and serve on toast.
But there is one redeeming feature of this horrid hell hole...... Dementors beware... the chocolate waterfall. There is a very large and luscious CHOCOLATE factory in the heart of this soulless town. And Izzie went on the choccie tour.....But we didn't get to see the oompaloompas. Tricksy sneaky little creatures that they are. And of course... right next door in the shops you could get the stuff for 4 middle earth dollars. And what does it cost here.. just down the road? $3.50 and $2.50 if you wait for the supermarket specials!!!
Well.... that will be it for the moment. Izzie only ever seems to be inspired when she is miles away from a computer.... since we don't have our own we make do with what we can get. The ministry gets ever more incompetent. Swapover week which was officially 16-21 Feb has without explanation... suddenly been extended to 22 Feb as well. Amazing 500 or so computers in the labs and not one CALENDAR! Would have been so simple to say .. re-opens on Monday 24 Feb. So a bunch of 5 of us bean counters who turned up today slinked away empty handed and Iz had to slink off to fraternize with the mindless morons at the Megamutilation 666 Net Cafe. Beginning to think I am back in dreadful Dunedin. Filthy little orcbloods.
I guess when they get tired of paying for war games at net cafes they can always turn to the sycophantic brown noses of CNN and get the 'real thing' for free with whitewash and all the blood removed. This month Iraq....next month Poland.
Now she no longer has the dragon to fill her in on the details, I guess Izzie will have to get her fix of informed insights on Iraq from Robert Fisk.
I guess in the grand scheme of things, the disappearance of dragons doesn't rate too highly but that is yet one more reason for Izzie to be raiding the chocolate larder.
Recently returned from my adventures in Middle Earth. It was a lot bigger than Iz ever expected and the three places that Iz absolutely had to visit... Queenstown, the Glow Worm caves and the grand scenic alpine train across the mountains... didn't do a single one. Two weeks was just too little. But we will be back. Not amused to discover that Iz had been within 1 hour of Hobbiton but didn't find out till too late. At least we did get to see the mountains of Mordor.... Magnificent. And of course the wickedly wonderful One Ring and all sorts of stuff from the movies. The REAL cloak of Saruman... not to mention his sinister assortment of Snapish stuff. (http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/rings)
Iz must ask herself.. was it really worth 6-7 weeks of house elf wages? Not really but at least we have learnt stuff for the next expedition.
It is very tiring and time consuming travelling in Middle Earth without a horse or at least an army of orcs to carry your supplies.
The Map is not the territory and ignorance is extremely expensive.
And of course .... proper planning prevents piss poor performance. Never really did believe we were going until Petunia came home with the tickets 4 weeks previously.
Oh and the place is full of hordes of hobbitses all looking for nesty little nooks and there is just not enough hobbit holes for them all.
But now Izzie has lots of maps, addresses and timetables and all sorts of stuff so she can do the organizing for the next time that she should have done.
But Izzie needs assistance. All you ringwraiths who can explain the intricacies of Middle Earth Economics.... it is all beyond Ickle Izzie's house elf intellect.
Izzie and our most faithful friend Wormtail absolutely and utterly adore CHEESE. We were most confuddled and confused to discover that the scrumpliciously delicious smoked cheddar that sells at the local supermarket here for $2.99 costs a mere 5 Middle Earth dollars in the aisles of Orcland and the stuff is actually MADE there!!!! The so called cheese capital of the known universe...second only to Switzerland..... there is just about nothing for less than 25 ME Dollars per kilo and most of it is 35 $ and more. Such deprivation and despair.
Then there is the nasty little den of Dementors and Black Riders in noxious nasty Dunedin. The most beautiful LOOKING place..... but that's where it ends.....Izzie had endless evil fantasies of arising at 2am to adorn the streets with spikes and teach a lesson to those filthy foul noisy nazgul. An absolute abundance of revheads and urban assault vehicles..... Can see why middle earth is the adventure capital of the world... crossing the street at the lights has a rambo rating of 7. And when the little green man appears it rockets right up to 10. Truly Lord Sauron devised their transport network in cahoots with Lord Voldi. The green lightseses is the go ahead for the nasty nazgul to squash the poor pedestrian hobbitses into a slimy sludge and scrape it up and serve on toast.
But there is one redeeming feature of this horrid hell hole...... Dementors beware... the chocolate waterfall. There is a very large and luscious CHOCOLATE factory in the heart of this soulless town. And Izzie went on the choccie tour.....But we didn't get to see the oompaloompas. Tricksy sneaky little creatures that they are. And of course... right next door in the shops you could get the stuff for 4 middle earth dollars. And what does it cost here.. just down the road? $3.50 and $2.50 if you wait for the supermarket specials!!!
Well.... that will be it for the moment. Izzie only ever seems to be inspired when she is miles away from a computer.... since we don't have our own we make do with what we can get. The ministry gets ever more incompetent. Swapover week which was officially 16-21 Feb has without explanation... suddenly been extended to 22 Feb as well. Amazing 500 or so computers in the labs and not one CALENDAR! Would have been so simple to say .. re-opens on Monday 24 Feb. So a bunch of 5 of us bean counters who turned up today slinked away empty handed and Iz had to slink off to fraternize with the mindless morons at the Megamutilation 666 Net Cafe. Beginning to think I am back in dreadful Dunedin. Filthy little orcbloods.
I guess when they get tired of paying for war games at net cafes they can always turn to the sycophantic brown noses of CNN and get the 'real thing' for free with whitewash and all the blood removed. This month Iraq....next month Poland.
Now she no longer has the dragon to fill her in on the details, I guess Izzie will have to get her fix of informed insights on Iraq from Robert Fisk.
