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Archive for October, 2009

Yuck

Dear body,
I want a divorce.
No love,
AG

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Good and bad day

The good: the code for the project that I’ve been working on for nearly two months finally worked properly today. The data still needs to be validated, but this is the first time that it’s run through (twice!) without issues and produced data that looks good on a cursory inspection.
The bad: OMG, indigestion. And bloating. [...]

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Agatha Christie binge

I’m on an Agatha Christie kick. One might even call it a binge. I blame it all on netgirl_y2k, who mentioned The Body in the Library in a recent post and got me thinking Christie-ish thoughts.
I’m currently on my fourth Christie in three weeks. My sister enabled it by presenting me with four more (that [...]

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It appears that my current main obsessions are cooking and knitting. It keeps surprising me because a few years ago I’d never have thought that I’d end up loving such domestic, home-making things. I’m not an artist, I never will be, but I consider myself to be creative and it appears that these crafts are [...]

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I have just enjoyed a Thanksgiving weekend with my sister. It was pure accident. She booked her flights, told me the dates and I squeed as I realised that she’d unwittingly booked to be with me over the long weekend so I’d get the Monday off work to spend with her without worrying about vacation [...]

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Oddly, this post may not be about actual knitting even though it has sweater contents.
But to kick off with the United Way Day of Caring. This is a thing that my company supports and thus yesterday I went out in the community with a bunch of my colleagues to clean and paint a shelter for [...]

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Yesterday was Monday and thus it was going to be a new experimental dish: stir fried beef with broccoli. Um, that wasn’t quite what I did…
Firstly, I must confess that I worked out my menu when I was in a rush on Thursday and didn’t have the time to do my usual poring over books, [...]

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