You know what a great name for a band would be? Incas of Emergency! That would be awesome! The first album would obviously be the seminal Break Glass, followed by Call This Number, and then, after a short break, Stop, Drop & Roll.
Also - is 2000 mockingbird the same as 2 kilomockingbird? Ha-cha!
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Had a weird dream a few nights ago, but the only image that's stuck with me is that I had a big 20-kilo clear plastic bag of muesli on my bed, that looked vaguely like a cross between the Outward Bound museli and honey-coated cornflakes... but when I ripped it open, I noticed that towards one end there were hunks of salami, feta-cheese chunks and bits of green olive. I believe I tied off the bag at the sweet-savoury interface, thinking that the savoury part looked unappealing, but that it was important not to waste stuff. (I was vaguely worried about the crumbs from the less-appalling part of the muesli, but that seemed less vital than sealing off the two parts at the time.)
I'm aware that this dream is significantly less cool than others that have recently been recounted, but since I've remembered the image a couple of days later, I figured I'd share it. I'm really not that fond of feta or olives, so I don't know who I was thinking I could pawn the weird savoury muesli off on.
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I've just paid my GST and my rates, which makes me feeling like a virtuous citizen; and since it looks like I won't be paying for some daft motor race, either, I don't particularly begrudge it. :) What's even better is that I had enough money in my current account to actually pay for all of this, and not slip into overdraft - hooray for vaguely budgety-type things! I've still got to work out income tax, but "sufficient unto the day are the evils thereof" and all that.
Also - I realised that for some reason I had it in my mind that I needed to set aside one out four pays for GST - but of course, at 12.5% it's actually one in eight. It's almost like getting an extra half-pay a month, at least to certain parts of my brain that aren't so good at the whole "reasoning" thing. Not that this makes much of a difference, since it's all devoured by the ever-present mega-nega money, but it was heartening, nevertheless. :)
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Road Trip! In imitation of my heroes, Matt & Debbie, I'll be driving up the coast twice in a row! Saturday, I'll be driving up to Foxton to pick up a bed and possibly an armchair (most likely with the French flatmate and one of my favourite francophones, C-Mac), and then Sunday, it'll be back up to Kapiti to run a Buffy game with a variety of awesome people. Yes, I could have tried to coordinate better, but this way I don't have to worry nearly as much about clashing time-tables. And post-game, it's back into town to watch the cream of the 48-Hour Wellington crop. Those that made it in on time, anyway. ;)
And roast chicken tonight! Yay!
Next post is 150. Hopefully I'll have something interesting to say. ;)
Posted by svend at May 27, 2005 11:58 AMSvend...
I dream some pretty strange dreams. I really do. But yours, well...that is weird. Very weird.
I actually had a very long dream with you in it the other night. I was at your house or we lived together or something. It was very long and very dark. You pretty much hogged all my dream time. We had to prepare *something*. It was lots of "getting stuff ready" but I'm not sure for what. Very mysterious.
The house wasn't your house at it stands now. It was a two story Craftsman style home with huge overgrown trees in the yard. It was a lovely house, but it had too much stuff in it. I think we were cleaning the stuff. I think. It was all very mysterious!
Posted by: jackie at May 27, 2005 10:33 PM