I finished reading it on Friday, and I liked it, but I was a little disappointed. Formulaic Empire-Strikes-Back plot to tee up book seven: the plot is winding up, and it shows. J.K. is also quite clearly playing to the movies, which is not necessarily a bad thing: I can…
More about bread…
Sorry Jen, the title lied: I can’t think of anything else about bread right now. Except that I wish I had some “bread of the gods” (as Mrs Elbeno and I know it – Sainsbury’s unsliced granary loaf to the rest of the world) in the cupboard. If so, I…
Comic-Con
Just come back from Comic-Con in San Diego. Saturday we spent most of our time wandering the convention hall and looking at various booths. Mrs. Elbeno picked up volume 1 of Amazing Agent Luna (signed by the artist), and we both got J-List t-shirts. She got a blue Totoro shirt…
Book sale!
Remembered the book sale today at our local library. Spent $23 and came back with a box full of books. Actually, I limited myself pretty well, but Mrs Elbeno went for the paperbacks in a big way. We like book sales.
what I've been doing this week
Back from Montreal. It was hot! Over 30C (that's 90F) and humid with it. But we spent most of the time indoors in the air conditioning, or out and about at night when it was a little cooler. It was a productive trip, and I got a spare half hour…
Meme me a meme
This one for all of my 3 readers. 1. Put your playlist on shuffle. 2. Post the first lines to the first 10 songs to come up (along with these instructions). 3. Have people guess the songs and artists in comments to the post. Skip over Instrumental/Non-English/Extremely obscure/etc. Also, songs…
Montreal
I will be heading to Montreal next week. Flying out Tuesday morning and back Thursday evening. This morning I had the interesting experience of trying to navigate the corporate intranet and figure out how to book my flight and hotel using my brand new Travel & Expenses (T&E) credit card….
cheddar and marmite on a toasted bagel
I got my Comic-Con confirmation today. Glad that came through since I’ve had the hotel booked for over a month now. This weekend is the big intra-office move, so everyone has to be packed up and left by 4pm tomorrow. Then our stuff is magically moved to new desks ready…
disappointment
2nd round then. So much for finding form.
As if I wasn't worked hard enough
The Times has started printing two Su Doku puzzles a day. One easy, one hard. Right! I'm not taking this lying down.