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Stickybeak me
Oct. 23rd, 2006 06:13 pmToday I've taken the first step on a very slippery slope, I think. I'm turning into the sort of person who writes sternly-worded letters to the local council. I've only written the one letter so far, but who knows? I may develop a taste for it (if one can develop a taste for either letters or slippery slopes). Anyway, every year a pair of spur-winged plovers build a ground nest on a nature strip (the green belt between lanes of the highway) right in the centre of the city. They stay until at least a month after the chicks are hatched. Not this year; they've been nesting for weeks and I've been looking forward to seeing the chicks, but I noticed last week that (1) the council has mown the grass and (2) the pair of plovers has gone. So I wrote a letter saying I hope they're gone because the council found a way to move the nest, and not because it was destroyed. And that's my busybodying done for the year.
I've been so good lately, not feeding my font habit at all, even though I've got this new computer with so much space just begging to be filled with all sorts of different letters. And then this rather nifty free animal silhouette font came to my attention through a newsletter, and I had to try it. Just the once, you understand. Well, I was upset about the plovers and needed to take my mind off it. Anyway, I liked it so much I just bought the matching floral font, which I'm pleased to say is just as nice.
The reason I had time to draft letters and buy fonts today was that I've had an unexpected half-day off. Huzzah! The power went off at about eleven-thirty and we pottered about in the office for a couple of hours, until we found out that there was a fire at the local substation and electricity wouldn't be restored to the region until five o'clock. So we all decided to use some accrued time, and shut the office for the rest of the afternoon.
Seen on the back of a box of chai, after directions for how to make it: "To create a latte experience, just add milk". Well... I'd have thought so, yes. Sigh.
I've been so good lately, not feeding my font habit at all, even though I've got this new computer with so much space just begging to be filled with all sorts of different letters. And then this rather nifty free animal silhouette font came to my attention through a newsletter, and I had to try it. Just the once, you understand. Well, I was upset about the plovers and needed to take my mind off it. Anyway, I liked it so much I just bought the matching floral font, which I'm pleased to say is just as nice.
The reason I had time to draft letters and buy fonts today was that I've had an unexpected half-day off. Huzzah! The power went off at about eleven-thirty and we pottered about in the office for a couple of hours, until we found out that there was a fire at the local substation and electricity wouldn't be restored to the region until five o'clock. So we all decided to use some accrued time, and shut the office for the rest of the afternoon.
Seen on the back of a box of chai, after directions for how to make it: "To create a latte experience, just add milk". Well... I'd have thought so, yes. Sigh.
