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todayiamadaisy) wrote2011-03-30 12:51 pm
todayiamadaisy) wrote2011-03-30 12:51 pm
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Ace from outer space
My work has just had a three-day strategic planning meeting. It was exactly as fun as it sounds. I was only needed at the Monday evening and Tuesday morning sessions, so it wasn't too bad. They are working on the train tracks, so the three-hour train trip to Melbourne took four hours, partly by bus, which was a drag and meant that I only had half an hour free on Monday afternoon, which wasn't really enough time to do anything other than go for a head-clearing walk before starting work. But it was a nice day and my hotel room had a river view (the first time I've ever seen anything other than a car park from a hotel window), so I can't really complain.
Because I don't sleep well in strange beds and certainly not when my room is directly across the river from Crown Casino and its columns of flame that shoot up regularly in a choreographed routine, I was up in time for another head-clearing walk at dawn. So that was all very nice. Also nice: because our Tuesday morning session involved a small group of people, we weren't in the hotel's conference room but in the penthouse suite, a place I am never likely to visit for any other reason. My standard room's little bathroom would have fitted into the bath in the penthouse bathroom. I think my house's bathroom would have fitted into the penthouse bathroom. We all oohed and aahed about that like the country bumpkins we are.
I use an electric toothbrush, which I couldn't be bothered taking with me. I do have a normal one, but I couldn't remember last time I used it, so I thought, hang the expense, and bought a new one. It has a bumpy area on the back of the head, which the packet tells me is a tongue scraper. Gosh, toothbrush technology is moving on apace, isn't it?
While I was away, I got my mother to come in on Monday evening to feed Percy, and she said she also popped in mid-Tuesday morning and gave him a pat. Which is more than I did when I arrived home on Tuesday because he wasn't there. He still hasn't been round today either. I don't mind if he's got the huff and moved on to mooch off someone else, but I do hope nothing's happened to him. ETA: He's back.
What else? Oh, in my ongoing quest to find the world's ugliest shoes, I came across these hoof boots recently. I like that they have the female models in vaguely jockey-ish outfits. I've never thought that people who ride horses actually want to be horses, but maybe they do. Anyway, I was looking for the hoof boots to show someone the other day and discovered that there is more than one style of hoof boot. I like (for a limited level of 'like') the ones that have horse shoes on the bottom of the hoof boots; that's commitment to an idea, isn't it? I don't know about the deer hoof boots, though. I thought deer had cloven hoofs?
Because I don't sleep well in strange beds and certainly not when my room is directly across the river from Crown Casino and its columns of flame that shoot up regularly in a choreographed routine, I was up in time for another head-clearing walk at dawn. So that was all very nice. Also nice: because our Tuesday morning session involved a small group of people, we weren't in the hotel's conference room but in the penthouse suite, a place I am never likely to visit for any other reason. My standard room's little bathroom would have fitted into the bath in the penthouse bathroom. I think my house's bathroom would have fitted into the penthouse bathroom. We all oohed and aahed about that like the country bumpkins we are.
I use an electric toothbrush, which I couldn't be bothered taking with me. I do have a normal one, but I couldn't remember last time I used it, so I thought, hang the expense, and bought a new one. It has a bumpy area on the back of the head, which the packet tells me is a tongue scraper. Gosh, toothbrush technology is moving on apace, isn't it?
While I was away, I got my mother to come in on Monday evening to feed Percy, and she said she also popped in mid-Tuesday morning and gave him a pat. Which is more than I did when I arrived home on Tuesday because he wasn't there. He still hasn't been round today either. I don't mind if he's got the huff and moved on to mooch off someone else, but I do hope nothing's happened to him. ETA: He's back.
What else? Oh, in my ongoing quest to find the world's ugliest shoes, I came across these hoof boots recently. I like that they have the female models in vaguely jockey-ish outfits. I've never thought that people who ride horses actually want to be horses, but maybe they do. Anyway, I was looking for the hoof boots to show someone the other day and discovered that there is more than one style of hoof boot. I like (for a limited level of 'like') the ones that have horse shoes on the bottom of the hoof boots; that's commitment to an idea, isn't it? I don't know about the deer hoof boots, though. I thought deer had cloven hoofs?