The Leaping Flame
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todayiamadaisyWeekly update
1. An actual paragraph I had to read this week
The circumstances in which most businesses today find themselves are complex, dynamic and uncertain. These circumstances can be usefully conceptualised using an integrated systemic complexity perspective where macro-scale bundles of contextual influences can be successively unpacked into micro-scale dense networks of complexly interacting, mutually influencing and multiple causally-ambiguous considerations.
Okay then.
2. Bathroom renovations
The solicitors have been faffing about with John's will, but my mother has now received her share of his estate. She and one of his sons were the executors, not that they had to do much. The solicitors did everything, very slowly. John's other two children, who live interstate and rarely visited or called him, have been champing at the bit to get their share. They've been calling their brother, the other executor, weekly to find out where it is, because one of them needs it to pay for a second house he's already started building and the other wants to buy a new caravan. I'd be more sympathetic if they needed it to get by, but they're just coming off as greedy and selfish. But I won't have to have anything to do with them once all this is finalised, so... I guess they can go on being greedy and selfish. I won't see it.
Anyway, the money has been released, so my mother's plans for renovating the bathroom are finally afoot. After playing with the manufacturer's website visualiser, her current favourite is a 1200mm Eden vanity in a Chalky Teak or Charred Oak finish, but not with black handles or taps. Black fittings are right out. For now. She has a week or so before she orders things, so it may change.
Weekly Masterchef update
- Your pannacotta was too grainy and you've... taken your parsnip too far.
- Your presentation was a fail and your parsnip... was too chewy. [NB: This wasn't the same dish as the above.]
- Your duck was inconsistently cooked and that skin... wasn't crisp.
- Your marron was cooked beautifully... but your couscous wasn't, and where was the ras el hanout?
Weekly knitting update
This week I bought some buttons.
I am so close to finishing this cardigan, I spent a happy evening not sewing on buttons and looking at patterns on Ravelry, thinking about what to knit next, when Old Ma Killjoy on the sofa said, "Did you ever finish those mittens?" Oh. No, I didn't. I put that knitting project away to teach it a lesson. It knows what it did. I suppose I should finish it. I think there was about a mitten and a quarter to go, unless I have to rip it out and start again. Time will tell.
1. An actual paragraph I had to read this week
The circumstances in which most businesses today find themselves are complex, dynamic and uncertain. These circumstances can be usefully conceptualised using an integrated systemic complexity perspective where macro-scale bundles of contextual influences can be successively unpacked into micro-scale dense networks of complexly interacting, mutually influencing and multiple causally-ambiguous considerations.
Okay then.
2. Bathroom renovations
The solicitors have been faffing about with John's will, but my mother has now received her share of his estate. She and one of his sons were the executors, not that they had to do much. The solicitors did everything, very slowly. John's other two children, who live interstate and rarely visited or called him, have been champing at the bit to get their share. They've been calling their brother, the other executor, weekly to find out where it is, because one of them needs it to pay for a second house he's already started building and the other wants to buy a new caravan. I'd be more sympathetic if they needed it to get by, but they're just coming off as greedy and selfish. But I won't have to have anything to do with them once all this is finalised, so... I guess they can go on being greedy and selfish. I won't see it.
Anyway, the money has been released, so my mother's plans for renovating the bathroom are finally afoot. After playing with the manufacturer's website visualiser, her current favourite is a 1200mm Eden vanity in a Chalky Teak or Charred Oak finish, but not with black handles or taps. Black fittings are right out. For now. She has a week or so before she orders things, so it may change.
Weekly Masterchef update
- Your pannacotta was too grainy and you've... taken your parsnip too far.
- Your presentation was a fail and your parsnip... was too chewy. [NB: This wasn't the same dish as the above.]
- Your duck was inconsistently cooked and that skin... wasn't crisp.
- Your marron was cooked beautifully... but your couscous wasn't, and where was the ras el hanout?
Weekly knitting update
This week I bought some buttons.
I am so close to finishing this cardigan, I spent a happy evening not sewing on buttons and looking at patterns on Ravelry, thinking about what to knit next, when Old Ma Killjoy on the sofa said, "Did you ever finish those mittens?" Oh. No, I didn't. I put that knitting project away to teach it a lesson. It knows what it did. I suppose I should finish it. I think there was about a mitten and a quarter to go, unless I have to rip it out and start again. Time will tell.