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Office moving to house tomorrow. I hope none of the diasasters that may happen do. Still, there's little I can do about it, so I'm not going to worry! Apart from updating my journal a bit, I've been meaning to try to organise a wine tasting for a while, which ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1) emperor has reminded me of. Were it to be a success, I would envisage potentially organising similar events in the future, were there enough interest. What I want to taste are English wines - predominantly Chapel Down. I very much like their Bacchus, and their sweet wine, Nectar, is also good, but they make a lot more, and I think it'd be fun to taste some of them. This would be a tasting alone - ie nibbles would be included, dinner not. In the interest of finding out if this might work, if you'd be interested in coming to such a tasting, please complete my poll...
Poll #808989
Fruit of the vine, and the work of human hands!
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 11
Would you be interested in a tasting of Chapel Down wines?
Would you still be interested if the cost were (please tick all that apply):
View Answers
| £10 per head |
   2 (18.2%) |
| £15 per head |
| 0 (0.0%) |
| £20 per head |
| 0 (0.0%) |
Tags: life, poll
Location: home
Mood:  tired
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...you may remember me from here. I had a strange experience yesterday, and the other cats told me I should tell more people. So here I am, telling you! I went to work with claroscuro yesterday, because one of us always does, for cuddles and comfort and company (and other things beginning with 'c', like chocolate. But we get that, not give it. Um.). And after work, claroscuro and senji went to Borders for a coffeeeee before dinner (mmm... dinner...). And I was admired by a woman all in black, who came over to ask where I had come from! She has many TescoCats too! It was very exciting - she hadn't seen one like me before. And she wanted a cat like me! *happy* I must be really special! And emperor or atreic should tell Sardine: he must be special too! Tags: cats, silly
Location: Claroscuro's bedroom
Mood:  bemused, but pleased
Music: Computers going whirr
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Events1945 - Fifty nations gather in San Francisco, California to begin the United Nations Conference on International Organizations. 1953 - Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid describing the double helix structure of DNA. 1983 - Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit. Births32 - Marcus Salvius Otho, Roman Emperor (d. 69) 599 - Oliver Cromwell, English statesman (d. 1658) 1874 - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1937) Deaths1295 - King Sancho IV of Castile 1744 - Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer (b. 1701) 1878 - Anna Sewell, English author (b. 1820) Holidays and observancesFesta della Liberazione , Italy, annual commemoration to mark the liberation of Italy at the end of the Second World War. Latest date on which Easter Sunday can fall in the Gregorian Calendar Feast day of St MarkTags: meme
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I'm still here really, only, well, I've been madly busy. I'm intending to actually write something at the weekend by way of an update, but we shall see. Anyway, this tickled my sense of humour, so I thought I'd share. It's from a junk email I received this morning at work: "We make a thousand and one excuses for troubling you" *exit, to her cave, sniggering* Tags: one-liner, spam, work
Mood: exhausted
Music: none
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I know that this is a small victory compared to the great Computer Demons you geek types regularly vanquish, but I am exultant, for Windows XP has laid down its mighty head and done WHAT I TOLD IT TO DO. The hidden settings have been revealed. The mystik runes have been uncovered. The stupid muppetry has been temporarily driven back by the forces of sanity and order. Well, ok, that's a bit strong. But the forces of bloody-mindedness and persistence, at least. And so now, when I try and send email, instead of ignoring all of its own so-called 'options', especially all of the easily accesible ones, it actually creates the new mail with the mail client it says it is going to. Better yet, it doesn't open a million copies of Outlook in a desperate frenzy, which is what it was doing earlier. It might not seem much, but it is my small blow for freedom... Tags: computers, mini-rant, work
Mood:  savagely satisfied
Music: The whirring of a computer.
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