Happy Halloween!

A little timewaster for your pleasure




Enjoy!

Settled Travellers

I think we may have finally crossed the line between tourists and residents. We bought a car. It's an old banger of a thing and has a manual transmission. Neither hubby nor I had ever driven standard before. "How hard can it be?" I asked. Hubby was convinced it was beyond him. When a friend pointed out that lil ole ladies manage it every day, he reconsidered.

Turns out, I was right. It's really not difficult. A bit of practice and some bright red L's and Bob's yer uncle. We're so comfortable that we're off later today to take the kids to the skateboard park. This is significant because to access this place by public transport would take upwards of two hours. It will take fifteen minutes in the car.

I have a feeling that there will be some serious changes in our way of life here now. Places that were so difficult they might as well be impossible to get to are now open to us. All we have to do is jump in the car, put our seatbelts on and roar at the kids such family favourites as, "Don't MAKE me turn this car around!" How normal, how settled.

Hmm, might be time to move.

The View

My monitor died this past week. We observed an appropriate period of mourning (read: until we could get to the store for a new one) and then chose a replacement. It's lovely by the way, all slender and sharp.

Of course, being where we are, we had to go through the wonderful experience of being ignored at PCWorld until we gave up and went to Harvey Norman. Once there, we decided the new monitor would look good with a remote keyboard and mouse. We didn't spend a fortune, but it was nice to have a lil impulse buy as a way to thumb our noses at PCWorld's lack of customer service.

I'm thinking about dropping them a line and offering to write the copy for their advertising. Something like, "Come to PCWorld where we are all far too hung over and apathetic to assist you in making a purchase". Or perhaps, " PCWorld, where you can't buy a pc but if you hang around long enough, you'll know who we all shagged last night! But wait! There's more! All that AND you can watch while we drink cups of tea! Now, how much would you pay?"

Anyway, I'm off to catch up with all my fave reads. You all look amazing through my new monitor, by the way.