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May. 3rd, 2006 08:51 pmI remember doing the time-warp...
The last few days it's been feeling like a couple of hours have just vanished - I hardly felt like I've done anything at all, and suddenly it's an hour later than it "feels". Guess I just freaked out a bit at having so much to do and no time to do it - I spent the last week at work manning the library all on my lonesome. No one to ask about stuff, and no choice but to take every call myself (especially when I'm covering the other desk as well). The others are back now, at least, so I can leave at least some calls. Now if I can remind people that they don't need to leave everything on my desk...
Sorry I've been so tardy in replying to comments and posts. I just haven't been able to think up much to say, at least in anything that resembles passable English. Call it, say, blogger's block *is rolleyed by everyone on the planet who thought it up before me*. And on top of that I've been getting distracted by adding new things to the family tree/finding new references. You know, "just one more for now". An hour or so later, one big new line of folks, or links sent to... where I can print stuff ;). But still, must do better.
On the topic of research, I just got a couple of books from www.archivecdbooks.com.au - they put the old books, directories, cyclopedias onto CD - the kind of things that you might be lucky to find even a facsimile edition of, let alone an original. Anyway, old reference books for history of the states and the towns/people within. The main one was the Biographical Index of South Australians 1836-1885, and another couple with a voucher means I only spent $5 more for two more books. Anyway, I've already found the Index most useful, having my own copies (plus sequel) will be *so* much handier than remembering which entries to copy next time at the State Library.
And crawling, on the planet's face...
Monday morning, leaving the house for work, I checked the letterbox to see if there were any fliers. I saw there were, just not what I was expecting. I was expecting the usual half-a-tree crammed in. What I got was a flock of cockatoos flying down the road just at that moment. :D
This follows on from an encounter on Friday afternoon. I'd just left work and walked across Wellington Square Park to wait for the CAT bus on the other side. A minute after I get to the stop, a large flock of black cockatoos flies *directly* overhead, barely high enough to make it over the trees and buildings :) (and I decided the bus was taking too long, and walked back to town instead). At least, I thought it was a big flock. Tuesday afternoon. The bus had just gotten across the Narrows Bridge, and I've got my nose stuck in my book until I register a "whee-ah" sound. I look up, just in time to see the sky just above my window seemingly blackened by the largest flock of cockatoos I've seen in a long time, flying across the freeway just at that time. And this isafter having seen a large flock of cormorants flying like a black cloud across the surface of the river in the morning (with still more still loafing about in the water).
Rose tints my world...
And I broke my sunglasses today. Ok, so they had a small crack in the frame before, but today was just the end of the line. Tomorrow I'll have to venture out into the world, and see it as it really looks... Of course, you get what you pay cheaply for, especially when everything is designed to fit Smurfs from your point of view...
Also picked up the second season of Enterprise for half-price ex-rental today - hey, beats paying full retail. Should hopefully be a few more movies ready for the ex-rental treatment soon. Maybe around the 25th, when I'll be off work and in the video store area anyway ;) (what, you don't expect me to wait until the weekend when I can see X3 on opening day ;) not that I wait for the weekend, I take movie days off anyway.....)
The last few days it's been feeling like a couple of hours have just vanished - I hardly felt like I've done anything at all, and suddenly it's an hour later than it "feels". Guess I just freaked out a bit at having so much to do and no time to do it - I spent the last week at work manning the library all on my lonesome. No one to ask about stuff, and no choice but to take every call myself (especially when I'm covering the other desk as well). The others are back now, at least, so I can leave at least some calls. Now if I can remind people that they don't need to leave everything on my desk...
Sorry I've been so tardy in replying to comments and posts. I just haven't been able to think up much to say, at least in anything that resembles passable English. Call it, say, blogger's block *is rolleyed by everyone on the planet who thought it up before me*. And on top of that I've been getting distracted by adding new things to the family tree/finding new references. You know, "just one more for now". An hour or so later, one big new line of folks, or links sent to... where I can print stuff ;). But still, must do better.
On the topic of research, I just got a couple of books from www.archivecdbooks.com.au - they put the old books, directories, cyclopedias onto CD - the kind of things that you might be lucky to find even a facsimile edition of, let alone an original. Anyway, old reference books for history of the states and the towns/people within. The main one was the Biographical Index of South Australians 1836-1885, and another couple with a voucher means I only spent $5 more for two more books. Anyway, I've already found the Index most useful, having my own copies (plus sequel) will be *so* much handier than remembering which entries to copy next time at the State Library.
And crawling, on the planet's face...
Monday morning, leaving the house for work, I checked the letterbox to see if there were any fliers. I saw there were, just not what I was expecting. I was expecting the usual half-a-tree crammed in. What I got was a flock of cockatoos flying down the road just at that moment. :D
This follows on from an encounter on Friday afternoon. I'd just left work and walked across Wellington Square Park to wait for the CAT bus on the other side. A minute after I get to the stop, a large flock of black cockatoos flies *directly* overhead, barely high enough to make it over the trees and buildings :) (and I decided the bus was taking too long, and walked back to town instead). At least, I thought it was a big flock. Tuesday afternoon. The bus had just gotten across the Narrows Bridge, and I've got my nose stuck in my book until I register a "whee-ah" sound. I look up, just in time to see the sky just above my window seemingly blackened by the largest flock of cockatoos I've seen in a long time, flying across the freeway just at that time. And this isafter having seen a large flock of cormorants flying like a black cloud across the surface of the river in the morning (with still more still loafing about in the water).
Rose tints my world...
And I broke my sunglasses today. Ok, so they had a small crack in the frame before, but today was just the end of the line. Tomorrow I'll have to venture out into the world, and see it as it really looks... Of course, you get what you pay cheaply for, especially when everything is designed to fit Smurfs from your point of view...
Also picked up the second season of Enterprise for half-price ex-rental today - hey, beats paying full retail. Should hopefully be a few more movies ready for the ex-rental treatment soon. Maybe around the 25th, when I'll be off work and in the video store area anyway ;) (what, you don't expect me to wait until the weekend when I can see X3 on opening day ;) not that I wait for the weekend, I take movie days off anyway.....)
