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   Jedi Tim-Tam's Sekrit Hot Lemon Drink Recipe...

Actually, it was my great grandmother's (the more I hear about her, the more I regret that I never really had a chance to know her: she was apparently something of a monty python fan among other awesomenesses). Anyway:

Put the juice of one lemon (or as much as you can manage to get in the mug), less than a teaspoon of honey and a slurp of rum in a mug. Then add about 150mL of warm water (not hot, you don't want to cause evaporation of the good stuff).

Then drink.

PS. You don't have to be sick to enjoy this.

Labels: family, recipes, sickly-Cat, yay vodka

   blargh...

Finally felt I was human again after all those conferences, and my immune system promptly declared that it was shutting down to recover from all my stresses too. Which means I now have the flu, and am completely unable to function (though for some reason I decided a half-day at work would make me feel better... why?).

The only good thing about all of this is that I finally looked at the ingredients list for those hot lemon drinks and realised that the reason I feel worse after my mum foists one on me is that they contain phenylalanine (try typing that three times fast while under the influence of a cold), which always makes me feel headachey and bleh.

Minako has gone in for service, and we can only hope that she will come out of it okay. The ASA has very nicely given me $200 towards the repairs, which is about the nicest and most generous thing I've ever encountered from such a big organisation.

So anyway, if I'm not online much at the moment, that's why. Sickly, and without my nice computer.

Labels: conferences, iCatherine, sickly-Cat

   Back to work today...

Not that the thought of going back doesn't make me into a gibbering wreck, but we have to fight past that if we want to succeed (and go on that long-awaited round-world trip when I get the PhD). So, it's a new day and I'm going to fight on.

James has taken charge of my iBook, and yesterday he pulled it apart enough that he was able to get it charging. With two full batteries, it looks like he might be able to do a full backup of the hard disc, which would be great. And if we're lucky, when he puts it all back together it might just work. Otherwise, we'll apply money to the problem and see what Apple has to say. I've only had one good experience with Apple servicing my machines (*huggles the replaced iPod, named Haruka for the curious*) and a couple of bad ones with respect to the laptop, so we'll see what happens.

The toe's almost completely healed up, which is great. Still hurts sometimes when a shoe presses on it in the wrong direction, and doesn't quite have full mobility, but it's close enough.

The conferences are mostly done; I just have to do a set of final updates to the websites with photo galleries and the like, but I'm hoping that will be sufficiently fun that it doesn't particularly stress me out anymore. Oh, and I have to make a naked set of web pages for the WA peoples who are hosting it next year, remembering that I need to put in a few pranks, to see how long they propagate in the system.

Anyway, I'm going to go catch a bus now. Hope this finds you all in great health and spirits, and that you've all kept out of mischief while I've been away. I will be catching up on everything soon, I promise.

Labels: astronomy, conferences, iCatherine

   and I'd get him to give me a fucking computer because this just isn't fucking fair...

Uh, I'm down one laptop battery now, and I'm not sure if there's enough charge on the other to get me through the conference tomorrow. Then I will send it off to Apple to see if there's anything to be done, or if I'm just screwed for all eternity, just like Brendan's old iBook.

I'm very tempted to just throw myself out the window, but I know it's not high enough.

Labels: conferences, iCatherine