Happy Birthday kathrynlinge

You're probably not spending it the way a birthday should be spent, but we'll make it up to you later, promise.

It's not Lindt, but...

I haven't eaten carob in many many years, but since chocolate is off the menu and carob is allowed, I bought some buttons to try. Rather to my surprise it tasted vaguely chocolaty. Like cheap, industrial, grainy, floury, aged, heat damaged, over-sweetened American chocolate.

All right!

OMG what have I done

I sit here under several layers of pins, plastic and (old) towelling, stewing in an fairly small amount of purple hair dye in just one streak. I've been trying to figure out when I could fit this task in, and this afternoon, after a poorly scheduled Bad Day I thought "Why not right now?". The decision helped by discovering I was not required for a certain corporate session tomorrow, but hindered by a pending decision to attend a funeral on Thursday morning.

So here we are, wondering if the stuff will (a) stay in my hair, and (b) come off the rest of the house. Oh and (c) look deeply ridiculous.

Previous experience would suggest that no-one will be able to tell the difference.

ETA: ( Part II )

iinet misbehaving

Anyone else having trouble with the iinet mail server today?

ETA I'll take that as a yes - I just called support and was told there would be a 30 minute wait. ETA2: And the web site says the average wait is currently 47 minutes. I did find a fault report that says the e-mail backlog should be cleared by 5:00PM. Yep.

BTW It's a pop server timeout error. I've been getting delays on normal e-mail of up to a couple of hours, and a bunch of lj stuff has not arrived at all after posting several hours ago (which could just be lj falling over).