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Monthly Archives: January 2009

How to win an LCA charity auction without really trying

Thursday, January 22, 2009

So, LCA char­ity auc­tion. Last night I had the sheer pleas­ure of being part of the chaotic may­hem that ended in a $10600 win­ning bid (earlier claims of $10500 were cir­cu­lated before we knew for sure how much we actu­ally had) for Karen Garbee’s beau­ti­ful award-winning print. Rusty informs me that’s the highest bid for […]

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LCA mascot and PSA

Monday, January 19, 2009

I am in love with this year’s LCA mas­cot, who I shall refer to as Taz Tuz, because that is actu­ally his name.

After care­ful exper­i­ment­a­tion, I have determ­ined that a size 60 might be a bit too large for Taz.

In com­pletely unre­lated news, on the way home from din­ner tonight with a group of a dozen or […]

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Quick summary of my week in Tasmania

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Dis­tance driven: 2163.7km. Plus another 30 or so tomor­row.
Dis­tance walked: *shrug* 30km? 40? Lots of short walks ran­ging from half an hour to half a day.
Times passed through Hamilton: 4.
Best place name: Lem­on­thyme.
Best place name that I actu­ally stayed at: Snug.
Cutest town: Both­well. It sits smack in the middle of a big pretty farm­ing bowl. The pub […]

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On marching south

Friday, January 9, 2009

OK. I’ve got

Some­where to lock my bike up.
Some­body to feed my cat (thanks for your last-minute save, Nich­olas!).
Plane tick­ets to Hobart.
A hire car.
A travel buddy, who I’m quite look­ing for­ward to finally actu­ally meet­ing.
A honk­ing great big bag full of cam­eras.
A music fest­ival.
Inten­tions to bump in to Alice and Jamie and Pia some­where along the line.
A week or so […]

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