Routine Colonoscopy Countdown.
Feb. 23rd, 2026 08:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
leecetheartist It's prep time. T minus 3 days.
Meal 1. Gluten free rice bubbles and vanilla yoghurt and 2 mugs of white coffee.
On the upside, yesterday was the Perth monthly fountain pen enthusiast meeting, so we sat around and talked, drew, wrote and looked at each others' pretty pens and ink and drank coffee or whatever everyone else was drinking.
Finished reading Network Effect to Rob and Mum last night, and we all started a rewatch of the serial. We'd eaten a delicious Indian takeaway, as a farewell to interesting food for me for 3 days. Mmm Vindaloo.
Meal 1. Gluten free rice bubbles and vanilla yoghurt and 2 mugs of white coffee.
On the upside, yesterday was the Perth monthly fountain pen enthusiast meeting, so we sat around and talked, drew, wrote and looked at each others' pretty pens and ink and drank coffee or whatever everyone else was drinking.
Finished reading Network Effect to Rob and Mum last night, and we all started a rewatch of the serial. We'd eaten a delicious Indian takeaway, as a farewell to interesting food for me for 3 days. Mmm Vindaloo.
An astronomical interlude
Feb. 20th, 2026 03:41 pmleecetheartistIt's been the New Moon, so a good time to get out there with the telescope!
Got some quite good detail with Centaurus A.
Got some quite good detail with Centaurus A.
I rode this image into dangerous territory last night, because I ran out of space in the telescope, oops, but still it turned out pretty well. Remind me to clear off the scope this arvo!
The first time I processed the image it was pretty bright, it didn't look very natural, so I did this version. I might post the lurid one later.
So who's ready to see the Carina Nebula I did a couple of nights ago after this? Only an hour or so but you'll get to see us Southern Hemisphere types' consolation prize for not having a pole star.
Language shift
Feb. 13th, 2026 11:50 pmfred_mouseI'm reading an Ellery Queen detective novel from, hmm, the late 1920s, I think? And I was highly amused to read the following line:
“It was Friday morning and the Inspector and Ellery, garbed romantically in colorful dressing-gowns, were in high spirits.”
Methinks that 'romantically' has shifted in meaning. I can kind of work it out, but also, only at a kind of intellectual understanding rather than really getting it.
(for those not familiar, this is a parent/adult child dyad)
