Letters and picspam

[katiefoolery]

First, some correspondence.

Dear Gillette,

Contrary to your claims, five blades are not, in fact, better than three.  Please to be giving me back the significant amounts of money I parted with in order to uncover this lie.

(Might as well start with the classy one, right?)

Dear LJ Voice Post,

You fail!  No, you fail.  Don't come at me with your reasonable arguments about actually entering my phone number in the correct international fashion or saving more than just one Voice Post number to my phone.  You.  Fail.

It's just lucky you're ceasing to fail now.

(Completely LJ's fault.  Really.)

Dear CountryLink,

FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIILLLLLLL.  So much fail it's impossible to encompass its magnitude with a mere word.  First, you make me wait almost forty minutes for a delayed train in forty degree heat.  (Forty degrees Celsius, people.  One hundred and four degrees Fahrenheit.)  In forty degree heat, I say, on a little platform with only a tiny bit of shade to help keep cool.  IT DID NOT HELP.  And then, not content with this, you arrived in the city NINETY-FIVE minutes later than you were meant to.  NINETY-FIVE.  Seriously.

(*is still shaking fist over this*)

And now for the picspam...

My cat, Pickle, looking kinda smug in the grass of the backyard there.

Just in case you have ever wondered what a Christmas tree looked like in the sixties, now you have the answer.  This was my grandmother's tree and I love it in all its incredible ugliness.

These are two of my brother's four cats.  I was taking a picture of the adorable little tabby one when the black and white one decided to try and steal the spotlight.  She may possibly be the ugliest cat in the universe, but she's also incredibly adorable.  And clumsy.  I love the clumsiness; it reminds me of me.

This is the path to the Eldorado gold dredge, near enough to where my parents live.  Why yes, it is a little hot and dry around there at the moment.

And here's part of the dredge itself.  It's quite incredibly ugly, so I decided to let it hide behind some trees.

Some of the buckets from the dredge itself.

And here's a little bridge over a now non-existent stream.  Please see earlier comments about heat and dryness.

Just a few choice pictures from my recent two trips to Beechworth.  And with any luck, I should also be embedding my latest fivedotnerds video right about here:

Huzzah!

Comments

[everydayjoy.livejournal.com]

Witty letters and pictures and a video!! Way to make my oh-so-womanly and painful day much nicer.

And YEWWWWW AUSTRALIA!!

(I need an Australian userpic, that's for sure).

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'm glad I could help in some small way. :)

[natally.livejournal.com]

Lots of cause for giggling here! I'm sure you were a natural sheep rider.

I only recently found out the proper way to eat Tim Tams. I'd never known the ritual biting of the ends and slurping hot drinks through the middle. Am I the only who didn't know this?! Or am I just unAustralian? *shame*
And just saying, that Christmas tree is fantastic.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

We used to have a sort of old "pet" sheep, who didn't mind if you kind of jumped on his back... and then sat there waiting for him to move. And waited. And waited. And then ten minutes later, experienced all the excitement of moving about five centimetres to the next patch of grass.

Ah, the tim tam slam! Yeah, that's an old one. I've never actually tried it, though - it sounds like a recipe for disaster with me. Have you actually tried one that way, now that you know about it?

I love the tree! It's so ugly but it's unique with it.

[crazedturkey.livejournal.com]

You're a nutjob.

I mean that in the nicest possible way of course!!!

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Thank-you for noticing! :D I figured I can't do cool and sophisticated, so I might as well go for dag. Or nutjob. Either works.

[lysan.livejournal.com]

This amused me a lot. And I do that with stuff I wrote ages ago; I find random scraps of paper, which i know I shouldn't read, but I do, and I regret it.

BTW Can we cat-swap?

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

I have a folder with a lot of my early writing in it because I figured I should keep it. For... posterity or something. There's a poem about a kitten in there that I wasn't game enough to even look at.

Heheh, sorry- no cat swap. I'm keeping mine. I'm also working on stealing my brother's black and white cat, although I don't think I'll have much luck. She's just so adorably clumsy!

[stefeny.livejournal.com]

Have you ever seen the late show skit where they marketed a 17 blade razor? It's tactical shaving, with the scout blades, the decoys, and even the one there just for the ride ...

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Hah, no - I haven't seen that. It sounds about right, though. I'm going to head off to YouTube and see if I can find it there...

[flippyfrog.livejournal.com]

I miss it so much. I miss the way the grass is so dry it snaps under your feet, the way the dust kicks up with every step, I miss the noise the gum trees make when their leaves are so dry; that windchime like noise. I miss the heat and the smell and everything so much. That fourth picture of yours, I want that. I want my brown, my yellow, my dust, my heat. I'm tired of this green and wet. Gimme hayfever, I don't care.

Bunne, you've made me horribly homesick. Can you post me some of that stuff?

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

I almost wish I could have embedded the sound of the insects with the photos somehow. It was hot and noisy and dry and just perfectly Summer.

I'll get my parents to go back there and scoop up some dust and dead grass for you, OK? :D

Only a few months to go! But you'd better be enjoying all that Europe has to offer in the meantime...

*shakes fist*

[sopdetly.livejournal.com]

I have much love for my Aussie friends :D You can have Australianess, and I can have snow!

I am jealous of all y'all who can have vids post with "high quality". I want to know how to do that. *pout*

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Heheh, that's fine with me - I think snow's fascinating to look at but I'm not sure I'd want to live with it. It's so alien.

It was my first time going high quality! I was just experimenting with the other options for saving in Movie Maker and I went with one of the LAN options this time - 1,000mbps. And it took about seven minutes to save, about twenty minutes to upload and then another hour to process. O.o

[sopdetly.livejournal.com]

I was so upset, because I took that video on Sunday, but on MONDAY we had really good snow that I wish I could've filmed instead. Oh well!

Okay, I'll try for one of those crazy ones next week then :D

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah - things never work out the way you want them to. For instance, I swear my hair only goes frizzy on the days when I'm going to be recording my vlog.

Good luck! I'm sure you'll be able to find plenty of other things to entertain yourself with while the video-related waiting goes on.

[seagull-fred.livejournal.com]

Heya! Is Countrylink still being plargish? Ian and I were massively failed-over by them a couple of weeks ago. Poor Ian was kept waiting in Wagga for two hours (despite the a/c, it was still sucky) before being told he would be thrown off the train at Albury anyway, to be put on a bus to complete his journey to Melbourne.

At least my train was 'only' an hour late...bleck.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Very plargish, although it may have been because of the heat. I know the Vline trains are all speed-limited after about thirty-five degrees or something, due to the way the tracks bend. But yes, it was most annoying. The amount of times we just sat there, doing nothing for no apparent reason... GAH. I still believe I would have reached the city earlier if I'd caught the next bus.