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

[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.