Dear Diary, vetting, woofer, cleaning, Dragons!

[samvara]

• Rogaine Vetting - fantastic weather.
  • We took the woofer and he bounced happily all over the place and made friends at cafes. We met a 4 month old Irish wolfhound puppy that was 90% elbows and HUGE paws and I got compliments on Kenobi’s training - or maybe he got compliments on his awesome personality :)
  • The Guildford Hotel has a lot of socks tied to it, it still hasn’t been restored since the Sep’08 fire. I wanted to add a sock but wasn't quite up for hiking around in a sockless boot.
  • I acquired the v. exciting phone number of a potter who may be able to make me the perfect bowls, have an ambiguous date for ‘some time on the 17-19th at the Fremantle Markets’ to discuss said bowls.
• _lemmings needed a tall person to help prepare for her first ever rental inspection so maharetr and I headed over and scrubbed things to her thoughtfully chosen soundtrack of bouncy music which I must now acquire..
• Saw How To Train Your Dragon which was unexpectedly awesome, it was kind of like what Avatar should have been but wasn’t.
• Lunch with Father and sister J. - my rocks have not been moved from last weeks exacting placement which is pleasing to me.
• Saw Conan the Destroyer which was terrible but improved by colour commentary with brothers and Az (who has adopted black leather pants as casual wear - I am not sure if what I am feeling is respect)

Comments

[sara]

We also liked How To Train Your Dragon very much -- more than I was expecting, TBH. It's nice to find things we can take the children to that aren't boring or hideously sexist.

[samvara]

I had no expectations and I loved it, I thought the humour was good and that scene with the first touch was magical!

I also liked that the girl's affection was incidental to his journey, and not a condition.. if I'm making any sense :)

[sara]

Oh, and we have tried and failed to pull your book off of iTunes -- it doesn't seem to want to run iBook on an emulator, so I think you need to find someone with an iPhone or iPad who can hook you up.

...that sentence has waaaaaaay too many iThings in it.

[samvara]

Hee, thank you for trying!

I think I will give up on that particular book, this is way too much effort!

[stephbg]

We watched Conan The Barbarian at I Can't Believe It's Not WorldCon on Saturday. Much improved with the sound down low, the subtitles on (albeit few and far between) and the crowd baying for blood (of which there was surprisingly little in the opening battle scenes).

[samvara]

I think that's the safer option ;)