Its been ages since I've done one of these

I'm a yellow magic drafter!

Take the quiz at Brent Weeks.com

Weirdly, this was my favourite colour when I read the book

And since it soesn't show up, heres what they said about it;

Yellow luxin is most often a liquid that releases its energy back into light quickly, allowing its use as a torch or a trigger to ignite flammable materials or explosives. Yellow nourishes other luxins, extending the durability of luxin structures or tools. Like water turning to ice, when yellow is drafted perfectly, it loses its liquidity and becomes the hardest luxin of all. Yellows tend to be clear thinkers, intellect and emotion in perfect balance.

The results from your color matching test have also shown that you are one of the elite, a superchromat. The magic you do will almost never fail. Satrapies will compete to recruit you, and you will have a wide latitude in what work you choose to do once you finish your studies. You can expect your patron to lavish praise and honors on you. As a monochrome, you will master your color, and only have to defer to bichromes and polychromes and, of course, the nobility and the satraps who support us all.

I laughed and I laughed

I walked past mum as she rolled an icecream cone in what looked like crushed nuts. mmm. Then as I walked away I heard her tell dad "its the biscuit crumbs left over from the tart". Then she made her own icecream cone, shortly followed by a cry of disgust. The biscuit crumbs were garlic granules. Bwah ha ha ha.
What makes it even funnier is that this is the second time something like this has happened. Some months ago she gave dad some eye drops that turned out to be the ant rid in the dropper bottle next to the eyedrops in the fridge. Suffice to say, they aren't stored in the same place anymore. FYI - ant rid stings, but doesn't appear to do any damage if washed out quickly.

Oh, and dad was happily eating the garlic icecream, having not noticed.

new toys

I bought myself a HTC wildfire phone. I was wanting another one in the HTC family, but it was only available on a network I didn't want to use and the next closest one was very expensive. I got it on sale, set the internet to wifi access only and am now happily doing prepaid. If needed I'll switch my prepaid to the version that has a couple of meg of download in case I need to use maps somewhere, but in the short term its a cheap way to have a smart phone with lovely, lovely apps. The wifi isn't as great here as it is in the UK. My brother has the same phone and showed me how to set it up this way. Almost everywhere he goes in the UK has free wifi access.

My next toy, should it ever come back into stock anywhere, will be the Sony PRS650 ereader. After extensive reading, I decided it was the one that did the most of what I most wanted....then its not available.

well that was inefficient

I had to get up before dawn yesterday & didn't find out till later that that was the best day to see the 4 planets align in the predawn eastern sky. (Mercurey, Venus Jupiter and Mars). Not that they were is a straight line, but they are clustered. They'll still be there till May 30 (when you can draw a line between them, but they are further spread out). So tomorrow, I'll be getting up before dawn...again.

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sad to see you go

My brother is leaving today. He's been visiting from Britain & we've been doing lots of socialising. I've been crab potting at Giru, to Ayr for high tea, to multiple coffee shops and having lots of barbeques on the strand. More in two(ish) weeks than we normally do in a year. Now I need to work very long days and catch up on the huge workload at work - lots of deadlines.