Drive-by posting

[nanila]

I'm frantically trying to finish a bunch of work before I go on holiday for two weeks in July, so time for blog is very limited. I'm hoping to have lots of leisurely catch-up time to post things like photos from Vienna and Spain.

Worst thing that happened today: I forgot my glasses on the counter by the mirrors in the ladies' toilets at Birmingham New Street Station. I realised this at exactly the moment my train to London was moving away from the platform.

Best thing that happened today: I received an e-mail alert titled "hggggggfgfg", which I assumed meant, "ALERT: Engineer's Cat Has Walked Across Their Keyboard." It was later claimed that this alert was issued because of "testing", which I can only mean "testing for robustness of cat-proof-ness", a test which the system has surely failed.

In conclusion, I give you the most recent studio portraits that nursery had done of the children (late April).

[Studio portrait of Humuhumu and Keiki smiling together. Humuhumu has her peach-framed glasses on.]

Comments

[sfred]

Don't they both look grown-up?!
I hope you get your glasses back before too long.

[nanila]

Humuhumu especially! Something about the hair band is quite mature.

No luck with the glasses so far. I have now lost both pairs in the space of about six weeks.

[bryangb]

So are you convinced yet about wearing your glasses on a chain? (-:

[nanila]

Yes, yes I am. Especially since the only pair of prescription glasses that I have left now are sunglasses. :/

[bryangb]

That reminds me I need some of those.

But all this is just one of several reasons I long ago switched to contacts...

[siliconshaman]

There's a small script for linux that will detect cat-like typing and flash an alert [you can set it to host only and scare the cat away].

It keeps getting pulled from github because it throws too many false positives with scandic languages.

[nanila]

Should cat owners learn Swedish to communicate better with their pets? DISCUSS.

[worlds_of_smoke]

awwwww. what a cute picture!

[nanila]

Hee. I concur!

[st_aurafina]

Oh, the cuteness coming out of the screen! <3

[nanila]

I grin every time I come back to this post. <3

[paw_prints]

Gorgeous photo, gorgeous kids. :)

That's a bummer about your glasses! I hope they were handed in.

[nanila]

Thank you! I'm pleased to have the photo. The nursery's been really good about that. We'll have to make an effort to get portraits done when Humuhumu goes to school.

No luck with my glasses being handed in yet. :/ Fingers crossed; apparently it sometimes takes a few days for things to get logged in the lost property system.

[mysterysquid]

What a great photo. :D

Fingers crossed on the glasses...

[nanila]

\o/

No word on the glasses. :/