... snowed under ...

i'd update a bit more frequently if i didn't get caught in blooger/google's infinite loop sign in; each time i have to work out how to get out of it and sign in here; i think that this is because i am signed into gmail under my other user names.

email status:
mac.com mail has been online again for a few days; i am monitoring gmail and forwarding anything that comes in to mac.com and replying through mac.com (ad cetra ad nauseating etcetra);

email's working but i'm not (actually i am):
there is a 2 to 3 day turn around on most email at the moment; i am wrapping, shopping and mowing (and sitting down because i am still dizzy quite a lot) and otherwise away from email (and blogger, although infinite loop has been a real drag (doesn't help when you're dizzy; also to and fro email is the flavour of the month and it gets, well, complicated, as they say; i've also started reusing my cpap machine and have started sleeping longer (and on foggy/cloudy mornings sometimes don't wake until 7.15 am ish although was up at sparrow (jenny wren and husband around here) fart yesterday, which was bright and sunny (today has been grey and cool and is now, now that i have got petrol from Lithgow to make two stroke, thundery). i don't think that the lawn likes being cut.

otherwise tsunami continues and i am, i speak metaphorically, clinging to a very soggy bent palm tree occupied by a breakfasting monkey (papaya and banana) who is very annoyed and demanding that i depart immediately and where is blooody management when it's needed; bloody tourists have their own place and pleese git there right now (monkey has for some reason mixed south african/hindu gentleman accent). am trying to point out impossibility of this as tsunami continues breaking (so far longest ever recorded). ho ho bloody hum.

was going to do my day starting maybe 8 December but this has turned into my week and shortly will be my fortnight. don't think eleanor roosevelt had these problems.

ipod, at suggestion of technical advisor, has been put off until new model announced maybe in February; iPad funds have been spent on chistmas present for mother in Queen Street (Woolahra, there is no other (except of course in Brisbane and Auckland but they don't quite have the same expenditure opportunities as the 2025 postcode zone)).

kindle australian charger has arrived; otherwise no sign; false alarm last week with large USPS bag, which contained two books from guys at Baked, in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

fat boy Ralph is enroute from Price USA agent since early am yesterday. am making do with sunday afternoon's nautica, cutter and buck and gazman (said to be capri pants but more like long shorts) from big boy's store at Skygardens.

new pitt street mall, with gap arrived and zara coming, is complete fizzle with many potential buyers on sunday afternoon but nothing for them to buy.

lpq definitely not up to Brussels standard, but better than any competition except maybe cheese sit up counter at DJ's Market Street (highly personal preference; cheese plate is casual anytime meal of choice).

back soon, maybe sooner if it rains.