Impromtu multipurpose dinner

I have decided that I just can't be bothered with a birthday party or any sort of organisation this birthday, so am having dinner instead.

When: 6:30pm Friday 24th November
Where: Bayswater Hotel, 78 Railway Parade Bayswater (opposite train station)
What: Cheap buffet! It's $20, and if you don't like that (I didn't notice much for vegetarians) there's pizza.
Why: Take your pick. I'm 3^3, I'm a Doctor, we have a house
RSVP: yes please, for numbers. By the 22nd, but before would be better.
Who: People I know reasonably well, partners welcome, random friends not so much, sorry.

I also can't be bothered organising what I want for presents, so vouchers are good. Borders or fantastic planet I guess, or JB hiFi. Also note the faq. Presents not compulsory, anyway.

I realise there'll be people who can't make it, and if that's EVERYONE will move it, but at the same time just want to get it DONE and can organise some other social thingy later, when I feel more organisy.

If you want to see the house we may have people over before/after, it's like 3 blocks away.

Time is out of joint

I have updated ACOS a week after my last update. That's three weeks early! Crazy.

Also I have figured out how to work our houses reticulation, kind of (I'm not 100% sure I can reproduce the random button pressing that got all 3 sets of sprinklers to turn on one after another). And in the process discovered that when the previous tenant told the real estate agent there "might be a leak" what they meant was "There are big holes in the hoses underground which create eight foot tall fountains of water, and some of the sprinkers are missing". Also one of the sprinklers was blocked, so I took off the top, and got sprayed with the blockage ie live ants. Ick.

Pressuring my peers

I normally can't be bothered with this sort of meme, but I seem to have beat much of my friends list (though not by as much as I thought I had, since I can't count) and feel like gloating :) This has nothing to do with reading all the Hugos, no no, I'm just well read(*). This particular iteration stolen from oliverm (minus double equals signs, this isn't Pascal or whatever).
( Time top books or something )