Oooh look! Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention.

They play hosts to actual inventors.

I am in the middle of my year end federal reporting work, so I too could use a cocktail. Alas, I am making do with cranberry juice. Cranberry juice and vodka, that would do the trick. Just cranberry juice, not so much.

And I need to get through as much as I can because the next three days I am in suicide prevention training. Our local county is offering a class; the instructor is Native and specifically works with Native populations. It's seriously going to be a really really good thing. But I cannot say I am looking forward to it at all. Tomorrow is only half-day, and it's mostly about learning how to communicate about suicide. I, the SO, and our band leader are all attending. Then Saturday/Sunday, I am attending two full days of more intensive intervention training. The two of them have to perform; I'll be missing both days of church.

I am really glad the class is available and it looks like there will be decent attendance. But it comes at a bad time in my personal work schedule and of course, I have to talk about suicide for three days. Yeesh.

AAaannd I just realized that means that's tomorrow. So our plan of going in and getting breakfast for company meeting and then taking the Tivo in to the store where there's a landline and I can reactivate it (had to kill the hard drive, but it didn't fix the problem and now I can't get it activated because that requires a phone which I don't have), is a wash. I will be at the workshop instead. Yargh.

Ugh Liese, but it does sound like a good seminar.

Our Tivo died, wah. I'm worried it's truly dead and not just resting, but oh well. Clearly it's time to get a new tivo.

It sounds like a useful workshop but not a lot of fun, Liese.

This weekend I'm proctoring the SATs on Saturday and there is a fundraiser at Noah's preschool on Sunday. It's a foods-of-the-world-by-continent potluck. I originally signed up for Asian, but had regrets when I realized 1/2 the kids in Noah's class are Korean. So I am the lone sign up for Australia instead. What is Australian food that can be made as a potluck dish? I'm thinking shepherds pie?

My neck and jaw are aching. It's all that biting my tongue at work.

Burrell, do you have an HD TiVo? Because I have a non-HD one I'm not using.

I'm thinking shepherds pie?

Isn't that British? You should grill some shrimp on the barbie.

Yeah. I figured it's British but that it's also generically people-with-ranch-land food.

No shrimp. No grilling. It has to be a dish easily shared.

Oh. I could do meat pies which would be easy enough. Or something with vegemite. Or ANZAC biscuits. But I need a main dish to share.

No shrimp. No grilling. It has to be a dish easily shared.

Vegemite sandwich?