h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

...please let me know how you're doing. It's insanely long since I last posted a lot here, and I miss how it used to be...

I've been pretty busy, doing a course in network administration. I've finished the taught part of the course now, and I passed my first exam but I still have two more to go so I'm pretty busy, and procrastinating horribly about revision, which I'm afraid is par for the course!

I don't want to be pimping here, but if you ever want to catch up with me, check out my livejournal http://joannastar.livejournal.com/ - I started journalling on dedicated site when I felt I was using my journal here too much, and since last year when I broke my arm I've gotten more and more into 3d digital art, which I won't pretend I'm great at but I can share my pictures on my lj and can't here. :/

Anyway... take care of yourselves.

Hi j'au-æmne!

I've visted Livejournal - it looks great! Are the pics down the side yours?

I saw the entry about Penzance, I love cornwall, spent all my holidays there as a child. It's just been on the TV because they had lashing storms down there, I wish I'd been able to be there, nothing like a good storm.

I miss how it used to be here too. It just seems to have changed. Not sure I can put my finger on it, maybe it's just that I'm less involved...

Anyway take care, say hi to Andy for me..

Oh , what is the significance of roses at a wedding? I just thought they were pretty!

*waves to Peta himself*

It seems as though I post on h2g2 more regularly than j'au-æmne now...

... I won't answer all your questions though - I'll leave that to her. But the "roses being significant" comment is probably based on our friend's wedding a couple of weeks ago, where roses were the main theme of the day (mainly due to the way he proposed to her).

It has changed around here... I'm not sure why or how either, but I still enjoy reading what people have to say.

Anyway, must get back to work...

Hi Peta Sorry you're feeling grumpy...

...the significance of the roses at our friends wedding was that when Pete proposed, he got Karen to shut her eyes and he gave her a whole series of presents, including those jelly ring sweets you can get, the last was a bunch of wooden roses threaded through the engagement ring with a note saying "Will you...?"

So they put roses on the invitations, and all the tables at the reception had different colour wooden roses on. (And jelly rings )

We had a great time in Cornwall. We went there because neither of us had been before, and it was well worth it. We didn't have any storms, though, because every day they said on the weather news that it was going to get worse the following day, and rain the day after... except it stayed fine and blissfully sunny the whole time.

Oh and yes, the picture down the side is mine

Aww, what a lovely romantic story!

You were really lucky with the weather in Cornwall then. It's often really awful down there, sea mists, even when it's lovely in the rest of the country. Still it probably means it was lovely in Cornwall and p***sing it down in the rest of England.

Speaking of the weather - with a total lunar eclipse last night would anyone care to guess the weather here in Pennsylvania?

A bar of grotty Hershey's to the winner.

think cloud, and/or rain storms?

It's getting easier and easier to get hershey's over here if one is minded. I like the cookies and cream bars...

I've never tried one, I'll have to give it a go.

I don't like the straight Hershey bars much though, they taste of cardboard!

Can you buy English - think Cadbury's - or continental chocolate where you live in the US Jimi?

A few months ago I sent a box of cadbury's chocolate to a friend in the US... but I had to get a separate number for each different item of chocoloate (which I'd preregistered on the FDA website) to prove I'm not a bioterrorist!

We're not *so* backwards over here.

I need to be in a special mood to want my chocolate so creamy and rich. Growing up on Hershey's has ruined many a tastebud for the real thing.

Actually, American brands Dove chocolate is rather good and even Hershey's Symphony bar is worth trying - much richer and European in taste.

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An j'au-æmne, your weather guess was spot on. How did you know?

Hi j'au-æmne,
just had a quick look in to livejournal - nice artwork ofyours on there
Came across some pictures of you yesterday while sorting all my Hootoo meet photos into one album. There's a great one of you as princess of darkness complete with tiara, sunglasses and funky blue light ball. Good times had by all then

Good times indeed