Random stuff...

Absolutely gorgeous double rainbow on the way to work this morning. Intense black clouds glowering in the background.

Very red parrots against a very green tree.

Antimony and Lace: Instructions for home made goth clothing...(fairly basic)
Laughing Moon Merchantile: Sewing patterns Some of you may remember me drooling over the Victorian Underwear via another site. 50 cents cheaper but I don't know the shipping costs... May inquire...
Goth costuming links, checked mainly for the links to Victorian costuming and pattern sites.

Someone turned the heating off at work last night, so we are still waiting for someone to come up from campus to turn it on. Just as well things were only down to 8 degrees overnight. Cold fingers for typing and I might put the coat back on.
[Edit: power supply failure such that they can't use the air conditioning to heat either. They were trying to locate the problem as of 10:40am. Meanwhile I am in a woolen great coat, using hot drinks (some caffinated) to defrost fingers...]

Time to beat up on CO line lists. Then to read up on molecular isotopes and line effects...

But at least from noon onwards, ABC Classic FM will have a program of musical jokes, apparently including PDQ Bach:). If missed, visit ABC Classic FM website, because the series is archived for a few weeks. [Edit: Bugger, nope, today is the repeat of the one on Baroque music. Tommorrow and NEXT Fri are when the Musical jokes program is. Hmph...]

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You may have heard me bouncing over getting a paper accepted by MNRAS. (Yay peer reviewed publication)
A preprint of this paper is freely available via astro-ph/0506747
It probably isn't quite long enough to send you to sleep, and is rather limited in pretty pictures, but it's mine:)

Still cleaning up CO lines (2nd overtone now), but at least the heating is now on, and may hit comfortable temperature by about hometime...

Bloody stupid kangaroo

Bounce bounce thud.
We are fine but not a happy car front. Very lucky we were less than a km from home, so were able to get the car back ok. Not helpful in getting to Sydney tomorrow, or getting back after. Bus booked for 7am tomorrow. May be slightly late signing in. Will see at the end of the weekend.
Bugger.