<Is upset a mention of bunnies being thrown>

<snatches up bunnies and replaces with chocolate bum-nuts>

<points out that throwing a bunny is the way to get it from one side of a bunny-proof fence to the other>

<suspects it isn't the only way, but is probably the most fun>

<edges away from SM>

<Straps on compact parachute, just in case>

<Is feeling that the world is much too big and much too small all at the same time>

<Is grateful for comfy chair in Treehouse where it's OK if nothing makes sense>

<Wonders if Speckles is up for a game of chess? Wonders if I remember how to play chess?>

<Gets very excited in realizing that the rules for chess are probably different in the Treehouse, runs to find Speckles to see what games he wants to play>

Wonders how VM can find Speckles who has gone 'wet quantum'

is in a pond somewhere but doesn't know which

thinks good game is 'submarine Speckles hunt'


avoids al connotations of dirty jokes which abound in such circumstances.

leaves it to others to fil in dirty joke spaces to their own liking.

wonders where Specklles' mum is?

or willlll be at unspecified time in future.


Is using keyboard with a an attack of sssstuck characters and is sick of returning an deleting unnecessary characters. Offers space for redundant letters and characters to others for aking remarks both intelllligent and informativee.

<Recommends high(ish)-pressure air to clean sticky keyboard. Advises that a potential source of compressed air is the local auto service station, where the handy fore-court attendant may, if asked nicely, clip an air-blast nozzle to the end of the tyre-inflation hose for you.>

<Warns STRONGLY against holding high-pressure nozzle too close to keyboard and recalls watching enthusiastic proponent of very high pressure air for computer cleaning, strip off half the surface of an elderly printed circuit board in one quick pass.> <True story. It was only a $20 56k modem card, but still...>

As aforementioned sticky keyboard is at local library they may just make some comment on me taking some of their equipment for walkies.

They definitely objected to me bringing in fire hose to clear out slow moving processors.


[A bit of history: in 1973 Brisbanme was flooded. Sounds familiar doesn't it? A friend at IBM said that to clear the computer room at IBM which had been flood inundated - read 'left the room full of muck' - they merely turned on the fire hydrants and washed the 360s and 370s with water and let them dry. I was told that it restored about 95% functionability to the centre.

Do not try this at home , children.]

<wakes up at last after three week post-thesis submission slumber>

<contemplates hosing down university-owned laptop>

<looks out of the window and notes it is still Hungary portion of Treehouse>

<rolls the die, moves piece, and hands to next player>

<collects two hundred acorns>

<fines ES 198.5 acorns for tardiness>
<gives Speckles 132 acorns to reward his reliability>
<rolls dice in optimistic frame of mind>
<lands in puddle>

<Pulls Geg out of puddle, and shakes Geg to remove muddy water>

<Shakes self to remove Geggy, muddy water>

<Hand Geg octagonal dipyramid dice>

<wonders if CR has a full set of polyhhedral dice>

<rolls a mongoose>

<takes mongoose card>

<reclaim all acorns and pass 'og'>

<passes die three players to the right>

Discovers ES has been cheating (again)

Remove all rogue mongeese cards from board and replace with marzipan replicas

<rolls 11, picks up pentagonal trapezohedron and hands to confused SM>

<takes marzipan, flattens and wraps around yellow and pink sponge fingers>
<offers mongooses battenburg cake to residents>

<Gets competitive and plays Joker card>
<Hands one sided die to player on left>
<Gives CR a strongly worded petition demanding their fingers back, from the Mongeeses Independence Party.>

<Resists temptation to show Geg unwrapped fingers>

<wonders why the "one" dot has disappeared>

<realises that Geg has handed it to ES>

<Moves Queen of Hearts to Fenchurch Street>

<Throws tantrum>

Remove Skids to the naughty step till he calms down . Brand him with an "s" for sinner.

Sell his shares in Mayfair to a passing RSPCA officer who is looking for two dangerously poisonous mongooses.


Move bishop into spare room.

<throws dice again>

<throws trumzot>

<hopes won't get put back on naughty step for throwing syllable dice again>

<picks up SM dice and throws a ash>

<moves top hat, jumps mongeeses and removes them from board with tongs>