Unfulfilled

[rejectomorph]

A few sprinkles and a bit of silent lightning are all the current storm has brought so far. The birds seemed to be agitated bout something today. They chirped so much that it might as well have been a gray day in spring. I kept expecting something to happen-- an earthquake, a tornado, a rain of pilchard-- but nothing did. It's disappointing when portents come to nothing.

featureannounce included among its notices of recent site changes (may not yet be live) something called Jam Rewards promotion, but the link leads only to an error page with a note reading "Sorry, your Affiliate ID number is invalid." What? No explanation. I wanna be rewarded with jam, dammit! Why does LiveJournal lead me on? It's disappointing when links lead to nothing.

Boingboing mentions a new game called Perplex City, which it calls a cross between a collectible card game and an alternate reality game. Players register, buy cards with puzzles on them (available on line or in shops, mostly in England as yet), solve the puzzles and advance in the game. There is actual cash money ($200,000) awaiting the player who finds the "lost artifact" around which the game's story line is centered. Have they created a clever loophole in gambling laws? I don't know, but I get the feeling that Perplex City could be the beginning of a huge fad. I probably won't be joining the over 14,000 registered users the game already has. I'm not that good at puzzles.

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[lil-girl-lost.livejournal.com]

At the moment, we're getting lots of wild thunderstorms, because we're also having unusually high temperatures. I'm loving it. Then today, after almost two weeks of hot hot hot weather, a cold rainy middle-of-winter day.

Melbourne weather is notorious for chaning suddenly. I think there's a running joke about planning a day out in Melbourne.. Take your bathers, a hat, sunscreen, a jacket, an umbrella, gumboots, and everything in between.

xoxox

[rejectomorph]

We get very few summer thunderstorms here (or summer storms of any kind.) Our electrical storms are most likely to arrive in very late winter or early spring. Most of our winter storms are nothing but days and days of monotonous rain. I always look forward to March and April, because that's when we're most apt to get exciting storms.