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(I'm posting this by email, and it'll be a random mix of stuff. You have been warned.)

This day has been so pleasant thus far compared to yesterday that I'm just waiting for the sting in the tail. No overwork, no stress. I had time to go get lunch, and time to work through a few of the less essential items on the list of stuff to do.

There are various things turning over in my head concerning selling more stuff on Ebay - posted another book today, from a sale yesterday. It's great when someone pays so promptly after the auction is over. I'm going to slide a few older items up soon, but I'll actually have to take pictures of them, rather than using pictures of the cover from elsewhere on the web, since I can't find pictures of either of them. Orkworld and Star Wars Second Edition, in case anyone is interested before I actually submit them to the auction monster. And I'm sorry to those who like it, but I tried again to read Kingdoms of Kalamar, and found myself dozing off. It's for the block.

I've been doing stuff with the game universe too. The Age of Legends crew are surfing the edge of the wave. It'll hit the Threshold of Ages people in a couple of months time. And I have more yet to come. Ch-ch-ch-changes.

We're off to London on Friday, and will be there until Monday. Anyone who wants to meet us for lunch, drinks, coffee, gallery or museuming had best get in touch pronto. I'm really looking forward to it.

Oh, and: The Bayeux Tapestry Meets the Comic Strip in Flash. Ganked from mcsnee, who always finds the best toys.

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Just unpacked a box that had been sitting around unpacked since we moved in in February. It contained a mask of Pan (now on the bedroom wall), several small figurines and action figures (including Edward Scissorhands), some very pretty shells, and a few cassette tapes, among other odds and ends. One of the cassettes is a mix tape sent to me by a Norwgian penfriend in about 1993. I've poked about on the 'net looking for her before, but haven't tried the LJ network effect. Her name is Susanne Therese Selander, and she lived, up to about five years ago, in Vesteralen in Norway. Anyone able to put me in touch?

The cassette itself is so worn out that it's not really playable any more. So I'm looking for the following songs to reconstitute it as MP3s. If anyone can point me at these (I'll be happy to pay for them), it'd be great. I'm copying out what's written in my 16-year-old handwriting on the tape case, so there may be some inaccuracies.

My Baby Cried All Night Long - Lee Hazelwood
And When I Die - Blood, Sweat & Tears
Send Me A Postcard - Shocking Blue
In The Ghetto - Elvis
Obladi - The Marmalade
Long Before I Was Born - The Savage Rose
Harley Davidson - Shocking Blue
House of the Rising Sun - Frijd Pink (??)
Jersey Girl - Bruce Springsteen
Sugar, Sugar - The Archies
You Got It - Roy Orbison
The Only One - Roy Orbison
Room To Move - John Mayall
One Broken Heart For Sale - Elvis

Utferd - Storm
Mellom Bakkar Ag Berg - Storm
Villeman - Storm
Oppi Fjellet - Storm
Noregsgard - Storm
(There are three Norwegian fiddle pieces here, with neither name nor artist. I suppose they'll be a bit harder to track down)
Waiting For The Miracle - Leonard Cohen
Shitlist - L7
Sweet Jane - Cowboy Junkies
Anarchy in the UK - Sex Pistols
Do You No Wrong - Sex Pistols
Dancin' Barefoot - U2

The U2 and Leonard Cohen tracks may already be in the house. The rest... probably not.