my brain is a fiddly thing, yes precious

I have no idea why I want an iSight when I truly hate having my picture released to the masses. I think it's some kind of bizarre 'ooh shiny toy' thing.
Are they worth it? The AirPort base station will come first because our printer doesn't play well with the Mac over our current wireless router, but I'm planning ahead, I suppose.

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I love our babysitter to death. Must remember to get her something nice. *ponders* Sean of course happily wandered off with her - I think he's a fan of going places. (Which reminds me. 43 Things now has 43 Places. My list is ridiculously scattered.)

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On the same topic: I had an uncle (great-great-uncle, technically) who was independently wealthy due to some wise investments he made back in the twenties, and he went everywhere. He'd been all over North America and Europe, he swam in the Dead Sea (well, actually it was reading a newspaper in the Dead Sea) and he actually smuggled a camera into Mecca and almost got killed for his trouble. (They cut off his tie - the camera was behind his tie - and told him never to come back.) I think he may have slept on top of the great pyramid, but I'm not 100% sure on that. I know he was there, anyway. But he learned all kinds of languages, and tried to blend in with the natives as best he could.
He died back in the early nineties. He was learning Chinese when he died. So I suppose my own itchy-feet syndrome isn't unjustified.

a sorta fairytale

With apologies to Tori Amos. At least I think it was Tori Amos. My Tori Amos-fu is weak.

He stood in front of her with hands on his hips, perfect curls falling over his shoulders, and glared. "Girls can't be paladins."

"Why not?" Tania continued lacing the plates of her armor together, humming softly to herself.

"Because ... they just can't."

"Why not?"

"You can't slay a dragon if you're a girl."

"Why not? I did better than you did on the practice dragons."

"You can't fight monsters."

"Can't I?"

"You can't rescue princesses." His irritated sulk turned into a victorious smirk. "Paladins have to rescue princesses. What are you gonna do, rescue princes and ride away and marry them? What kind of stupid thing is that?"

She did not reply, instead slinging the red-lined cape over her shoulders to keep it out of the way while she finished cleaning the chest plate. The boy sniffed and walked away across the training ground.

"Actually, I thought I'd marry the princesses instead." she murmured with a slight smile.