Ramblings

After warbling around somewhat unpromisingly during the week, the state of the kitchen is now, against all odds… clean. Well, sans the stovetop, oddly, but… sweet. I can actually find a surface to put things on again! Yay! In contrast to this blissful occurrence, I just a little while ago walked in on Francisco’s dad… Read more

My attempted tyre repair yesterday apparently failed. I didn’t do a very good job, granted, but I can’t find any actual evidence the repaired puncture is still leaking. But I can’t find any leak. It’s a very slow one, but I’m not going to go back to the pattern of inflating it twice a day.… Read more

In immeasurably more uplifting news, dad emailed me a week or so ago to inform me that both he and mum would be coming over in December. It was very much out of the blue – dad had been talking about visiting this year for ages, yet I figured it was about as good as… Read more

So, it’s been three weeks in the new place… over a month since we took possession. So how’s it been? …. ‘good’… in the general… non-commital… sense… For the most part it is good; driving to work gets on my mind a bit from an environmental aspect – though I did fix my flat tire… Read more

Well, I’m finally moved in properly; the desk arrived, was setup, along with my other furniture, and I’ve started to populate them all. It turns out I have more books than I realised; I need another bookcase already. :) It’s somewhat surprising how long it takes to move everything. It was always a fair bit… Read more

Someone is supposedly posting Orwell’s diaries online, 70 years to the day after they were penned. I’m not sure I’ve ever actually read any of his books, which seems a sad thing for one to say, but nonetheless his diaries are hardly inspiring. Thus far at least. Perhaps they pick up further on. :) ‘course,… Read more

So…. banks. Yay. I went to open an online savings account. Which should be about as hard as logging in and clicking “Create new account”. Why it’s even necessary – just pay me damn interest on my checking account already, stupids – I don’t know, but let’s ignore rationality for a moment. We’ll soon have… Read more