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December is a bad month for journalising. I’ve done a tour of my links and several of them haven’t updated since before Christmas, so I’m feeling a little better about the fact that this is only my tenth entry this month.

It has been a fun month, though. Next month will be full of January blues - not only because it’ll be cold and dark, but because all the parties will have come to an end and there will be nothing to do after work except… come home.

So, Monday. Bank holiday. It was dad’s last day - or half day as he went to Sal’s this afternoon - so we went for a walk to get rid of some of the excesses of the last two days. We had planned on turning around at the end of the road, but somehow overwalked by two miles and found ourselves in the middle of town, so stopped for coffee in the new Nero, which I assume was once a bank.

We got there just in time. About twenty other people got dragged in on our coat tails, and stood around looking lost until we finally left our table and braved the sub-arctic conditions on the high street (where, in spite of the temperature, girls still paraded in tightless legs and plunging tops).

Bumped into Trevor in Waterstones and had an abortive trip through every clothes shop in search of a new coat, but beyond that it was a fairly fruitless trip. Still, the walk there and back did us all good, and it certainly woke me up. After two days of games and food (shame I don’t eat meat as that could be games and game) I’ve been feeling distinctly lethargic.

Yesterday went very well. The risotto was comprehensively demolished at lunchtime, as was the parmesan bread I’d made, and we all sat around playing happy families (actually playing the game - not just pretending to get on with one another when we didn’t), and then Rummikub. Which I won. Oh, and Cheat, which I didn’t.

Now dad has gone, though, and the house is back to normal, and we can all get on with things that have been put off for too many days. I’ve installed Fedora on one of my old machines. I should have done SuSE since Mark does the PR for Novell, but version 9.2 won’t be available for download until January, which is distinctly unfun, so against my better judgement I’ve veered towards the RedHat camp once more.

Let’s hope it’s more successful this time around.

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