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How can something as simple as buying soup be so complicated? Mondays means mushroom at Bagelmania, and its close enough to the office to run there and back if you’re in a hurry, which I was. I queued, ordered the soup and a spinach bagel, paid and went to get a spoon, only to find the dispenser empty. Discussions between the people behind the counter eventually revealed there had not been a spoon delivery that morning, so out went the guy I assume is the manager looking for a shop selling spoons. This was in Soho, of course, so I didn’t really rate his chances.

Of course, he came back empty handed, but couldn’t seem to think of any way to solve the soup-eating problem. In the end I swapped the soup for an egg bagel and didn’t bother to argue about the difference in the price. I guess they’ll have had a lot of soup left over by the end of the day.

On a more positive note, my gym card was working again, so I did 3.5km and then a bit on the bikes. I was amazed I got there at all after hardly sleeping last night. I eventually drifted off about two, on the settee, which is always a handy retreat when you can’t get comfy in bed, and felt like someone was doing nasty things to my ears when I woke up just after six. That was it for the night. I drifted slowly around the flat for half an hour, then packed a bag and went.

I signed up for the Cancer Research Program on Thursday and spent the whole of today reading proofs, so my PC worked through one and a bit work units, which isn’t bad. It’s a bit like SETI at Home, except whereas using your PC’s idle time searching for aliens is perhaps a little conceptual this could actually do some good by analysing cancer cells all day long and simulating how they would react to various drugs.

It’s dead slow. It took 8 hours 19 minutes to get through the first work unit, and today, when my PC’s mostly just been listening out for incoming mail it’s taken 6 hours 15. It’s rating my system (1GHz, 128MB RAM) as performing at 37% of the potential of what it would consider to be a high spec system. Cheek!

Ended up working late so didn’t get to Ikea to check if they’d got my cupboard. They’ll probably be sold out again by the weekend. Perhaps the furniture guru is trying to tell me something.

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