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I’m home, albeit briefly, between going out and going out. It’s half past ten. We’ve just got back from a barbeque at the house of Paul’s friend from work. It turned out to be a kids’ birthday party, complete with jelly and ice cream, and chocolate-covered rice crispie cakes. There was a stack of modelling balloons twisted into the shapes of animals that had been hit by cars, and a garden full of bouncy castles and ball pools.

I spent most of my time talking to a very noisy cat and watching Casualty for the first time in five or six years.

I’m off again in ten minutes to see Trevor and Jon. Trevor has just finished his late shift.

Yesterday was an awful day. One of those days when you wonder why you ever got into publishing in the first place. One of those days when working in a library looks very tempting. I don’t even want to think about it, so I’m certainly not going to write about it, but a measure of its pleasure, or lack thereof, was that I flopped into a chair as soon as I got home and played on the Xbox for over an hour. I’ve not touched that thing in months. By nine it had cleared my mind of the day gone by and I cooked some dinner. Watched Under Seige 2 on UK Gold. Steven Segall looked old. It was like watching Terry Wogan immitate Pierce Brosnan. Badly.

And every five minutes the signal would cut out. Telewest is apparently working on it.

Today, though, has been somewhat better. I continued on my quest to revamp my PC by installing Red Hat on my broadband PC. It worked like a dream, and I was back online within twenty minutes of formatting my drive. I’m not a Linux expert, though, and I spent most of the rest of the day, bar a short spell of sitting outside in the sun, trying to work out how I could network it to my Windows XP machine so that they could both be online together.

The answer, I think, is that I can’t. Not with my level of understanding, at least.

After that, things got steadily more complicated and I ended up upgrading my Windows XP Home installation to XP Professional. It needed doing anyway - I want web server capabilities for testing dynamic web sites - so I guess it was a good thing.

Time marches on, though. Trevor and Jon will have finished dinner by now. I must go.

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