Falling down like sheets. Coming down like love. Falling at my feet.

• Revenge of the poofters!

• Think he got the job?

The tickets are booked. Leaving Tuesday 6th April, returning Wednesday 28th April.

We need Melbourne crash spaces in that time. We plan to hire a car, so we will take you for rides! We plan to tour a bit outside Melbourne.

I can't tell you how much I need this holiday.

I had a nice extended weekend with redcountess, though she's been ill. We did a remarkable amount of shopping on Monday. Went to The Pub with arkady in the evening. I fear we may be becoming Dev midweek regulars.

Goth clothing help needed: Suitable source for a mesh top. Assume a 40-inch chest and 34-inch waist. Camden good, but elsewhere (including mail order) entirely suitable! (Note to needler: if they show up, let us know!)

This morning smelt like spring.

HULK SMASH RECALCITRANT LAPTOP.

I have just spent three hours carefully reinstalling the laptop with FreeBSD 4.9. Restart for its first boot ... and it won't. It sits there at

F1  DOS
F2  FreeBSD

Default: F2 _

and seems to consider the keyboard beneath its notice. Odd, since the caps lock light goes on and off as expected. But nothing will get it off this screen.

(The DOS partition is a 20 meg partition for IBM system tools, as yet not installed.)

Please tell me what to do to get this to work without spending a few more hours installing. (With as much detail, or pointers to such, as you can manage.) Else it's BIG HAMMER TIME. Nearly.