So now I'm loading wool down at the wharf. The ships unload and then they head back north.

• Some comforting thoughts for the coming November.

I'd post to let you know I'm still alive but I'm not sure. Four hours' sleep last night; today the excuse calendar reads "intermittent packet loss." But I managed to fix a stupid and annoying machine at the other end of the country at twenty-five minutes' notice yesterday and the user in question sent a lovely commendation email about me to several bosses, so I r still teh l33t for the moment. I got over the virus quickly, but redcountess has it really badly and is horribly ill. I almost didn't go to work today, I was so worried. Haven't seen arkady in nearly two weeks — she's still ill too — but this is shit happening.

I have been blessed as a Wikipedia administrator. MUWAHAHAHAHA. *ahem*

jo_hoetmer has arrived for a few days. I suspect the DSL is a major tourist attraction.