In a dusty black coat with a red right hand.

• Fun with audiophiles!

• Cormac Lawler has set up wikimediauk.

• Criminal of the year (courtesy duranorak).

My relined jacket is back at Future Designs, and I'll be fetching it this evening, but my Nice Boots (size 47 Formulas) are apparently held up in the Christmas rush at New Rock and will be another two weeks. Meh!

arkady is off to Wales Friday week, so we'll need to arrange our local Christmas for before then. I've worked out what I'm getting her for Christmas and her birthday. Muwahaha! I've still yet to buy a single actual present.

I have just copied all my 2002 backup disks to the laptop, which includes backed-up stuff back to 1995. That should keep me occupied a while.

Tonight is a Quiet Night In with redcountess, tomorrow is a prospective date with arkady (after being back at work until 7-7:30pm) and Friday is B-Movie.

Divine power has gone crawled into this tank.

• Perhaps these could get me into The Sun (courtesy Lee Ann).

I just collected my leather jacket from Future Designs. OH MY GOODNESS IT'S GORGEOUS. They have not only fixed all the tears and split seams, they have relined it with dark grey quilted satin — about a zillion percent improvement on the previous red check flannel, even when that wasn't in shreds. It's fourteen years old and looks new. This for only sixty quid. I am enormously pleased and highly recommend them if you have a jacket in need of relining. I also bought some leather gloves to replace the ones I lost at Motörhead.

(Mind you, the lining now has a Future Designs label sewn into it and proudly proclaims the jacket was made in Pakistan.)

Of course, the boots are still delayed, but the guy says he's trying his hardest to get them in ASAP. I believe him as he seems to like me throwing money at him.

New Rock are now making leather coats. Future Designs have two men's and one women's in. They are really fantastically cool-looking and are an eyewatering five hundred quid each. But you will certainly enjoy trying them on.

Tomorrow's date with arkady is shifted to Saturday because of a dress needing making and a not so well redcountess. And/or whatever I can fit in to see lots of her before she goes to Wales for two weeks.