Like a think-bubble circling his head.

Tuesday we didn't get to arkady's flat. But we did go to Leyton for redcountess' medicine and some food. On the way back, I saw an artistically-placed doll, which looked to me like someone had put it there in the hope someone would see it and ( blog it. )

Liz went for a summer haircut, Arkady tormented Madam with bubbles and eyeliner297 came to visit in her volunteer at conservative Christian organisation finery (and never mind the spike heels or long eyeliner — g*ths? here?) and collect an Ixus v2 to enjoy forever.

( More pics. )

Bed as big as a boat.

The bloke from Dreams finally came around this morning to ( fix the bed. )

One drawer was broken but fixable with some judicious hammer blows and a compressor-powered staple gun (which is probably how it was made in the first place). The other was quite unambiguously broken into bits, and someone will be round with a replacement in a couple of weeks.

And arkady and I finally got to do the dance of the bed base, with a particularly flopsy eight hundred quid mattress. We found the workmanship, uh, breathtaking; truly, there are no limits to their attention to detail. A few judicious hammer blows, screwdriver leverings and (in one case) opening out a hole they hadn't bothered drilling all the way through later and we got it together. You know how your parents' bed always seemed to be the biggest bed ever, bigger than the room, you needed a stepladder to get into it and you didn't know how anyone could make beds so good? We have one of those now. It is ( the bed as big as a boat. )

The estate agent called to say the landlord would be around to fix stuff tomorrow, so we have to get the house tolerably tidy in a hurry. Or not get stuff fixed. Yay.

Confuse-a-Cat Ltd.

I got FFmpeg to do what I wanted, so have converted 37.1 megabytes of MJPEG to 3.9 meg of MPEG2 and uploaded it to pics.livejournal.com. Go on, hammer the crap outa their servers. (Save it to a file, it won't stream fast enough. QuickTime sucks too much to play it, but VLC works on the Mac.)

And the dwarves were given the task of digging the ditch.

Today I got an Ixus i in the post. Just a camera and belt case, I'll need at least a charger and USB cable before I can sell it. And in the meantime it's mine to play with. Damn, this thing is tiny. Here it is next to ( my Ixus 50 and the Ixus 400 I just sold. )

The 400 went for £90, which isn't bad. I need to work out how to publicise better. Must put more stuff up — I have an EX-S1, EX-S2 and two 430s here ready to eBay.

I now have root on reddragdiva.co.uk's server; what I don't have is any way to remotely restart it. Gah! The site's been set up on the non-deprecated server, now I just need to get the data onto it from the old site (learning at the deep end how to back up and restore Coppermine) and repoint the DNS.

One day I will have something to post about other than cameras and photos. Not soon. Oh, redcountess just watched the last episode of The West Wing and is already desperately after the DVDs. And arkady has just brought her laptop to life with one of the formerly-thought-dead DeathStars and is downloading the Dodgy Duck as I write this.