Selling your soul.

• The complete explanation in graphical form. Not "countries" so much as "arguments with arbitrary borders," where "arbitrary" means "under two hundred years old."

Today's monumental yak-shaving is reripping my CDs to FLAC, from whence I may rerip to anything convenient as I please. With hard disks these days, this is just fine.

I was going to meet up with snowspinner, who is in London, but am still ill. Bah.

One day we will get all our washing both washed and dried. There's one clothes horse that's been outside full for a week now.

redcountess has half rebuilt the spare room so we can fit a spare bed in it for the girls visiting in a week. We found all manner of previously lost things ... some of that stuff's been in boxes for two years. Or was it four?