The letter.

• NotN: Ghostbusters III in "preproduction"; Hospital worker in crucifix row.

On Saturday morning I went to Homebase for breeze blocks to put the toilet bowl on. Homebase, true to its key marketing strength as the great big warehouse full of everything except what you actually want, no longer stocks breeze blocks. So I lugged five paving slabs home in a shopping trolley instead. arkady and I did manly things involving scraping the unspeakable slime off the concrete and removing various nails hammered directly into it (Arkady's cock is THIS BIG) and propped the bowl up on four slabs. The fifth is out the back to sit on and the cat has of course adopted it. Dried the floor thoroughly with a fan heater, the poor man's dehumidifier. We can dishwash and wash clothes without further leakage, so now it's the landlord's call what to do next.

Vagabonds with nyecamden. I got a pile of photos even though reddragdiva.co.uk is still broken. Danced and drank and talked rubbish all night. Bumped into theevilchemist, who just happened to be in town, and vayshti, who I haven't see in thirteen years. Crikey, I needed that.

Now using the netbook for a bit. I've always hated using GNOME, but the Ubuntu Netbook Remix interface is actually very good and would be good on a desktop too. Setting the fonts smaller (8pt instead of 10pt) is a good idea too when the screen is only 600px high. The preferences dialogue in the file manager is too tall for the screen. I'm missing standalone PgUp/PgDn and Home keys. But this notebook is tiny, light, portable and I can type on it with ten fingers. Fantastic.

(It does suffer the known MSI Wind U100 problem of yellow colour bleed on the screen. Apparently this is a warranty return if it's still in warranty. But I can live with this!)

I live in the cloud and seem to have done for a while. The main barrier to switching computers is logging into sites again. The main thing I use actual computing power for is the browser, music playing and GIMP.

aster13 beat the crap out of my back this afternoon. I am now bruised and battered and happily relaxed. I heartily recommend her for all your therapeutic back crap-beating needs.