Chance meeting.

I played a Nurse With Wound live album and both teenagers reacted as though I'd shat in their ears. I believe this is the effect industrial music was meant to have.

Done some laptop surgery while arkady is out. The shattered socket does actually work with the adapter put in the right way, which is just as well as the replacement socket we got from eBay is in fact completely wrong. The equals key does not work. Other keys if they feel like it. Left mouse takes thumping. Needs a new keyboard, really. And is basically held together by the stickers. Next: reviving Celery's broken fluoro inverter. secretlondon, about that Mini 9 ...

Pembury this evening. Arkady's health is indifferent and Freda's is really not up to it, so it'll likely be just me. I am shockingly poor, so please buy me a drink.