We're happy here in the happy house.

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• silenttex is looking for work urgently, his previous employer having gone bust owing him a few months' back pay. Ten years' Windows admin and desktop support. Contact at that there post.

• Robert Anton Wilson has died.

• Arkady has her doll Amethyst up for auction.

The good news is that we're moving! The bad news is that we're moving!

The landlard came around this afternoon with his builder (who actually built the bathroom) and his business partner and arkady and redcountess showed him the subsiding floor in the bathroom (with sinking bath, wobbling toilet and only just legal lighting) and the carpet that had been nailed in place over the very grotty old carpet that was now infested with silver carpet moths and their accompanying worse-than-cat-pee smell.

To repair the bathroom will require rebuilding it and the carpets will need to be removed completely from the entire house and the floorboards fumigated. Arkady casually pointed out that HSE would certainly take one look at the place and declare it unfit for human habitation. The business partner quietly offered to break the lease at one month's notice and give our deposit back.

I'm on call week after next (so no final Dreadnought for me. Bugger! Visitors most welcomed, though) and the third week in February, so we'll probably aim to be out at the end of that week.

Lunch with eyeliner297 yesterday was luvverly if short. Getting smashed with the Wikinerds on Tuesday was good also. The Montagu Pyke is a hideous beer barn that must be destroyed. Everyone's jaw was dropping at Arsenal beating Liverpool 6-3, though.

I think I know what I'm doing this weekend, and it involves houses and hunting.