Aquarionics

*ahem* parents worrying about lack of diary entries is probably a clue to start writing again. The last week has been… complex. On the plus side, we now have free net connection, gas, water, heating, net(and not)working, games playing, food, and generally Stuff.

The mini-dinner-housewarming thing we had on Tuesday was a sucess, despite various communications breakdowns.

As previously predicted, money is slightly tight, and certian things that I’m sure we will look back on in six months and laugh at are happening to make life stressful, not least that my desire not to infect anyone else with the horrible bug that I caught at the beginning of the week has stopped me doing many useful things, like wander around recruitment places. I feel that spraying snot around their near offices will not endear me to them.

In the meantime, I wax slightly lyrical about how nice the new house is, mask my disappointment as health and finance stop me going to the Notts meet, and work for tomorrow, when I have a server to rebuild. Oh, and Nikki just pointed me at a site that may soon become a time sink.

Oh, and I found that Rosemary and her SO both play The Card Game That Cannot Be Named, so that may make life interesting. Well, after they move back after the summer holidays…

I’m feeling ikky. I have a cold, a headache, and the sunlight is killing me. I spent far too long during the day asleep (not really being a very good host to Supermouse) feeling sorry for myself. The worst part is I have things I *have* to get done, not least sign up with the temping agencies, but while I can’t even think streight for the pain, and while the contrast on the monitor is turned down so it doesn’t hurt my eyes, I can’t go out into the blazing sunshine for more than a quarter hour. So today I have spent feeling sorry for myself, so I have something to hit myself over the head with tomorrow (I can’t be lazy two days in a row…

Today has been educational.

Yesterday evening, between four and five, Me and Cookie entered our new house in Cambridge.

Yay.

Since then, education has happened, and I have learnt things.

For example:

• Never argue with a washing machine. You will get wet toes.
• Bedding for double beds is horribly expensive.
• The bed in my room is not, in fact, a double, but a queen-size. Damn.
• If at first you don’t suceed, Read The Manual.
• If at second you don’t suceed, Read *ALL* the Manuals.
• Sausages take longer to cook than bacon (Yes, I knew this already, I just forgot about them this morning)
• Cambridge is nice.
• Having your own place is nice.
• It is more sensible for the person who is going to be at home all day to have the key to the back door.
• If at third you don’t suceed, light the pilot light.
• Cream cheese and chives on crumpet is nice.
• The new house is /beyond/ nice. It has niceness, it has greatness, and it has houseosity. Like.

Plus, LoneCat comes here tomorrow, which is even better :-D

The only thing it doesn’t have is a phoneline, so, from a cybercafe somewhere in Cambridge, TTFN :-)

I move in on Monday. It’s Saturday. I should be packing. And I am, putting everything neatly (and not-so-neatly) into archive boxen and loading it outside my room.

In the process, I have also completed the move of Afphrid to it’s new domain at http://www.afphrid.org.uk (Thanks Pol for setting it up), fixed a number of bugs in some other code, and had an attack of “On this day in history”.

The results of this were that I got out a Zip Disk labeled simply “Old Web” which contains a whole bunch of old designs for Aquarionics. At some point I’ll put some online so you can see how far we’ve developed since then, in the meantime I’ve added loads of stuff that has previously been thought lost in the move from Pennyhost to here to the new Vault section of Misc. Go see.

I’m happy, I’m writing stuff (even if it is just Usenet, it’s properly planned and executed full-length things), I’m *moving*, something is actually *happening* to my life. And I haven’t felt so happy in over eight months :-D

It’s done. The references have passed, the deposit is here, the thing has been finished. As of Monday, 17th June 2002, I am living in Cambridge.

I am currently playing Madness – Our House, at the highest volume my speakers will allow.

Project Geekhouse Stage One. Complete.

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