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We're having our dining room lights fixed today, after an exciting arcing incident in the shonky wiring for the unsatisfactory halogen spot lights. The electrician's replacing them with dimmable LED spotlights (for intimate soirées) and a couple of LED panels (for bright, even, non-shadowy light suitable for doing crafts). This has involved moving everything out of my room so that the carpet and floodboards could come up. Most of my furniture is currently crammed into the spare room, and I spent the latter part of yesterday evening remembering things I needed that were buried inaccessibly at the far side of a large pile of furniture. (Now it all has to move back in time for next-weekend-but-one when relatives are coming to stay.)

The road round the corner from us has been having some kind of gasmergency, necessitating the precipitous digging up of a sizeable proportion of the pavement on one side of the road. I've seen them using a giant machine with a large tube attached which I think is some sort of soil hoover. There are many, extensive holes revealing much more of the under-pavement plumbing than you usually get to see. It's quite interesting!

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For my birthday, BT dug me a hole! This was very exciting, no-one has ever dug me a hole before (though the number of people who have offered since is quite alarming).

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In more digging news, today I emptied the remaining dalek so I can freecycle it, and spent 20 mins moving all the resulting compost away from the shed, and then got rid of a large pile of brambles. All before breakfast. I could not have done this six months ago.

It's good decluttering progress too, as is passing along a large pile of tapes to davefish. Who I will shortly see in Whitby, yay! There will be much bouncing. I am going through a big, enthusiastic music phase at present.

Speaking of which, WGT have started announcing bands! I have defeated both the French and German train systems to get sleeper tickets (and I. helped me defeat Eurostar too). As a bonus we get a couple of days of messing round in Berlin too :-)

I have achieved 51 of the things on my 101 things list, with notable successes in the areas of food/exercise, Christmas, and Sorting Things Out, and less success in the area of gardening (I am hoping motivation will improve now it is spring) and photo sorting.

I cannot finish my list of happy things without mention of the new version of DoomRL, which looks beautiful and literally made me jump out of my seat yesterday, not something I thought a roguelike would ever achieve...

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