Today's dinner is a rather spiffing chicken korma, especially as it seems to be something in black bean sauce with rice. Either someone was bored or vindictive either at the factory or ar the store. Oh well, a surprise is just as good.

For those wondering where I've been (I know that would be a very, very short list, possibly a negative number, in fact) I have been attempting to study 2 modules simultaneously. It was only for 2 weeks and I though it would have been ok. It would have, too, if BT had not stuffed up my network connection. So far in the past 7 days I've had more than 50 hours offline, with no sign of a connection returning anytime soon. And no, cable broadband is not available here. I'm in an NTL area.

Drat.

So I started trying to make my linux box into a router with a modem. To find out it's a Winmodem (if you don't know what that is, look it up in webopedia or wikipedia as I can't provide a link).

Double Drat.

On the plus side, I'm making a concious effort to be more happy at work. It's working too. Leaving at 5:30 seems to help an awful lot. i work mostly alone in the maintenance bay, fixing that, configuring this and possibly generally fiddling fixing things. i keep it varied during the day so I don't get too bored and this seems to help a lot. I never plan ahead for myself because as soon as I do, someone comes along and gives me a new plan. Though there are things to be done there - such as try to organise a pile of parts and machines that is constanly changing. I do wonder what we can do with over 100 1Ghz industrialised PCs and the growing pile of 2.6Ghz industrialised PCs. Then there's the collection of 60 or so VGA resolution 20 inch LCD screens. And there's the cameras. Hundreds of them. All 12 volt, composite only, about an inch and a half square, some colour, some black and white.