Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

It's not just the trees, of course, that change colour. The ivy-covered wall of the house behind mine is quite striking, with a big dark red splotch accompanied by yellow, orange, and green stripes. The grapes in my back yard are a cute colour; not yet ripe. I thought they ripened (and transformed overnight into bird poop) earlier in the year than this -- maybe I've misremembered, maybe the weather has confused the vine, maybe this is an extra crop. Not sure.

Today's being a yo-yo day, but with less extreme fatigue-swings than the last couple. Getting things done in small bites; trying not to bite off too much at a time.

A shortage in my house: electrical cords for computers. For a while I've been raiding cords from machines on the repair pile, but as I get more computers running I'm out of spares. If any of my friends has a surplus that they keep tripping over and need to get out of the way ...? I'm also under-supplied with working VGA monitors, but those are more of a "wait for someone to upgrade" item than a "see whether anybody has a bunch of spares" thing. (I've also got about four Ethernet cables too few, but seeing as I have a crimp tool, at least eight conectifiers, and a fair quantity of Cat5 on hand, that's one shortage I can rectify on my own later. Or maybe I can trade Ethernet cables for power cords?)

Goofed off briefly with a silly quiz:

But HTML is not a programming language, doggone it.

Found the check I lost earlier ... only to realize that "earlier" was months earlier, and the small print says "not valid after 90 days". Not an insurmountable problem, just a minor annoyance to deal with. It would seem a lot more significant on some day when it was the last straw or something. Anyhow: whoops.

In the most recent package of malta I bought, one of the (glass) bottles was dented. I mean, it looks just like a dented tin can would look if it were a bottle, except that it really is a bottle. (Oy, my writing skills today. Feh.) This amuses me. In my current state I cannot tell whether my degree of amusement is in keeping with the degree of silliness of the dented bottle, but I'm pretty darned amused.

(Gee, look at that -- while looking for a link for folks who might be unfamiliar with one of my favourite soft drinks, I also stumbled across a recipe. Can this possibly make up for getting someone hooked on it who lives in a place where the stuff isn't sold?)

Estimated probability of my actually getting to rehearsal tonight: about 60%. Don't hold your breath, but do wish me luck.