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I'm bored. Richard forgot to bring home a new fan for the server last night, so I can't switch it on, and thus I can't start tackling my enormous pile of email. I worked out how to connect the fishy to the laptop, though, so I have ADSL working and can catch up on LJ. There's tons to read, which is good.

I suppose I should be glad that I have the luxury of being bored, but I was expecting to spend the day with Alexa, and she seems to be asleep still. I'm stuck on the adventure game I'm playing (need someone to do one tiny bit for me that I'm too unco-ordinated to manage). And not having my email sucks. *moan moan moan* ;)

Working just about every day from tomorrow for the next couple of weeks, to try to sort out my finances - I had to cancel loads of shifts because of thesis panic, so am now annoyingly broke. Thinking about doing something for my birthday on Saturday 12th July, if Richard's not paintballing. Anyone up for that?

nightmares breaking into reality

Oh, I forgot to mention... very weird thing happened to me this morning. I had a nightmare about being back at work, but everything was very different, and people around me started smoking really heavily, and I had the most awful asthma attack - and then I woke up actually having an asthma attack. So, did I dream about asthma because I couldn't breathe in real life, or did I have the asthma attack because I dreamt I was having one? Most odd.

Links of the week

You get a double dose, because I didn't write anything last week :P

Can't remember who originally linked to this: Installing love, geek version. Funny, if you know unix.

Found in a google search: Scans from a 1911 encyclopedia. Strange machines! Strange mammals! Strange... molluscs? Also from that site, peculiar words. I actually knew quite a few of the etymologies.

Link found in a comment in rosefox's lj: Apology t-shirt for American tourists - "I'm sorry my president's an idiot. I didn't vote for him.". I wish it wasn't on Cafepress, and that they did a British version.

From purplerabbits' LJ: A very silly Harry Potter cartoon, for everyone who loves good fanfic and hates it where the author has written themselves into the story...

A few months ago, we saw frankfurter octopi. Well, here's how to make them. Someone will have to buy me one of these tools. I hope they work with vegetarian hot dogs...