You know, what I keep forgetting is the face. On some trains it is in the seat fabric. It is possibly worrying that I now recognise different varieties of public transport fabric.

Now that I have remembered that - everything else is gone.

I have been told that it's the best compliment when you hear someone is moving to a competitor at work, and you say "You'll kick our arse". This person will.

I think I have bonded with Catastrophe Client people. One chick got me some instructions, and seems happy when I email her to say how happy I am to be able to do various things. And then there's this chick in China. She told me that it was a bank holiday in Sydney this Monday. My reaction to that was to email her back to say "I am such an idiot!" and to express some happiness that at least one of us knows what's going on. At the time I thought the :) reply was a sign of bonding. Today I am sure, because she told me something so incredibly helpful. I have promised I will use it wisely.

I got an IT person who fixed something today. The division surprises me, but this guy was 'real' IT. He took a fair amount of time getting me to restart the machine repeatedly, but it's fixed. We chatted during restarts, and he likes my thought that if I tried to throw my monitor out the window... I bet those windows are very strong, so the monitor would probably bounce off and injure me. He also seemed to like the one where some IT guy at an old job spoke to me like an idiot. My reply was to describe how I'd had a real good clean up of the files on my PC, and got rid of all these useless .dll files. Guy today responded well to my questions about 'Are you doing a startup script so I don't see the problem?'. That's what he did. Good idea, that. The script.

Things you don't ever want to think - "Doing the dishes shouldn't involve *that* much blood". Other things that aren't great include the fact that if you are unco enough to fuck up your hand while washing dishes, dressing the wounds with one unco hand is very hard indeed. I have little sterile strips holding part of my thumb together now. Plus various bits where normal band-aids did the trick.