A few new things have happened lately, leading to a little catch-up note to summarise.

Firstly, I have a Canadian friend in the country for a few weeks. She’s been staying with me for a while, giving me a chance to play tour-guide again. The weather hasn’t been playing along, but we’ve seen some cool things. She has been covering the galleries and museums while I’m at work, and we’ve caught a couple Film Festival shows and another performance of Strike before it finished up.

As of Saturday, I have a new flatmate. She’s still settling into the house, but things should calm down in the coming week. It’s nice to have someone to share the house and great that I’m not paying 100% of the rent anymore.

Finally, after over a year of procrastination, I’ve resurrected my old laptop. It’s a Dell Inspiron 2650 and the disk drive died ages ago. Having been gifted a spare 40GB disk, I slotted it in last night and began to get the thing working again. I must say that I appreciate the physical handling of the laptop case. It was dead-simple to get the drive installed. If I could find a new battery for it, I could probably make a decent laptop out of it – 6 years after I bought it.