Bad : mowed the front lawn last night. Got 90% of the way through and the control unit sparked and had the distinct smell of Magic Smoke :(. Hopefully this will be easy to fix and not require the purchase of a new mower. Grrrrrr.

Good-ish : Alchemy for Audigy will be free - free EAX on Vista. Of course this is probably because daniel_k of modded Creative drivers fame produced a free (hacked) Alchemy, but this may go a very small way to recover the shitty reputation Creative has studiously developed.

Let the cats out into the garden again. Maisie loves running and playing, Cairo is a bit of a roamer. Unfortunately far from calming him down he then wanted to play fetch when back indoors over and over and over and over again. I eventually had to close the study door to actually do something useful. I suspect in the cat mind sitting down=available for play.

(Also, standing up=potentially available for play, lying down=available for play after nagging, etc etc)