Weekend was quiet-ish. Off to see Terminator Salvation on Friday - a decent film, provided you ignore some huge plot holes and believe that everyone is quite stupid. Pub after that, the following day some tidying, a reasonable bike ride and cooking lots of pineapple and lentil curry before Saturday Pub.

Sunday was visiting parents, sorting out the garden (this took a few hours), sleeping and doing very geeky things with a soldering iron (more later, once it's all working).

Kayaking performance wasn't fantastic on Monday, but slowly improving I think. May have to consider my own kayak and practising at other times, although when I can fit this in is a good question.

Goth book group Tuesday was quite fun, decent discussion and nice beer. Last night K was round to cook me green risotto and watch Godzilla : Giant Monsters All Out Attack - quite good although not the best monster fights so far. Skillful use of editing made best use of the budget, and most of the effects were quite well integrated into live action and were mostly on the same level rather than jittering between excellent and crap as Godzilla : Final War did.

The cats aren't always enjoying the sunshine, but cry to go out late at night. My sleep patterns have been all over the place, sadly. Going to bed at a reasonable time to ('lie down just for a moment'), waking up at 5-6am, making sure the cats are inside and going back to bed. My plan of getting up at 7am and exercising for a while is taking some time to achieve.

Computers are being Fucking Annoying. It started off with the SGI O2's composite video input which doesn't like all composite input (such as that from old home computers), moved onto the fact the TV card doesn't work well in the neostation (too many interrupts for the Geode chipset) and the huge ISA WinTV celebrity I whacked into my legacy/DOS/OS/2 box was being an arse too.

Then the home cinema PC refused to load powerstrip properly - easy to fix if you can see the screen, but annoying if you need powerstrip to load so it'll program the projector to synchronise the display.

Finally, my main system appears to have died, and it looks like the motherboard unless the power supply has failed. It's not too hot, the memory checks out, the processor is working and three different hard drives refuse to boot. I was hoping to avoid too much computer fettling, but will now have to try swapping out the power supply, processor, and running it outside the chassis. Fucking joy.. It's under a three year warranty and hopefully won't be a hassle to replace.