Hardware
Sucks. My faithful home workstation, ai-chan (a mighty P133) is showing clear signs that the hard-drive does not have much life left in it. It made quite loud and alarming whirr, clunk, pling, bzzzzt, clunk, zap, bzzt, bzzzt, clunk, whirr sounds, which in my book translate to "Backup immediately, I'm going to blow smoke." An immediate backup is what I'm intending on doing. I can't say that I'm at all interested in buying new computer hardware, but having my hard-drive die is not going to be fun. Stupid junk. I hate hardware.

New hard-drive probably means a long and boring time waiting for Debian to re-install. Sucks hugely.

Gwen
Gwen is leaving us this weekend, back to Ballarat for a week or two and then off to her new life in Perth. I wish her all the best, but it means she's taking her machine that I use for playing X-COM. I've backed up the required files to my dying hard-drive, lucky me.

Houses
Found a house a few days ago with a nice yard, reasonable price, close to Ian and a tram. Looks like it might have a heritage listing, though. From my experience of renting my current heritage-listed property, I know that the telcos won't touch the damn thing. Going to have to chase things up with the council.

General
I want a huge weekend. I've spent way too much time at work, or looking at houses, or otherwise doings non-relaxing things. This weekend doesn't look as if it will help much either -- I'll be spending time buying new hard-drives, visiting my family, and (trying!) to release Finance::Quote 1.02. Sure, none of them are bad, but they're not quality relaxation. Real quality relaxation requires three days.