House

House
House papers are signed and the deposit is in. Now we're just letting the banks fight over who we take our loan with. Also have to find insurance, which I had forgotten about.

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House

House
Looks like we've finally found a house that the vendor is willing to sign. We've had a verbal agreement regarding the property in East Coburg, and will be signing the contract tomorrow morning. I'm currently trying to convince a bank that application fees are a stupid idea.

Health
Haven't been feeling too good these last few days. There's been a nasty that's been floating around work -- starts as a sore throat, hibernates for a while, and then blossoms from there. It's well blossomed with me right now. As long as I don't move away from the eucalyptus burner I don't feel too bad.

Dancer
Today was Dancer's last day at Schnet. Dragged myself in to cross-pollinate diseases, wish him well, and give him a big hug. I'm going to miss the old raindeer, especially his beautiful sarcasm. Dancer is actually quite a warm, caring individual who will be sorely missed. I wish him all the very best of luck in the future.

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Finance::Quote

Finance::Quote
Version 1.02 is released and available for download. I'm very pleased to say that the number of information sources is steadily rising. Volker Stuerzl and Keith Refson both have modules that are being released in this version. Good work and congratulations to both!

The server at Sourceforge that hosts the F::Q webpage seems to be rejecting ssh connections. That makes it rather tricky to update the webpages. :/

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Scratching Itches

Scratching Itches
The POP server at work has broken, and has made my mail inaccessible with it. Even though it's the weekend, I've diagnosed the problem and am seriously considering ringing up Ian (or some other nice systems person) to tell them to install an emergency patch so that I can read my mail using mutt again.
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Weekend

Weekend
Nice long day. Pottered around in the garden and grazed a bit. Soil life looks very happy and I found a couple of unexpected carrots growing which I munched upon. Moved lots of silverbeet out of stasis (the cold pots in the corner) to the main bed where it's warm. Should keep me in leafy greens for some time.

Inspected the house in Coburg again, and this time brought along Jacinta's father as well to see if he could spot things we didn't. All up the house is indeed looking promising, although I'm somewhat concerned that a Melbourne Water service-hatch that is supposed to exist cannot be found. Will be chasing this with the relevant authorities.

Home proxy-server has a new hard-drive after I was left with a couple spare after emergency upgrades the other weekend.

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Oh goodness! I have a couple of hours to work on Open Source. Going to try and squeeze out that long overdue release.

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