House
Really getting sick of all the stuff going on beforehand. I suspect the first home insurance company who asks me to sign something will get my home insurance for the first year. There should be a loan contract for me to sign on Monday (provided that all goes well), and we're doing a final inspection this weekend to make sure that everything is still there.

Work
Acting very much as a catalyst right now -- helping lots of other people work efficiently but not getting as much done myself as I would like. This is not unusual for me, I seem to have had a hand in just about everything and so I'm a good generic person to go to when questions arise.

Apparently I'm working on a 9-day fortnight, but I'm still waiting to see this in writing. I'm still taking the days off. There's been a bit of poor communication (some of it certainly mine) about the changes to my role, and I'll be much happier once these get cleared up.

Open-Source
Ha! Surely I jest. Unfortunately been too busy to go near any sort of open-source development, and when I haven't been too busy all I've wanted to do is anything but programming.

Dancer
Glad to see that Dancer is surviving the USA without too many problems. I'm missing D's irony and sarcasm, though.

I'm sure that my Mom will be absolutely thrilled when I show her the magazine. :)

House
Settlement in two weeks time. The big stash of documents I sent to the loan company seems to have dissapeared (they're blaming it on the olympics), so I get the fun task of cycling over to their Melbourne office today to drop the documents off in person.

I haven't really even thought of home insurance yet. I'm hoping someone will throw a freebie at me for a few months (not too unlikely).

Chickens
Moving into the new house also means that I can keep chickens, which I've decided to name after my friends (Ian, Sofie, Ben, Tara, Daniel and Sarina). This was going to be a fairly simple operation, but the namesakes appear to have become quite insistant as to which chicken breeds I purchase and name after them. Ben wants a Golden Silkie, Sofie something cute (probably a Pekin), Sarina a Japanese Bantam, Daniel a Polish and Tara a Frizzle. Ian's probably been the best about this and just said he wanted a "brown chook".

Bike
Discovered why biscuit kept getting a flat back tyre. I found a large bulge that was only really visible when inflated to riding pressures. Replaced the tyre and all seems much better.

Work
I now have the position of Software Architect in the stats team. Fun fun fun.

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.

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. :/