House
Let's see. Negotiations have gone like this:

• 9th August: Yes, your offer will be accepted. No problems at all. I'll go and talk to her tonight.
• 10th August: The vendor has had a fight with her brother. She might not want to sell because she wants to live there herself. I'll find out for certain and let you know tomorrow.
• 11th August: I couldn't contact her, but I really need to sit down and talk to her in person. We'll definitely know by tomorrow.
• 12th August: The vendor's had some business problems and needs to talk to her solicitors. She's meeting with them on Monday. We'll know for certain then.
• 13th August:Sunday: Waiting for Monday
• 14th August:The solicitors are in court, so she can't get in contact with them. They're definitely not in court tomorrow, so we'll absolutely know by then. No questions about it.
• 15th August:The vendor hasn't talked to her solicitors. She's going to ring them from home tonight. We'll definitely know by tomorrow.

ARRRRRRRRGH!!!!!!!

How hard is it supposed to be just to make an offer on a damn house? You'd think that if they went to all the trouble of putting it on a market and dealing with real estate agents that you'd actually want to sell! *grumble*

Work
Have been elected as chief fire-warden for our floor. I think this means that if anyone dies in a fire, it's my fault. I'm honoured nonetheless.

It looks as if we're heading towards proactively fixing problems before they become huge nasty bugs out in the real world. Of course, this might all change next week.

Bike
Still sick. Might get time to do something about it tomorrow. Definitely by ... Saturday.

Open Source
Nothing which I've done, although there's been a bit of interest in people writing new modules for Finance::Quote, which will be good if it happens. (In this case the modules are for UK mutual funds.)

ADOM
Have dropped back a couple of versions because gamma 16pre-2 keeps segfaulting, and g15 segfaults even more. I think it would be nice if Thomas left debugging symbols in the binary -- at least then I could use the magic of gdb to say which function is causing the problems.

House (part 1)
Visited the Real Estate agents, wrote out the offer, signed it, and handed them a cheque for a large sum of money. We're pretty sure we've got the house. I'm very scared, but also really looking forward to it all.

Work
My most recent paycheque is wrong. It doesn't include reimbusement for pizza. (Yes, I legitimately claim pizza purchased for the company every week.)

Laserdiscs
My laserdiscs arrived, so I'll probably have a few friends over shortly to help me watch them. Unfortunately AnimEigo screwed up my order, leaving out one LD and giving me to two of another. Hopefully they'll be able to resolve this in a satisfactory manner.

House (part 2)
Everything's organised and then... the vendor doesn't want to sell. She's just had a falling out with her brother and wants to stay in the house rather than sell it. Real estate agent is currently trying to convince her that after all this hard work she really does want to sell, possibly with an extended settlement period so she can't stay there in the short-term. (Extended settlement period is even better for me, so I don't mind if that happens.)

Fire training
Lots of fun. Got to put out fires and go through smoke-tunnels and play with fire extinguishers and watch videos and wear hard-hats and special clothing. Cool stuff. I want to do extra courses if possible.

House
No word back from the real estate agents as to how negotiations are going. This is very annoying.

Work
Same company, different name. Discovered that Kathryn makes excellent coffee. Thanks Kat.

Health
Feeling a bit under the weather, I'm afraid. Sore throat and aching muscles. Think I may have picked up the bug that's been floating around the office.

Bike
My bike isn't feeling very well at all. The rear wheel has partially detached itself from the axle. Alas this is one of the things I don't have the tools to fix on my own, so I'll probably be purchasing appropriate tools and materials to fix it over the weekend. (Either that or I'll go the easy way and drop it into a bike-shop for repairs.)

Blooper of the Week
Every week at work during our Friday staff meeting we have an agenda item titled "Blooper of the Week". This item is to acknowledge the most amusing blooper of that week, and involves the handover of a large black dunce-hat.

The blooper this week must go to our CEO. After finally clinching a major deal, John spent five hours at the pub, and proceeded to celebrate by throwing food from the 8th floor balcony at passers-by. Apparently he managed to hit (or almost hit) a few of the cleaning staff, and the police have been called by the car-park guard (who thinks there are 'kids on the roof causing trouble').

Work
Ian was a real sweetie and brought me a large, shiny, complex-looking bug, marked with "XXX". Ian knows that 90% of the bugs I have to chase have "XXX - May cause problems" written in the code nearby the actual bug, and has decided to celebrate this with me in his own special way. I hope to pass the bug on when somebody else becomes bug-boy.