There are Good Things happening at the moment.

Firstly, I have a shiny new laptop. And I have ubuntu working on it, with very limited hassle.

Secondly, this month I'm going to have a lot more time away from work this month. From next week, I'm only working four days a week. And I get saturday to thursday off, because of the way things work with changing shift patterns. Then I have six days off, which I need to take before the end of the year. So I'm likely to be away from work between the 12th and the 21st. Or something like that - in any case, I'm going to have a lot of time to do interesting things.

Now I just need to find some interesting things to do...