A Bug's Life

Having very bad luck with trains. On Monday when I went in to London, the train stopped at Hitchin because of a fatality further along the line. We inched along and made it there an hour late. Today I caught a train back from London, it developed a safety fault, and tipped us all out at Potters Bar to wait for a replacement. As the train had been crowded before, I was worried about getting a seat, but Tim (who I'd met for lunch then again on PB station) kindly elbowed his way on and found a lovely lady who gave up her seat for me. People can be jolly nice! I wouldn't want to ask, but, y'know, I really can't stand on the train and was contemplating the cab-from-Potters-Bar option - feeling more of a fraud because I think I walked 10 walked 8 miles today so am at my fittest-looking. (Think I saw the_local_echo too, but tentative eye-catching was inconclusive)

Tower Bridge with techiebabe was marvellous and had 2 million rivets, many of which I photographed.

Tomorrow I pack for Eastercon, and ache, and regret spending so much of this evening hanging around train stations instead of getting stuff done. Come to Eastercon! Volunteer! Vote in TAFF!

EDIT: It is tomorrow. I ache. I am really not looking forward to going to work on Tuesday.

My Eee isn't recognising my home wifi any more. I hope it will be okay with hotel wifi, or it's just turned into a small word processor :-(

tamaranth has led this fossil by the hand along the path of Getting Email On One's Phone though, and it just about limps by while throwing lots of Out Of Memory errors.

Well, for the next few days I will mostly be sitting in the gopher hole.