A Bug's Life

They've been digging up the road to get at the gas pipes. The first signs of this were arrows and sigils spray-painted on the pavement. Now they've finished with the hole and relaid the paving slabs, but not in the same order as before so there are crazy half-arrows and symbols that reach the end of a slab and continue a knight's move away. Is fun :-)

I'm entering the study. I may be some time.

Before: ( See the horror! )

I think, after some discussion with my mother, that I may have got the hang of thinking of filing cabinets as repositories of things yet to be done, not just a storage space for old paperwork which has gone to expire. So far, I do like to see everything out in front of me...

EDIT 19:49 The desk is clear, the bank statements are all found, checked and archived (and now I need to check Council Tax over/underpayment weirdness), and the small monitor has been replaced with the large monitor. There is a 4cm stack of recycling, but much of the piles from the desk is now piled on the piles behind the desk. Tea and Doctor Who now.

Got distracted from clearing the study by getting too irked at how slow my PC is, and started to remove programs. "Microsoft Word 2002, that's so old, and it says 'Last Used 2005'. That can go!" Remove. Restart. Where's Word gone? Oh, I'm still on Office 2000 on this machine. Doh...

Maybe it's time for a wipe and reinstall. Of my brain :-/