I started doing this diary in June. If you haven't been following have a look at the Cast of Characters which gives a quick low down on the essential day to day characters who are mentioned here...it will make more sense if you do.

     

Sometimes when I come to write this I sit for a while and remember what I've have been up to that day. Sometimes I sit and wonder what the hell I have been up to all day. It feels like the length of the day is contracting with the length of daylight hours. I know it's not, I'm not sleeping any more or waking any less than usual, it just feels like less is getting done in a day.

Well anyway, today's main event was the arrival and fitting of the extra 256 megabytes of RAM. In between those events I was in the barn doing what was a mixture of arm training and a useful job. I figured that building a new saw bench (and we really do need one) would be a job involving lots of tools, both power tools and hand tools so. So I have now used it with the circular saw, drill, chisels, bradawl, set square, wheelbarrow (ok, that was taking the rubbish out not doing the saw bench) and I established at the weekend that it will hold a nail while I hammer it and will also hold a rail while it's being sawn. The only slight problem I'm having is that when I use the drill it sends me rotating anti-clockwise so I have to keep stopping and straightening out. Apart from that, if the socket fitted better it would be totally fantastic, so if I can get out of bed at a reasonable hour I will go down to Swansea tomorrow and see if it can be sorted out.

I had the tree legs of the saw bench made by the time Gareth came to fit the RAM and by the time I had fetched some milk from the other end of the house for his cup of tea he had finished fitting them and the computer was booting. I probably could have done it myself, the instructions were clear enough but it did say "using both hands....." on the packaging so I reckon it was worth it to have it done properly. And then I lost myself for hours just being amazed and falling back in love with my computer which is now invincible again. I can't believe how many applications I can have open at once, and there's still space for more. Of course I had to try out all the most RAM hungry maneouvres I could think of and then eventually it was dinner time.

Dinner was followed by one of our "as the need arises" house meetings where we talk about um... well, bills and shopping money mainly and reorganise the dinner rota if neccessary. Sometimes the small details can become interminable as just what is fully communal, semi-communal or private stash is determined which can involve splitting the price of a dozen eggs into individual units and the like. At the end of all this a few of us owe a few quid to each other and life goes on.

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