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Tweets from today.

• 07:31 Checking trafficengland.co.uk - too many bridges on my way to work to risk it. #
• 10:42 Relived that colleagues have made it in at last! #
• 20:24 Watching Sherrybaby and loving it. Feeding my Maggie addiction can never be a bad thing, right? #
• 21:58 Recording Torchwood for Jane. Ropey TV ftw! :) #

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I left the car at the garage at 9am, and they said they'd call as soon as they knew anything. I popped in on the way home, only a minor detour, at 1130 and was told there was no news yet. Walked home, took about half an hour, and got a phone call at about 1205 saying they'd finished it.

Grrrr.

Sure they did it on purpose.

Anyhow, just under £150 all told, but they've a 10% off labour costs thingie on their website, so got 10% off that whoohoo. I guess it's worth it for knowing how fast I am travelling, right? Someone tell me that I'm not mad...

Now I am relaxing briefly, while I try to stop my legs from complaining at me.

A bit like this day in 2007. The day where I spent several hours driving very slowly a very short distance.

So I decided not to risk it, and left home at 0800. Of course the roads were perfect, even clearer than normal. Gusty as anything but quiet. I was at work by 0820. And I was the only person there until 0945. The M6 - Thelwall Viaduct - was closed, and as we're not far from there the backlog of traffic on the M56 caused trouble for everyone coming from Manchester.

I had a good day, up until about 1600. It's curious how one person can do something to really get under your skin. Everything else in the world might roll off and slide away, but they do or say one thing and it thoroughly pisses you off. This was someone who wouldn't listen to me. He was told over and over and over again what his problem was and how to resolve it, but rather than going and resolving it, they decided to bitch about it, about something I couldn't do anything about, about a BT 2-Wire router of all things. If you've got a problem with a BT product, I would suggest you talk to BT about it...

Then the journey home was even easier. I think a lot of people "worked from home" :)

Best of all, Jane was at OMTC committee so I had the house to myself. Yay. Phil on his own equals beer and pizza.

Stephen Sondheim on the Simpsons, does it get any better? "Complex harmonies, wittty introspection? This is all wrong! Give me a peppy vamp!"

Dinner consisted of various roast veg, bacon, sweet potatoes par-boiled and tossed in garam masala and new potatoes. It was interesting, not particularly coherent, but good individual parts to remember for the future.

I'm going to go to the cinema tomorrow, what should I see?#