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So there I was, minding my own business, and someone injected me with hepatitis A and typhoid. And next week I'm going for polio, tetanus, diphtheria, and possibly malaria too.

Apparently I need to be vaccinated if I go to South Africa. Which (if you hadn't noticed on my countdown bar on the left) I will be doing in about 37 days time. Very exciting! Get to go through duty free too! Yay!

I now have a house in Bath! I have moved some stuff in, and have been sorting some things out. My bed is interesting - it disassembled itself during the night, so I've decided to either build something to make it work, or just sleep on the matress. Matress is sounding good.

Today, I had my first car-on-car accident! Leela had a Boots pre-reg interview today in Bristol, had an exciting journey over there. And while I was sitting outside in the car, reading a book in the passenger seat, a blue escort parallel parked in my bumper. Which was nice.

Anyway, am back in Sevenoaks for a couple of days and to be injected with some more diseases, then off to Bournemouth for Mandy's wedding! It's all go here...

I had my injection, and the injection swelled to the size of a grapefruit. Ok, maybe not quite that big, but it was massive and red and itchy and bad. Leela suggested anti-histamine stuff, which did the job. Speaking of Leela and jobs, she has exciting news over on her journal, which she has resumed now that she has internet access again.

I have been making chocolate things. Lots of them. I have used 4 packets of biscuits, 4 packs of butter, over a tin of golden syrup, and a bag of sultanas. Most healthy.

My bed has broken. Well, not so much broken, more that it just plain sucks. When you lie on it, the slats fall out and you end up on the floor. I think I am going to have to build some elaborateness to fix it without actually doing anything permanent, don't want to risk harming the deposit. Went over to Ikea with Leela on Monday, and bought a chest of drawers which she helped me put together. Also wanted to get a table, but it wouldn't fit in the car. Didn't think of looking for a replacement bed though.

I must say that this Bath life is pretty damned good. Wake up, have nothing to do, go back to sleep until the afternoon, have some breakfast while watching tv, go for a little wander in town, eat more, watch some tv while messing about on the computer, and then go to bed. Does it get any better? Well, must go watch tv, it is most exciting. Night all...

Tristan's here, after nearly getting deported as soon as he arrived in the country. So close yet so far. Must write more letters to people in high places...

We now have broadband, yay! The broadband guy arrived at 9am, was finished by about 9.15, and then we spent the next few hours trying to get dhcp under linux to work (significantly easier once we had plugged the cable in).

I'm still having real problems trying to decide between using Perl and PHP for my website in a box thing. If anyone has any rational balanced views (ie with facts to back up what they say, rather than 'OMFG PHP 0WNZ Perl!!!1!!11! CYBER?!?!!?' stylee), then please please leave them in the comments. This has been bugging me for literally years, and I have to do something about it soon.

Went to Sainsburys this evening and bought lots of food, which we have now mostly eaten, or at least thats how it feels. I'm out of razor blades, so if you see me I apologise for my appearance. Think it's also about time for a haircut, so that's something to sort out too. Yes, this entry is as thrilling as ever.

In the on-going saga of my bed, I have ruled out all but a couple of courses of action; build something to support the bed slats, or buy a new bed. Considering the price difference, I'm all in favour of building something. Also need to find a table though, so if anyone knows of a place that will sell and deliver me a table (see, rules out Ikea) that is good (no Argos then), then please let me know!

Right-o, back to Sevenoaks tomorrow I think, Far Cry is calling.

When I'm at home, as I was today, I usually go to Tescos to do the shopping, since it's closer. However, today I thought I'd make the minor detour to go to Sainsburys, since I wanted something in Homebase - they're on the same mini trading estate, so it made sense.

So, I got to the mini trading estate, and turned in. Imagine the layout; a short road leads to a mini roundabout. To the left is homebase, in front is Sainsburys petrol station, and to the right is Sainsburys.

Today, however, it was different. To the left was a crowd of spectators, in front was a row of cones, and to the right was a police car parked across the entrance with policemen standing around it. A nice lady from Sainsburys came up to me and informed me that Sainburys and the petrol station were closed. But that meant Homebase must have been open, so I went in, bought what I wanted, and left again. Only to find more police cars, more bits blocked off, and more spectators.

I deduced the following:

• There can't be a fire, there aren't any fire engines
• There can't be an armed hostage situation, there's no reason for the petrol station to be closed
• There must be a bomb
• Al Qaeda have realised the strategic importance of the Sevenoaks Sainsburys, and have rigged it with enough explosives to create a crater big enough to reach the petrol station and rupture its tanks, causing a massive chain reaction, making a small crater in the arse end of the town, demoralising the nation and forcing Blair to admit he sucks, meaning he will step aside for someone reasonable to run the country, like me.

So then I went to Tescos.

In other news, there was a power cut this evening, and my server refused to come back up. However, all is now well, and I have finally set up my script to delete old spam e-mails - at 3 a minute and a spam box of over 60,000, something needed to be done. Now all old spams are trashed after 7 days.