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Yesterday was the Worldport Liquidation Tender Sale, more on that in a bit. This morning was wet. Like, really, really damp, a sort of gusting drizzle that managed to soak me despite having an umbrella. But then I eventually got to Dun Laoghaire, and into the gym, and I feel both pleased with myself and physically good having put in an hour there. The best thing about it, I think, is the ability to have a shower five minutes before arriving in work. And according to weather forecasts I heard in there, this afternoon is to have better weather, and some tomorrow too.

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The tender sale was bizarre, all these huge empty server rooms, with a few racks in some, and some piles of furniture and other office stuff in others. I put low bids on an Aeron chair, a desk lamp, a rather nice atlas clock, and a pile of coffee percolaters and cups. Oh, and a binding machine. I'm not sure if I'll get any of them, but no harm done if I don't. Dave and I climbed up the engineering stairs to the roof at one point - since there were actually lots up there, air con units and a satellite dish - but really to look at the view. Coming down, however, we discovered that the engineering stairs, which was grand coming up since we were looking up, was made of a solid wire grid, and you could see straight through it to the concrete floor three stories below. Cue the worst vertigo I've ever had while still being completely safe - there was nowhere to fall. After that, I spent a while remembering that Worldport is impossible to get out of. Took hours.

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Neverwinter Nights blew a gasket on me last night, crashing while I was saving a game, and contrived to corrupt my saved game file so that it won't load, and bolloxed the auto-save so badly that it caused the machine to hang if I tried to load it. So I'm starting over with a new and different character. Gah. I'm getting the hang of things in the toolset, though, via the tutorial, and I intend to spend some of tomorrow putting together a simple module.

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I need to track down that filofax I got - which seems to have vanished into the house at large - or get some kind of online schedule manager set up, so that I can keep track of stuff that I'm supposed to be doing. I haven't touched any research stuff for well over a week.