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The weather outside is very strange. There was a howling wind as we went to bed last night, and when my alarm went off at seven this morning, there was howling wind and rain. I thought long and hard, and decided that I wouldn't get up for another three-quarters of an hour, and almost as soon as I had decided, there was a huge clap of thunder from outside. I went back to sleep.

At 07:45, the sky was clear and blue.

By the time I was on the train, there were clouds appearing in the North. By the time I was in Dun Laoghaire, there was some rain falling, and it lashed for about two minutes, yet by the time I got to my desk and looked out the window, it was dry and calm again. Now the wind is picking up, and there's light rain. Mild, moist, and changable, they told us in school, describing Ireland's climate. Dead right...

For those of us who have difficulty in coming up with names: The Page of Generators. They're not as good as the ones inannajones invents, though.

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I spent aaaaaages installing Anarchy Online on the laptop last night, only to find that while it runs, it runs very very slowly, and in a slightly distorted 800x640 resolution. Next we try the machine upstairs (Arborea), assuming we can resolve the problems it's currently having, which I think are due to either the wireless card or the mouse, but will probably turn out to be because it's facing west. I'm going to get a new mouse today, anyway, and see if that helps.

Shevon is now level 4 or 5, and inannajones is playing Irnini, a rather ass-kicking adventurer, who got to level 2 with insane speed.

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More thunder! It's so dark out there that the street lighting is coming on. OK, so we had frost in January and February, rain and storms in March... things are on track for Proper Weather For The Time of Year. Very suspicious, I calls it.

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Books bought over the weekend include: Jon Courtenay Grimwood's Effendi (I haven't read anything of his before, but I think I like), and Lois McMaster Bujold's The Curse of Chalion. And I'm currently reading Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt, which is bloody brilliant, really.

Overheard in Waterstone's on Dawson Street, woman in smart business suit, speaking of The Years of Rice and Salt: "I was going to get it, but then I saw he was into science fiction and stuff, so I didn't want to look like a nerd." I'm not sure if "he" was KSR or some other bloke...