Diary of an up and coming sociopath

Things accomplished today:

1. CD/Comics posted for eBay buyers. In a rare moment of panic, I decided that to supplement my failing monetary situation I should put some stuff on eBay. In order to do this, I had to pay off £10.41 of eBay fees. I listed a few comics, and a CD, and sold some of it. After paying the old eBay fees, the fees for the current items, and the cost of envelopes and postage, I’ve just about broken even. What a businessman. Still, this means anything else I sell will be 95% PROFIT. “Haunted Can of Vimto”, anyone?

2. Door Frame Fixed. When the robber kicked down our door, it had the unwanted side effect of splitting open the doorframe and catapaulting the metal locking plate which was attached to the doorframe across the room. I brought some tools from home yesterday, and earlier I hammered some nails into the fuckers and reattached the plate with screws. Our door now shuts properly again, in that, it doesn’t need a doorstop to prevent the wind from blowing it open. I admit, it’s not exactly a professional job. I’m hoping that the door will remain the semblance of operability until some point after we leave, anyway. Long enough to get our deposit money back. I still think is should be Isis’ responsibility to fix the door, but whatever, if they won’t do it I’m not going to lose money out of the deal.

3. Computer Desk Fixed. Of course, while I’ve got the tools here… Well, first, some backstory. A few years ago, at least 4, I was leaning on the slidey-keyboard shelf thing on my computer desk, and the strut which holds the rail on it detached from the desk. In retrospect, it wasn’t designed to hold the weight of me leaning on it, and that’s why it broke. Anyway. This leaves the keyboard tilted at about a 30 degree angle pointing towards the floor. I tried to fix this once a few weeks ago by using woodglue but it just didn’t work, so earlier today I used a spare wood screw to reattach the support beam with the rail on, to the top of the desk. It seems to have worked, it’s remaining in place with some light weight on, and it now feels like I’m typing at a strange angle since I’m not used to it begin this flat. Another score for James.

4. That’s it. Pretty sad, I know. 3 things of worth to talk about from a while day. I went shopping and was pleased to discover King Edward’s on the shelf, leading to a good evening meal. Tom and I watched Fahrenheit 911 with dinner, because we both like laughing at right wing Americans. It’s about as you’d expect from Micheal Moore, to be honest. It’s weighted in opinion, apparantly convinced with making the facts appear to fit the conecture, and some of it is pretty wildly conjectured. It’s also structured a little oddly; it jumps from what evil businesses stand to gain from a war to examining the reasons people join the army in the first place, but it was all pretty relevant to the overall picture. I don’t think it can hurt to have this kind of information being presented to the public though, more for the questions its wide distribution should raise than for the answers it tries to give.