Diary of an up and coming sociopath

Finally, I’ve moved into the house in London. Everything has gone pretty smoothly, though my first act upon enterting the house was to accidently break the curtain rail. I kind of pulled at the curtain and it fell off, it was quite brittle, though I’ve managed to fix it by redistributing the working fixtures, so there isn’t a huge problem. Might go easy on it for a while, though.

After I’d unloaded the car, and hung around moving boxes from one end of the room to the other in the guise of “tidying”, Ian and I walked up to the small Tescos near us to get some dinner, to fuel ourselves that we might go to the larger Tescos later on. We managed to find less than half of our projected items, which made cooking dinner quite impossible, and instead, we just drove straight up to the big Tescos. The plan was to buy a week’s shopping, and using Nikki’s time-honoured method of planning each day’s meal in advance, we feel like we accomplished that. Certainly, 5 days of meals are accounted for. The trick, of course, will be in making this £12 of shopping last for a week. I also realised that, in my ravenous hunger-driven trance, I totally forgot about buying less edible things, like toothpaste and shampoo. I haven’t had to buy that stuff for some time, so I guess it’s no wonder the thought never crossed my mind. I’ll be picking those up tomorrow, though.

We discovered recently that our broadband connection doesn’t get activated until Friday. At the moment, we have one dialup connection shared between everyone, which makes for slow browsing, though it’s actually not that bad as far as IRC and MSN conversations go. In theory, we’ll only get a problem if we’re all trying to browse at once, and that doesn’t happen often. Friday is, of course, 11 days after we ordered, rather than the promised 7-10. I don’t know what Nildram think they’re doing, but it’s not the lightening fast installation some might have you believe ADSL can do. The true test, however, will be on how the connection works once it’s here though…

So anyway, that’s it for now. As long as this dialup connection holds out I should be on the internet for a bit in the late evenings, which will certainly allow for the odd blog update, and maybe you can get in a quick word on MSN. Feel free to send house-warming gifts in the absence of conversation, though.