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Round-up, part 2:

• Spent most of the weekend at home, pottering. Went into work briefly to fiddle with the mail clients on my PC, and in particular to stop Outlook attempting to log-in to the IMAP server every 5 minutes with the wrong password (why wouldn't it give up?!). Washed the windows. They were dirtier on the inside than the outside, to my surprise, but then there's rain on the outside to clean them a little...
• Snow fell on the 30th. Not much, but it stuck. It's far too cold outside for my liking.
• Went shopping on New Year's Eve. Was intending to cycle, but the high humidity has rusted the bike chain a bit and the lubricant spray-can doesn't seem to want to spray. Then in attempting to turn the bike over I slipped and fell into it. Gave up and took the bus. Put film in for developing; saw cheap waste-baskets in Woolworths, and got 3 of them, some hangers, some coasters, and The Exorcist on DVD since they were all cheap as well. Was hoping to order various things from Robert Sayle's and Durham Pine, but they were both closed early (or maybe all day in the former case). Forgot to buy blank videos until after 5, at which point the only place I could find 4-hour tapes was Borders.
• Spent the evening in. Had some really good curry and beer though, and watched Pleasantville and Jools' Annual Hootenannay (a live music program).
• The snow hasn't shifted as it's still around freezing point outside. I stayed in the warm today, except to check that no, I hadn't put Nattie's phone away in the shed, and therefore it was missing. Phoned Cellnet to check up on the account, and found that all the credit had been used up. So it must have been taken in the burglary too. However, the insurance company finally paid out for that a few days ago, so it might be a bit late to claim for it. <sigh>