Half-moving to London in March

I talked before about my plans to spend more time in London. Well, all going well I should be half-moving down at the beginning of March! But there's a slight change of plan; I'll be moving in somewhere in East London with sweinhodge, lollipopp and ajva. Partly because lilithmagna and ergotia's current flatmate is having difficulty moving out, and party because I think I want to renovate their house from a distance for a bit before moving in :-)

I'm looking forward to spending more time closer to so many of you a lot!

BTW see others of you in Edinburgh here:



Tuesday, Jan 28 @ 8PM
Filmhouse Cafe-Bar
88 Lothian Road
Edinburgh,
+44-131-229-5932

Anyone free tomorrow daytime?

I'll be at a loose end tomorrow daytime, I'm keen to get out of the house though... anyone up to anything, fancy meeting up?

Update: sounds cool, now all we need to do is think of a Plan. My mind is a blank just now...

Television

I am currently listening to Television, "Marquee Moon", which I bought on a whim because it was cheap and lots of folks speak well of Television. Not totally convinced yet; I'd somehow gained the impression it might be a bit like Magazine, but it could be the one-word multisyllabic consumer product connection.

sibelian's hard drive is dying. If I buy a replacement, will we have to do a complete re-install of Windows and all software, or is there a way of copying everying across so that his setup is preserved? How hard is it? This is assuming that the replacement isn't precisely the same size as the original, but bearing in mind that he's only used about 7GB of a 40GB drive.

I received a tax demand today. For around £26,000. I hot-footed it to my accountant, who assures me that it's quite impossible that I could owe that much, and that the IR are simply trying to get my attention so I submit a proper tax thingy. May I add that they succeeded in getting my attention. She's sorting it out so we know how much I really do owe them. She's working this weekend, so I've offered to bring coffee and buns...

I'm waiting to hear from her how much she thinks I'm going to need to pay before I commit to FSE 2003 or Morecambe. Morecambe is looking a bit less likely ATM because I probably need to be in London over the end of Feb/start of March period. coracaskia, I'll just have to make time to visit you some weekend anyway - I keep forgetting how relatively nearby you are!

I have still to hear from my work authorising the purchase of a laptop. Since there's not a lot I can do in the way of work without one you'd think they'd get around to it. Sent a *poke* email today, no response.

Today we have a meeting to wind up the housing co-op we started four years ago. The reasons why it never got off the ground are complex and painful, but we haven't been doing the few statutory things we're supposed to do as directors of what is legally a limited company, so seeing it all closed off legal like will be a great relief; it's been one of those 3am worries for a long time. We're all going to the pub afterwards as a sort of wake, and thence to a party.

Now to burn a CD of pictures of Mir for nik_strychnine, who's painting us a model of it...

And save live music for us while you're there, will you?

Update: no party tonight - spread the word

Calling on Tuesday

ergotia points out that there's a Calling in Cambridge on Feb 4, and that thanks to her gardening leave we could both go! Would anyone be able to put both of us up on Tuesday night?

ps: shatner's bassoon.

UULP: I completely agree with JWZ re themes