Strange Mood…

[ARGH! The tickets for the concert have fallen through. It is horrible when one of the main performers cannot get tickets…]

I am in a strange mood today. More relaxed. I dont know if that is because I have handed in the work that was outstanding, or that I have not been dealing with any of the business paperwork, or that I have done almost no software programming today. All I know is that I feel a bit happier than yesterday.

I am also throwing stuff out. More stuff. I really want to make sure that my rubbish bin is full every week if possible. Today it certainly is, not only with the normal household waste, and with the waste from cleaning the garage, but also throwing out some old bricks. Yes, bricks. I really am cleaning up this place. These are left over from when I built a retaining wall under the house following the great flood of January 2001.

[Yeah. The Great Flood. From the USA I was able to ring those at home to tell them there was something wrong. What was wrong was that understairs in the house was under 1-3cm of water. My mail server had died when I was at the beginning of a 10 day consultancy in the USA. Very inconvenient I can tell you.]

[What happened was that some of the dirt collapsed and forced storm water into the garage. And then into the rumpus room. I designed and built the retaining wall myself using besser blocks, filling each with concrete, and using steel reinforcing. There are about 100 large besser blocks in the wall. That might not sound like muc, but they are all filled with concrete. There are probably 40-50 bags in the wall. Maybe more. A lot of work]