NotSheep

Hm… two days without posts. That might be a record around here. Did you all miss me?

Thursday was a vast improvement on Wednesday; most of us had had nearly enough sleep (rather than about-seventeen-miles-from-nearly), so we were all a lot more fun to be around. I spent half an hour in panic-mode in the morning, when I discovered that I couldn’t login to Flickr - I knew I’d changed my Yahoo password, but I hadn’t saved it in my password-saver-program - and I knew the new password had been randomly-generated so there was no chance of guessing it! Yahoo’s “retrieve your password” system involves confirming lots of information like birthdate and postcode - things I probably made up when I registered After a frantic email to the Yahoo Helpdesk (otherwise known as the auto-reponse-then-ignore-you-desk), I realised that my instant messenger program might have it… and whew! there it was. Have now very carefully saved it

We had more friends visit for lunch and the afternoon - with it being the last week of August, we were trying to squeeze in last visits with all the schoolies Barney went off on his bicycle to get milk; he had to turn out of our street and cycle straight along the road, no turns at all, until he got to the garage, but somehow he managed to get “lost” on the way - about twenty yards from a road he knows. He can cycle to the leisure centre without a problem - a journey which is twice as long and about eighty times as complicated - but not the garage It didn’t help that when he rang me to tell me he was “lost”, he would respond to all my questions (difficult things like “are there houses on your left and fields on your right?”) with total silence. Hm. Right.

Friday was a bit of a lost day, to be honest. I had a headache all day so spent most of it trying to avoid anything that might involve movement, and the boys spent most of the day on the computers - a bit more Internet Romans, but mostly playing games. I had a bit of a rant when, 45 minutes after Scratchy got here, he was already having a go at me because I wasn’t rushing in to rescue him from demanding children. (When I say “having a go”, what I really mean is “muttering but not quite quietly enough that I couldn’t hear him” - big mistake there ;-)) He went to basketball with Barney, and I took Toby to bed and abandoned the others to their own devices.

This morning is dull, grey and very wet, and it seemed a good idea to get the boys involved in something that would prevent as much getting-on-each-other’s-nerves as possible, so we’ve (finally!) opened the K’nex Arcade set that they got last Christmas. It’s been sitting in the hall since then George jumped into it, with occasional assistance from Freddy, and Jack has also been “helping” (a term which definitely needs those quote-marks in this case).

Barney has spent most of the morning doing Kakuro. My friend K (the one who was here with her children on Tuesday and Wednesday) tried to get me hooked on yet another type of puzzle: Hashi - but I resisted. My addictions to Sudoku and Kakuro were entirely her fault, but this time, I was strong

We had a phone-call from the French exchange organisation this morning, and there is a possibility that we might have a French child here within a few weeks! Of course it’s also quite possible that the whole process will never go any further, so we’re trying not to get too excited about it - but all the same, we’re all a bit