Ho hum. My life must be getting boring again if I'm going for a week without writing in this diary…

So, last week I was absolutely exhausted and had announced an intention to lay off all unnecessary coding for a few weeks to recover. Unfortunately, within 24 hours of writing that diary entry, I went to World of Computers and bought a very shiny new 19-inch flat screen for my main home computer. This has given me New Toy Syndrome with a vengeance, and I've been unable to resist finding excuses to use my computer so I can go ‘ooh’ at the new monitor… But I don't feel too tired right now, so perhaps my increased caution has been helping in spite of this. We'll see.

This weekend I bought a portable electric radiator for my bedroom, since it's the only room in the house without dependable heating (a small gas burner on one wall doesn't seem like a terribly good idea to leave on overnight, particularly since I can't smell gas leaks!). I hope the moving-related expenditures are now over, but I'm not hopeful; I thought I was done last week after I got some DECT phones to deal with the unhelpful placement of phone sockets in the new flat, but there always seems to be something else I suddenly decide I could do with.

Although, speaking of my absent sense of smell… while burning my dinner on Saturday (haven't quite got the hang of my new grill yet) I discovered to my slight surprise that my nose can at least sense smoke, in that smoke makes my nose sting to roughly the same extent that it makes my eyes sting. So it's not totally inert as I'd thought it was; but on the other hand it still isn't practically useful, because it's not telling me anything that my other sense organs weren't perfectly capable of telling me already :-)