I spent most of yesterday irritated.

I exaggeratedly told Owen and Gareth at one point that I'd been irritated by about six things during the course of the day, and as a result I was challenged to actually count them. I think there hadn't been six at the time I said that, but there were by the time I tried to remember them: I was irritated by misremembering the start time wrong for the party we went to last night, irritated by the manner in which the board game we played before that ended, irritated by chiark's recent misfortunes, and irritated by my continuing failure to get hold of a good copy of Season 3 of Babylon 5[1]. Having been irritated by that lot, I was then feeling generally irritable and thus managed to get more irritated than usual by what passes for my love life. Then I got irritated by the Dension being temperamental again, and by the time I'd got to the end of that list I was also irritated by not being able to remember more than four of the above items at any one time. That made seven. GRRRRR.

Still, everything improved once we reached Duxford for Richard and Louise's engagement party, since it contained large amounts of very nice food, large numbers of very nice people, bonus points for a doseybat who I'd barely seen for ages, and generally managed to cheer me up. The party ended in a couple of games of Werewolves; we didn't quite have enough numbers for a workable game the first time round, so we augmented the game the second time by allowing a stuffed lemur to play as well. Astoundingly this actually worked rather well; Ben in particular seemed to have a clear insight into the lemur's mental workings, and correctly suspected it of being a werewolf before anyone else did.

[1] Latest on B5: Black Star now list it as temporarily out of stock. If I'm lucky, this might mean the faulty ones have run out and the next copy will be from another batch which might have been produced properly. If not, I'm not sure what will happen, although weds points out that I could simply buy the region 1 set if all else fails.