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.