h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

*pokes cautiously into dark space with her marshmallow-cooking stick*

Funnily enough, I was just thinking about you the other day...!

I went round to your place, and read your compunded journal about the trip and its triumphs and disappointments, and enjoyed myself enormously, but you didn't seem to be around, so I thought I'd leave some comment until you were. The usual suspects were there in numbers, of course, but I didn't really feel like conversing with everyone at once...!

What's hapenin'...?!

Not a lot, actually. I'm taking a rest from Billy, gearing up to switch my office and bedroom and guest room with each other, a grand redisposition of chattels that will require hired muscle and half a day of chaos. I'm pretty well decided about selling up next year and moving west so that I can move in next to that silence and those stars. But right now I am contemplating a Wacom tablet that suddenly stopped working 5 minutes ago.

So are you still getting lots of exercise? Did anything ever come of the potential love interest? Is bubster still extending his empire?

*annexes Lil, just for old times' sake*

*wonders if El Bubstero realises the size of the new territory*

Do I have to pay taxes, raise an army or improve the roads now? Or is this a laisser-faire sort of annexation?

Asteroids are rich in minerals, but don't have many vitamins.

The love interest is still developing. I am still getting far too much exercise for a normal person, and it's reached the stage where I feel I really should try and make some money out of it before my body collapses from overuse. Bubster is no longer, in spite of all appearances which might persuade you otherwise, running an empire, but we keep our titles hanging around in case he changes his mind...!

Are you moving chattels because you feel it might be useful to do so, or are you just finding an excuse not to devote all your energies to moving...?

Chattel redisposition is a way of economising! Once I switch things around, the office will no longer be in the garage, but the guest room will be; this will allow me to cut back onthe use of the second air conditioner. I'll also be disconnecting the two phone lines that run out to the office, swapping my ISP to cable, and getting a cellphone at long last. And then, early next summer, I start offloading possessions I don't want and packing the rest for storage, then putting the house up for sale.

After that I'll be a nomad until I get to New Mexico and see the property I want.

How can you put your exercise addiction to work for profit? Let's see, you could hire out as a human turbine -- climb inside a hamster wheel or onto a bike and generate electricity!

I must assign myself a bubster title for a while. Hmmmmm