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

Yet another inspection tomorrow. We've finally finished plugging the hole in the wall, after much consideration of paint colours, use of fans to dry the paint off once it's applied, and equally lengthy consideration of best technique for putting it there. The weather has suddenly turned against our cause, again, which is why the fan needed to be used. It's rainy. Rainy, rainy, rainy. Nothing could be expected to dry naturally in this weather, and mechanical (hence electrical - there's no point having a method unless it's going to cost us money) aids are thus essential.

The weather has depressed me, although the moment is an unusually light one, in that good things are starting to happen. I can't comment more for fear that I'll jinx them out of happening, and anyway the soul of discretion is one we should all really seek to emulate... In the meantime, though, with overcast and wet skies, and rain coming down in steady torrents, it's boring, restricted (not even the HDMBH can really go for much of a ride in this rain - there's not really any way of getting your clothes clean afterwards) and cold. I've effectively been banned from talking to the gym staff, having spent so much time over there in the recent past, and I'm tired of sitting at home by myself, but there's nowhere to go and nothing to do that costs sufficiently little money to allow me to do them. Not even cooking is all that attractive to me at the moment, which is rare. I feel like I'm getting fat and indolent, in spite of all the gym work, and even more to come with the launch of the next tape for Pump and the immediate follow-up of Combat which are on tonight.

Listening to the traffic outside is jarring. There's no fruit on the trees yet. Somebody has trashed our letterbox (they did that on Monday, but today is the first day we've had to miss mail because of it) again. I feel like I'm at the end of my tether, although I wasn't really aware I was sliding down it to begin with.

The temptation to swear, obtrusively, is strong...