I suppose the point of having a journal is to keep it up to date, right? Well, I have two journals, and neither of them is up to date. I have excuses though, honest. Lots of them.

Going into bat first is the lack of a phone line at home. The whole sorry saga has been documented on Steph's Journal, so I won't go into it here.

Secondly, normally I'd just take some time out at work to do the journal (like I am now), but I've been too busy. Being webmaster sucks. People want whole sections of the website updated by, like, now.

Thirdly, every time I have any time off, I seem to get sick. Same damned virus I've been having for a couple of months now.

So, enough with the moaning.

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Our late summer's come crashing down this week and we're well into autumn. This has happened before this year, so I haven't given up hope for some more hot weather. In some ways, it's actually a relief; parts of last week were way too hot.

Autumn's bringing us an enormous crop of blackberries, so we've been having them for breakfast in strawberry yoghurt. I was pretty surprised at how well they work. Shame blackberries don't last all year round. We've frozen a lot, but I could eat them by the bowlful every day.

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The novel progresses at a snail's pace. I really need to decide exactly where it's going and what's happening. I managed to break the writing not-so-much-block-as-resistant-gel this morning by starting a new story. It's not going to be such a great story, but I need to hit the writing-every-day habit again.

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Along with not having internet access at home, I also managed to blow the power converter on our PDA, so I'm far behind on my reading. That's why there haven't been any new reviews on my review journal recently.

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My PHP learning is going....slowly. I'd forgotten how frustrating programming can be, as you frown over every line trying to pick out the one semicolon you forgot or the one bracket in the wrong place. Despite that, I'm enjoying teaching myself PHP more than anything else at work. New things. Shiny new things. That's what I like.

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I've realised my problem at work. I'm crap at delegation. Someone else could be doing a lot of this web updating. My minion, for instance. Not gonna let them, though.