The Lair of the SlowFox

This entry comes to y'all from my brand new different office. Yep, yesterday finally saw the phone line being connected in my target abode, so I shifted across to take up residence in the new office. The transition's been mostly seamless: still awaiting the phone extension to be mapped - the phone itself is live, but has a different extension to my old office. A request is in for the latter to be mapped to the former, so that I end up with no change, but for the time being I'm coping with the lack of telephonic contact, rest assured.

The new building being at the opposite end of the site to Castle Fox, walking home and back during lunch to check on Mali has become impractical - it was borderline before, but the extra 5+ mins each way pushes the logistics firmly into indulgent territory, so I'm back on the bike. However, secure parking is something of an issue, and I may need to investigate my options on that score (I'm explicitly forbidden from bringing the bike into the building {Reg 4(e) applies}).

The only other downside is the lack of a printer. Since we are hardly ever required to print, and really I only ever print out the daily Killers, I'm not sure how much fuss I can legitimately make... might make more sense to get a printer for Castle Fox, but the trouble then is that I find that any printer gets such insufficient use that the cartridges dry up before they run out.

In other news (quite literally), congratulations clearly due to yvi on the 300 support points that dw_news announced in the weekly update! :D

My unwatched DVDs are starting to build up: I've got BSG S4 and Prison Break S3 to watch, plus True Blood S1 should be arriving next week - Comradette K DVR'd the first episode of True Blood for me a couple of weeks back, and that on top of the bookses constituted sufficient evidence for me to plump for the discs there and then. Flicking back to BSG and Prison Break, both of those will then have only a single season outstanding for me before canon is closed, so it sort of makes sense to complete the set...</justification>

Interwebz at Castle Fox seem to have crashed, despite two router re-boots. This could, just possibly, be connected to the long, protacted decay of the phone lines at my place (the line's now dead on the phone itself, but the router was still working, so I wasn't too bothered). Which I s'pose means that I'd better get it sorted somewhen. Does mean that my Order of the Phoenix Re-Read posts might have to shift to weekday mornings, when I usually have a connection. But it might all be working this evening, so who knows?

They're drilling outside the office, so it's somewhat noisy here (which is not quite a pre-emptive excuse for today's Killer, but possibly close), and finally I got a message from amazon telling me that the book I ordered last week won't now be coming because... it's out of print, and they can't lay their hands on a copy anywhere. You would've thought that they could have stopped advertising it then. New edition comes out on 1 October, so that'll have to do, but 'tis a bit of a shame.