Well, time draws on, the move is ever closer, and the packing, while slow going, is at least going. I’ve got no pain today at all, but the response from my face is still pretty bad, no movement in the middle-left at all, a little at the bottom and a little at the top. I can’t tell if it feels better because I’m used to it, or if it feels better because it’s getting better. My eye isn’t as bad – and it doesn’t get tired as quickly, although looking at the screen for more than 20 minutes causes it to water!!

Finally got confirmation today from John German’s that we have the house we were after – they say that they told us this in our last conversation, but all I remember them saying was “yes, you can have a cat in the place”, not, “yes, you’ve got it, and you can have a cat”. Ah well, at least that’s one less worry.

I still can’t believe how helpful our friends are being – I keep trying to work out why they are bothering with us since we just seem to be hassle most of the time, but I guess that’s what friends are about.

Spending the tidying up the web site still further – instead of packing obviously. My Bells Palsy is still present, the pain is worse today, although I do have more movement back in my face. Anyway, back to the website stuff – it’s odd, more and more people from my place of work are finding the site – and I’m wondering more and more about how wise it is to keep these diary entries ‘honest’. I’ll keep doing them I guess. I should imagine it’s rather confusing for most of the people I work with to find pages about ‘Blade’, but it’s a hard concept to explain, and while I was going to try a little ‘what is this Blade crap’ on my site, I’ve decided against it. Which is odd, because just before I started writing this paragraph, I was all for it. See, now you’re even more confused than ever. I know I am.

Ah, don’t you love moving house. We’ve had to extend the loan again, to cover deposit, legal fees and all those other lovely bits. One day we might actually get the loan to go down.

Does everyone find life this difficult? Ok, so we’re not badly off, we’re not starving, and we can always manage, but sometimes it would be nice to get a break, and actually pay off some of the loan instead of just increasing it.

Sometimes I don’t like myself very much either, which doesn’t help matters.

Well, I’ve moved desks at work, and I’m trying hard to change the pattern I’ve fallen into. When you don’t have anything challenging to do for a long time, it becomes too easy to avoid it again, but I’ve managed to get involved in at least two major pieces of work, pushing them forward, and hopefully more will turn up. Now all I need to do is work out how to stop feeling like I don’t fit in at work … I’m sure I’ll get there in the end.

We managed to finish this month £150 up, which is excellent, Grete’s spending some tomorrow on an evening out with friends, and the rest will go towards moving house. Moving house I hear you say? Again? So soon? Well yes, the owner of this place wants to move back in, so once again we’re looking for somewhere to live.

It’s really cold, so I’m shivering as I type this – I guess I should go and buy some more gas, but it’s colder out there than it is in here, so I’ve not gone yet. It’s been ages since I updated the diary, sorry about that (hey, what do you care), but the main problem is that I (we) seem to have a social life finally!

We’re no longer playing just MERP in the roleplaying sessions on Sunday’s, we’re alternating between Warhammer, Fading Suns, Force Lords, MERP, Xena & Hercules. In our Thursday games with Ness and Tony we’re playing Warhammer again, which is good, ‘cos I like Warhammer FRP!!

Managed to get a David Gemmell newsgroup together, which is picking up support, alt.books.david-gemmell, so if you’re a fan, why not wander along.

Planning on doing lots of LRP this year, finances willing, probably going to this one, and then the Gathering, and probably some/all of the Moots (possibly Heartland games, although that’s stretching the money a bit).

You’ll be pleased to know that the heating has finally kicked in, our last £2.00 is slowly decreasing, and I’m preparing to head off into the big outside to get some more gas. Wish me luck.

I can’t believe it’s almost Christmas. No money for presents this year, just trying to get onto a level footing before the year is up, so we can try and get things organised next year and pay off the debt. Ah well, we’ll keep going 😉

Well, it’s certainly been a while since I put the last diary entry in here. I’ve sort of been busy playing with Gemmell Mania over on Darkstorm, which has been fun. Other than that, nothing much going on, no money as usual, and Christmas is looming, but we’ll get by.

Finally got the domain name sorted out, at the moment it’s got my Gemmell Mania page there, and more to come soon. Winter is advancing, and the mornings are dark. Ah well, not long ’til the summer, and I like the winter truth be told 😉