I am now on two week holiday after 8 gruelling months of getting up at 6am, leaving at 6.30 for 1 hour commute, working till 16.30 and then second 1 hour commute before getting home at 17.30. Knackered, Stressed, Violated, Poluted, Hungry. I now have a new job (just three miles each way) in Reading, starting on the 28th of July, and will get there by bike or by running. Yesterday I read a lot, used linux (after installing Ubuntu on the computer my brother’s old computer - cheers bro), got infuriated with the noise coming from the knackered fan in said computer (and with Drupal) and set off on my bike to ride to Maplin in search for a replacement fan. The route is the same as I will use for getting to my new job and was really hilly and v.hard work. After finding no suitable fans in the shop I tried a different route home but took a wrong turning and instead of getting the map out I did a bit of high speed exploring, then when knackered got the map out and rode home. In the evening after M had arrived home and we had eaten dinner we watched “Priceless (hors de prix)“. Really funny film, Audrey Tautou sexy pouting seductive actress in same vain that Audrey Hepburn was in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”… which reminds me that I have a whole box-set of Audrey Hepburn films to watch.