Yayness!

Sarah has sorted out a house to move into.

It's rather a nice little place - two bedrooms, described as a "cottage" but I'd just call it a smallish house, two storeys with what looks like decent loft space and a shed (although a lot of my books and videos are going to end up in storage. *meh*) and a manageable back garden (tr: a couple of strips of lawn). A cute little set of stone steps up to the front door. It's in Bishop's Stortford, about ten minutes' walk, probably less, out of the town centre (and it's possible to walk it along the river bank, although slightly longer and when we tried it on Saturday we got v. v. muddy feet because it had been raining heavily the night before). And I quite like what I've seen of Bishop's Stortford - seems quite a cosy little town. I'm looking forward to settling in there myself. Sarah's probably going to be moving in in the next couple of weeks.

So *yay*. Need to spend more time packing and tidying up at my place.

And I feel quite excited about the whole Barack Obama inauguration. Because...just because.

Anyhew. Back to work.

Dai.

Productive evening.

I've just spent a pleasant hour going through piles of old paperwork and, basically, chucking a lot of it away, or it least putting it in a pile of things to be shredded. All manner of old stuff - bank statements, credit card bills, pay slips, going back as much as 14 years in some cases. So, chuck 'em. Less stuff to pack in boxes when it comes to moving in with Sarah. A bit of emo angsty stuff in there, some memories brought back - I'm amazed a coped in 1999/2000, to be honest. Actually, no, strike that - I don't think I did cope. AAAAARRGGGHHH

Also...I've got a tape of the BBC2 extended edition (40 minutes) of Boris Johnson's second go of hosting HIGNFY, back in 2003, but the quality is pretty iffy for the first 20 minutes or so, and then totally breaks up for the rest of it. So I thought, I'll use the really extended DVD version (about 90 minutes) to cobble together a clean version of the extended edition for my collection.

You'd think it'd be easy, but I've just spend 15 minutes putting together 30 seconds worth 'cos there's all manner of cutaways to cover edits, some of which I can just about match in iMovie, but really it's just not worth the effort, frankly. I hate Mykola Pawluk, or whoever was editing the show back in those days. [No, okay, I don't really hate people, but even so it's darned annoying...]

Of course, if anyone's got the broadcast extended edition and could make me a nice copy, I'd love them to bits eternally.

Now to have some dinner and watch Supernatural

Speaking of Supernatural, I notice from the Radio Times that season 4 starts airing on ITV2 next Sunday evening at 9:00pm.

It's good, nay great. But don't watch it. There's something much better on BBC3... (Points at userpic. Hint. Hint.)