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Right for some stupid reason I thought that maybe I should relearn Dvorak... you know it's not like I set myself up with enough stuff to learn, I thought I would add Dvorak to Lisp and Emacs (and all the other stuff I'm trying to pretend that one day I might come back too). Yay.

So after taking about 3 minutes j...(wow "j" is well freaking hidden down here between "k" and "q", I had to stop and print out a key guide just because the "j" key seemed to have gone missing... ARGH!!!!) just to stumble through the above paragraph (if you can call it that, I know it is quite short) I've already decided that I have to drop one, you know just for today. Bye bye Lisp, I will visit you again very soon. In the mean time I'm growing some really nice flowers that I'm sure you'll like as soon as they are ready.

Today I made a decent attempt to round my bank account down to the ever illustrious single figure territory, I was however thwarted by my banks cunning "limit" system, sneaky so-and-sos that they are. Despite my money problems I will shortly be the owner of the biggest and most comfortable bed in the shop :D ... for those of you that don't know I frequently suffer from stupid levels of Insomnia. Normally I just try to to spend my wakeful energy on something useful (even if it's just something that pretends to be useful like learning Lisp) but by the end of last week (uhm yesterday to be precise, but it feels like so much more time has passed), I felt like death, my blood pressure shot up and I think something exploded in my head because all I was able to do was lie on the couch in the fetal position holding my head and waiting for the axe that had cleaved my poor skull to gradually be removed.

This I blamed on lack of sleep, so on a spur of the moment decision I've at least made a nice little commission for the sales man at the store. Despite his commision I still can't wait till Monday night when it arrives.

After typing that tiny amount of text I've quite successfully used up all of my learning energy (as in learning Dvorak, not that you need reminding I'm sure as it probably hasn't taken you quite as insanely long to get to this point as it has me...) I set aside for today, and a whoping hour of my time and still haven't managed to write anything worthwhile... but maybe you disagree if you're still reading.

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I thought I would create a Blog just in case I suddenly had something to say. Plus I just noticed how stupidly easy it's suddenly become.

I just figured out how to make the singularly best seed raising planter pot "thing" ever. You take a toilet roll, the ones you were throwing out anyway, cut 6 tabs out of the bottom that are slightly longer than the radius of the roll and just kind of fold them in. Why is this so great? Because they are free, quick and easy to make and fairly environmentally friendly :)

Completely unrelated, I want to learn CLisp in the next few weeks, if I have any success I intend to document it here. Why would I want to learn a 50 year old language? Dunno, something different. But realistically so many really smart people keep telling me how much work they are doing in it and how good it is. Not the kind of "smart" people who like Java or Perl, but the ones who actually like things because it solves a problem in some unique and efficient way.