An update

So! An update! I haven't updated for a while-- did you miss me?
I want to start by thanking Havoc, who dug up the answer to our JavaScript problems earlier this week. It now works beautifully. I also want to thank sil, who told us about a bunch of interesting JS libraries to look into: I've played with a bunch now, and I think I like mochikit the best of all I've seen, so we might be basing work on that in future. (It does faze me slightly because its name means "piggy kit" in Welsh, so I'm always finding myself imagining some sort of set of tools a vet would take to farm emergencies.)
I learned the other day that if you tell an American that something does exactly what it says on the tin, they will say "What tin?" It's funny how hard it is to realise that certain words and phrases don't exist in other dialects.
I am wondering whether, when people say, "Do you have the Internet at home?", I should reply, "Yes indeed: MAE West is actually in my bathroom." Probably not.
Firinel has been away visiting Floatyfish, Onib, and Misinsatiable, so I've been alone for 23 hours, for the first time in ages. It's funny, but I don't really seem to exist much outside community: I didn't really know what to do with myself. I bought orange chicken, ate about a third of it, worked on some metacity bugs, and then slept for twelve hours, woke up and had breakfast, slept for two hours, woke up and read email, slept for two hours, ate another third of the chicken... Riordon came home at around five, so I have someone to share the house with. I'm cooking tea for her now: we're having fishsticks and cheesy rice.