Fin's home and all is well.

I got to bed early last night, although I was woken up happily at about 2330 by Firinel phoning to tell me zie loves me, and again at 0800 by Sharon to tell me she was ill and couldn't drive Riordon and me anywhere. I had a weird dream about being in my parents' house at home in England, and they had bought several new dogs, which lived in the room where their grapevine is (*) and I discovered I had the ability to talk to them and understand what they said; one of them was telling me about doggy class war and the need to rise up against humans, or something like that. It was odd.
(*) They have a room in their house (the house I grew up in) where the whole ceiling is a grapevine. Its root is in the earth just outside, and there's a hole in the wall where it comes through, and then it grows right up overhead, filling the top of the room. In late summer you can walk into there, amidst all the greenery around your eyes, and pick big bunches of grapes from above your head. The humidity when you open the door is like suddenly walking into Arizona.
Rio and I spent the rest of the day hanging out together. When I wasn't doing housework, we went and played on the swings and talked and stuff. While I was doing housework, she borrowed my computer and played around. I want to thank whoever put fast-user-switch-applet into the standard distribution: Rio can easily choose her name off the menu and log in as herself and work with GNOME quite happily. I also want to thank whoever it was who invented Gnibbles. She is crazy about that game. Thank you so much!
At about 1500, Smreigner turned up wanting to buy us ice-cream. She drove us to the shop and bought me a coffee and almond cone, and shared another one with Rio. That was very happy. We are lucky people.
Firinel came back from zir adventure at about 2130; it was good to see zir again after a couple of days away! And it was good to see Floatyfish and Onib too. They had brought back a lot of artwork (and some crème brûlée) from seeing Misinsatiable.
For those not on my friends list: the local bowling alley are sending out fliers saying SAY NO TO DRUGS! SAY YES TO BOWLING!. Also, I made an icon the other day and wasn't sure whether using religious imagery at the start would upset people. However, after an RC friend had said he hadn't burst out laughing like that in a while, I figured it was probably okay to share. Feel free to gank, repost, or what have you. It should work as a LJ usericon.
I forgot to mention that I actually had the machine phosphor in the rack and ready to go the other day, when I turned it on and it made the click of death. Both hard drives are buggered, so there's no way I can colo it just yet; it's living under my desk until I can find it a new HD and do a reinstall.
Maybe we will go and see SoaP with Onib before it ends its run. It's been a while since I saw a film in the cinema.
I am thinking I might work on error trapping in metacity next, which is interesting because I know nearly nothing about it.