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Got two new tyres on the car this morning, for less than I thought it would be.
Haven't achieved much else of any note. Maybe tomorrow.

Hey Jenn - this is the other pic I took at the same time (click for the fullsize version):

Does that help with the thinking?

When my radio came on this morning (towards helping wake me up), it was playing "This is London" (Don McGlashan - 1st track on Warm Hand), which was nice. Then, when it finished, Lloyd Scott says it was a mistake - he had meant to play "Miracle Sun" (second-to-last track on Warm Hand) - which though a great song is possibly better suited to later in the day, so (IMHO) not a bad mistake to make.

Damn, I just lost an aglet.

The weekend's bonus words:
( 28 in 13 games - okay I guess )

I'm enjoying "The Big Bang Theory" enough that I'm a little scared to look it up in case it got cancelled after half a season or something. There's at least one more episode though cos it's just started.

I popped into the optometrists again yesterday morning, and fortunately their competent staff member was there (she'd been away for two weeks). The right lenses still hadn't arrived, but she hunted out some more trial lenses (while I went off to leave a blood sample, so that I could then break my fast for the morning). She'll drop the proper lenses in my letterbox on her way home, once they finally arrive. When I got home and was fishing in my pocket for my door key, I pulled my hand out of my pocket, and there was a sticker on one of my fingers saying "left eye", and I thought "that's not right". Luckily the sticker saying "right eye" was still attached to the other trial lens (though I could probably have figured out which was which from the little numbers).

I'm not very happy with OPSM - or with the laboratory that produces contact lenses for them. It was a month ago that I went in to get the trial lenses checked, and they sent off the order at that point. I popped in on the weekend a week and a half after that (i.e. three weeks ago), on the off-chance that they'd come in, and they'd not phoned me. The left lenses had already arrived, but they were still waiting on the right ones (a more complicated prescription - the main reason contacts are so much better for me than glasses is that my eyes don't play well together, being one short and one long (plus different astigmatisms) - neither eye is impossibly bad, they're just too different to each other). I went in again a week ago - the guy looked the order up, said they should have arrived a week earlier, and left a note for the staff to ring the laboratory on Mon (when it was open again) (so, why hadn't they chased them up a week earlier?). I got a message on my mobile on Tue that they'd rung the lab, who had no trace of having had an order for my right lenses (despite having received and fulfilled the order for the left lenses...). So, OPSM cancelled the original order, and placed a new one, and told me that it would only be a few days. I haven't heard any more. I presume that when I go in tomorrow they won't have received them, and will have to wait until Mon to chase the lab up again. I'm guessing that I won't get my new contacts before I fly to Auckland in a week (and more to the point, then have to drive back).

We had Scrabble club tonight for the first time in a few weeks. My fave play of the night: I could have played RECEIPT(S) (the S had just been played on a centre triple), but there was also a D one below a corner triple, so (D)ECREPIT scored more, as it put the C on a double letter.