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...hearing this at the end of a NECROPOLIS:

However, Jayne and boyfriend are coming up in a fortnight and we're going to Club LED. Could be fun. I've bought a cheap black walking stick for the occasion.

As seen on  Sticky Comics:

Very thankful for a day at home today.

I had 4 days of going out and about this week and my leg's been hurting more and more every day.  Yesterday I returned an aerial booster/splitter to Dick Smith that was too good at its job (my set top boxes couldn't pick up anything after it was plugged in); a clamp-lamp to Big-W that used the wrong sized light globe (not one I had at home) and picked up my black & crimson cardigan that I'd left on the bus. I also traped around places checking out discount and other shops for the correct sized AV cables and lamps. I finally found them both in Bunnings, my last stop on the way home.

But, even though I was travelling light, it was pretty exhausting and I had to use the cane all day. Felt worn out by the time I got home, which thankfully was not so late in the day. Other than my morning dog-walk I haven't been out at all.Not fussed about doing webcomics or not. Just need to do stuff in a measured but non-stressful manner.

Some days all you want to do is clean up the house a little and watch TV.

Yesterday was such a mixed bag of stuff. The exhibition opening (photros later) was mostly good except for one person who wanted a "thumbnail drive copy of my artwort" (apparently for free). Otherwise I had a day of trekking about Newcastle. Went into town to discover the that computer shop I went to had closed a month ago. They had another shop in Kotara and I went there and the special deal I was looking at (a pre-built PC for $320) only came in a tower, not a desktop (awkward for my lounge room set-up) so maybe I won't get that as a replacement media PC. I did buy a whole bunch of stuff at K-Mart, but mostly small items like $3 wall clocks. Caught a couple of buses to Cardiff where I returned library stuff and then the next bus home. The day was also a library run where I was returning (and borrowing) stuff from 3 different library systems. Staggered home with a backpack full of stuff, but it really bore down on me and I had to use the walking stick most of the time.

And, I left my jacket on the bus (must have been tired). I'll need to phone the lost property at the depot and see if I can recover it. Has more sentimental value than anuthing else, but I have a light (wrong socket size) and an aerial booster (which boosts too much) that I need to return to different places as well. Gah. Would like to stay home but I know if I go out today I can stay home tomorrow.

...has been a very busy and exhausting period for me. Perhaps there's better to come soon.

I'm off to an exhibition opening at John Hunter Hospital tomorrow - I have some work in it! :D

...weighed down with a full trolley of shopping when this guy comes walking up my driveway with a clipboard. I told him "If you're here to sell me stuff you can piss off!". He replied he wasn't, he wanted to talk about Electricity" to which I replied that he wanted to sell me Electricity and I wasn't interested - he could just go away (which he did).

It annoys me that the power companies employ door-door sales tactics to sell theuir product. Not the first (or even the second) to come a knocking.