Night off

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I've decided that sometimes one must eschew sociability in favour of, well, time I suppose. So instead of going with Alex to see Archie off and chat to Lorna and Duncan I'll be going home after we've been to see a house* and settling down to a night in. This evening I need/want to

* Clean the kitchen
* Clean out/reorganise the stuff in the fridge
* Tidy up the rest of the BBQ/weekend detritus
* Eat
* Put on a non-delicates wash
* Write an email to Karen about Brownies
* Sort out this month's bills
* Write email to send to Kev; post it to committee here for comments before sending
* Create caption contacts database?
* Subscribe people to caption_announce
* Post to caption_announce - mention _discuss as well as soliciting for reports/photos
* Write entry about The Village
* archive my Caption 2004 email
* Make a styles plan for Beth
* Put away stuff from radiator/dryer
* Take out non-delicates wash, hang up
* Put on delicates wash
* Touch a bunch of requests in G/UNK and compile a review
* Hit up a couple of interesting requests in web
* Write entry about long term planning
* SO to see if I have enough for a comms review
* Reply to a tonne of comments/entries I should have replied to by now
* Do a review? I like the idea but feel kind of rusty, plus it depends what time it is by the time I get to here!
* Dig out notes on S2 embedding. Post them somewhere I can give people access to them
* Write helpscreening post offering to answer embedding questions (except ones about AIM profiles :) )
* Reorganise / clean out my user pics
* Hang out delicates wash
* Bath
* Get to bed by 11:00pm

Some of this stuff is pretty easy but some of it is going to take a while so I doubt that I'll get all the way through that list. Still, I'm determined to try really hard for the last two items.

I need to re-think how I plan my time I think. I don't tend to check LifeBalance when I'm at home so I don't get the benefit of that. Perhaps I should, although I think that I would have to re-jig the thing first. Still I need to do something to make sure that I don't just end up with one free evening a week in which I'm too knackered to do anything except watch crap TV, hang on IRC and do easy support requests. I can do this, I just have to be organised. I have a free weekend this weekend and I'm keeping it that way, damn it. So nobody organise anything exciting, OK?

I really should do that list with tags, but I can't be bothered, even though it makes my footnote ambiguous. Oh yeah, and while I'm adding random extra sentences, I note in news that all paid users are now in the FotoBilder beta - go forth, upload things, make suggestions in fotobilder_user. It'll be fun.

* Yes, Alex and I have found ourselves, by great good fortune, in a position to look at houses together. Which is very exciting and very scary. Wish me luck...

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I would add..

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Make sure that you have budgeted or insured for the following:
* interest rates doubling
* a few hundred pounds' worth of work doing on the house every year (plumbers, glaziers, carpenters, builders, central heating engineers etc)
* either or both of you losing your income
* changing the locks
* extra transport or accommodation costs should either of you have to take a job further away
* buildings insurance
* redecorating etc (even if the house you buy has had all its rot and so on beautifully painted over before you move in, it only takes a few years before stuff needs doing and then even if you take weeks off to do it yourself, just the tools and materials can cost hundreds and hundreds of pounds, so you have to save for it)