There was a surprising amount of bright and warm about today after the looming greyness of previous days. It led to my efforts of the morning in tidying my little flat up a bit rather more draining than I had expected. Still my cleaning efforts were greatly aided by the arrival of my lovely new vacuum cleaner. Heh, funny the things you can get excited about. Still, now my carpet to hair ratio has been greatly rebalanced back in the favour of carpet and I'm really quite pleased with the results overall. Though I am minded that, despite being small, my flat is a most awkward thing to hoover, being split in two as it is and with various awkward corners. I'm also reminded of just how little storage I have along with a surprising amount of stuff which remains elegantly piled in those awkward corners. I've never been a kind of beast to mind clutter though, and I'm quite satisfied with my new toy.

Meanwhile in other exciting news I recently discovered that Blizzard are well on the way towards making Diablo III! Woo! I've never really had the means to be that big a gamer really, but the Diablo series has for a long while been a particular favourite of mine. Hee. Judging by the the screenshots and videos on the website its looking quite pretty too. Heh, in 3D and everything! I can only wonder though how the storyline is going to go. How is the big red Diablo going to return after his soulstone was destroyed at the end of Diablo II, along with that of Mephisto and Baal? And what of the world of Sanctuary since Tyrael destroyed the worldstone? The trailer doesn't give much away, besides a large meteor and, obviously, swathes of monstrous demonic evils. I'm actually rather excited to find out, though whether I'll actually be able to play the game on this little machine of mine when it's finally released is something I sadly doubt. A little disappointed perhaps to see the place of the Druid class from Lord of Destruction seems to have been taken by that of a Witch Doctor. The Druid got to summon wolves. Want wolves! Heh.

Still, back to the real world and my kitty tending duties have been cut unexpectedly short as Mother and Robert have had to return early from their travels having been unable to find a cheap enough holiday deal, what with the fire in the Channel Tunnel and the collapse of airline XL and so forth. Good in some ways of course as it allows me more free time, but still I would have liked a bit longer looking after Ozaymandias and making use of the caravan's superior cooking and cleaning facilities. I still intend to go visit at the weekend though so I shall still be able to pet the animal some. Incidentally, I happened to take my camera with me on my last journey out to Ruswarp so I may shortly have one or two images of my route to share on these pages shortly, or possibly on Facebook perhaps.

In the meantime, I still await the arrival of Open University course materials for me to start working on. I do hope that I wont be falling too far behind. They have apparently received and are processing my application for financial assistance and are holding my place open on the course whilst that goes on. Guess I can but wait I suppose but it is a bit annoying. In the meantime work at the shop has been quite busy and active this week. Apparently too we also have a lot of very good gothic stock come in for Whitby Goth Weekend. I haven't as yet had the opportunity to get my eyes, let alone paws, upon it but I'm told there's a lot of good stuffs. Hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to see if there be anything that I might be able to snaffle away for myself before anyone else sees! Maybe I could yet have pictures of some spiffy new outfit to share with you all at somepoint.

Speaking of all these pretty things as this post seems to be I've also been pondering something of new look for my livejournal too. Particularly since my webstats thinger decided it wasn't going to let me play any more I thought I could rearrange a few things. Whether or not I'll ever get round to it though is another matter. In the meantime though I shall leave you with a lovely little picture of my brand new shiny toy! Heh, well if Wordsworth can seek to elevate the common spade to some kind of nobility I can get excited about my new vacuum cleaner! Hee, but ish pretty no?!