I created Category42 (or at least gave it its new name) a few days ago with the idea that I’d start posting in it more. Then I got busy, so I didn’t. One thing that’s been taking up quite a bit of time lately is Freshly Green, where I am officially the “Managing News Director”. Now don’t get me wrong, it’s not eating up vast amounts of time, but still an hour spent there is an hour I’m not blogging here.

Not that I would be likely to spend much time blogging here as I currently spend on preparing and/or posting stories for FG. But time can only be used once.

Today I’ve also been busy with things of a more physically practical nature, which is why I started writing this post this morning and have now updated the timestamp for the third time. My boiler has been acting up, or rather acting down; which is to say it has not been producing hot water. So I had a repairman in today who looked at it, concluded that the thermostat was broken and that the part was no longer in supply, and the upshot is that I’m getting a new boiler tomorrow morning.

I’m looking forward to it already, because among other things it will enable me to shower again. I can keep clean pretty well with just cold water, but a cold shower just doesn’t have the same relaxing effect as a hot one.