I spent pretty much the whole day installing a strip light in the bathroom. There was a single bulb in there before, but it wasn’t really sufficient. It’s like daylight in there now. At the same time, I ran some cable to the back of the house and installed the old bulb from the bathroom there. It doesn’t really light up much yet, but once I get a decent bulb for it (Philips, screw-fit 3-prong 32watt thing), it should be enough to light up the immediate back garden. I put some heavier duty cable than the rest of the lights in the house, as eventually, I’ll mount the halogen floodlight there at the back, once I get a new halogen bulb, but that will wait for now. No real reason why it took me the whole day, except that I’m a slow worker. I’m satisfied that I did a good tidy job.

I bought a load of plastic pipe too, to run from the post-filtered water container, which is about 6m from the back of the house, into the back of the house to two taps in the bathroom. Until now, we periodically bring the hosepipe in and fill the bowl up next to the toilet. P’Chai came round to drill the two holes into the bathroom wall, but we didn’t have a decent drillbit that was long enoug, so we’ll have to do that in the morning. Hopefully, tomorrow the guy who is coming to dig the well will turn up, as P’Chai reckons there’s only about another week’s water left in the pond we draw up into the water filter.

Lots of little GNOME sysadmin jobs building up, but except for blogging this while I drink a brief cup of tea, I have to concentrate on client work, and leave that any distractions like that for the weekends. I’ve just checked my e-mail and one client has spelled out a requirement for a whole new feature, has told his clients to start using it in the morning, and I haven’t even started coding it up yet! It doesn’t look too bad, so I might have a basically usable patch and uploaded on a test site by the time I hit the sack in a few hours. Good thing is, that gives my boss back in the UK a chance to test it for 6-7 hours before he hits the sack, which gives me a 6-7 hour headstart on fixing any outstanding issues before the clients wake up and try using it. At least it’s paying work, and given my current financial state and my foreseeable requirements (e.g. bills paid, a half-decent computer to work with!) is a good thing.

I could just really do with another cup of tea…