With the help of a friend and a credit card I finally paid off my tax debt, hooray! So although I’m still in debt, it’s now just the usual sort of debt, rather than the ugly taxation variety. Such a stupendous waste of money– about half of it was accumulated interest.

Weirdly I received a cheque from my electricity company the same day for $310! It seems that everyone on their network gets a dividend when they make a profit, so that was a welcome surprise.

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I went and saw Talladega Nights recently, and thought it wasn’t too bad, especially Sacha Baron Cohen as the gay French antagonist. His Fronch Oxunt is fabulously awful–almost as though he went out of his way to avoid learning it.

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My laptop computer became very unstable and so I decided it was time to reinstall the OS, always a great way to waste a Sunday. The most hair-raising part of this endeavour was that since I’ve become more security conscious I’ve been using NTFS encrypted file system, meaning I had to work out how to export my security certificates so I could still access the data when I set up a new account. This article was particularly helpful, and now I feel much more confident in my ability to rescue my files from encrypted volumes should the need arise.

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I’ve also been hit with the flu (which totally sucks when you live alone), so I’m feeling pretty damn crappy at the moment, and am looking forward to climbing into bed very shortly to watch some downloaded TV on my newly invigorated laptop.