I have a new mouse (a tiny little one which is great but takes getting used to), a new flash drive for work backups (because the other one vanished — this one is bright red, to make it harder to lose), a pretty new mousepad (unnecessary because the mouse is optical, but I don’t like the feel of a mouse skittering over varnished wood) and new ink cartridges for the fountain pen I found in my travel pencil case.

Maybe I should have bought a new keyboard as well, because this one appears to be freaking out, dropping chunks of words and repeating other letters, inserting spaces where letters should be and behaving in general as if it has been possessed. To paraphrase Blade, hardware that does not behave gets “resolved”. I’m going to go grab the cord keyboard from HRH’s desk downstairs again. And I might as well toss a load of laundry in while I’m down there.