Two parting thoughts for the night:

1. It is slightly off-putting when riding past a cemetery to hear 2 year old pop music playing without a car anywhere in the vicinity. Even more-so at 10.30 at night. It’s a good idea for a video-game perhaps? Zombie attacks always preceeded by old crappy pop muzak? Anyone? Really… it’s a great idea! Honest!!

2. I took a risk on the way home and travelled further along a bike-track than I had before. The risk was that the bike track intersected with another one I’d discovered a couple of weeks ago. The nice thing about this was that I was right, and thus had a main-road and traffic-free trip home.

Goodnight and good luck. Especially with PCs.

Okay, thanks to this article, the treo might just be syncing properly…

I deleted all the windows sync settings from the treo, and have paired the computer and the treo once again.

If this works, I might just call it a night. It’s only been 4 hours. All right, 3 and a half at this point (I arrived here at about 6.30pm).

Well, it kind-of works. There’s still more contacts on the Palm than on the PC.

The addressbook seems to have synced properly though, so that’s nice.

Screw it. It’s after 10pm. I’m going home.

Well, a post was just lost because Firefox suspiciously couldn’t connect to wordpress.

In my vanity I wondered if MS Fankiddies were performing a DoS attack on my blog.

No, it was just a glitch. Even the MS PC I’ve been working on could connect.

Now I’m in Safari.

Oh well.

There has been progress; while the scan button on the officejet won’t work, and the officejet purpose-built software doesn’t work either, the MS Office scanner utility detects there’s a scanner connected (on the officejet multifunction) and will scan from the plate.

Good.

A minor mishap with multiple installations of the same printer, and a quick delete of the offending party later, and the printer worked fine.

Even when connected to the PC via a USB hub.

Similarly, suddenly the HP laserjet 5L will now print.

It looks very like the ultimate issue was MS all along: Service Pack Two in fact (though why HP didn’t issue an update to their drivers and software is beyond me; but I’ll let it go for now).

Now I have a new quest: get the palm treo to sync with addressbook.Wish me luck.

Well it’s about time.

I’ve just finished a first-draft of a new DaisyDonnie story; story 5 of book 3.

It’s an idea I’ve had for some time, and I’ve finally worked-out how to assemble the ideas into a coherent whole.

It’s an odd story, one which could be interpreted as disjointed (and which will be helped by future edits).

The muse is back finally; thanks to a much calmer, relaxed atmosphere here at home.

Yes, I missed Bikram tonight, but I got some stuff done which I needed desparately to finish. Tomorrow a double. Easy.

I’ve got at least 5 more stories to write for book 2, and a dozen for book 3, but it could very well be a rush of writing over the next few weeks. I may have the same writers-block that Douglas Adams suffered from; hugely productive bouts of extreme creativity followed by dead-zones of silence.

The mind works strangely, and the ideas don’t come if you force them. They have to come naturally and in their own time.

Interestingly enough, I find the music of Muse gets my mind working, but it is quite frantic music and so the writing that comes out seems energised. I should listen to some Barry Adamson too (just bought his new album off of iTunes so should get it onto the iPod and take it to work…)

However, that’s something for tomorrow. It’s 9.30 and time for bed. Especially since I need to be up at 5.30 at the latest for Bikram. Hey ho…