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Went to bed early last night and didn’t sleep until about 5am. Not good. Going to bed early tonight and no watching tv on the laptop. Just a nice warm bath, then a read (am reading Tangled Web by Lee Rowan and thoroughly enjoying it) then SLEEP. My trouble is that i’m at my tiredest from about six (e.g. now)pm to 11pm – after 11pm I’m WIDE awake and ready to party until about 5am… They say it’s because of when one was born, but I don’t know if that’s scientific at all. I was born at midnight.

Heavy Rain continues to horrify and enthral. It’s so intense I can only bear to play it for about half an hour at a time. Yesterday, for reasons that are too complicated to explain, I had to make my character cut off part of one of his fingers. This is all done with the controller like the Wii so you use the controller like the knife, bringing it down hard at the appointed time. I had a choice NOT to cut his finger off, but as I’d failed two of the tasks up to that point, I thought I’d better win one of them. There was much screaming. I mean, you put your character through a lot with games, but usually you are the protagonist, not the victim. Next time I’ll choose not to cut his finger off and see what changes. There are many different endings, and going by the crappy way I’ve played so far, I don’t see anything positive coming out of it.

Muffled Drum is moving along, hit 8k words today, it seems to be running very smoothly, which is wonderful – nothings run quite this smoothly since Hard & Fast. Goodness. Don’t tell me I’ve got the work-life balance sorted out?

Dad suggests we sell both houses and buy another. Needs thinking about.