Mum came around on Thursday, with the makings of a computer desk. Up until now, I’ve not had anywhere to comfortably work; where I could type while observing all those ergonomic Health and Safety guidelines. My only furniture consisted of a two-seater sofa and a couple of coffee tables, which ends up with me hunched over the keyboard like Quasimodo. Not good for sustained effort. That’s been my excuse for not doing anything during my enforced inactivity, along with depression – although quite frankly, there is only so long you can use depression as an excuse before you just have to do something. Or maybe that’s a sign of the depression lifting?

However, I now have a nice workstation in the corner of my second bedroom, which has been pretty much unused up until now. It came with a small computer surplus to Mum’s requirements, so I’m going to set that up as a dedicated work computer – no games or entertainments. Hopefully, if I have a place that’s only for work, I’ll actually do some from time to time. I have two NaNoWriMo efforts I could in theory make into actual novels, some script ideas, and a lot of stories in my head I’ve never written down. I’ve never had a designated “office” before; we’ll see if this helps. Although, if I’m serious about this, I may have to uninstall “Spider Solitaire”…

I’ve already written up a quick book review, of the books I’ve been reading this week; I may even do that on a regular basis.

Along with the computer desk, and about a month’s worth of food, Mum got me a couple of bird-feeding items. I’ve had them up for a few days now, and finally some birds have noticed the Energy Ball feeder. There’s at least two of them (I’ve seen them fighting over them), but I don’t know enough to identify their species. The seed feeder seems to have failed to attract anything just yet, though.

As my living room has a wall of window leading onto my balcony, I can sit back on my sofa and watch the goings on. I’m going to see if I can rig up a camera to get some good pics of them, but for the moment you’re just going to have to take my word for it.