Day 900

Dark damp morning. Went to the library, then to sign on: the queue was enormous, I was 20 or 30 numbers behind. One of the top women came out and made a speech of apology. Everyone listened sullenly.

About 2.30pm M rang up, temporarily back, and invited me round. This echo of past days was contrasted by the revelation, that she's engaged! To A! With engagement presents and everything! And they're getting a house together! And they'll probably get married next year! She is the first of my friends to. What surer sign can there be that after three years of the Univ. of Life there are fundamental changes in our world?

She was very impressed by my INT 10 EGA Mono TSR. Later she came round here and took away a copy of the DOS Scan stuff, strictly for testing purposes, to see if it crashed her computer and (identical) scanner. And if Logitech do me for unauthorised distribution I'll have them for Trades Descriptions for the misleading scanner box. So there.

In the evening watched Harry Hill's latest short; live-action Punch & Judy and very funny. (Chucks away baby, cut to rabbi and nun sadly leaving infertility clinic. Baby drops into her arms).

Enjoyed reading On The Road again: the grand landscapes and the correspondingly futile lives of most of the people, failed assignations, failed marriages, aimless wandering, smoking butts from the ashtrays in grey dawns. A warning. There's got to be something more.