Day 953

Very warm for November. Went into town in the morning to the library; found a book with undocumented DOS stuff and also (by instinct?) one with the PCX file format! At last! Got the new Dragon too, quite a good one with plenty of dungeon stuff. Spent all morning getting the PCX stuff working. Very good, quite fast even in Pascal.

Listening to the R5 phone-in a call came through from someone who turned out to be the bloke who had the bookstall in the square at uni. He was talking about the need for alcohol education. I must mention it in the letter to T. Oh, what a great life she has... romantic interest, a job, partying every night and 14 grand a year to piss away.

But I suppose (so long as you've got a few basic wants fulfilled - shelter, heat, food, wine, baccy) being poor is good for the soul. Like a material diet. I wouldn't want to be genuinely poor though. Luckily I've got a few things left from more prosperous times.