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The good news is, I've been unusually productive this month. Nothing special, but I've done a lot of things that need doing, like looking at houses, sorting finances, and tidying the kitchen.

I started with flylady, though couldn't stomach the emails after the first few days, but started with cleaning the sink fairly thoroughly, and then keeping it like that and working outward. When something is nearly good, it's a lot easier to wipe it over or tidy it away on a whim, than when there's a big pile that needs doing.

Also, there was the thoughts about the house, which just took over completely last week.

The bad news is that between houses and adventure games, last week those days at work where you don't really get anything done turned into every day.

The good news is, it only took one day of depression to break out of it, and start doing *something*, which I think is back on my way up. (Remind me to still be working in a couple of hours.)

The really good news is that my response to coming home depressed was to immediately start on little bits of housework to feel productive again. That's a useful adaption to have.

The further bad news is that I was way too tired after waking up at 8am lots of days, and grumpy and irritable in the Carlton :( But I think I cheered up since.

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Wow, I'm constantly getting out-raced, further and further behind the stick-figure geek comic market: xkcd has gone colour! I should really start :)

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What does the renaissance mean for magic in the church today?

By Father David. At the time this was written, he was estranged from the Roman Catholic Church and taken in by the Church of England, but he still maintained many close ties and saw the Catholic Church as his home.

From the fifteenth century a renaissance swept Europe. The church attracted great thinkers who tore down the old superstitions, in Christianity, in science, and in magic, and laid foundations of deeper understanding which we build on to this day.

But at the beginning the papacy was also convulsed with politics of squabbling Italian city states, and the dying of the remnants of the old empires, and revolted against some of the most radical thoughts.

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