To do list: follow-up to a freelance photo-feature (that was fun), start on another, use car to help friends who don't have one, get the hell out of car and start cycling, apply for job in NZ, apply for job in Sydney, put Emma's stuff on the web, harrass people for stuff they haven't done for me, follow-up to a follow-up of a follow-up about some more freelancing, clean the house, go away for the weekend. This is why I prefer "go to work for the week, then go away for the weekend".

Those Godfather movies were an experience. The first one was pure genius, but Godfather part II is just too long, with too many unnecessary scenes. The intense moments that marked the first movie are spread too thin in the second. First time I've watched a DVD that didn't fit on one disc.

One of those long-lost cheques from a publisher arrived yesterday, enabling me to pay some bills, eat some food and break my DVD-hiring drought. The conditions: they must be movies I wish I'd seen, and they must fit an advertised $14 offer for two overnighters and three weeklies out at once. So last night it was The Pianist and Far From Heaven. Later this week it's The Godfather Parts I and II (yes I've never seen them) and, um, Amelie.

They revamped the interface and I was incommunicado. Back with a vengeance.