A handful of unconnected events

[sawyl]

Short on inspiration, I'm dusting off hackneyed favourite: five random things make a post.

1. decided to make good on my idea of a replacing my hand-crufted parser with a bit of lex, dusted off my old copy of Lex & Yacc and managed to knock up something far superior to my original version;
2. got in late this morning because there wasn't supposed to be any mains power until 8am, but none of the people in before me noticed that it had happened so I'm not sure whether it went ahead or not;
3. I remember hearing an announcement about a fire alarm test, but I don't remember hearing either the test or the all clear — either it didn't happen or I was in such a fugue state, I missed it;
4. I've been thinking back to 2007 and Japanese export problems: when I put off going away pending a particular piece of work, the work got delayed due to a problem getting the right paperwork from the Trade Ministry, I went away anyway and the work happened in the middle of my time in Greece and I ended up fielding questions over the phone from the middle of nowhere.
5. my lift left early today, so I did too. I spent the extra hour this gave me pottering around town and enjoying the summery weather.

And that's me done...