the corner office

Yesterday didn't go too badly; far better than I expected. Quit spray tastes awful, but perhaps that's the point. It can best be described as 'Peppermint, with a really sif aftertaste.' That's probably the nicotine, and I think that goes a long way to re-inforce the anti-cigarette sentiment. It certainly helped the craving here & there, and the most important thing is not a single puff was had! As I write this, it's now nearly 36 hours since my last ciggie.

I was ratty as hell, though, as was Ronwen, but since we knew why we were ratty, the occasional little snarly sessions weren't too serious :-)

I got some home DIY going, in the form of building one of the crappy bookshelf kits I bought a while back. Needless to say, my first attempt wasn't successful, (kak wood that was warped, and splintered too often, kak workmanship with guider holes out of place) and rather ill-timed to co-incide with the first round of 'I wanna smoke' thoughts dive-bombing me. I soon admitted defeat, and Ronwen & I headed out to town a little later -- I invested in 2 extra pre-built bookshelves from Mistrys. When I got home, I decided to give the DIY bookshelf another bash, and managed to get it knocked together. Ugly but it'll do... I have an additional DIY bookshelf that I'm going to build as well, today. Net effect - I'm adding two extra bookshelves to our flat this weekend, and another two are arriving in the week! Where to put 'em, I'm not sure, but you can never have too many bookshelves, I say...

In town, I bought Lou Gerstner's 'Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?'. Rather an interesting read thus far.

Finally, we went out to dinner with L and A, since A's up from Durbs. Tried Cranks, a Thai/Vietnamese restaurant in Rosebank that everyone raves about. Well, I can now say I've tried Thai food, which is all I have to say about that.