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My water heater blew up yesterday evening. Properly blew up. Massive expensive-sounding pop. Smoke and shit. The offensive industrial odour of greasy, burning plastic. A combination of circumstances that makes you mutter a random selection of coprolalia (aka Tourettes) inspired swear words. I'd imagine that if you set fire to a pyre made of bodily-effluent infused mattress, a pile of rotting leaves, rusty coat hangers and dead hedgehogs it would probably smell the same. Aside from that, I knew the boiler was on the blink, I've had freezing fucking cold water for 2 days now and even though it's summer and 30 degrees, unheated water from the shower head is still like waters fresh from the fucking Arctic,....cockmunching dickwhistles.  I called a boiler engineer last night, but got no answer. Today I managed to get one, coming tomorrow. I can already guess that it's going to be expensive. Cold showers are not actually that bad in the morning. There's some pseud...

Greetings esteemed avid readers! Apologies it has been so long for an update, I have been on the Trans-Siberian Express across Russia, and haven't had reliable access to the Intarwebz and now am in China, the home of the GFWoC aka the Great Firewall of China (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall_of_China), which blocks most things related to Google, the word "blog", the word "proxy", the word "Python 2.6.4" and anything else that I deem to be useful or helpful. So updates to this blog have been very scarce. My apologies again. Today I have found a reliable-ish proxy (I keep getting a "The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading" message every now and then though. It's been a while since I wrote anything, but have been keeping a diary of events that have occurred. Here are a few entries. I also made a video diary of Russia, however, due to the GFWoC, access to YouTube is prohibited and uploading them through a pr...