Today was moving day – the first of several. Unfortunately, this will be interrupted by a conference in Cannes next week. Fortunately, there is sufficient overlap in rental periods to complete the process when I come back, thanks to us getting the key early. This will give me plenty of time to consider where exactly to put my enormous workbench, which currently resembles a twelve-year-old nerd’s bedroom.

Internet and TV are working nicely in the new place, courtesy of NTL, so I went to cancel the old contracts. Perlico gave me some lame excuse about having to wait 15 days for Eircom to unplug some equipment. By contrast, Sky were straight up about it – 30 days notice, read your T&Cs. That’s fine, as I have an entire season of 24 recorded on Sky+ that I haven’t watched. Time to test out the TV input on my dodgy media centre PC.*

Tonight will be the first night sleeping over in the new place. This should work out the teething problems. I’m getting up very early on Monday to catch a flight, so I wanted to make sure everything was up to speed when lying in the morning after was still an option. I’m not fussy – so long as it’s warm and dry and has internet I’ll survive. The other half is a little more particular however…

* It has a strange habit of locking up three times out of every four boots, but if it survives for an hour then you can be reasonably certain it will struggle on. I’m not sure if this is connected to the fact that it looks like it fell down the stairs. That’s what I get for buying ex-demonstration equipment.