A very lazy day today, as I'm working the evening shift. Got up late and faffed around until lunchtime, then walked to the tram (rather than catching the train) and had a leisurely walk down Bourke Street before work. Visited a number of bookshops on the way, but didn't see anything I couldn't resist. Will have to get something soon as I've almost finished the Susan Cooper.

Today has been amazingly hot (32ºC) for the time of year, and still no decent rain. The good news is that there is rain forecast for the next few days -- let's hope it happens. The good thing about the weather is that the roses have decided to put on another show and the raspberries (autumn variety) are ripening beautifully. Still not very many at a time; tasty in small doses.

Ripped a few more CDs for the Zen ("not an iPod"), some PDQ Bach for fun this time. I seem to have put a huge number of CDs on the gadget, but so far I've used up barely a third of its storage space.

Spoke to BN last night -- she's off to Apollo Bay again on the weekend so I won't catch her this time around; perhaps next week. Am planning lunch with RR and dinner with GH tomorrow and will go to Mornington with Tat for the Gombert concert.