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Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:50:38 +0000

Yes, it's time to round things up again.

• skating having not got significantly more comfortable in the past few weeks, finally I went to see a physio this afternoon. We think I actually have two leg injuries, though they're both in the same place. One's an adductor and the other is a hip flexor. Got variously prodded and pummelled, have another appointment on Friday for a sports massage and (I hope) some useful exercises I can do at home.

• I have all the bits (I think) necessary to finish putting my old bike together again, but haven't actually done it. Cleaned and regreased rear axle (with no play in it this time), fitted new cassette, got as far as deciding the next step was to fit the mudguards and rack, and am having a surprising amount of struggle to get bolts into the rack eyelets on the frame: the threads on the eyelets are full of Incredibly Hard Paint. After destroying an M5/0.8 tap (a cheap and nasty one, thobut) I have temporarily lost interest again.

• work has mostly been about javascript and CSS: sorting out new stuff in the site's administrative pages, where I can simply mandate that the users will all use Firefox and need not worry about IE weirdness or version 4 browsers. My favourite javascript/dom/stuff site remains www.quirksmode.org

• Tower Hamlets admit I overpaid slightly over 110 quid for council tax before moving out, but have only sent me 35, keeping back 75 on some unexplained "charges". Unless I hear from them soon it will be time for another stern letter (it's not the principle of the thing, it's the money)

• last notable cycling: a week ago on Saturday, very wet and windy 50 miles in Essex - would have been 75 miles, but that's how wet it was.

• last skating: the Santa Skate no weeks ago on Saturday, where I thought I found that my adductor was apparently not as bad as it had been (different story once the alcohol wore off, though :-( ) then slowly and gently marshalling the Stroll on Sunday.