So it appears I was slightly over-enthusiastic. It now seems likely that it was running as a Athlon 2200+ all along.
Oh well.

I also attempted to overclock my PC. Again. Don't bother. It didn't do much and I ended up wiping a bunch of DLLs, crippling Windows (although ironically Windows had no inkling that anything was wrong, and happily burbled on with its usual tasks while everything else silently failed in the background). For the first time ever I had to use System Restore, which thankfully I had turned on for some reason. It worked well. Three cheers for that.

So school ended, hooray. Mulled wine and mince pies, yay. Went bowling. I won. Natch.

Anyhow, my maw has had a Bad Back, so it was up to me to do some Christmas Shopping today. And what shopping I did. I wish I was getting a present from me.

For paw: a high quality, RRP £50-but-£20-off 4-CD box set of Acoustic Folk, with your Martin Carthy and Kathryn Tickell and Billy Bragg and Dave Swarbrick and the lovely Kate Rusby, and well yeah people you've never heard of but trust me, they're big names on the folk circuit.

For braw (who is now back from Cardiff): A extensive but bargainy poker kit thingy, with cards, chips, baize cloth thingy, etc. Poker is fun. But I must learn it.

For sistaw: some yoga kit. It's cool. It's pink. It has incense. How can it fail?

Furthermore: we all need to go see darling henner live at the Maddermarket. Organise something, Shaun.

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