Major, major relief- after getting very annoyed with the digital TV receiver, I called the technical support line and it turns out that it’s a software problem that mainly happenned because I pressed the wrong button. The receiver is back to its old self, and I no longer have to panic about using the phrase “And now, there’s the bad news…” when Dad gets back.

I’m also staring at the novel and trying to fit a certain amount of exposition into a certain amount of space. I really really need to get chapters 7-9 right, otherwise I’m not going to have a decent foundation to build the rest of the novel on.