Pining for the fjords?

Looks like chiark's deaded again ... anybody have any idea when they'll get it up (fnar fnar)? I need IRC to survive! 8-)

A brief odyssey

I woke up very slowly today, ( ... )

two different realities at once, ( ... )

hitting the high note ( ... )

resolve the reading ( ... )

stumbling explanations ( ... )

fidgeting and hairspray ( ... )

a clarinet teacher, and probably somebody's mother as well, ( ... )

odd pennies and tuppennies ( ... )

Wrack and ruin.
( ... )