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Working at home today because I had a hospital appointment first thing and I have stuff due in today which otherwise won't get done. Back before Christmas, I admitted to myself that I must have the word 'Mug' tattooed on my forehead since I'd agreed to help manage one of the teams based where I'm located while they were in between permanent managers - we've appointed someone, fortunately someone internal so that should speed things up but HR have been buggering around and she hasn't got a start date yet.

In other news, when I went to the local shops yesterday from work I nearly stepped on someone's Yorkie. I swear, even with its bright Barbie pink coat on, it was smaller than one of my ferrets. Particularly Woody, who has piled on the pounds over the winter and is now quite portly. To his eternal unhappiness, I keep prodding the fat stomach just to check there's no lumps in there that shouldn't be, but I think it's just that he's a lardass. ;)

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This week's prompt from fannish5 got me thinking more than the ones about families and relationships and all that jazz: Name 5 things from science fiction's vision of the future that you wish you had now. These are things I feel that need little explanation... ;)

1. Robot servants (though clearly these need to observe Asimov's Laws of Robotics and not rise up and take over...).

2. Matter transporters.

3. Replicator units (the Trek variety).

4. Food pills (not all the time, but they'd be helpful as a standby for those days when you just can't be bothered...).

5. Personal biodomes.