Busy-ish day. This morning I prepped a chunk o' lamb and set it cooking in the crock pot. Then we drove out to the farmer's market in Raleigh. But it was too frikkin cold to wanna spend much time walking around looking at plants so we bailed on that pretty quickly. Since it was raining on and off all afternoon (see previous sentence for mention of frikkin coldness of day as well) I decided to work on a couple of indoor projects. Replaced the hideous light fixture in the odd square space that connects all the other rooms. That was a snap. I also removed the hateful ceiling fan in the dining room and replaced it with a nice hanging light fixture from Ikea. That was much less of a snap but positive results were finally achieved without too much wailing and gnashing of teeth. Somewhere in the middle of that I went over to the XDU all DJ meeting. Which was fine. A bit on the boring and routine side but I much prefer those to the ranting and hostile ones. I actually left after an hour, during the discussion of the finer points of trash removal.