Today after work we took a small diversion from the normal route to visit IKEA. A trip to IKEA normally costs us many hundreds of pounds, as we stumble upon numerous essential items of furniture and nic-naks, but today we were ok, and came away with nothing more than we were after. Which is nice.
I found it to be less engaging than normal. Often I can walk about and see lots of items worthy of purchase, but few were apparent today. I guess the store must have been running low on buying power magic today.
In long-running-gaming news, newly released patches are available for Civilization IV. I like that game. 
Also a new website is out for The Settlers: Rise Of An Empire, due out in September and awaited by people such as me.
And that’s that really. I have a week off work now. yee-haw!
