The seasonal hard disc crash. Shut down. Bed. & weather the aches.

Voices from the radio rise and fall in time with intermittent consciousness: Pru Leith's confessions merging with Chinese tigers and Louis de Bernieres campaigning for divorced fathers' access to their kids.

The grit of time. Sounds of an empty house. Cat flaps, car ignition, the post falling through the door.

A pervading sense of purposelessness. Why bother? Everything seems tainted. Electrical buzz behind the eyes. A jaundiced day.

Wipe.

Reboot.