Fingers crossed

I'm just about to head off to make my weekly pilgrimage to my flat. According to rumour (I'm not sure what else you might call it), the tiler will there, actually putting up tiles. I'm slightly sceptical, having failed to lay eyes on this near mythical creature several times in the past, but hope springs eternal. On the other hand, my attempts to decorate the living room and bedroom seem to have stalled rather badly. The decorator recommended that several walls be skimmed before decorating, in order to smooth out the various bumps and kinks they've accumulated over the years. This should have happened last week, but the plasterer, whose task it is, but his wife was taken ill and he's been tending to her. He might be able to start again this week, then again he might not, but I bear him no ill will anyway. Certainty cannot stand in the face of my flat.

Apologies for my non-entry last night, by the way. I wasn't wholly absent, rather I was tending to my blog in an attempt to get the tooltips to display for browsers such as Firefox which don't display them by default - now my linky pithiness is there for all to see. Gaze upon my works ye mighty and despair. It's all done through the magic of Javascript. IE and Firefox users, should see a natty fade in/out effect on the tooltips, Opera users won't, and Safari users may or may not - the documentation I've seen on it's opacity settings was a little vague - let me know if it doesn't work and I'm sure I can sort it out.