My walk was the walk of a human child, but my heart was a tree.

I took a string of purple lights in to decorate our corral, and came home a little earlier than usual so that riordon, firinel and I could go out trick-or-treating. Sharon stayed at our house and gave out pretzels. It was also good to see mysterylodge, who came round and brought us some RAM. Today was a happy day.

Here are two things I don't understand, one a GNOME thing and one a Welsh thing. I would like it if people who knew about things told me what they thought:

a) massif tells me that this single line is responsible for 20% of the spacetime in FUSA.

layout = gtk_label_get_layout (GTK_LABEL (item->label));
pango_layout_get_pixel_size (layout, NULL, &height); /* ☜ this one */

The call to pango causes a call to freetype, which allocates a huge wad of memory, something like 5Mb. Looking at other programs which do something similar and don't have the same problem, I can't see anything that I should do differently. The line isn't even important, and I can easily remove it and save us mucho RAM, but does anyone have a clue as to why it happens?

b) My Welsh textbook asked me to translate "the middle of the road". Well, ffordd is feminine, right? So I wrote "canol y fordd". But the answers say "canol y ffordd". Am I missing something?

moominmuppet provides the alarming news that a court in Maryland this week has apparently declared that under the law as it stands, you can't withdraw consent during sex (and it be rape, though some say it would still be assault). If you live in Maryland, you might write to your representatives and ask them to do something about that.

I have had a mysterious ache in the back of my tongue for more than a week now. If it goes on for much more than a fortnight I will go and see the doctor about it.

Tomorrow, when I have more time, I will write a summary of October.

Now I am going to have a shower and get an early night, because I am hugely sleepy.