Dear Master,

Your slave woke up around midnight, after sleeping from about 10:30 to then. And found Your print job being mangled by the printer (specifically, a paper jam, as per usual). Your slave then attempted to resolve the issue as much as possible, but a total of 4 sheets of paper were crunched by improper application of feeder rollers, and then Windows 2000 wouldn't restart the job... forcing a stop and restart of the Print Spooler process, which restarted the printing from the beginning. Ah, well. Your slave didn't want to wake You up with what is really such a petty detail, so allowed You to sleep. Wonders if this was an appropriate choice?

It's the beginning of the first full day of Your slave's new life. Amazingly, nothing really looks all that different (the things that do look different do so because of the tail-end of the effect from the 25-year-aged whisky Your slave had at dinner last night -- thank You, again, my Master). Nothing really feels all that different. Your slave came to peace with the idea while he was writing the contract... and it's absolutely fucking amazing, if Your slave may say so, just how different he feels from even a month ago. (Or even a -week- ago, though we were well on our way at that point in any case.) (Hell, even three days ago, looking in my back entries.)

Your slave is noticing that the printer seems to work better when the paper isn't stacked very full in the input tray, like there's something wrong with the rollers when they're at high-extension. Just an odd aside.

Your slave is feeling very much awake at the current moment -- damned Circadian rhythm. So, he will probably be heading back to his house (funny, 'home' is Your apartment, for some reason) this evening/morning to see if things have arrived properly.

Your slave also evidently took off the stallion guard sometime this evening, while he wasn't aware... when he woke up, he found it sitting next to his pillow.

*sighs softly* my Master, Your slave is wishing that he didn't have all these other obligations to take care of. Not that Your slave can do anything about it immediately... but it's something that Your slave is looking at as being a possible problem.

Your slave loves You, my Master.

-Mat