And we settle back into the routine that's the new normal for now. Everything seems to be going well with Mei, mum says she's still settling in quite well. Cordell's still there for a few more days before he has to go back on duty, but he's been leaving most of her care to Mum and Dad. I was a bit annoyed to hear that to be honest, until Mum explained the reasoning why - he's got to go back on duty. He's going to be gone for long stretches of time, months at a time even. They don't want to traumatise her any more than she already has been by giving her someone else to latch on to, then having him disappear again. By getting her used to Mum being her primary caregiver, then at least she's got someone stable there for her. It makes sense when I think about it.

There's still no news on what happened to Daisy. The Magisters say they have some leads, but nothing concrete so they've been unwilling to provide any detail to us just yet.

Another batch of files for Lord-Captain Lord-Captain Drexor and the Kai-Ten Conglomerate came through a couple of days ago as well. I shouldn't really say more than that. This is my own private journal, and I certainly don't share it on the feed, but it would still be untoward to write anything much about the particulars of business dealings that I'm simply there to catalogue. There's a lot of hours of negotiations to type out and upload to the central cogitator, so once again that forms the bulk of my week's work. Once again, it's been really good to be able to just bury myself in these things. Even with zoning out through the typing, it's still keeping my mind occupied and off of my concerns.

I'm also pleased to note that my row seems to have settled out our error rate at 2.45 percent - that's the result of two weeks in a row. We'll see if it wavers any, but if we can maintain that as our long-term error rate, then I'll be very pleased with that, and I think Scribe-Master Warders is too. We're still by far the best and most consistent row on the floor, and rumour has it we may even be one of the best in the entire Office. We still have a bit to wait and maintain our performance before those results come out. Though with the way this year is passing, Ertrart will be on us before we even know it.

Oh! Small hive too. Malik Toten and I got to talking about scrumball in our break today. He told me that he used to play for his schola team down in thirty-third when I mentioned that I was catching up with some old buddies for a game in a couple of weeks. I remembered my schola playing against thirty-third more than a few times while I was there and asked when he played. He's a couple of years below me, but it turns out that we think we might have played in a few games together. It's hard to tell if you knew someone in schola scrumball, between the helmets and mouthguards and uniforms and all that. But we both remember a couple of the guys from each other's teams, and talking about a couple of the matches… If we're both thinking about the same game I might have dislocated his finger once. Thankfully he held no grudges over that. He says there's a couple of other guys who used to play in schola as well around the place, so we're considering whether we might see about rounding them up and make an unofficial five-a-side or something minor like that. Nothing official, just something we can get together once a week or so and kick and throw a ball around a bit and blow off some steam after a long week. It'll be good to get back into playing regularly too. I feel like I've packed on a few kilos since I started here, and even my regular jogs to and from the magrail stations aren't doing much to shift any of it.

Thought for the Day: Beware frivolity. Decadence begets decay.