Quite briefly:
I fixed both the utf-8 bug and the trailing zero bug yesterday.
On the train I fixed up the BBC Micro emulator so that keyboard input is now almost as good as it'll need to be. (There are still some things like keymappings that need doing eventually.) I'm planning to use this to help teach Rio programming.
When I got home, there was a huge thunderstorm, which caused a power cut. We went to the diner in the hope that it would come back on, but when we came home it was still off. So we went to bed in the dark, but sometime overnight it came back on.
I'm feeling pretty dreadful this morning: headachey and feverish. I thought when I woke up that it was just that I'd slept badly, but I'm still feeling that way.
