16 hour days are no fun. Zzzz

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I’m back! But I’m knackered.. ended up working 2 out of my 4 rest days, and it’s back to do it all again for another full week now. Night night, post soon!

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I’m cat-sitting for a friend over the weekend, so as of this post until Tuesday, things may be a bit quiet around here. I’m not sure if $friend has internet access or not… guess I should have found that out before I agreed to do it really. Dumb!
Rest-assured I’ll be enjoying the peace and quiet, [...]

I just got a letter from my bank offering me a £25,000 loan. Pre-approved, guaranteed to be in my account within 60 minutes.
Damn.

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The Avia Journey was in danger of floating completely off-topic thanks to my love of photography. Rather than dilute the content here any further, I’ve started another blog called ‘Sussex in Focus‘.
There will be a new photograph every single day, taken by me, and the only constraints on me are that the picture must have [...]

There are hundreds of thousands of different styles of house, but they boil down to a few generic design types. Detached, semi, terraced, end-terrace, flat/apartment or bungalow. I readily acknowledge that as a first-time buyer my options are somewhat limited by price, and I’ll go with that. But from shopping around on the various property [...]

Another painless experience from Automattic. Thanks guys. An added bonus – all my plugins still work. Horray!

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You may recall in May I was the very happy recipient of a Western Digital MyBook Mirror Edition. This USB 2.0 device contains 2x 1TB Western Digital Green drives, in a delightfully styled ‘book shelf’ case. Now that I’ve been using it for a month or so, it’s time for a review!
Ignoring the initial ordering disaster, this [...]

Regular visitors will know the hell I’ve been experiencing with my digital satellite reception lately. An engineer from Sky has finally attended today. He arrived at 15:45 with no phone call, despite the promise he’d ring on the day to give some idea of when he’d be here. Irritation point 1.
To his credit, he [...]

Last year I received a call out of the blue from my current cell phone provider (Three UK), with an existing customer only offer of half-price mobile broadband. For £5.00 a month I’d get 1GB inclusive transfer each month, and a free USB modem, for the life of both contracts. Excellent!
What turned out to [...]