I have a chest cold. Some way of spending my 3 days off. BLAH!

Have been taking loads of vitamins and drinking fruit shakes to get my defenses up but to no avail. Hopefully this'll be a short one.

I've been at work all day. It's very misty here, kinda eerie. Looking forward to being at home with a cup of tea.

I've been toying with going to the UK for a visit in March, just for a week. I'm just not sure I can justify it. I'd like to go to visit my friends, it's been so long since I have seen Mike, Lloyd, Rick and co, not to mention met their families! Since I left 12 years ago Mike has gotten married and had 2 children with his wife and Rick and his girlfriend have had 3 kids! Seems like an eternity ago that I was in college. 16 years have gone by in fact which is a lonnggg time.

So how to justify going to the UK instead of Hawaii?

Mmmmmm hard to say........................

Either way We'll be going to St.John in the Fall. My mother in law has a timeshare there. We're all heading out there for a week. Hooray!

I turned 37 on Tuesday (cue fanfare). Had a really nice day: Rode our horse Howie in the morning. It had rained all weekend so only the indorr arena was open. Was a decent ride even though Howie was a little high..thats the thoroughbred in him. Afterwards Anastasia and I drove up to Valley View casino for lunch. The buffet there is outstanding Such great food, always very fresh, beautifully prepared and displayed. I had salmon with a mango salsa, chinese ribs, spuds, carrots, beef stew, spanish rice..yes all piled on one plate!!!! bloody great. For dessert Tirimisu with fresh strawberries, raspberries caramelised banana's and whipped cream. Wonderful. Indian casino's are funny places. I swear we were the only couple there under 50 years of age. Amazing to see the obesity there too. I saw one woman with 2 plates piled high. She must have weighed in at over 350lbs (thats about 25 stone).

Afterwards we drove home, picked up Alex from school and vegged for most of the afternoon.

One thing I love to do is tinker with computers. I've built 3 in the last few yearsboth for myself and my brother. Anyway the other week I did a major upgrade to my gaming PC: a new motherboard and cpu/memory. The cpu is a Intel Core2Duo E6750. Pretty good upgrade from my old AMD 4000+. So I had time toi kill this afternoon and figured it would be a good idea to scavenge all the parts I had laying around to make a PC for Alex. I had purposely not touched the HDD from before my upgrade just in case something went wrong in my new build, and now used that for the scavenged system as it "should" boot right up with the original mobo/cpu combo. The only new parts were basically the DVD drive, Power supply, video card and Case, all of which Winblows could deal with, without me having to reinstall the OS.

Anyway to cut a long story short, after 20 mins of screwing things together it booted up perfectly.

Now Alex has a shit hot system (AMD 4000+, 2 gig RAM, 7800 GTOC video) just to play MS paint and online games at NickJr. SWEET!

Ate way too much at lunch so skipped dinner (okokk I did eat a whole lot of chocolate A. gave me for my bday very good stuff!)

I've not blogged in a few months. Have been way too busy and unmotivated to make any entries to be honest. I don't know how Mike manages to do this every day. I promise myself that I will do it but then months go by with no entries.

OK Buckle down to it Woody!!!