All the teams were testing in Bahrain this week. It's hard to tell who is the real pace-setter. BMW, McLaren and Ferrari have all been fastest at some point or another. For sure Honda, Renault and especially Red Bull look weak.

Yesterday MCLaren was comfortably fastest, Alonso a tenth up on Hamilton.

It's been a stressful week at work. A few weeks ago the mall management came up with their annual bullshit. This year it's a company-wide "corporate directive" (i.e some wanker trying to justify their job). I'm not sure what it's tryig to achieve as the jargon on the memo sent out doesn't really mean anything. What it boils down to for me is trashing a whole lot of displays which hold a LOT of jewelry, and trying to do the impossible which is relocate them without compromising the rest of the display. My answer to them was to relocate the entire business onto a larger kiosk. They were quite receptive to the idea, but I will find out next week if it is to go ahead (it'll cost $$$ of course). Hopefully it'll work out, otherwise I'll be getting a 30-day eviction notice, this after being a great tenant for the last 6 years; always paying rent on time and running a professional business. No loyalty in this business.

I failed to mention my attempt to cultivate a pineapple plant a few days ago. While we were in Hawaii we paid a visit to the Dole pineapple plantation. There we had a demonstration of how to use your pineapple to make a plant which nakes one fruit per year. HOORAY!

So my pineapple stork is at home sitting in water trying to grow roots so that I can pot it properly.

Fun and games, I am at work all day today. It is a nice day for it...mid 70's plenty of people around. I'm seeing a lot of tourists, and not a whole lot of them have any manners. Whats wrong with saying "please" when asking to see something eh? Wankers all of them...

I'm really excited about the new F1 season, more so than any time in the last 15 years! At last Michael has retired and a serious mix up of drivers/teams has taken place. Kimi in a Ferrari, Alonso in at Mclaren with rookie Lewis Hamilton, Heikki Kovalainen formerly test driver at Renault alongside Fizzy. Pre-season testing has given nothing away other than the fact that Mclaren and Ferrari are level pegging and the rest are there or thereabouts. I'd love to see Mclaren dominate, hopefully with Hamilton getting regular wins. It would be fantastis for the sport, thats for sure.

Race one prediction? Gimme 3 weeks to think about it.

This is Monty, our congo african grey. We've had him for a little over a year now (he was hatched in Sept 2005). His vocabulary is expanding week by week. He'll say "I'm Monty!", "Bad bad bird!", "I'm a bird!", "yeah I know", "hello mate!", "wanker wanker wanker", "Meoooow"....thats all I can think of right now...

 

We may have to take him to the vet. He seems to have caught the cough we all had in the last month..strange how he sounds like a human coughing...............

Bollocks, why does it show the weather in Seattle? All it ever does is rain there!

Gotta work at 3.30 so gettig a whole bunch of errands out of the way. We'll go down to the park at the beach in a bit (maybe I'll take a few pictures), then grab a bite for lunch....trying to get Alex out of the hamburger mould as last week I had food poisoning due, I think to a bad Wendy's burger..I was sick for 3 days. We'll do Subway or something.

I'm sure I'll have lots to do at work, after having 3 days off.

V-day was a good one! Anastasia bought me all my favorite chocolate: Flake, Twirl, Maltesers...and a big bag of twiglets mmmmmmmm

I left her gifts in her car (she leaves for work way before I wake up) flowers and a pink i-pod shuffle.

Took Alex to school (they had a V-day party too) then off to the barn. Rode both Carpe and Tyler, neither of which were particularly good. Tyler has come off a long lay-up so thats not surprising really. Back to school at 12.30 to pick up the little muggle.

Had a brief nap in the afternoon...nice to have a couple of days off!

Cal-O finals were tonight so I watched the EGN stream while listening to the Sunlit Games guys in Ventrillo. They won the first half but were rolled in the 2nd. Good season tho peeps!

Dinner was Indian take out. Our favorite Chicken tikka marsala, Vegetable biryani, samosa's and good naan. Yummmy!

Well here it is, my first blog entry. I am at work, 1 1/2 hours until I go home, horrible cold, hungry, tired. Looking forward to having a nice meal and chilling out in my own home.