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I have a little time off coming up soon, will be off work from this Friday until the Wednesday. I think I need to plan to use this time productively, make the most of it for a change. So I think I am going to have a long walk on my own one day, go up or down the river to somewhere, take the camera with me, get loads of pictures. I may try and repeat the walk we did on Sunday, with a few detours along the way. I think I may have another day spent reading stuff I could do with getting through (I have a few O’Reilly geekbooks to read at the moment). And finally a day spent knocking items off my ever expanding todo list.

Right, that does now sound like a plan. Will be visiting my parents on the Friday and Saturday, which will be good, doubley good in fact as my sister and her hubby are over from France. Can’t wait to see everyone, has been too long. In fact, I better book my tickets for that right now.

Well the highlight of yesterday was a lengthy walk along the river. I had some new walking boots to try out, and try them out we did. Cold, but not freezing, and a couple of hours walking did us the power of good. As did the two hour snooze I had afterwards. Top way to spend a Sunday, on both counts.

We happened across this abandoned boat on the way out:

Which just looked lost and broken in something of a scary way. May go back there sometime to get photos on my proper camera (that was taken with my mobile).

Well, I seem more organised. I create this illusion through the use of Yahoo Calendar, which I now sync through Outlook to my phone. Has a todo list, which is my key to getting my life in order at the moment. I really must keep it up, as it really does help, and I feel more sane and less chaotic with that working for me.

This has got me reading more, both geek books, literature and books on video games. I am presently reading Power Up, which is a great book covering both the history of games, and some dissection of how they can be perceived. Interesting for me at least.

Need to work harder on losing some weight and stopping smoking. Want to get those sorted out really. Saving is going alright, money is a bit saner now we are through Christmas. I could really do with getting some of the junk I have onto ebay, get some dosh towards the things I want to save for, and get rid of stuff that well, I need to get rid off. We really do need the space for one!

So thus far, got some things organised, can do better.

Partly because it was, nearly six weeks ago. Feel slightly more solvent now, which is no bad thing. Good weekend due to it, quiet one with a little drink out at the start of it with mrsfb on Friday, and plenty of junk tv, then a double night out on Saturday, my departments christmas do (don’t ask) and a friend of mrsfb’s birthday drinks. Just about fitted it all in, wasn’t sure if we would quite survive it all, but we got there, manfully (and womanfully of course)

Finished reading a geek book. Read some more Vernon God Little. Re-cabled the pc. Tidied up all the stuff that had fallen down the back of the pc. Helped someone set up a blog. Set up my new mobile properly. Sorted out some little jobs too. Not a bad evenings work really.

New mobile is well good. Nokia 6630, does video calling, which would be great if I knew anyone else with it. Does do photos and lots of online stuff well, which is all good. May well end up using the Flickr account (which is what provides the photos on the right-hand side of the blog) a bit more now I can take photos that don’t look anywhere near as blurred.

Didn’t necessarily achieve much this weekend. Did tidy up our place some, manage a long walk, but mainly about relaxing. Which is good. I think my main aim for this week is to get back on with some reading. Have started the first Vernon God Little book (okay, the only one thus far) and have enjoyed it, but need to get into it a bit more. May set up on the sofa tonight and plough through it. Have managed quite well last week at getting into my tech books, but need some balance to keep me vaguely sane.