Had a mixed day. I’m not at work for the week so I’ve been slowly slipping into bad habits of going to bed late and getting up late. Today I didn’t get up until 12 and felt fuzzy all day as a result. I meant to do some work and some reading but spent the day staring at a meaningless screen, not feeling like doing anything.

This evening I went somewhere which brightened up my day. I won’t say where as it might let a slight surprise out of the bag for the geek community (it’s not that exciting…), but it was a good evening and I really enjoyed kicking back afterwards and discussing a lot of stuff with people who understand both the content of what I’m saying and the angle I’m coming from (ie a sysadmin). It was really good to chew over some technical issues with people who understand. At work I’m the only sysadmin and so I don’t really have anyone else to chew these kind of things over with from the same perspective and at home nobody understands a word about what I do, so thanks guys, you know who you are 🙂

On a different note, I went snowboarding yesterday. Today I am full of aches and pains 🙂 It was great fun, I picked it up again pretty quickly after going on a snowboading holiday a few years back. They made the booking for the wrong day and in the rush to get there I forgot the paperwork, so it looked like we might be heading home without boarding at first, but they had another lesson which they could put us on, which lasted an hour longer than we had paid for at no extra charge so it worked out pretty well. I have a half day booked for another place at the end of the month so I should be up to Olympic standard in no time at all.

Going snowbarding has for some reason stopped my back aching, just that now my neck is aching from bouncing my creaking carcass around on the snow 😉 I feel like a small flower that has had the stem broken just below the flower head 🙂

Over and out. No doubt I will be up late again tomorrow…