Whilst fighting off one of the worst colds I have ever had (not man flu, I swear!) I have also been the busiest ever. Just finished servicing and repairing a midi hifi system for a neighbour (for payment he told me to keep it) I have built a small desktop PC for my mother, done another full service on the Community Centre's PCs, benchtested all the components in the "unsure of working condition" box, sold a load of books on eBay and Im still up alll night till 6am with the baby (determined...

Whenever I get mad, unhappy or bored with the world, I come to The Forum and it all just disappears. Im not sure whether its helping others, or just using the machine itself. I can always rely on being here to take the tension away.

ebackhus, mcninja and I seem to be the only ones blogging at the moment. When I go to the blog main page, all I see is a sea of green heads from my blogs and replies. Why is no-one else doing this? Bit disappointing really, my first real blog of any description feels wrong, cos Im the only one doing it!
Come on folks, I'd say regardless of how mundane your existance is, there is always something to write about!

Granny has taken the baby, cos me and the missus are close to killing eachother from lack of sleep/headaches/stress.
It was supposed to be a night off, but ended up getting called out to replace a power supply that decided to catch aflame. Got back to find her asleep and the cat sat on her head. Quite comical. Wish I had got a picture of it.

What a day. It now seems as though my local community centre (for which I am the IT administrator) has been hit by lightning at some point before I started there. I was overhauling the machines today, after reports that none of them worked properly, to find that 3 out of 8 of them had fried graphics cards and 4 out of 8 had at least one bad stick of RAM. I then found that their servers motherboard had died too.
So anyway, I managed to cobble together 5 in the end, only to find the previous...