Hi... I'm new here... well, I haven't posted for over a week!

Well, my new blogworthy future didn't last long, did it?

Too little time, too much work, study and family... but work pays the bills (plus I enjoy it in a masochistic way), I enjoy study (seriously enjoy it) and I thoroughly enjoy quality time with family.

Last week was meant to be study, study, study... yet, even with a full week, I still got nowhere near enough done. I ended up revisiting a lot of the stuff I did ealrier in the week towards the end of the week because it just wasn't sinking in. Ouch! I have told others the best way to study is a couple of hours max per day, and I should stick to that myself. So I am going to.

I am currently wading through the MS Training Kit for 70-640. I have already worked my way through it, but I am now studying for 70-642 and wanted to rebuild/install my lab bit by bit so I was happy from a 70-640 perspective before starting on the 70-642 Training Kit. I'd forgotten how many errors there are in the 70-640 book, and even the errata on the MS site doesn't pick them all up. That said, it is an excellent resource and the 70-642 looks to be just as good.

Right... gonna go do some real work... then lunch for me and the litle fella.

TTFN

On leave... well sort of...

First day of leave today. Still working...

Just need to tidy up some loose ends, and then I can put up the roller blind, and face plates for the sockets bought yesterday.

And then... then... I can relax.

Actually, provided the blind goes up OK, it should be fun; however, I put one up in the main bedroom a while ago now and, when I came to put the screws in there was nothing behind the plaster! Some wally had basically cut the plasterboard too short, and merely butted to the window frame with actual plaster and webbing. I pushed into the plaster and whoosh... the flipping screw disappeared! Cowboy builders strike again - one of the big ones that shall remain nameless.

Just waiting now to see what other jobs are found for me for the rest of the week...

It's flipping cold!

Well, the temperature has dropped a few degrees up Lincoln way, and I whacked the heating up a couple of notches to compensate. Brrrr… mind you, it’s not as bad as the southern US with its ice storms, or western France with its major storms in the last week or so. My Dad (and Mum) who lives in France was saying that he had to go up onto his shed roof to stop the corrugated roof blowing right off. It was so bad, he had to kneel on the roof so he didn’t get blown off. He ended up carrying rocks up to put on the roof to stop it disappearing into the distance.

Anyway, it looks like the weather people were right for a change. Reading posts on a couple of the forums I’m on, a few of the guys and girls are saying that they’re getting smatterings of white stuff, but nothing heavy as yet.

We had flurries up here earlier; indeed, the wind was making it blow horizontally up the road at one point! I went out to deposit some rubbish in one of the bins, and decided there and then that I would not, under any circumstances go out again today.

Ooh… and as I type, the flakes have started falling again. OMG! And some chap has just run past my house, in tracksuit and running shoes with bobble hat on. He has to be mad!

Right, I’m off to make a hot cup of coffee and challenge my youngest to a game of Raving Rabbids.