I shouldn\'t have said anything about the pda, it alerted my existing one that I was plotting to replace it and so later that day it decided to present a cracked, and fatal, screen.

I\'ve had a lousy day.

I don\'t really know why I\'ve had a lousy day but I have.

Maybe it\'s because despite snowing for most of the day it\'s now all melted Maybe it\'s because it\'s really really cold (I really think they should invent warm snow). Maybe it\'s because I was too tired to get organised properly at work and too tired to stay behind and get on with stuff.

Honestly, why is it that as soon as the network tech is offsite everything goes wrong? I go away for one week and the gateway decides it no longer wishes to dish out ip\'s. The whole network goes down, including the webserver where this is held, and there\'s nowt I can do about it! You try explaining how to fix a problem via text messages when really you\'re not sure what\'s going on yourself! Needless to say it\'s all up and running again now I\'m back, and hopefully it will sit nicely and behave itself while I stay. Roll on a new router!

Coincidentely the Chinese new year but an important date for me. No more \"first without\'s\". The end of a very horrible year and the start of some good ones I hope. Still missed, always remebered, never truely gone.

Another week has passed, not an overly busy one but stuff achieved all the same. You can tell I\'ve done much this week because I\'m absolutely exhausted! I think I must still be fighting that bug a bit (yes I still have the cough, and now a sore throat) as it\'s still zapping much of my spare energy. Not great for beginning my course but I\'m hoping a good run of things at half term will put me on a more even keel.