General Update 1

I thought it my be a good idea to give a progress report on a number of things and tie up a few loose ends all neatly packaged in one post. I'm really into this blogging thing and use it personally to keep a track of various goings-on and to give me some goals/sense of achievement. Probably doesn't make for riveting reading, but I don't care.

Bonnie: had his tail amputated last Monday. He was almost back to his usual self within a few hours. He had a check-up at the vets yesterday and was given a clean bill of health. Upon his return he immediately looked at the cat flap, then Lesley then the cat flap again and needed little prompting to dive right through it. He was out for an hour in the evening and probably spent most of the night out playing and hunting with Clyde.

Ipod Mini: My birthday present from Lesley was shipped last week (direct from Apple's Shanghai factory) and should be delivered early next week. The invoice arrived this morning confirming I had all the discounts applied for (Further Educational discount plus a promo discount code I got off a website). If you're thinking of buying some Apple kit then I urge you to follow my advice. I entered the name of my old University and immediately got £10 discount without further checks from Apple.

CD Ripping: I seriously underestimated the amount of CDs to be ripped. Currently I've completed ripping 234 CDs, with 486 artists, 2761 tracks lasting 8.2 days and consuming 15.8Gb of disk space, probably about 2/3 of our collection completed. I'll then have to spent a bit of time tidying up the library database to correct some ID tag errors. Great fun.

Health: The worry and stress caused by Bonnie's injury led to a general decrease in my health. I haven't been sleeping as well. I'd wake up about 5 in the morning and couldn't get back to sleep. In the past week that has improved and I'm now sleeping right through but I'm conking out about 10pm which is an hour earlier. Hopefully that now Bonnie is fit and well again (apart from having no tail and a massive pin in his leg) I'll return to where I was 6 weeks ago.