Holidays are a time to relax, enjoy a break and remove yourself from all things stressful. On the whole, things are going well along these lines for me except for one thing which is really getting under my skin. I don't know what I'd if I ever came across that frickin' annoying British idiot who has been employed to do 'in-between' commentary on Pimp My Ride. WTF? Why on earth do MTV feel that just for the US version of the programme that we can't understand what we are seeing? Banal comments likes 'Mike walks over to the car' or 'Mike unscrews a nut' in the three second gap between the original speaking parts. This also overruns any of the sound track. Argggh. Pimp My Ride UK is bad enough with that pillac Westwood, but now this? Firstly, I'm not blind and secondly, if I was blind I still would consider listening to a dial tone for a couple of hours instead of that useless commentary. MTV UK - Sort Your Life Out!

Apart from unjustifiable outbursts directed towards the TV, today has been mainly positive, littered with little events like The Swan's birthday and speaking to all my fellow housemates in one day (quite an achievement considering I haven't heard from Sean in over four weeks). He seems to be enjoying the states, and already proclaims that the Yank women are nicer than the British ones, which is only because he's somewhere new. Like when he came to Birmingham and his tongue was falling out.

Rich did me a huge favour (beyond what I asked for) and managed to swipe me a Pantone set for the night just so I could do some colour fishing. It's so damn expensive to buy one that this has proved a bit of a life saver.

There was no driving today however. I spent most of the day polishing off one or two projects and beginning a new personal project that should save me time and money in the long run. I've come up with a suitably vague and nonsensical name for the whole thing - Askyric, and it will represent my own brand of CMS software. Currently I rewrite for nearly every project and this should help to standardise and modularise my code making upgrades easier. Little real progress was made on this except for a logo and a old fashioned hand drawn plan.

Tomorrow Lucy goes off to India. I was intending on surprise emailing earlier (I was fairly sure she thought I would forget) but she managed to send her email before I woke up, which ruined the plan. Also tomorrow is the day I meet up about the Old Ed Club, which will be good to get under way.

I need to fix my damn sunglasses. I trod on them the other night and they now sit wonky which is rubbish as sunglasses don't suit me and it took two years to track down this pair which look vaguely wearable. Hmm.