Firstly, I better offer my congratulations to Si, who became a father to Oscar James Jobling on Tuesday. Well done mate, I'm sure you're going to make a fantastic Dad :)

Secondly (and on an unrelated note), I made some rather large steps towards getting the house wired up for a decent network. Despite having wireless, it has at times become a little unreliable, and so hopefully by the end of tomorrow, all that swinging from rafter to rafter in the loft and avoiding dropping through the ceiling while chewing on cavity insulation will have been worth it.

Thirdly, I have unfortunately succumbed to a MacBook problem of my own - looks like hard drive has gone bye-bye. I've tried a number of things and scoured the Apple forums, but no luck with the remedies suggested yet, so tomorrow I will phone up and get it replaced under warranty. I'm really hoping there is some limit to the damage as I could really do with getting my most up-to-date calendar and address book off there first. Damn.

Finally, I did forty lengths of the pool tonight (or 1000m), which is my usual target when doing serious paddling (as opposed to lying on the bottom of the pool or dive bombing the weak). I've refrained from doing further than this in the past few years since when I arrived at Loughborough I discovered the pool was twice as long (being Olympic size), and you die get tired twice as quickly. Being the one sport I really enjoy and that doesn't involve losing an entire day (golf) or losing teeth/eyes (hockey) I should do it more often. Pool membership has been down on my list of things to do for a while, but at the moment I'm more concerned about trying to remember the times of all those appointments I've booked in for.

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