The 30th July is Sister Two's birthday. Some last minute shopping at Merry Hill last night was able to rectify the the shortage of presents and so this morning she received all the bits and pieces from various family members and friends.

The middle part of the day has been pretty straight forward and I cruised on with the file upload system in Askyric which is coming on nicely, if a little slower than hoped. I also had an impromptu call from DDS again with yet more entrepreneurial enthusiasm. I am getting rather impressed with this whole 'coming up with ideas' thing. If only I could get him to think up what I should do for my major project then I might be better off.

In the evening was the ritual birthday celebration meal, hosted by TGI Friday's. It's been a very long time since I've been (I think the last time was Donk's 18th birthday), but it was a good call and the food was beyond fantastic, seconded by all the family.

On the way back I received notice from Steve Tong that he was in The 'Bridge with Mike and wanted to know if I was at all interested in a couple of sly ones down The Crispin. I naturally couldn't turn down such an offer and it was good to see Steve who I haven't physically seen ever since we left school and he joined the Navy the fly helicopters. It's funny, but I think Steve was the first friend I made at OSH and yet we managed to fall out of contact over the years, even while we were still at school, although that happened in a number of cases I can think of. Anyway it's good to catch up, plan more meet ups and also maybe even a paintball fixture in Blakedown. Cool.

I can see which way tomorrow is going; with the parents off at some gathering it's going to be subsistence living and another good crack at the Askyric code, oh hurray.