Yesterday allowed to to get on and make real headway in the OEC website - I got back into the nitty-gritty coding stuff after a week break but everything seems to be fine so I was quite pleased with progress.

I sat down yesterday to try and pick what IT products I would be getting next. Unfortunately I don't think Neil has exactly what I need right now so we've come to another agreement which means a little more effort on my part, but does mean that I can buy exactly what I want.

Exactly what I want covers a few things - firstly I need a new camera. I say need; that's probably a lie, but I found out the other day that DDS's brother Joe has just bought a ridiculously cheap SLR, a brand new Canon EOSD 300 (Rebel). I had a few words with him vis-a-vis the quality/is it worth getting one. This has spurred me on to pick me own up, but I'm a bit unsure whether I can afford everything to go with it at the moment. I'll see. Another important thing I need is a decent graphics tablet. My old one is pretty shocking and after having a fiddle about with Tom's Wacom Graphire 2 I'm sold, however I think if I'm going to spend the dollar I'd rather do it on the Intuous 3.

Other investments I'm toying in but clearly cannot afford are a wide format printer and an upgrade of PC hardware. Sister One is going to uni and she's going to need a computer so a new motherboard and processor(s) are needed so I can build her a machine.

Along the same lines, it was A-Level results day yesterday and Sister One headed into school to pick up her grades. There was no particular expectation for anything, except she really quite hoped she didn't get her first choice accepted, and instead would get to go to Aberystwyth. Well it all panned out well for her and that's where she's going.

In my conversation with DDS yesterday we got onto a new business proposition which tied in quite well with my explorations of the WWW earlier in the day and we are going in 50:50. Despite the fact I'm self-employed/run-my-own-business I still don't consider it an enterprise (probably because I've been doing it so long) even though that is exactly what it is. This promises to be a cool little venture - all I need to do is get some designs drafted up.

In the evening I met up with Adam who I haven't seen in over a year. We headed to The Station in Hagley which I've never been to before, but would easily go again. Quite a lot of eye candy about which is unusual for the pubs I end up in generally, and it was good evening of story swapping and lad talk. Also it looks like if I've got some time on Saturday afternoon I could be off to watch the Baggies; Adam being a die-hard fan with a spare ticket and wondering if I wanted to tag along. Should be a good laugh, and I've never seen them play before.

On with the day... this is incredibly spritely for me being the morning after a few...