I took my car in to have the exhaust looked at again before work this morning, it’s fixed now, they just hadn’t put a second rubber on a joint so it was banging against the chasis. Work was busier today, had some calls to do, got timesheets done, failed to get Vista working under VMWare. I phoned Chris from BE as I had to tell him of a joke I saw on b3ta.

Yesterday we had hail, rain and sunshine, this morning we had snow, then midday it was quite sunny and hot, tonight it’s a bloody cold wind, but still quite bright…. Global warming my arse 😉 My exhaust seems to make a bit of a noise when I make a tight turn, so I expect as Phil did that they’ve retro-fitted a not quite right part on there, oh well it’s only a noise.

We had a couple of flurries of hail today. We’ve been playing with backing up a new Vista laptop at work today, so Ubuntu can go on it instead! What is weird is how much Vista seems to have ripped off the Linux GUI, except for the four screens you have to navigate through just to shutdown…. I’ve done a bit more packing, it looks like I’ll be taking a suitcase full of clothes I don’t wear (or will wear whilst in France) and my purchases like woks, cutlery etc; Phil’s ebay stuff, a crate of computer bits I won’t need for 3 months and the two Sun servers.

I woke up at 4am this morning, thinking about Nanny for some reason. Anyway, couldn’t get back to sleep really so been yawning all day at work. I’m trying not to have a kip though as I won’t sleep again tonight then. I got my exhaust box fixed, took it down the road and they had it done after lunch, 45+VAT, so not bad, they even phoned around a bit to get the part cheaper and apparently the front half of the exhaust is fine.

Gonna take the car to one of the local exhaust people tomorrow, there’s Woodbridge Tyre & Exhaust near work so I could leave the car there all day and walk up towards Tesco to pick it up, better than having it fall off half way across France. I just got a couple of coupon codes for blank DVD’s from SVP so got 150 blank top-quality 16x DVD+R YUDEN000T03’s for about 30ukp, as those TuffDisc’s are obviously a bit crap….