I'm on holiday. Hooray!

I'm on holiday this week. I'm rubbish at taking annual leave during the year and when it comes to the end of the year it's always a mad dash to use up my allowance. So, this week is a week of taking it (relatively) easy. As I type this I'm pleasingly lightly drunk which is really nice, although my typing is not quite as good as it could be.

As is typical, I've had a whole bunch of plans for the week that have, for the most part, not come to fruition. I've also barely checked my email - I've been relying on Google Mail on my phone to keep an eye on things which is great, but fiddly to use to reply to things (because it's like typing a text message - but longer). Photos I've taken have stayed on the camera or phone rather than getting downloaded as well.

The main reason for letting everything fall by the wayside is Jack. He's completely ace but completely exhausting and constantly on the look out for things to get involved with - like hitting keys on the keyboard when you're trying to use the keyboard. I don't mind, it's just hard to get things done with a toddler!

I did start this post with things in mind to witter about, so it's about time I say something that is of some vague interest to someone... and here it is! I started creating a DVD last night, compiling the Peter Serafinowicz Show on one disc, and left my laptop on overnight to do the business of transcoding and creating menus. This morning I got up and went to look at how it all turned out, and discovered that Windows had decided to install a bunch of patches and reboot - and then had the audacity to boast to me that it had done it, and wasn't it clever that it had done it all by itself. Mother flipper! Back in the day, at least it would leave a window up to tell you that it wanted to reboot - now Windows just hoses the work that you've been trying to let processes get on with...

The upside of this? There isn't a real upside, but Nero 8 is really quite nice, and Nero Vision now lets you make DVDs without insisting on a bunch of predefined menu layouts for the button styles. (You have to be someone who makes DVDs to appreciate this!)

What else? Well, Toys R Us are stocking the Asus Eee PC I discovered today. Brilliantly they didn't have the display model switched on, but I had a go on the keyboard and was amazed by how usable the teeny tiny keys were! The only problem seems to be the positioning of the cursor keys - the 'up' key is right next to a reduced-size 'shift' key on the right-hand sidek, so trying to type an exclamation mark resulted in going up a line (or would have done if the box was switched on). It was clearly something I could get used to though, which is good seeing as this is a device I've been lusting after for a while now!

Christ, it's late and my beer intake has been greater than a normal school night. And you don't want to know how many times I've retyped some of these sentences as my fingers skate around... so a slightly drunken Hwyl a Nos Da - I'm going to crash out and leave this post sans formatting and hyperlinks. Google anything that doesn't make sense =)