House. Electrical stuff. Lots Of Wires.

It's a small point to note, but all the wires for lights are in the ceilings. All the wires leading from outlets and switches run straight up, vertically straight up, the sides of the wood. All other wires that go through the house are all at knee level.

Memo to self: hanging pictures on the walls will not lead to anyone being electrocuted.

I'll be taking some pictures when the plumbing goes in, because you never know when you might want to know exactly where that f@#king leaking pipe is!

Listen : You're Beautiful - James Blunt ... Special Needs - Placebo ... Everything Is Under Control - Coldcut.

We went for a drink.

We went out to the Holiday Inn. A local firm has some sort of convention there tonight, so the place was packed. I didn't know if I wanted to go.

We got a few drinks in, sat around, talked about the usual. Lenny didn't know they were showing Doctor Who on the Sci-Fi channel. The two girls singing were a touch too loud. Maybe I was just in a contrary mood, maybe I didn't want to hear a Bonnie Tyler song followed by a Gwen Stefani song. Maybe I just wanted somewhere less smoke-filled.

We left and got home and they're playing Franz Ferdinand songs on the telly. I like Franz Ferdinand. Maybe if they were singing some of this instead of 'Total Eclipse...' or 'Hollaback Girl'. I don't know.

Listen : Walk Away - Franz Ferdinand ...anything, just not Bonnie Tyler.

Stupid thought for the day: how quickly your internet postings can go out-of-date.

This has nothing to do with content. This is a diary, after all, so if I were to say "the winners of the last FIFA World Cup were Brazil", that's true for today. If someone reads the entry in forty years time and says "ah, but surely [enter country name here] are the last World Cup winners", they're right. but they're not saying it in the spring of 2006, are they.

I'm getting ahead of myself: it's not spring until tomorrow. But I digress. Out-of-datedness.

When I went over from dial-up to DSL (ah, the joys of broadband internet), I didn't update the picture links on the blog. Anything that pointed to the old AT&T site became broken links as soon as that contract ended.

I just updated images to display normally again. If only there was a way to get a blog to do that itself. Maybe if I just uploaded my images to Blogger directly, I wouldn't have these problems.

...and for the 99% of people that think it's a bit geeky to worry about such things: yeah, but I'm happier now I did it.

I also want to spend a few moments giving my brother John a few words of advice.

John, mate.

Clean up your act. You have no idea how lucky you are with Kris. What the Hell are you playing at? There's nothing wrong with going with the flow in life, taking the bad with the good, and not lying to people. Example: telling Kris I was just over here for 6 weeks? WTF?! Anyone that goes into any search engine (Yahoo, Google, MSN, Ask Jeeves etc.) and searches for my name gets this page. There are other people with my name, some hits are links to web forums I posted to with old email addresses or ISPs (ask.com still has my At&T website archived, I see), some hits link to other stuff entirely, but it's the information age ...and they can read I've been here for slightly longer than six weeks. Don't you think I would have posted anything like you had said if it were even remotely true? After all, I posted about the death of a 14-year-old dog!

This is it. Your chance. Ball's in your court, bro.

Listen - Body Movin' (Fatboy Slim Remix) - Beastie Boys ... Apply Some Pressure - Maximo Park ... Room 512 - Psychid (downloaded from clicking around a bit on http://psychid.co.uk/room512/ ).

First of all, I only just noticed Kris posted a comment. Heya Kris? How's my kid brother doing? I'll email you soon. Scout's honour.

Second thing is I just want to say hello to Mary. Hi Mary! Hope you've read through the blog a bit, and I hope you're doing exceptionally well!

The house is going well. They've started framing the second floor and the garage is coming on nicely. There's probably more that has been done since I took this yesterday. Oh, and people laugh when I say 'garage' because I pronounce it 'garridge'. Working in London will do that to you...



Listen : Longview - Green Day ... God is Going to Get Sick of Me (Lo Fidelity Allstars Remix) - Aberdeen City ... Somebody Rock Me - The Clash vs. The Killers (remix on www.PartyBen.com )