I’m back after another long break of not writing anything. I’ve had plenty of time to blog, but I just haven’t had the inclination. And since all I’m really doing is thinking out loud and not being read by anyone, my absence didn’t really matter. But now that I’ve just had my domain renewal payment automatically taken out, I figure I should write something.

Well, the last thing I wrote about was my iMac and the pixel trouble. The good news is that Apple have agreed to replace it, and hopefully it will be shipped sometime soon and won’t have anything wrong with it. The bad news is that M spent ages talking to people from Apple, and then the Office of Fair Trading in order for it to happen. I’m trying not to get my hopes too high about this one not having any problems, though, since 3 out of 4 iMacs we’ve looked at have had at least one dodgy pixel. But we’ll see.

It’s just under 2 weeks until we go to NYC. I suppose I’m looking forward to it, but just like the holiday last year it feels like something we’re talking about and not actually doing. I’ve put some new stuff on my mp3 player (although I wish now that it had a higher capacity), so it’s pretty much ready to entertain me for the 24 hours it’s going to take to get there. I’m sure M will be fresh as a daisy after travelling in business class, but I’m assuming I’ll be feeling a little worse for wear. At least we arrive towards the end of the day so I won’t have to try to stay awake for too long. It was really hard trying to stay awake all day when we got to London at 6am.

We’ve got a list of things we want to do - there are one or two touristy things that we didn’t get to do last time, but other than that we’ll be trying to do some different things, and since we’ll be there for 2 weeks we won’t have to rush around too much. M will be at a conference for 2 days, so I’m still trying to work out what I’m going to do by myself. My mother, of course, wants me to stay in the hotel room all day. Errm.

My work had its annual “outing” the weekend before last. It was dinner in a location in the middle of the city, which made a nice change from the outings we usually have in some far-flung place or other. We got a taxi with the view to drinking a lot of alcohol, which I did. I made myself a little ill, but fortunately only after we got home, and so the next day was a total write-off. Last weekend M’s niece got married so we went to her wedding. Fortunately we knew people there, so it was good. More alcohol was consumed but there must have been some effect of the previous weekend still lingering because I really didn’t like the wine and I didn’t even finish my beer. So that was a bit disappointing, but it did mean that I was free to go shopping in the city with M the next day. He bought a couple of suits in preparation for the trip, and he also got some really nice shirts and ties.

That’s about all… oh, we bought tickets to see Little Britain live in February. Unfortunately the only good seats were individual ones, so we’re not sitting together, but it’s not like we’re going to be chatting during the show anyway, so I suppose it doesn’t really matter. I’m quite looking forward to it! The Pirates of Penzance is coming in January, and I wouldn’t mind seeing that as well, but after paying $130 a pop for the LB tickets, we might give it a miss.