I have realised that it is rather a bad idea to have an XBox in your office. Too much temtation to play games. I probably spent another 10 minutes playing Midtown Madness, and I found it hard to escape this and turn the machine off. I think the thing is made to be addictive. I copied some videos onto my laptop HDD and shared the directory. The media player allowed me to play these without issue – and I did like the quality of the video. Now I just need to get the software so that it is logical in the user interface. That is, so I do not need to go through half a dozen strange menus when I start the XBOx in order to use the media player.

On the subject of Midtown Madness, there is a version of this at Disney’s Californian Adventure. I think it might be called ‘Manhatten Madness’ but the concept is the same. In this case it is a roller coaster set up for younger children in small red cars. I was unable to ride any times when I was there last year since it broke down every time I went to ride it. By ‘every time’ I mean that it would break down as soon as I was about to get into a car! Not good.

I have a childcare centre board meeting soon. Some of what will be talked about there is covered under a confidentiality policy unfortunately. But given that this is my first meeting I am sure it will be rather interesting. I have some ideas on what I want to acheive at the meeting, but we will see what happens. I really do not want to be on the board, but they needed a church person and I managed to convince another man from the church to join if I would. At least I am not alone.