I spoke to my brother this evening, and he will be coming over for dinner next Monday for my birthday. He actually rang – good since I did mean to email him today and ask him – and it slipped my mind. I am not sure yet where we will be going, but it will be somewhere nice. I will have to see my father as well as it has been too long since I have seen him. It has been a little while since I have caught up with my brother too but not as long thankfully. This is the curse of the modern world.

I really need to Skype my New Zealand friend in the next few days. He was in the USA for his father-in-laws memorial service, and was away for about 3-4 weeks. He got back last week but I would guess he has been very busy getting stuff done around his small farm. The 80 sheep tend to look after themselves, and the pig stie is being turned into a large (30 person) home cinema. Thankfully the four horses are able to be looked after by locals – when they are not working [They are movie stars… One of them was the lead horse in the Xena series]

I just came across a link to this horrible multiple choice exam. The problem is that all the questions refer to each other, and you need to count the number of answers in each column, and make deductions; but things go around in circles. And when they do you tend to make a wrong deduction and when you find it you cannot go back with ease. I have given up on this and shredded my notes. That is the safest way. I could have spent a day on this and not worked out a solution.

Photo of the Day

This is a photo of the start of the Apalacian Trail, just north of Atlanta. These are the Blue Hills, and really are beautiful. The Apalacian Trail goes from near Atlanta right up into New England. It is really a hiking thing – and I can assure you I did not hike it… I walked about 1-2km to see the start of it. Really nice seeing the real country. I was staying in a place called Tucker, which is actually part of metropolitan Atlanta… In Dade County from memory which you hear about on the TV every now and then. I was staying with a friend of my godfathers… Really nice place…

Music:

Matchbox 20 – Last Beautiful Girl… And other stuff all on random play