It looks like this morning I have a plumbing job to do here – great, just what I need. The pipes for the laundry are blocked, and requires some work to clean the pipes out. Draino normally works, but not in this case. The pipe will be filled with tree roots, but the problem is that it is under the slab of the house. There are probably a total of four metres of pipe in this house that are not plastic, and it is now giving me trouble. A few years back I replaced the rest of the pipes with plastic which worked really really well. Now it is just this last bit that causes the problem. With some luck fixing it will not be a major engineering challenge.

The SMH has a story about couples who Email, Blog and MSN each other despite them being in the same room. I have seen this happen too many times, and I think it is a bad idea – it can be a real problem with things work really well online and not in real life. It is not all bad… couples surfing the internet next to each other has got to be better for them than if they were in seperate rooms… At least they can discuss anything they see online.

I am sure I have mentioned this before, and it is not as if I will need it any time soon, but the SMH has a review of a DVD for first time fathers called ‘Being Dad’ which is a humorous introduction for fathers for everything they need to know about pregnancy. Well maybe not everything, but many of the things…