This is the weather widget on my desktop:



Sprinkles? Since when was Sprinkles a word used to describe the weather? The word is Drizzle. It's a miserable meteorological condition and it deserves a miserable description!

It appears that I forgot to take any time off work last year. Well, I didn't forget exactly. I just didn't manage to find the time. So I took a good sized break at Christmas, but I still had four more days leave that must be used up by the end of January. So here I am, at home, for the last four days of January.

It's not that I'm working too hard, exactly. It's just that I keep planning to take holidays in a month or so when a particular piece of work is finished. But things come along and the piece of work never does get finished. In 2009 I did two things at work and neither of them is finished!

In other news, I'm now using Windows 7 and I like it. It's like Vista would have been if they'd got the details right.

The flat needs cleaning but I'd rather just lie on the sofa and watch my West Wing box set. Maybe I'll find some energy for it tomorrow.

2010. It's almost unbelievable. And perhaps it's a good time to start writing again. But I've decided the only way I can write here is by removing what was here before. It's not that I want to forget the past. But it's no longer appropriate to have it all laid out in the public domain like that. I don't need to look over my shoulder any longer.

So what's new? Well not much really. I'm still in the same job. It's a good job and I'm happy there. I'm still in the same flat. I'm still living on my own. I still love it. The difference is that I'm no longer depressed and lonely. I've been in a relationship with my lovely girlfriend Claire for over 16 months. She usually stays over during the weekend and at least 1 night during the week. It's all good.

So far 2010 has been bloody freezing! That's all I'm going to say for now but hopefully I'll be popping along from time to time with superb wit and glorious insight. I just hope it's not lost on you!