So begins another year

At the end of last year I decided to take a complete break from a number of things that are IT-related (so far as that is possible in day to day life) including work! So no updates here and no facebook unlike everyone else in our house! Instead a number of other things like (for the first time in years) a visit to the more cerebral Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve in Luddenden Village. The Christmas and New Year break have been very relaxing and also pretty bad for the waistline with snow and ice limiting the planned daily bike rides to just the two including the now compulsory christmas day amble over Midgley Moor. We got the latest Amazon Kindle over the break and managed to download Wuthering Heights so far. We said the digital camera would never catch on in our house and maybe its the same for the electronic book. I did manage to finally finish Freakonomics and Malcolm Gladwells' follow-up to Tipping Point called Blink. Still haven't got beyond half way through zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance. Best film was definitely Avatar in 3D at the Huddersfield Odeon (as the IMAX was sold out) so would definitely like to watch that again in IMAX format. We also made final arrangements over Christmas for me and Billy to go to our first Grand Prix together in Monaco in May. Now that is definitely something to look forward to. Later today I'm getting snow tires fitted to the Peugeot in the hope that I can finally take it home after almost three weeks parked on the main road - roads willing later today. The best youtube videos showing on Billy's ipod this Christmas were the Tiger Woods "hole in one" (on the golf course not a euphemism) and the Japanese football manager's goal from the touchline. School has been closed this morning and so we got the cascade call at 06:30 as Helen teaches. Billy had already posted on facebook by 06:35 and had three replies by 06:45. Awesome?