10 things

1. I somehow managed to pull a muscle in my back while asleep last night. It's been bloody agony sitting at the computer all day. I'm going to give in and take ibuprofen now. I can't stand it any longer.

2. I finally located the last still for the films feature I commissioned. It only took 4 weeks, 5 emails and about 9 phone calls...

3. My specially made "corporate" Xmas cards were delivered today. I was taking a bit of a chance hiring a relatively unknown young designer who I found by networking on the net, but he's done me proud and I'm singing his praises to all and sundry now.

4. My diary is looking frighteningly full for this month, what with a batch of business meetings coming up (meaning I can't slob around at home in front of the PC), the nearest I'll get to a "works Xmas party" and attending the leaving do of my beloved P's boss.

5. I've finally spent the birthday cheque on these. So if you see anyone swanning around in Cheshire in them, I'll have outed myself. Maybe I'll turn up at the "works Xmas party" in them...

6. My beloved P is living it up in the Big Apple right now. I almost went with him but I couldn't really give up that many working days. I made the mistake of waking him at 5am this morning, because I miscalculated the time difference. Oops.

7. I had a good laugh at this today, which someone kindly posted on a professional forum I belong to. I'm not the person who made the corrections, but it gives a pretty good idea of the kind of stuff I edit most days...

8. I was one of many this week who rushed out to buy the latest issue of Computer Shopper, because they were giving away a free CD-rom of Quark Xpress 5. Unfortunately, it's not as simple as shoving it in the drive and installing it. It involves endless hassle opening an account on Quark's website, which is now crashing due to demand and leaving us all very pissed off... Felix Denis, take note - if you're going to give away software at least make it ready to use.

9. My Xmas shopping is almost done. Thank gawd because I'm almost sick of Xmas already and there's still 24 days to go. Including 13 and a half working days...

10. It's Friday night, my work is done for the week and I'm going to pour myself a large one...