Well the year started off with a bang like most peoples. Fun, excitement, time with the family, and mostly a few hangovers.. but at least we had fun... Then the little HDD problem that cropped up, forced me to go and buy another HDD to backup all my holiday photos (that I'd just finished sorting). So now I can breathe a sigh of relief. well .. for a few days anyway... next up ... The rest of the year. The biggest news this year is that its my wife & I's 10th wedding anniversary in April so we've managed to survive and the trials and tribulations to get this far, here's hoping for another 50 years happy marriage.. To celebrate this we're thinking about moving away from our house of 10 years to something bigger and better. A strange time to move in the middle of a resession, but housing is at a low and its a good time to buy if you've got some savings put aside. I restart my never ending education to finish my Diploma in Electronic Engineering in 2 weeks, but this year, my employer will hopefully give me a day off a week to study and complete what's necessary... yahoo..... 4 day weeks for whole of the year, oh did I mention I get every 2nd monday off as well... I'm so happy with my current career change that I'm just happy as a pig in mud... My son starts school this year, well pre-primary anyway, a sad moment as you always want your kids to stay young but eventually they must grow up and have their own lives . :( Both my daughter and son will be hard at the books, drawing, painting, running around in the play area, all good stuff.. My game play has come to a screaming halt after I lost all my save games thru the HDD failure, so I've got to reinstall COD4, far cry 2, GRID and hopefully the massive backup I did before I can at least restore some files. So that's it in a nutshell, after 13 days into the year, another fullon one is coming. Hope you all have had a safe start to the year and look forward to keeping in touch Over and out Dev