Hello everyone!

Well, I'm back at uni now. So far so good if you ask me. My first week back has been tiring. I'm absolutely shattered right now. But with a bit of luck I'll be able to get some time off work. As for the rest of the day, I'm going to relax. Tomorrow I'll concentrate on my project. But right now I need rest. I also need to re-tax my car today, so I have to dig out all my important documents.

Well Christmas was lovely - I relaxed and had a generally good time. Can't ask for much more can you? Saw family again and I think they all lked their presents. Though I didn't get Dad much or Tracy much, but Dad appreciated what I got him. There's no excuse for what I got Trace. Still, I've got Valentines day and birthday and anniversary to pay for as well. So I better put my savings to good use - don't you think?

I received some lovely things for Christmas, and I'm grateful to each and every person that thought to go out and get me something. It was greatly appreciated. Thank you.

One of my presents was The Sims 2. My god that's a big game! I've had to buy more RAM, a new hard drive and a memory stick so I can install the drivers onto my computer to allow the graphics card to work appropriately.

During this process I went and bought the wrong type of RAM. So I'm flogging it on Ebay where I bought the rest from. So hopefully, the replacement RAM will pay for itself.

I'm still seriously thinking about moving to New Zealand. And oddly, as soon as I mentioned it, there were all these TV programmes about the place. Weird that - but it happens quite often. Not just to me though - it happened to someone I know recently. It's a strange old world.

Talking of worlds, there's a lot going on in space at the mo. There's a probe to a comet which will blast a hole into it and see what's inside. There's the Huygens probe which will soon descend into the murky depths of Titan's atmosphere. The gamma ray observatory is up and running. We also have the space shuttle return to flight preperations well under way. The Martian winter is coming to an end, so the NASA rovers will be up and about again soon. Plus the ESA orbiter Mars Express is, at some point, going to deploy it's radar. They've been having trouble because it might open and whack the long range communications antenna.

Back on earth, we have the aftermath of that earthquake. 2 million thrown into poverty? Countless dead and lost. Terrible. My only hope is that all these donations make there way to where they're meant to go. Though in reality (probably) a chunk of it will get squandered, most of it will never turn up, and what's left will be spent naiivly. I hope this doesn't happen, but I fear it is likely.

Also there are more effects of that earthquake. As if to underline just how severe it was, the length of the day is now 2 microseconds shorter. Now that is quite a difference from just one event!

Have you ever wondered what an earthquake looks like? I mean - right at the fault line. I know what it looks like in theory, but what about reality?

I kept getting some horrendous dreams after the earthquake. I dreamt I was there. I wasn't in my body, I was in the body of a survivor, and I went through what they went through. Or at least my minds approximation of what they went through.

Anyway, I should be off. I hope that's updated everyting. Take care everyone - especialy in this spell of rough weather we're having.