My week or so away from WordPress has not been totally without incident.  A few of the highlights for me are:

• Buying a new car
  When the MOT and tax expired on the Renault at the same time as it was down to running on two-and-a-half cylinders I figured it was really time for a change!
• Finally buying Relayer
  Continuing my belated mission to catch up on old Yes albums I missed out on. Only a fiver from Amazon.  A very jazzyfree-form album.
• Sending the girl overseas
  Chrystal went off for a week's exchange trip to Spain at the weekend.  Its very quiet around here at the moment and Chas is enjoying being an only child for a while.
• Becoming an election candidate
  But not for where I expected to be a candidate. The official resignation of the invisible councillor in Furnace Green forced us to do a bit of a re-shuffle with our candidates.
• Getting bolder with SQL
  After importing all this crap from the old server I explored the possibilities of phpMyAdmin, deleting several tables and running a mass find/replace to change all the URLs for photos in posts.  For some stupid reason I had them all as absolute addresses on the old domain instead of relative ones which would have required no alteration.  I know better now.
• Seeing West Ham win another game
  Not that I actually saw them, obviously: just saw the results.  Too late for us to avoid the drop I fear, but welcome nonetheless and about bloody time.
• Sneezing and coughing
  I have done a lot of that.  This cold has been very persistant and is now in the third week of a prolonged run. Not much of a highlight, now I think about it.
• Mowing the lawn
  Even though it was still a bit soggy underfoot. Its amazing what a difference it can make.
• Conquering the world
  The old Rise of Nations game has been getting a fair old bashing lately.