The audit has landed

Oh the joys of replacing your computer.  I am now about to embark on an audit that I should have done a while ago to identify all the hardware/software that will have to be installed on the new machine.    This might seem straight forward but this usually takes all morning and I have found that if you don't do it then you miss something - something that may be important and very difficult to recover once your computer has been recycled.  Let the fun begin!

Latest sickness update: Now a slightly snotty nose - think I might survive.

Cold now down graded to Man Flu

Thank the lord I survived. I am sure this is the cry from many a battlefield and so it is with me or rather my immune system. This has done battle with the the lurgy that invaded my body over the past few days and has prevailed. What a wonderful thing immune systems are and how we take them for granted most of the time. Well well done to mine - I've now only got 'man flu'.

What a strange phrase ' man flu'. What does it mean? More to the point what does it say about stereo types and the battle between the sexes? The reason why I ask this is because over the past few days I have watched an awful lot of day time TV (one of the best cures for all but the most malign disease as too much of it will surely rot your brain - what a snob!). Anyway, one advert stuck in my mind. It was for a cough/cold medicine which clearly said that men are wimps compared to the stoic woman folk. This may be true, it may not be true but it was an awful sexist stereo type which if the roles were reversed would no doubt, rightly, be attacked for demeaning women. It is amazing how it is okay to use a stereo type for one group but not another. Not a blinding piece of in sight but some thing that occurred to me as I was waited on by my wife!

Not going into University today mainly give myself an extra day or so to get over the lurgy. Hope the second half presentations go well

The dreaded cold

Boy I still feel rough.  After spending a wonderful day in London on Thursday last week I came down with an attack of the dreaded lurgy and have felt rough for the past few days.  I  am only just starting to get over it - must be an age thing as my son had a similar thing a week or so back and he was able to get over it in a couple of days.   Anyway, at least I am able to to write a few lines but that is about it.   The most frustrating thing has been the light has been exceptional over the past few days and all I have been able to do is sit and look at it.   Not one picture taken.   Lets hope I am better in a week or so's time as a I get my feedback on my essay.   If the presentation was anything to go by then I am in for a rough ride.   Now where is that Lemsip?