A early week entry to round up events from the weekend. I had a headache last night so could not begin writing my post until now. I really should not of been on the computer at all last night but wanted to burn a new CD for the car. Right, let me give a quick recap. On Friday night, after the cinema and a trip next door to the Ivory Lounge (I am sure it was called Bar 38, last time I was here) I went home. Well actually I did not. I dropped off Emily and Pav and then drove over to Charlie’s in Woodley. He had some computer problems and I had no tools apart from my brain. I felt ready and after about fifteen to twenty minutes had resolved the problem. The issue was permissions and cascading them down from parent to child folders. All I had missed was ticking a box to allow this to happen. Easy when you know how. I knew that would fix it, but it was the train of thought to get to the correct window in Explorer. Charlie was happy and even though Annie was on her way and quite close by and it would have been great to meet her for the first time in ages, I opted to jump in the car and head home. I was tired and had a busy weekend ahead. Made a change for the Admiral calling on Terry Rescue Services. I had quite a lot planned for Saturday but still did not get to bed until gone 2am. I got up around 9.30am and was in the town centre just over an hour later. I had to return a book to the library, it was my first time using the new self check system in the ground floor. Return book, get a receipt (optional – think of the trees) and then deposit book down the hatch. Job done and completely painless. Then I went over to get my haircut at Jerry’s, it was not too busy considering the time of day and week. Once that job was done, I headed back through Eden to Tesco. I bought some milk and waffles (to toast). A very helpful lady directed me to the self service machines to make sure I was not stuck in the queue for long. I then headed back to the bus station, as I got around to stand F, I could see the time was 12:00 on the screens above. The next bus was around in a few minutes and I got on and headed home. Mission complete, well the first part in any case. When I got home, I showered had some breakfast and then went to watch Eastenders (Friday’s edition) on BBC iPlayer (version 2.0 now in beta) via IE7. After this I sent down to work, to complete the updates for a web site. It took me most of the afternoon and I did not finish until 6pm. Yes, these updates were quite involved and took up a lot of time and concentration. Then it was a case of preparing myself for the final episode of Doctor Who. It is difficult to quantify how big a Doctor Who fan I am? As the saying goes, you always chose your favourite Doctor from your childhood and mine is Sylvester McCoy (but I also had a crazy crush on Ace at the time also). However people should note that mine was the generation to have the show cancelled by Michael Grade. The show was something I forgot about in my teens although it did make a muted return in 1996. I recall rushing back from a weekend in Paris with my parents to get home just in time to catch the movie on BBC1. I quite enjoyed it but shortly forgot about it (think Championship Manager was more higher up the priority list). It was not until four years ago, when the return of the show close that I got back into the show and watched endless shows on the BBC web site (the animated episodes featuring Richard E. Grant). I was hooked and looking forward to 2005 and the return of my childhood hero. It could not have been better. Three years later, I sad to see the show take an extended break but in a way glad for the rest. The Beeb has gone into overkill at times (they cross promoted the show everywhere, even Eastenders). It will give the marketing machine a time to calm down. I still think Christopher Eccleston was a better Doctor than David Tennant. Onto the season finale then, it was okay I suppose. A good twist with the regeneration that was, then wasn’t. Although several things annoyed me in the episode. The Doctor (be he in half human form or not) never ever gets into a relationship with an companion (past or present). It is just wrong! Okay, there had to be some closure but this was not it. We prefer these things a bit shady around the edges. Secondly there was too much time spent setting up series three of Torchwood at the end. Doctor Who saves the day once again but perhaps for the first time I did not want him to succeed. I am getting bored with the good guy winning all the time. Perhaps I am just showing my age and cynicism. Who will be the Doctor’s next companion? Or will it be a rotating celebrity female? While in John Lewis on Sunday my sister bought me a fantastic Quicksilver travel bag come case. It has wheels and is relatively big, the ideal weekend item I was looking for. The bags I have are on the end of two extremes of being too small (e.g. my gym bag) or two big, (e.g. my suitcase on wheels). Now I have the right case for those weekend trips away but typically at the moment there is nothing planned. I also wanted to mention the few movies I watched over the remainder of the weekend. On Saturday night (while eating ice cream) I watched the Disney movie College Road Trip (not due out here until August). Good wholesome family fun which made me laugh out loud about twice. Then yesterday morning I watched Step Up. It was good but I expected more and the storyline was predictable, plus the secondary story lines (which were more important in terms of a human story) should have had great prominence. I will watch the sequel next weekend. Although it was great to finally get the name of the model (whom is actually an actress and singer and not just dancer) in bright yellow from the Give It Up To Me music video. I also watched Just Friends in the evening which was a complete waste of my life. It was so bad, that I got a headache during the closing credits and had to go to sleep. It was 6pm. I got up at 8.30pm and the tennis was still being played!