Laptop!!!!!!

I have finally bought a laptop!!! I went into the tax free Dixons on the way over the Channel Tunnel on the way to France and there it was - £1100 for a 1.1gig Pentium 3 chip with 30gig hard drive and 8xDVD drive!! It was a special offer and tax free as well or I'd never have got it at that price. Now I've got it home I have shoved Win2k on (better than Win ME and it'll do for now) and I'm going to stick games and stuff on it this evening, possibly from the comfort of my bed(!) I'm a happy bunny.

I had a great time in France too. We pottered around the forests of Guine and Bologne and then went for a nice meal in Bologne in the evening. Then today we went to the huge Leclercs on the outside of Bologne and bought some wine - very nice. After than we pottered round Cape Gris Nez which was beautiful and very sunny and had a picnic before going back over the tunnel

I should perhaps mention that the we in the proceeding paragraph is me and my parents - they came down on Friday night and then we went out for cultural trips in London over the weekend which was pretty cool and then headed over to France together yesterday.

More later when I've calmed down a bit!

Moving

Moving house is so complicated. The flat which I want to take is still mine for the taking, assuming they've finished it on time! I rang up the guy at the estate agents today and he said that they've been taking the ceilings up to put insulation in which is all well and good but means that he can't be sure when the flat is going to be finished. If I'm lucky then I'll get the best of both worlds - it'll be finished just when I want to move in which is about a week after it was going to be finsihed before. On the other hand, they could decide that its not going to be finished in time for me after all, which would be a bit of a bummer. I won't really know til Tuesday when I'm going to give him a bell again and find out whats going on.

Still having fun with my laptop. Got the Windows setup how I like it now - just have to do a bit of research on setting linux up on a laptop, getting the drivers and so on. I need a DVD to test the DVD drive on really (well, I suppose need is a bit of an exageration) but it seems to be working fine with my games and stuff. I have decided to sell my desktop to Becks (my flatmate) now that I've got this which will be quite handy for a bit of extra cash.

My best friend from Norwich is coming down to stay with me next weekend which should be fun. Shes bringing her boyfriend, who I have never met before but that should be fine too I should think - he sounds fairly easy going. I have to think of things to cook though. I reckon we should go out for pizza and maybe a movie on Saturday night which means only 1 proper cooking night though.