Parents

Yes I am at the parents for the weekend. Could be worse, not been having too bad a time. It's looking increasingly unlikely that I will be seeing any of my mates as I don't seem to be able to get hold of any of them, so no drinks for me. Well, except for all the free beer from the parents.

Found out that my brother has been arrested because his prints were found in a stolen car. He's been released on bail. Prat. He never ceases to amaze me. More than anything else I can hardly believe that me and my brother could turn out to be so different.

Tomorrow my Dad and I shall be spending however long it takes trying to get my ruddy car to remain water-tight. I managed to find a leak yesterday coming from the top-left of the radiator - which is what I originally suspected. However, this seems to be an on-and-off problem. The other leak is somewhere in the vicinity of the sump, which is going to be a much more difficult task. My Dad has stolen the ramps from my Grandad's cellar. Not that my Grandad could complain, what with being dead and all.

A client for my webdesign company has been hounding me all weekend, but I refuse to answer his calls while I am on holiday (yes, sad but true...I consider going home to see my parents a "holiday"). No doubt he wants to know why I haven't replied to his email that asked me to redesign his entire website for free. Some people go beyond the realms of amazing me.

This evening I have been mainly fixing the parent's computer which my sister repeatedly screws up. There were 125 ad/spyware registry keys, 3 recognised registry values and 1 adware process running according to Ad-aware. I also uninstalled mountains of crap (mainly those infuriating Internet Explorer toolbar add-ons) and cleaned the old mouse, as the new one was a god-awful pile of rubbish. The computer now starts in next to no time at all, and is much more stable.

Now I need to design a certificate that is "state of the art" for my Mum. Not sure what "stae of the art" means in the world of certificates, but I will do my best.