Romantic and relaxing weekends

Well, this week is turning out to be a mixed one for me thus far. On the down side, I have a nasty cold right now, and if there's one thing I hate with a passion it's feeling ill. I've been fighting it all week, but today it finally got the better of me to the point of pissing me off.

However, the good news is that I have the next week and a half off work - Whoo-hoo!! What's even better is that tomorrow I'm leaving for a long weekend in South Wales with my wife, which should be a fabulously relaxing break for both of us. No laptops, no mobiles, just the two of us in a little cottage in the middle of nowhere, you can't get better than that. :o) I can't help but think of it as a kind of belated honeymoon, seeing as we didn't have anything of the sort when we got married in Las Vegas last year, and tied the knot in our last couple of days there.

Last weekend was also a pleasant one spent with the wife - On Saturday afternoon I took her to see AFC Bournemouth play for the first time, in what turned out to be an incident-packed game. Very enjoyable indeed, although an hour to get out of the car park was not so much so! Also, any facility which thinks that £3.40 for two bottles of Coke is reasonable needs their heads examining. Note to self - Smuggle in your own drinks next time! On Sunday, we went and spent some time with my parents and had a great meal there as always, and the majority of the rest of the weekend was just spent chilling out together. A simple but enjoyable time, and a great reminder of why I love spending time with Tara so much. :o)

Moving off in to the World of Elite Bastards, I've been working on testing for a Radeon X800 GT review most of this week - The benchmarks and the like are all done, so it's just a case of putting the actual content together when I get back from my break away. Perhaps a little more excitingly however, I've finally gotten my hands on a GeForce 7800-based board - Don't expect to see a review quickly for this one though, I intend on covering every angle I can with a fine-toothed comb. :o) I need to get hold of a relevant part to compare it to as well, but that's all in hand... :oP

I think that just about covers everything, I just wanted to get a few things down before I leave for Wales bright and early tomorrow. I'll be sure to tell you all about it, and bore you with pictures of fields and sheep, when I return early next week! ;o)