Tuesday

Things are hectic at work - especially since I have to take a day out of the office on Thursday to pay a visit to our web developers in Manchester, meaning that all this week's deadlines are pushed forward by a day. I focus on finishing the writing work I have to do and then crack on with creating this month's order form; and it's at times like this that Microsoft Office 2007 shows itself to be the unbearable, ill-thought out steaming heap of dogshit that it really is. There's nothing intuitive about it at all - and it's full of inexplicable bugs and errors; not the sort of thing you expect from a company who have dominated software production for well over 20 years, is it? Or maybe it is.

So needless to say fannying around with Word and Excel slows my day down - so much so that I end up having to take work home, which I plan to leaf through in front of the Brazil v North Korea game. Back at home I stick a couple of jacket potatoes on for K and I while doing a bit of writing and another half hour on the Wii Fit. Once nice thing about doing the Wii Fit is that it gives me time to catch up with a lot of podcasts I've gotten behind with in recent weeks - at the moment a mixture of The Football Ramble and Richard Herring's As It Occurs to Me are my exercise soundtrack.

Later on K fiddles with some sewing while I get on with some FIFA manager mode games, then we flick through our Berlin travel guides looking for things to see when we get out there next Wednesday. It's very soon and we're getting more and more excited; though having never been before it's hard to get a handle on just what it is we want to go and see. I propose finding our bearings on the Wednesday, while also finding a bar in which to watch England v Slovenia in an unusual setting; then doing a culture/history day on the Thursday - taking in the Brandenburg Gate, the Reichstag and so on. As with any travel, though, we really won't know until we get there.