So for my birthday the powers that be decided to give me pneumonia.

I'll be celebrating my birthday this year with a nice round of antibiotics, possibly followed by some ice cream.

I feel blessed have so many caring people in my life. In spite of all the crap going on in my life, I do consider the fact that there are good people worrying over me, taking care of me, etc is something not everyone has the luxury of having. If you are one of those people, thank you.

Thank you to whoever did all the nice links here, it made me smile, which is something pretty rare these days.

So, recently I finished school for the summer, which gives me an awful lot of time to fill up. Yes, there's the garden, and I'm desperate to set my mind to Objective C, but sadly so far all I've managed to do is lounge about in the summer house and finish Reading Ramsey Campbell's novel, Ancient Images, in eager anticipation of a copy of Lullaby, by dear old Chuck Palahniuk. Yes, the one who wrote Fight Club, way back when.

So, how am I spending this afternoon? I'm slowly and painstakingly typing out my first ever node from an iPhone. It's not as difficult as you might imagine, although I'm only using one finger, and lots of the symbols necessary for HTML markup and even linking take a wearying number of taps. That said, I'd still happily bend over forwards for Steve Jobs to own one of these lovely devices. Takes me back to the days of everything2 WAP access.

Enough... I can't bear to type the paragraph tags one more time... It may beat my old P990i over the head with a stick, but there are limits to even an Apple fanboy's endurance...