Just finished three weeks of needed vacation. It had been so long since I had a break that long that it was a bit weird. We stayed close to home and got some domestic stuff done. At the end of it we got to go and stay up in Tairua for four days and it really topped off the whole break. School holidays have ended and it was so quiet. Most of the days as you can see in the picture we had the beach mostly to ourselves. Now it's back to routine. I hope to be pounding out some more posts soon as that routine kicks in again. I'm being distracted by the Winter Olympics. I might have to find an angle for a story but as it stands now it's down to the oppressive restraint of free speech by the Canadian authorities (inexplicable really from the normally sedate and laid back Canadians, I mean really, the Olympic torch did look like a giant joint!). The only other storyline I can really come up with at this stage is the seemingly endless amount of smoking hot female athletes at these games. I'm wondering if this has to do with more stingent drug testing that has more Eastern European women with lesser facial hair showing off more of their natural features . You'll see in a few days which way I go with that. Mark