I bought my plane tickets the other day. Was a spur of the moment thing. After talking to Em almost the entire weekend, we decided that it would be best if I come over in May instead of June so we get an entire week together instead of only a couple days. Good plan I thought, so I booked the tickets with Travelocity.

Of course I didn't reckon on my card being rejected! Well it's my own fault, ordering something costing £500 the wrong side of pay day! Luckily I got the email before they closed for the night, so I called them up immediately and gave them my other card number. So hopefully now that will go through and the tickets will be on their way to me soon :)

I also booked my time off work, which luckily I was allowed to take. God knows what I'd do if Peter had said no. Yeah my payment hadn't gone through but what if it had? The tickets are non-refundable! I would've just thrown £500 down the pisser. It was lucky he was in a good mood, although his laptop was broken. He had been waiting all day for me to get into the office (I spent the morning up in London), as he was getting some odd errors after he'd installed the drivers and software for his digital camera. He also couldn't get his monitor working with his docking station properly. So I took a look at it.

I uninstalled the drivers he'd put on, to see if that would fix the error message that kept coming up. Something about "an error sending the command to the keyboard". Didn't help. So I typed the phrase into Google. BINGO!! It was a problem with the Adobe Type Manager or something, so I uninstalled that too... problem solved. Now onto getting his cam working, I tried downloading the latest from FujiFilm - no good :( Eventually I tried installing the drivers back off the CD, and suddenly there was life! It worked!! YAY! Finally, getting his monitor working again. That took a bit more fiddling, as his laptop really didn't want to switch off the laptop screen and use the monitor instead. But somehow I solved that too. Peter was happy, I was happy... I love it when things just work.

Last night Em asked me to make some music CDs for her, and gave me a big list of tracks to put on them. I wrote them all down, worked out what I already had and what I needed. Then after work I loaded up my good friend KaZaA Lite and started to download all the songs I didn't have. I love ADSL, it only took about 45 minutes to download all 12 songs I needed. If I had done that at home I would've been waiting at least 2 hours LOL!

I spent an hour or so sorting all the MP3s out, getting the names right etc. Then I started to set up the CDs I would be putting them onto. Normally I use some really cheap CDs to burn stuff onto, but I decided to use some branded ones for once. Maybe they'll last a bit longer than my extra cheapola unlabelled ones ;)

I'd like to take this opportunity to "big up" Nero Burning ROM. What a totally fantastic piece of software! Not only can I burn an audio CD with it, but I can create the CD tray and inlay labels... and it even supported the exact paper I had on hand with my CD labeller. So I used two of the built in templates to create some pretty sweet looking labels :) I printed them both out on the proper paper, and put them into the boxes and stuck the CD label onto the CD. Very nice :) I think Em will be impressed :D

Wow, this was a long entry! Bet that won't happen again for a while :P

10 DAYS TO GO!!