General: I'm Back! (again)

No sooner had I returned, I left again. After my few taxing weeks, I decided I needed a holiday and went out to Italy for a week, with school friend and ex band member, Richard Williams. Our flights were super cheap, costing £125 return, for three seats. One each, plus another for the Guitar. It was cheaper to get a seat for the guitar than it was to put it in the hold. Of course those seats were apparently "free" - I really wish they quoted actual costs.

I went out to see my parents, who run a Bed and Breakfast, and several holiday homes in the village of Trisobbio, some 45 minutes from Genova (Genoa) in Northern Italy. Check out the website if you want to know more about getting a room with them, or just want to see some pictures of the area.

We stayed in one of the houses that was pretty much in the dead centre of the village. It was absolutely idyllic, with the one downside of no internet access. Frankly, I'm glad of this, as a little disconnection did me some good. Rich and I went out there with the intention of writing a new album, for our new joint project. We wrote 6 complete songs, and we have a few more to work on, plus some instrumental tracks. So we should have enough soon for the album, which we will be making free of charge to stream from the website, or a minimal cost for a higher quality, DRM free download, with bonus tracks. We won't be gigging the songs at all, the intention being purely internet sales. We have written them in mind as also being able to be performed as acoustic tracks, so I'm not entirely against the idea.

As well as writing music, we drank far too much of the local wines, went on a few bike rides, basked in the glorious sun, took rabbits for walks and played scrabble. Maybe not everyone's idea of a good time, but suited me.

As my EeePC appears to have died on me, no longer charging, I was forced to take out an HP Notebook that my brother recently purchased in bulk at £250 a piece from eBuyer. Naturally, I wiped Vista and put a copy of Ubuntu on straight away. It was a surprisingly nice notebook to use, and at £250, you really can't complain!

Now I'm back home, I have to get quite a lot of stuff ready for Think Bikes, as the demo season is coming in thick and fast, as is the good weather.

I haven't got a clue. I need to take a closer look at it. It's being really flaky. I'm tempted to sell it for parts and buy the newer model That's if Asus don't cough up one first

It's all cheese! I don't do anything else

you don't, they take you

welcome back!