So I forgot to talk about London's Marathon yesterday. Well, the only thing that happened is that I went out for a run and I realized that all my usual running routes were cut or taken by the marathon route. No biggie but a bit annoying because I have to juggle with routes to complete my kilometrage (is that an English word?)

I saw the end on TV, one of the guys that finished at 2 hours 5 minutes started to vomit after finishing. Never felt like that after a run, but maybe I am not pushing my body to the extremes of human endurance these guys do....

Very impressed by Steve Clarknell, former Olympic rower, who ran under 3 hours (i.e. elite time). He is massive, moving so much muscle around is quite difficult.

I bought an Eee PC, it is charging now. I got a manly black one, the other colour available was pink... I really need such a thing now that I don't have a company provided laptop (or so is what I tell myself) and I wasn't prepared to spend more than £1000 for a similarly sized laptop when I do little more than email and some web browsing while travelling.

I will buy a few gadgets more, I shouldn't but the redundancy money is the devil sweet talking me into this...

I went to watch "The orphanage" (El orfanato), which is a movie difficult to pin down. Paranormal thriller is perhaps the best description of it. It is very watchable, it has 2 or 3 very scary moments and it reaches some kind of happy ending (not in the Hollywood sense I suppose). Worth seeing. I identified Edgar Vivar, a Mexican actor that used to play characters in many TV comedies in the 70s and 80s, nice to see he is getting to work in a decent movie.

I saw just by chance that the PROMS guide is already on sale (that is how distracted I currently am, I normally go to look for it the first day it is out).

This year there are several concerts in the memory of Olivier Messiaen who would have been 100 this year I believe. Sir Simon Rattle brings his Berlin Philharmonic, a treat never to be missed, and there are several very good soloists in the mix.

I may skip the Last Night this year, I have to start saving money somewhere.....