I’m exhausted. I’ve got two kids, and my 1-year old boy has been crying all night. We’re actually very lucky, this almost never happens. But when it does it’s all the worse - we’re not used to this kind of noise, and we’re completely beaten out by it. Fortunately he seemed fine this morning, and my wife’s taken him and his sister to day-care.

And what a wonderful feeling it is to sit down in a quiet house at last, with a hot cup of coffee and read the morning news on the web. On the front page: Fidel Castro is drinking juice - on television… Good for him, I say. I usually get annoyed at tabloid headlines, so I decide to leave the online newspapers and click through my favorite tech blogs, Techcrunch and Lifehacker. Vista’s pretty much in focus these days. I’ve decided not to switch to Vista just yet. I have some music composing equipment for my computer, and it seems that I could stumble on to some trouble with Vista. I can’t afford to upgrade all my music software at once, so I’ll have to wait and see how things develop with Vista. When I switched from Windows 98 to XP I gradually substituted my equipment over the course of a couple of years - guess I’ll do the same thing now.

Unless I’m going for Linux, of course. I’ve considered Linux for some time, and I have an old computer I want to install it on, just to try it out. From what I’ve read, it seems like a good alternative, especially with the complete installation packages of Ubuntu. Anyway, I’m in no hurry.

Oh, and today must move out all the stuff in my garage. They’re demolishing my old garage this week to build a brand new one later in the spring. It’ll probably be a rough winter for my car, but I’m glad it’s finally happening. The old garage was on the verge of collapsing. I’m not very fond of hard physical work, so I’ll probably wait a little while before I go to work. I’m very comfortable in front of my computer right now… I’m going back to work tomorrow, so it’s better to enjoy my home comfort while I can.

The weather’s quite awful, so I’m looking forward to my daily walk. Really, I am. When you’re dressed for it, it’s refreshing to go for a walk in a rain storm at 0°C, I promise. But first I’ll spend a few hours in front of my computer in my very comfortable leather armchair.