I've been watching the progress of Steve Fossett in his record attempt to fly around the world and then a bit over the last few days. In the attempt, setting off from Florida, he aims to fly around the world once and then tag on a trans-Atlantic leg, hoping to land in Kent this evening. Although entirely pointless, I'm quite interested by the attempt.
When he hit America's Pacific coast in San Diego, I even IM-ed my friend Kate in San Diego to see if she could see him. She couldn't. At work yesterday, Sesh quipped that the only people tracking his progress are me and his mum. Maybe he's right.
My friend Mark has set off on his own round-the-world trip at a more leisurely pace. You can read all about it here, with a permanent link in my blog links off to the right.
My wife downloaded a few tracks from iTunes yesterday. While she sang somewhat tunelessly (equipped with headphones) along to one of them while I cooked last night, I could have sworn that it was Terry Wogan's Floral Dance. Thankfully not - instead it was some Fleetwood Mac song. Must find out which one.
Not much has been going on this week, as my mind has instead been occupied with some serious personal stuff that came from left-field. However I have been putting a little thought and effort into a new project which will hopefully be appearing alongside this blog in the near future. Trying to sense-check it with a few people and tidy it up before its 'launch'. The combination of CSS and PHP is driving me crazy!
