Birthday (old) boy

My birthday was a quiet affair. Denise had been away all week, and I had dropped her in it regarding my birthday present. She'd offered that I could do up the top room so I could have get an large extra monitor and table for my PC setup, so I could have one position with my flight sim chair for playing games, and a separate work area for doing my e-mails and business stuff. The keyboard and mouse are wireless anyway, so it would be just a case of buying and connecting up a nice big gaming monitor, and finding a suitable table to put it on. My PC has four monitor outputs, so all I needed to do was find a way of setting it up so the cables would reach. And that's where I hit the problem: the best way to set it up so everything could be connected up would be for the work and play areas to face more or less 45 to 90 degrees from each other, and I could not work out how to do it in that room. So I told D, just a couple of days before she went away for the week, that I didn't want to do it just now, and that I needed to think about how to make it all work. That really dropped her in it. I wasn't really bothered about a present, so I didn't think too much about it; but she'd seen how much I liked the Tiger Woods Golf game on the Wii, so she bought me some golf lessons so I could have a go ath the real thing. I'll be having my introductory lesson on 26th

So anyway, on the Friday (11th), Denise got back, and presented me with a certificate she's made up for the golf lesson, and we went up the village to the Italian restaurant we always go to. It was a very nice evening, and it was nice to have Denise back. D had cut down how much she was spending away, but now she's going to have to start doing it again, and that week she was away seemed like a long time.