Humming is good

So now I'm having sessions with a speech therapist because of my voice problems. She thinks it won't take long to "cure" me but even so I'll have to go a few times before I'm hopefully right again. Since the first session my voice has felt like a bag of spanners and has hurt more than it has done for a long time, so hopefully it will improve. Hopefully. Anyway, in the mean time I've been told that humming is good for your voice and I've got this weird exercise to do which involves sighing, humming and saying a vowel, all of which makes you feel a tiny bit silly, so I tend to do it as I'm walking to the train in the morning and there is nobody around.

In other news we've booked to go back to Lindos in August of next year - yay! The price has gone up a heck of a lot and the weeks we originally wanted were fully booked, so we had to take different weeks. We also narrowly escaped having Flyjet as our airline - something which, after the Paphos experience of a couple of years ago, we really wouldn't like to repeat.

This last week I've been in Leeds sitting in on a 2074 (Designing and Implementing OLAP Solutions using Microsoft SQL Server 2000) course which was more interesting and useful than it sounds. It was also a damn sight better than the SQL 2005 courses, all of which continue to be the bane of my life. Still, we're both off this coming week so no 2779/2780 induced misery this week, which is a very good thing.

How good is Firefox 2 by the way? Answer: very. Love it to bits, and I've become something of an evangelist for it, answering people's questions and queries whenever I find them on the net. Smashing bit of software, and a million miles better than IE7, which is fairly horrible.

We're going to see Morrissey in concert just before Christmas, which should be good. Tomorrow we're seeing Mitchell & Webb and until last week I was really looking forward to it, but I've read some very dodgy reviews of the tour so far and have suddenly started to worry about it a bit. Still, we shall see.

Not an awful lot more to report at the moment. Oh yes - the new Mark Z Danielewski book "Only Revolutions" is absolutely fantastic and is definitely the best book I've read this year. Not as good as "House of Leaves" of course, but still absolutely stunning and a joy - albeit a difficult one - to read.

And talking of reading, "Katie's Hair" has now been read an astonishing 172 times at this moment in time (more than any other story on the Bewrite home page!) and has had seven comments left behind by readers (all good!) and has an average rating of 4.25 out of 5. Which is nice.

All for now. Toodle pip.