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30th December 2021 - An Odd Way to Share News ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I have returned from visiting my parents in Plymouth over the past week. It was nice even though we were all ill with some super cold which led to us all coughing away. My brother and his wife appeared on Christmas day. He sent a picture to the family chat. It is black and white with a fuzzy element to it. His one dog is white and there is a family joke about their arsehole looking abit like one of East 17 in that snow video of theirs. Naturally we all thought it was the dog's arse again. Instead it was a scan. His wife and himself have been having a hard time with getting pregnant and having lost a couple early on. We are being cautiously optimistic but it is wonderful news. Just shared in a slightly odd manner. In fairness, the scan was cropped significantly... I am torn with excitement for them and worry for the next 7 or so months. Hopefully all goes well for them! Today was spent building up bits and bobs from Ikea and doing some networking. I have a new bathroom cabinet with more storage space so I can free up wardrobe space and reduce clutter in the bathroom. I am impressed with the changes to Ikea products for ease of build. This was very easy compared to some of the other products I have like bookcases. There were more pre-drilled holes which helped make it all quicker and simpler to screw screws in. With the network, I decided to replace a service provider supplied router with a relatively cheap one I bought. I have also got a long ethernet cable and a switch to hardwire the office room to the router. The router has to live in the living room as this is where the ADSL line comes in. I have had some odd outages and slow network moments with the old router so thought it is worth trying something new. While working from home, the slow network moments hurt. Shall have to see if that helps on Tuesday.