Got a hearing date from my solicitor: a week on Friday - the day I fly to Sydney. That'll be an interesting one, then. Hopefully, I'll be able to drink champagne on the flight.

More email from my schoolboy - who is a schoolboy and not a teacher. That was concerning me somewhat!

I think it's safe to assume Jon and I have given up on the gym for now. The problem I face is keeping such pants hours at work (my fault, nobody else's) that I don't leave until about 6.30pm and then the last thing I want to do is head to the gym. Perhaps I should try getting into work, er, on time? To be honest though, I wonder whether I actually care. After all, had I been determined to be an adonis by now I'm should I would be. Perhaps. Oh - I don't know!

NASDAQ's gone mental. I've lost so much money over the last few days on everything apart from AMD, which is performing nicely. Just as well given I got the VISA bill with my pooter on it today. I think I'll be selling my AMD holding shortly and buying more stock in the ones that have gone down, because from down they can only go up again. Hm. I think that's a safe assumption.

I like Tim's advice. "Nobody ever went bust taking a profit."

Martin called to tell me he's fixed me up in Sydney with an opportunity to play the Town Hall organ. Storming! I'd better try and get some practice in this week.