get up, back up, rack up

At 7.15am on Tuesdays a small group of us have a prayer meeting down at our local church here in Wimbledon. It's the only day I get up early... sometimes it feels too early. Since one of the batteries went on my watch some months back, the only alarm I've got is on my mobile. Lately I've been just waking up with Bronwyn's alarm, and getting up a little after her. But Tuesday I needed something early. So I set the mobile—6:15am. Evening passed, morning came. That was... well, so the alarm goes off, I feel ugh not enough sleep, but get up and head for the shower. Bronwyn expected to be hitting the shower about 15 mins later, in our strict bathroom order to get everyone to work. I shave. She never shows. Five minutes before Hayley is due to take over the bathroom, I head back to our room. “You've missed your shower...” quoth I. “It's 5:40am", her unassailable reply.

D'oh. My mobile was still on British Summer Time. I'd gotten up at 5:15am. I'd gone to bed close to 11pm too. Right now, it feels like I'm getting to old for stunts like this, even by accident. I stayed up, sent emails, tried to ring some friends in New Zealand. Ah, Titahi Bay. So, productive morning, but went through the day feeling totally surreal. Sleep. More sleep. I really gonna try to not do that again.

Tonight I've finally backed up our personal data from our computer. Turns out it was over four months since I'd last done this, which is despicable. I know that it's only a matter of time till we have a hard drive failure... It is inevitable. Why do I tempt disaster? Well I'd like to think I've learned, but... So if you haven't done a backup lately, just do it. Go. And do it. Now...

Finally, racking up the entries is my sister-in-law Megan on her new blog. As housemate Hayley commented tonight, she's managing to update more frequently than any of us despite having a three-week-old first baby. Scary. Makin' us look bad, Megan. Stand aside, coming through, got some high speed bloggin goin on...   : )