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My week off work was great fun. I had the entire house and the whole internet connection to myself, and nobody else but me to worry about for an entire week. I stayed up late, got up late and did many amusing things. I shopped for myself, bought all the things my parents don’t believe in buying, I had some hilarious efforts at cooking and just did whatever the hell I wanted to.

Unfortunately these things do have to come to an end, and it was an effort to get up for work on Monday morning. I thought that was bad, but it was nothing compared to what it was like this morning. I thought I was going to collapse when I dragged myself out of bed and into the shower - I’m totally not a morning person. People have said you can change yourself to be but I just don’t believe it. I’ve *never* been able to get up properly in the mornings, not matter when I go to bed and how much sleep I have. Still, I’m going to try and get to bed a bit earlier in future.

I think I’m going to do some experimentation with the Zend framework this evening. It’s a way of programming that separates content and layout for a site, and then ties it together using a “controller”. It sounds like the perfect scalable solution for an idea I have for a new website. I’m going to start it and see whether the idea still takes my fancy when I’ve done a bit of coding with it.

I’ve just rewritten my IRC bot (botsworth) as well, to use TuB’s framework. Unfortunately he’s changed it already and so it’ll probably be due a rewrite sometime soon. He is ridiculously impulsive and will often change his mind entirely about something in a matter of minutes!

The Premier League is looking like it’ll be an epic battle this season, from the matches I’ve seen so far. I’m tipping United, Chelsea or Liverpool for the title - I’ve been told not to write off teams like Arsenal, but I’m just not convinced. I may stand to eat my words…