Friendly fire gets worse

So preoccupied with the Icebreaker top, because it was brand new and a christmas present from my Dad, where he wanted to try and help me on the trip, I missed that my technical micro-fleece was a comrade in battle and joined the Icebreaker in not surviving the hand grenade, or rather friendly fire.

So I guess some chaps smaller than me, but bigger than Toovey, are going to get nice presents in Khumjung School.

Still no update on who foots the bill, she is bigging up the TV so presume that her opinion is that this admonishes her, maybe I should ask for a stake in the TV. Have also been advised advised to play around with the plug, putting a bigger fuse in and blowing it up claiming I was only trying to help.

Hero or villan

How can a female housemate temper her legendary status of buying a massive LCD top spec Bravia TV? By finding out, within minutes of her telling you that, that she has put your brand new icebreaker (merino wool) baselayer, the only really decent present this year, in the dryer and shrunk it.

Welcome to the jungle

What a first three days! I thought it was full on last year balancing this all out. Now I have a new client at work in BT which I need to get familiar with, people are being made redundant left right and centre, and Everest as got even more hectic as we get close in on actually going. I am pulling a comprehensive project plan together, currently at 13 pages of a word document, and not font size 18 I promise.

On top of this I need to get fit, I have come off the back of 4 weeks off, a mixture of flu and suffering problems with my IT band due to pronating right foot. This all seems to have been fixed by shoes that account for this, rest and some exercises, but I suffered at the Trim Trail tonight! Anyway got back, been going through the inbox, actions actions actions, starting to close in on an expedition kit partner, couple of meetings including with Qatar's agency, getting one pager updated, sorting our first medical team meeting, and so on and so on! One part of me loves it, the other just isn't sure what I am doing! Thankfully the former is the dominant half! What does daunt me is finding the time to do personal fundraising! I don't get let off on that!