It was to be a lovely weekend, full of opportunity and wonder. How did I spend the 48 hour period from midnight Friday night to midnight Sunday night?

In a torrid marathon of heated passion? No.

Writing madly a masterwork of prose fiction? Hardly.

An intense round of hardcore gaming, complete with huge levelling of Diablo II characters and lotsa neat Unique loot? I wish.

Solving the deepest mysteries of existence? You should be so lucky.

Sleeping like the dead while some annoying little flu virus dances a jig on my intestinal tract, only allowing me to manage a grand total of ten hours out of bed the whole weekend? Bingo.