Thought that while I was eating lunch I'd do a general sort of update journal.

MotoGP:
Well, after round 2 last weekend at Jerez, Casey Stoner is no longer leading the world championship after finishing in 11th position, two excursions into the sand at the end of the back straight didn't help his cause. Seems the Ducati/Bridgestone combination wasn't a good pairing at the Spanish circuit. Bridgestone did have one good finish with Rossi taking second on his Fiat Yamaha behind Dani Pedrosa on his Michelin shod HRC Honda. Newcomer Jorge Lorenzo followed up his debut with another solid performance finishing third behind Rossi on the second Fiat Yamaha.

The Portuguese GP at Estoril is just under 2 weeks away so it will be interesting to see if Stone can bounce back and wrest the title lead away from arch rival Pedrosa.

Formula 1:
2 rounds down and already we've seen controversy. After Hamilton's win in Australia we saw both the Mclaren's penalised 5 grid positions at Malaysia for blocking on their slowdown laps during Qualifying 3. This bumped both Hamilton and Kovalainen back to mid-field. Kovalainen was able to make the best of this finishing 3rd but Hamilton was dogged by a bad pitstop where a wheel cover jammed and took his stop out past 20 seconds. This opened the door for BMW's Robert Kubica to showcase his talents in taking second place. Ferrari's Kimi Räikkönen started from second on the grid beside team mate Felipe Massa and went to on take a convincing win by almost 20 seconds. Massa was running second until what appeared to be a case of courage overtaking ability which sent him spinning off into the sand between corners 7 and 8 midway through the race.

Bahrain is the next stop for the f1 circus and the desert circuit should prove an interesting battle between the Ferrari's and Mclaren's and Kimi and Lewis in particular with only 3 points separating them in the standings at this point, and with BMW running well they should also be up there in the mix with Nick Heidfeld who is equal second with Räikkönen. Renault and Fernando Alonso are yet to show the pace that gave Alonso his two world titles but don't count them out just yet. Of the newcomers this may be the race that Sebastien Bourdais completes after an engine failure in Melbourne and a spin in Malaysia.

V8 Supercars:
Round three will find the Fords and Holdens flying to New Zealand for the Hamilton round of the championship. Ford have taken the chequered flag at both rounds so far with TeamVodafone's Jamie Whincup currently on top of the leaderboard from the HSV DealerTeam's Rick Kelly. Can the Lion tame the blue boys over the water?

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Well, that's what's happening in the world of motorsport. lol

As for me, I'm finally back on the bike after a 6 month layoff (by way of the local constabulary and me exceeding the speed limit) so I'm taking things a bit easy as I get back in the saddle so to speak. I'm playing around with Carrara 5 at the moment, doing all the posing in D|S and then exporting the .obj and importing it into Carrara so there will be the odd render uploaded as I learn.

My wife is back at uni for her second year of study in her degree and just like the first year she is thoroughly enjoying it which is great. And I get to find out all cool stuff when she tells me about it of a night time.

It's hard to believe but out little boy is almost 2 years old now. He's doing just what you would expect from a little boy of that age. His big thing at the moment is the little veggie garden we put in last weekend. He helped us dig over the soil and now with all the plants sprouting it's not uncommon at all to find him squatting down in front of it looking at all the plants. We've got some strawberry's to plant this weekend so heaven help us when they fruit - we won't see any of them, but I'm sure his tummy will!