Busy.

Recap of last weekend:
Jude's Birthday - Saturday Afternoon
Lou's Birthday Cruise (with terrible dj!) - Saturday Night
Teddy Bears Picnic - Sunday


More detailed responses to follow.

Jude's Birthday

It was Jude's 2nd birthday on Saturday.

He ended up with a bunch of pressies:

• Thomas Trains
• Thomas Jacket
• Wiggles Puzzle
• Hot Wheels Cars
• Large Model car
• Spinning thing
• T Shirts
• Books

I think that's about it - well, everything that I can remember anyway.

We took him to the Teddy Bears Picnic on Sunday too, which he really seemed to enjoy.

Footy

is back! :)

NAB cup is go tonight, with 2 matches, then 3 tomorrow and 3 on Sunday (I think!) .

It's been a while since the footy was on telly, so it's exciting again. We are getting Foxtel, so we wont miss a minute of the footy this year! Wooo!

Crunch time...

Ok - I'm starting to get irritated by work now. Not so much that I have to go to work (because I know that I do!), but mostly by what I'm doing at the moment.

Having done my handover of the project I last worked at, I'm kind of at the point where I'm wondering what to do, career path wise.

1. Continue down the path that I'm on, for which I'm studying the certifications right now. This would move me up to a Senior Consultant, but would that mean a pay rise? Not too sure. It's not like passing this exam will instantly make me a better programmer, or one which you could sell more easily. This would mean at least 1 more exam, and that could take some time.

2. Move to being a 'content management' specialist. Staying at the same employer, but bring tied to one specific product which we sell. Seems like a lot of the web stuff is going this way, which means I'd have a bit of on site work, but would really stop my programming.

3. Leave the company - Leaving opens a whole wide world of opportunities - Documentum, Senior Java developer (and 30k pay rise!), I could do a bunch of things.. maybe Oracle DBA. I guess it's the old thing - you have a comfort factor where you are, so why change?

Firefox Extensions

Ok - I'm a convert to Firefox. Avant was giving me too many headaches with locking up and taking all system resources. Opera is a nice quick browser, but it's not extendable like Firefox.

I'm going to list my favourite extensions:

1. Performancing - Brilliant for Bloggers.
2. LinkedIn - Useful for maintaining your professional contacts.
3. AdBlock - Zaps those pesky Pop-Ups.
4. StumbleUpon - Great for time wasting (not that I'd ever do that!)
5. TabBrowser Preferences - Excellent for customising your tabbed browser settings.
6. SessionSaver - Means you dont lose your windows you have open when you close.
   

There are probably others, and I haven't really used FF in anger, and there are a couple of developer specific extensions that I've got, but it's not fair to give them a rave before I've been through them.

New Words...

1. Calais (Calalais)
2. Love You
3. Nigh Nigh
4. Please
5. No (although he doesn't really understand what it means!)
   
6. Hurties, better

Also, due to the side effects of chemo, lots of food related ones:

1. Stras
2. Sausage Roll
3. Milk
4. Chicken Schnizel
   
5. Choccie Milk
6. Bickies

Ed: And from Rach -

more words you left out..
naughty nitzel
naughty word
bideo (video)
chemo
port
retties (resties)
ooo oo and choccie milk & b-line (supposed to be v-line)

BTC

is back baby! :)

Time again to launch for another season of fantasy football. Hopefully I can go one better than last year, and take the premiership. I will again be writing lots of articles throughout the year, but we will see how much time uni takes.

Puffing...

Mike and I took Jude to Puffing Billy on Saturday. He loved it! :)

Well, mostly. I think he likes to watch trains, rather than ride on them, although he was really keen to stand at the end of the carriage with the wind is his (short!) hair....

We rode on 1NB and 21NBD - 1NB has been beautifully restored, and we were the only passengers on the whole carriage. We ran from Belgrave to Menzies creek behind 6A and 7A, and 7A took us to Emerald Station. We also saw the cute little fire spotter which follows the main train.

Headphones..

I've really missed my old headphones - A really nice pair of Sony street style phones, which fold up - I've had them for at least 3 years, and they have lasted fantastically well - until I let Jude get to them! :P

I did get some replacement ones (here), but they just don't do it for me. I think I'll be looking for pretty much a replacement of the ones that I did have - similar to these. Don't get me wrong, I dont particularly mind the apple iPod ones, but I'd rather not look like an iPod wanker. Well, any more than I need to anyway.

Waiting...

I have been at the office for the past week, doing some cleanup work on an old project that I had been responsible for a couple of years.

I've done pretty much all of the updates now, but have found out that the new client is delaying me going back out on site. Bugger.

At least I will be able to get some certification study done though.

BMW Drivers...

I'm looking over a carpark at the moment, being back in the office.

Anyway, it turns out that there is a BMW X5 across in the carpark - out in the open. From what I can see, the drivers side window is down (smashed?) - Now, this wouldnt normally be a problem during summer, except that we are having a cold snap - with the associated pounding rain. Oooops!

Wedding Crashers

Ok, so I'm a Vince Vaughan fan.

And Owen Wilson sometimes tickles my funny bone.

Put the two of them together, and what have you got? Well, I thought it would be a very funny movie, but aparently not. I guess it was always going to get schmalzy, given that the word 'Wedding' is in the title.

Some funny bits, like the meeting on the stairs - You motorboating motherfucker!

But overall, pretty average movie.

6/10

ergh...

Ok - I've been a bit slack with the updating of this blog - there are more important things to concentrate on that the moment.

We had Guyman's 30th Birthday the other day, which was great fun! :) He's the baby of the group, so he's the last one to enter the 30s! :) I think we are all doing pretty good for a bunch of old blokes! :)

Solids baby!

Jack is onto the solids now - Well, when I say solids, I mean mostly mush, with some lumps in it. We have been trying to train that gag reflex out of him, and it seems to be getting a lot better - He wolfed down the kids spaghetti last night, and although the pasta was soft as buggery, he managed to nearly bring it all back up! :)

He also wolfed down a bunch of yoghurt - I'm not surprised that he slept from 8pm to 7am! :)

Little tacker, unfortunately due to Jude's sickness, he's having to spend a lot of time over at Rach's mum's place, which I think he likes (the attention!), but he's moving around a lot now, which means it's a bit harder to just plonk him down and expect him to be there when you get back.

The Onion

Has always been one of my favourite sites, but I saw recently that they have stared a daily podcast of the latest news.

Only a minute per episode, but extremely funny.

Go get it!

Home | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Crawling

Jack started crawling today! :)

He has been threatening to get about, and he's been kinda working his way around the lounge, but he actually got both arms and legs synchronised into an offical crawl today. :)