Saw eldelphia, went swimming with Izzy, ate bagels, watched Burn After Reading, went to Tilgate Park, slept. In something like that order.

Awesome.

Up to lutterworth tomorrow and back again in a day. Not so awesome

So was our 5th anniversary on Friday so this time it was Ali's turn to arrange the weekend.

Izzy with the in-laws... check
Saturday visit castle... check
Arrive at Hotel... check
Hot-tub + gin... check
Seafood blow out... check
Sleep beyond 6am... check

So sweet.

Arundel Castle is amazing, 'The Fish House' is fantastic, but they really need to get the doors on the hot-tubs oh... and intercoms to order more gin. Petworth House well worth a visit.

Love my wife loads.

Found out about this job at my HQ in Leicester

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Apply direct - closes Wednesday

So 1am and I've only just managed to get the wretched Sky Router talking to both the Xbox and the laptop.
Worked fine until 8 weeks ago and then it stopped.
Can't replace the router because Sky won't let you... no way I was going to shell out for a replacement 360 wireless adapator.
What fixed it?
Well... About 20 reboots and about 5 hours of trying every config under the sun.
Still doesn't solve the random - can't have more than one wireless device on the network at a time flunk it's been throwing out the last week but hey one step at a time.

1st Word... 'Daddy'... completely and utterly for the win. OK, mummy is also 'Daddy'. The cats are 'Daddy' and the back door is - OK just about everything is 'Daddy'.

Chuffed. I am absolutely definetly sure 'Mummy' comes next. Gotta be, surely, definately going to me 'Mummy'.

Also got an unexpected present from Izzy today. While in the bath Izzy started offering me something while excitedly shouting, 'ots ziz, ots ziz'. What she normally does when pointing at a new thing she wants us to give a name to like, 'car' or 'Daddy acting like a Monkey'.

I was given a pebbble. Odd I think. A pebble. Fair enough - we do have a collection of stones we have collected while on various holidays by the bath. It must have fallen in... I'll put it back.

Odd I think, again. A soft-stone. This baby-bath can really moisturise!

Hmmmm. Maybe not a stone.

The questiona I still can't answer to myself is, 'why did I need to smell it before I realised what I had in my hand?' And 'why did I have to touch it to my nose to smell it?'. And 'why did it take Ali to suggest that I flush it down the toilet rather than just stand there with it in the palm of my hand?.

Cry for help...

So if your school's toilets were vandalised or due for a refurb how would the school go about purchasing the bogs/hiring contractors to do the work?

Yes its boring and yes the company I work for sells bogs.

Help please

So I didn't get the job. The Director is going to meet with me on Friday to explain how an under-performer with no relevant experience got the job. I await that like the proverbial hole-in-the-head.

There isn't a poo related metaphor to describe this particular moment in time.

I would do this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3kyNGVK-hI

but I'm not.

Got job interview Thursday. Nice

So after months of will-it won't-it my bosses job was finally advertised.

Awesome!

Application in today.

Possibly most anxious ever :(

Ostrich sized easter eggs from Hotel Chocolat are perhaps too big.

Perhaps...

Anyone out there any good with MS Access 03 or 07? I may have committed to something at work that my meagre skills can't cope with.

Have got all this week off work which is amazing. Izzy is spending her first week solo at the nursery. We completely lucked in with this... the building was purpose built and is under a year old and the staff to baby ratio seems absurdley high. The plan was that Ali and I would blitz the house and catch up on some 'us time'. The lurgy put paid to that.

Izzy's birthday yesterday; somewhat in awe at the skills she has mastered. Went to Dyna-mites (a kind of soft-gym play area thing) and then for one of her regular swimming lessons with her. She mostly grizzled all morning.

After wards we went to Fishers Park Farm... a meet the animals/adventure play ground near by. This was awesome... Bouncy Castles are for wimps. Giant Air Cushions are for the win! Being able to get into the pens with animals was also really cool and if we ever decide to get Izzy a Rabbit it will be Giant Rabbit.

Today (with Ali feeling much better) we went to Brighton for the purpose of seeing if I am suitable for Lazik eye treatment. In short I'm not. Very, very meh! Arse! And Grrr! all in one. Hey ho... with Ali back to work Monday and the escalationg cost of getting her car into a state I will be happy with her driving - this is probably for the best.

Tomorrow is the onorous but eventually satisfying process of sorting out the LARP kit to give us more room.

Then Saturday is Izzy's party and then a night out with wildwinter , greatbigshowoff leycha 
ali_ra , Chrisite, Sai & Caroline at a local restaurant...  scrofula and Mark are also making the massive trek down for the party during the day which is totally amazing considering the distance and I can't wait to see everyone.

Ian is bringing his podcast studio and Ali and I are hoping that everyone will leave a message for Izzy she can listen to when she is older - especially from the Great Grandparents.

phew..., that was a bit longwinded

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We now have HD Sky+. Awesome.

In The Nightgarden in 1080 is something terrible and hypnotic...

Student loan paid off next month - so have also signed up to have my eyes lazered. March 12th consultation, March FRIDAY THE 13th Argh!!! for the procedure and Saturday 14th for post-op check up. So Izzy's 1st birthday party may literally pass in a haze.

Frankly the thought terrifies me and I've put it off for years. Last year I was totally selfless and got a big LCD for the lounge so everyone could benefit from clear TV and not just me ;-P

Anyone had it done? Anyone with sensible warnings?

At least 12" of snow at my office yesterday and still there today.

The branch converted the forklift into a snow plough and we all had to dig out parking spaces.

And yes you can spin a car on ice doing only 10mph... sweet.

Anyone else got more exciting stories about the snow or have we all been work keeners and got on with our jobs?

So have now got Dark Heresy - Disciples of Dark Gods and the Imperial Infantrymans Uplifting Primer. Also pre ordered next Horus Heresy book.

most excellent :)

Oh and Xbox is back from Germany and repaired... I hope. I've not switched it on yet

Doozer grinding her teeth - imagine scraping your teeth down a brick... eugh!

Is super fubar'd.

Probably new engine.

Luckily company car, unluckily some other stuff I don't get about costs of getting the car repaired (probably me being paranoid)

Luckily have replacement car

Survivors... v cool
Wallander... v cool

festive cheer everyone

I drove in to one... I didn't drive out.

Ali and I pushed, Sai steered and Caroline Doozer Wrangled.

That was the weekend that was

Rhubbish

Izzy ran a temperature and we hope is going to finish the next round of teething soon.

Rosie is now booked to get some teeth pulled and the cist removed from her forehead... the ugliest cat in the world is gonna be a whole lot fuglier once she's had her face shaved :D

Work posted 1/2 year results and we are 10% up in revenue and up in GP and revenue per head. Our competition are closing branches and laying people off in their '000s... go us!

Would be the worse kinda sucky rubbbishness if we get hit by redunancies but I'm not going to hold my breath.

Love Film continues... watched GHost Rider... hmmm... yeah... OK.... kinda fun with a slight wiff or arse.

Work christmas season starts next week in force... free booze and food is not always a good thing :D