Bert heads off to school for the first time today. He’s jumping out of his skin to get there.
He’s been home every day with me for the past five years, I’m going to miss my little man.
My Tweets For The Week
- okay eyes, how do you feel about, you know, being able to focus on things? Would be a big help. #
- Seriously, eyes, I have work to do. Get your act together. #
- Going to try and work off laptop today. Even with (evaporative) air con this office gets pretty warm with the main PC and two monitors going #
- Moo quote of the morning "But Henry, I'm a lady so can I have a lady train?" #
- let's have a listen to what @HawkShow and @6MusicSlev got up to yesterday. #
- And they don't diasspoint, starting off with Regret. Well down @hawkshow, @6MusicSlev #
- Big gusts of wind outside, could it be the cool change (currently on 38)? #
- Temps are dropping! http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/observations/melbourne.shtml #
- No they're not!! #
- Cool change has hit here too @danielbowen , dropped 17 degrees. #
- The chick on MKR looks like Sherine from Big Pig. Hungry Town anyone? #mkr #
- One vomiting child for a couple of hours in the middle of the night makes for two very late running parents this morning. #
- Is slowly realising that maybe he didn't confirm today's shift with the baby sitter…. #
- There she goes again. Poor Moo #
- Pretty happy we got in with @Kogan LivePrice the day before it officially launched. http://www.kogan.com.au/shop/category/liveprice/ #
- Can't believe how bad this cyclone may be. News is going to be tough to watch tomorrow. #
- Flights booked for a quick trip to Sydney to visit clients. Another 5 hour burst of meetings. #
- Saved, yet again, by Chrome's 'Restore Closed Tabs'. #
- Web install of apps to my phone is pretty cool. Nice one Google #android #
- Friday morning. You know what that means. http://t.co/ckYQBlN #
- Bert had his assessment for Prep this morning and is even more revved up for school now. But when did teachers start going by first names? #
- Camembert and crackers covers all 5 food groups, I don't care what they say. #
- Serious rain just hit Derrimut. #
- Can't sleep. #
- Dear #Optus and Channel 7, the Australian Open finished a week ago, you can stop the ads now. #
- To quote the Eurythmics, here comes the rain again. #
- Made a good old fashioned Aussie tonight to universal acclaim, it goes on the roster. #
- Oh oh. Looks like Henry has the bug now. Fingers crossed it doesn't get to Bert before Monday. #
- You know the one thing Bert's school doesn't include in their information pack or on their (crappy) web site? The time school starts. #
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Mr Henry And His Chocolate Frog
My New Mug
Couldn’t resist when I saw it in Coles today.
My Tweets For The Week
- Kennedy still asleep. Funny that. #
- Network multi-function devices rock. #
- in all the new job excitement I completely forgot Rae is going out to dinner tonight. Pizza time. #
- Watching 6PM #
- Reading the kids The Magic Faraway Tree, they're loving it. #enidblytonrocks #
- Why is my bed covered in Thomas The Tank Engine stickers? #
- Catching up on a couple of @HawkShow (and @6MusicSlev ) shows while I work. Public holidays are great for getting work done. #
- How cool. Bert just came in to the office and asked if we could read more of Alice In Wonderland together. #awesomedadmoment #
- Sitting around in my new robot covered pyjama pants. Don't judge me, it's a holiday. #
- Bought the kids a little box of Lego when I was out. Happy Lego building sounds from the lounge room. #
- My New ' Sleeping Pants' http://picplz.com/FBPP #
- Dear @hawkshow and @6MusicSlev how do I unhear what I just heard!?!? I need a mental scrubbing brush. #
- Phone rings, I answer. "Hi Tony, I wonder if would be possible to get a quote for a monument." "It could be, but not from me." #
- Why am I still hungry after that huge dinner? #
- Slept in this morning, pancakes are running late. #
- New Do. Ain't she pretty. http://picplz.com/FqDs #
- Back from shopping. One of this tiny yet amazingly expensive shops. #
- Butter Wouldn't Melt… http://picplz.com/FTC4 #
- The opening line from another of my favourite books. http://amzn.com/k/1VNW04FP8T2IO #Kindle #
- Wiping 1TB external HP HD to get rid of its stupid backup program. 'Smart Backup' kills network connection whenever it starts up. Thanks HP. #
- Why on earth do next door still have their aircon going flat chat, it's beautiful out, open your windows. #
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Digital
The first conversion to digital was CD to MP3. It would be about 8 years ago now that I converted 600 odd CDs to MP3, prompted by the arrival of my first iPod. Since then the purchasing of CDs has slowly dried up to nothing. The last CD I purchased would have been Paul Kelly’s Stolen Apples, and that was in 2007.
It wasn’t long after MP3 that I began to torrent television shows from overseas (starting with Lost and Life on Mars). Initially I’d download the show and convert them to DVDs to watch. Then we bought a DVD player with DivX capabilities so we’d download and convert to DivX, which saved a bundle on discs (this was before we had a DVD RW burner). A couple of years ago a PC came free and, using Windows Media Centre, I turned it in to a media PC. It is now networked and has two TV tuners and it’s how we watch our television and movies. We have 115 movies on it at the moment and years worth of television series. It’s also my project over the next year or so to upgrade the PC and the amp to allow for surround sound when watching telly.
Now I’ve made the next move to digital entertainment,, I”ve bought a Kindle. I’ve only had it for a week but I can see it will be the same seismic shift. It’s so easy to use, and so convenient. I’m reading Alice In Wonderland to Bert from it and it’s great to pick it up and start exactly from where we left off. Ren bought one at the same time as me and she’s already toting over 250 books around with her. And the books are cheap, massively cheaper than the paperback versions, even when buying from Book Depository. I’m sure there will be some books I continue to buy, it’s really only suited to text books and anything with images just wouldn’t work, but for a straight forward read of a novel it’s superb.
So music, movies and now books. If they could just figure out a way to digitise caffeine I’d be in heaven.
Too Cute For Words
So here’s a picture.
We Rocked
Just over a month ago we stumbled across an episode of 30 Rock on Channel 7, or maybe it was 7 Two, or possibly Mate. Anyway, we thought it was incredibly funny and I spent the next couple of days asking why no one had ever told me to watch this show. I also spent that time sourcing all four complete seasons and the episodes of season 5 up to date.
I’m happy to announce that we’ve now watched all 91 available episodes (92 if you include the repeat live show). It may sound slightly obscene to have watched that many in such a short time but the episodes are short, only 20 minutes or so, and with the summer break it was a lot easier to stay up later and fit in just one, or two,or three, more.
It’s a great show and it is sorta sad that we now have to wait for more Lemony goodness but now we can get back to the other shows we had started. It may be time to look up summaries of the eps we’ve watched in season 3 of True Blood so far. Or more Dexter. Or….
Too many choices. Blurgh!
My Tweets For The Week
- It's in Melbourne!!!! Arrived at the delivery facility at 07:24. Woo Hoo! #
- Status is now "Delivery arranged no details expected" (?!?!?) and apparently Derrimut is "VICTORIA STATE OUTLYING AREAS" #
- Sherbet guitarist and Cold Chisel drummer die. Members of Midnight Oil and INXS very nervous. #ruleofthree #
- Phee's mowing the lawns with nary a tanty to be seen. #
- Dear population of Melbourne despite what you hear we are not murdering Kennedy, she's just not happy at being told to stay in her bed. #
- Still waiting. DHL have given it someone (possibly Aus Post) to deliver and now I have no idea where it is. #
- Looks like it's going to take longer to move one suburb than from Louisville, KY, USA to Melbourne, Aus. #
- It's arrived!! http://twitpic.com/3r19lm #
- And here's what I've been waiting for. http://yfrog.com/h41a7gj #
- Lunch! That's what I forgot! #
- At what stage of Jan do you stop saying happy new year? #
- The first line from the first book I bought for my Kindle. http://amzn.com/k/2794L2DBYENCU #Kindle #
- Loving my new #kindle so far, only thing is that after my phone I find it weird to be pushing a button instead of using a touch screen. #
- Can't remember the last time I used Access for a database, lot's of cobwebs being blown away to help this client. #
- 7.30 if too late to be waking up. #
- Being Boring #
- If you could kindly turn off that screaming alarm I may be able to get some work done… #
- Good weather for a bbq. #
- Dexy's doing Jackie Wilson Said on The Young Ones. Brilliant. #
- Friday morning…here come the pancakes. #
- Net back to normal at about 7.5Mb/s after a week or so of speeds around 2.5 #
- Very happy for two reasons. One is I got to legitimately use NewOrder as a variable name and two, well, that has to wait. #
- Haircut done, coffee done, time for work. #
- Catalogues! Time to stop work. #
- Hey @neatstreets just saw a clean up crew in my street for an issue I submitted, thanks! #
- Who needs Instagram, now I've got @picplz, thanks @scobleizer #
- just posted a pic: http://picplz.com/FKf7 #
- Miaow and Roger had a bath. http://picplz.com/FKGp #
- Market breakfast was Plan B http://picplz.com/FQJW #
- Henry eyes off number 2 http://picplz.com/FQJt #
- omelettes! omelettes! It's omelettes for dinner! Rae makes the best omelettes in the world. #
- Fly your flag Bert! http://picplz.com/F2H0 #
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Neat Streets
Anyone who has to spend more than, oh, 5 seconds with me in the past six months or so would know just how much I love my Android phone (sorry everyone, particularly you Zita). It’s great and I use it to keep track of everything for home an business. One fantastic app I found was Neat Streets. It’s designed for you to report issues in your community. You take a photo and it automatically records the location, make a note on the problem and submit it. Neat Streets then gets the location from the report and sends the information on to the relevant local authority to deal with.
Today I got to see it in action.
A little while ago I noticed that someone had just abandoned a few sheets of metal mesh in the parking bays in our street, along with a trailer. I realised they had been there for a while so I snapped a photo with my phone, made the note and away it went.
I was standing out the front today wishing that some one would come along and weed my garden for me when I noticed two guys in safety shirts walking up the street. They went to the mesh, had a poke around and walked back up the street. Five minutes later they returned with a bob cat and truck and the mesh was gone.
Now I know it works there’s a couple of other things I’m going to send in. Not pointing fingers but if you live two streets over and the car you have seemingly abandoned is blocking the footpath, and has been for a few months, stand by…