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• Tennis done. Cricket all but done. School just about to go back. Must be footy time any day now. #
• Any one else have problems when they get new glasses? My eyes are all over the shop today. #
• Kids too busy playing with Lego and on Club Penguin to watch a movie. #noneedforpaternitytest #
• Any bar tenders out there? I know the ingredients for a Montenegro Mule, just not sure on proportions. #
• Why do they put screws in glasses so they face down? Surely it would be safer to have them face upwards in case they work loose? #
• Surprise. Kids actually start kinder today, not next Monday. Thankfully Rae re-read the letter. Only a half daytoday but excited kids. #
• Stupid computer – how can there be so many solutions to 'no valid ip configuration' and not a single works…. #
• Love it that Rae can get a movie from @oovie_australia in the city and I can return it just around the corner. #
• Here's a tip. Frozen pork belly looks very much like frozen chicken fillets. #changeofplanfordinner #
• Bert back to school this morning, back to the old routine. #
• First back to school crisis solved – school hats found in the old school bag. #
• Reading the 'CpmmWeb Virtual Payment Client Integration Guide' is as scintillating as it sounds. #
• Moo just had a mega meltdown before we left the house but she has learnt that screaming "I WANT LUNCH OUT TOO" will not get her lunch out. #
• Proud that Moo chose Dora stickers over Barbie #
• Saturday morning Blu Ray fun – pod race sequence and then light sabre duel from The Phantom Menace. #
• Stunned by the number of Doctor Who fans here. http://t.co/pTsCNGCL #
• Wow, the Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular was, well, spectacular..@steven_moffat #
• New neighbours moving in, dropped the truck off at 11 lsat night. At least they had the decency not to unload it then unlike previous mob. #
• I blame you @richard_annable – my printer stopped working today! (But thanks for the excuse to go to Officeworks) #
• Quickbooks all up to date and totally unrelated – just noticed the temp has dropped 10 degrees in about 10 minutes. Where's the rain though? #
• Weather playing havoc with television reception. Do all channels (talking digital) originate from the same transmitter in Melbourne? #

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• Organising New Order tickets from emergency bed. #
• Made a mistake when I was changing insurance plans so I can't transfer out of this hell. Fixed now but too late for this issue. #
• Moved to CCU! Sunlight and no crazy people off their heads on ice shrieking the place down. Life instantly looks better. #
• Showered and brushed teeth for first time in two days. I feel human again. #
• No pain today, a good start. Now to figure out how to get out of here. #
• A menu! Things are looking up. #
• Ask for an Age from the newspaper lady. "Oh, we don't get many asking for one of those, I don't have any." Sigh. I really want to go home. #
• Bit down. Have to have a CT scan now as they can't confirm where pain is coming from which means another day away from home. #
• Patients really need to learn how to turn down their phones… #
• What did we do in hospitals before smart phones? Oh, I remember now, magic pen colouring and puzzle books! #
• Quick question. When did they start making 'pork' out of water? #
• Double strength patch, that's going to be a killer headache in the morning. #
• For once not being allowed to eat breakfast is a good thing. With a bit of luck there is a CT scan ahead today and with that an answer. #
• Argh, retweet and reply too close together. #
• I am be-gowned. Oh the indignity. #
• Heart rate down, everyone happy so looks like scan is going ahead soon. #
• Not looking good to escape tonight. Going slightly mad in bed 24. #
• I'm free! Thank you everybody for all of your messages, they all meant so much at a pretty scary time. #
• Eerily still outside this morning. #
• Andy Murray fan? Tune in to BBC Five Live at 0930AEDT/2230GMT to hear my mate Nigel @audiolympics talking about him. #
• Watching a mum hold her cigarette 30cm away from her toddlers head while she has a smoke. #notmyplacebutwishitwas #calmtonycalm #
• Watching a mum hold a cigarette 30cm away from her toddlers head while she has a smoke. #notmyplacebutiwishitwas #calmtonycalm #
• Haircut time. #
• Kids are watching The Muppet Movie, Rainbow Connection blaring through the house. #
• Rae heading out, too hot and too tired to be a parent so I'm ceding that duty to Mr Jim Henson and the box set of muppet movies. #
• Buy @Optus shares, Phee has a phone. Android, of course. #
• Who the $@*! starts moving out of their rented house at 10:15PM on a Saturday night!?! #
• Falling asleep on the couch on a warm Sunday afternoon doesn't automatically make make me An Old Man. Does it? #
• For the few overseas followers I have – 10:00PM, time for bed. 29 degrees (centigrade) outside. #

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• Rae back at work, summer break well and truly over now. Sigh. #
• If my phone/email is anything to go by then Rae isn't the only one returning to work today after summer holidays. #
• After a meltdown of Chernobyl proportions last night a certain young miss seems to be trying very hard today. #
• Could be first round of chicken pox OR a very selective insect. Will find out either way this afternoon. #
• 'For Lease' sign just gone up on the house opposite. Those who know where we live know that's pretty pointless! #
• At last, a new Wii remote means no more arguments over who has to sit out this round or share. #
• Can't believe the amount of time I've spent 'fixing' an issue with the media PC audio that no one else would ever have noticed. #
• Bella has to check the walk in closet every night, just in case…. #
• Good news for Bert, the chickenpox spots are already fading. Must have been as mild a dose as you can get. #
• Woo Hoo. Solar panels inspected and turned on last night, already saving money. #
• Just watched Contagion. Really enjoyed it, even if it did make me feel a little Howard Hughes. #
• Bugger, forgot to get milk yesterday. Early morning trip to Coles ahead. #
• Bugger. Car won't start. #
• Two children for sale. Will accept any offer, or pay you, must pick immediately. #
• Anyone have a battery charger? Need to put the car battery on one to charge it up. #
• In Origin Energy phone hell for my sins. #
• ARGH! Origin Energy have just shuffled through two people back to the end of the queue I started in!!!! #
• Origin Energy – you are always experiencing periods of high demand so what are you doing about it? #
• Today just hasn't got properly started. Where's the reset button? #
• Dead Snow, all sorts of very bloody fun. #
• New battery for the red car. January is turning in to a very expensive month. #
• Guy working on his garden with a dingo just up the street has ruptured the gas main. Three impressive vans dealing with it now. #
• Seem to have been sucked into watching the tennis even though it's past my bed time. #
• 15 hours on emergency trolley at Western General in Footscray and counting…. #
• Have suspected Pericarditis, waiting to be admitted. #

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• This morning's work music – the magnificent @strangemoosic (Herman Dune) but I'd rather be with @raezm at the movies and shopping. #
• That stomping you hear would be the sound of people putting solar panels on our roof. #
• Unexpectedly stuck waiting for an hour. Fire up @AmazonKindle app on phone and keep on reading from where I left off at home. Love it. #
• Ouch. Car service, four new tyres and insurance bill all on the one day. #anyoneneedawebsite #
• I am wearing socks, in January. This is wrong. #
• 96 people have submitted the form successfully but *you* can't so obviously the form doesn't work. Le sigh. #
• Solar panels being bolted in to place. They are okay, hope none of the workers get blown off the roof though. #
• Shiny panels now on our roof. Just up to our electricity supplier to get their act together now. #
• Must be cold tonight, Bella is back on the bed. #
• Greater Union hasn't changed since my last visit in 1989. This makes me happy. http://t.co/bWR0kBcO #
• Finally watched Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, loved it. #
• Looks like a rental inspection across the road. Dammit, they residents there now are nice and quiet. #
• Just dropped Phee at work in my pj's. Look on her face when I said I was coming in to get coffees was priceless. #
• Lemon Lime & Bitter slurpee ain't too bad. #
• Watching old Law and Order on Foxtel – seems incredibly dark. Wondering if it is Foxtel or the way it was shot. #

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• With an expected max of 40 today is all about the path of least resistance. #
• Have a sparky booked to do some work which involves crawling around in our roof. Wondering if the heat will mean it's a no go today. #
• I would just like to thank our evaporative air-conditioner for doing a magnificent job today. It really doesn't get enough credit. #
• The young ones just watched their first episode of Doctor Who. Bert, especially, was very impressed. #thingsthatmakeageekdadhappy #
• Turned work PC on for the first time in over a week, now to turn off the out of office. Sigh. Holiday is over. #
• Listening with great envy to Rae and kids having a great time while sit here writing another stored procedure…. #
• First work phone call for the year, thought it would have been earlier 🙂 #
• Max is on the telly. 1999 was not a good year for music. #
• So hard to work knowing my family is swanning off down to Barwon Heads for a picnic with Nana. #
• Just had automatic power saving plugs installed. #
• Can't believe IE just helped me solve a problem. #
• What on earth did I do before discovering @pastebin #
• Anyone know where the other white Wii remote has gone? Anyone? #
• Wife, kids and friends down at Tourqay (No doubt looking at hordes of wildebeest) and I'm here working away. Sigh. #
• Ooops, that should have been herds of wilderbeest. Sigh. Again. #
• Crunchy asian salad with added cashews for lunch. I must be ill. #
• Wondering if the battery on my phone will run out before Origin answer. Done my BAS, finished project, brought in the washing still on hold. #
• Battery ran out. #
• Just realised I'm turning in to my old boss. There's pile of notepads and papers beginning to form a wall on my floor. #
• Just watched Rare Exports, absolutely loved it. #
• Epic feet dragging as I really don't feel like mowing the lawns. #
• Lawns done, even managed to fix the whipper snipper so the whole place looks okay. Now to clean my office. #
• Rae and Moo bowling on the Wii. Still haven't found The Missing White Remote. #
• Hmmmm. It's vegan and it's tasty. Having huge problems with that. #

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• Doctor Who christmas special ready to go, now just need an excuse to lock the kids in their room for an hour so we can watch it. #
• Top 400 Awesome 80s videos. It's just awesome. #
• Having a wonderful time. This 'holiday' thing is great, why wasn't I told about it before? #
• finished The Hanging Garden by Ian Rankin @beathhigh over half way http://t.co/MCACoRzC #Kindle #
• Couldn't be more relaxed if I tried. #
• New Years Eve dread, waiting for signs of visitors arriving at the ferals. #
• Love a good 80s brass section. #

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• Began moving sites over to the new server, so far so not so painful. #
• Can't believe it. Chose the 10-2 slot for installation and they turned up bang on 10. #it #039;sachristmasmiracle #
• I hope Bert's school shoes can hold themselves together for one and a half more days… #
• Happy Gravy Day one and all. #
• We're all set to walk to school this morning, step out the door and it's raining. Grrrrr. #
• For those wondering what Gravy Day is; the best Christams song ever http://t.co/IuqJOPcR #
• One plus of Foxtel so far – hockey in HD. Recording today's game to watch when I'm not so busy. Fingers crossed for a Canucks game one day. #
• Ah, @paul__kelly on BBC 6 Music, my work here is done. #
• Spent the evening planning server migration from old host to new VPS. #livingthelife #
• Made my last school lunch for Bert's 1st year at school this year. Can't believe he's finished Prep #
• Bert home after a celebratory lunch out. Waiting for the first 'what can I do Dad?'. #
• "I don't want to be a princess when I grow up. I want to be a doctor!" Cop that Disney and go Moo. #
• There shall be less swearing this Christmas for I have purchased an electric knife. #
• (and I bought the remastered 1st season of Twin Peaks at the same time) #
• Bing Crosby, now it's Christmas. #
• Wondering if I have weather related migraines. Not a nice way to be spending Christmas eve. #
• The Happy Feat penguins? Carols just jumped the shark. #
• Just failed the 'can you tie a pony tail' test. #
• Either Rudolph has put on weight or that was thunder waking me this morning. Merry Christmas one and all. #
• Wow. Hail and storm. UPS surge protector tripped. #
• That was a serious storm. http://t.co/FRbE5J7H #
• Any suggestions on where I can get a new UPS on boxing day? #
• Here we hail again. #
• Tis the season for yelling ads. #
• Ferals are having a party. Looks like we're sleeping on the sofa tonight. #
• Classic Law & Order from the 90s, Foxtel looking better by the day. #

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• Listening to Harvey Danger, Little By Little. Still one of my all time favourite albums. #
• Kindle tells me I'm 15% of the way through The Hanging Garden. That's enough for the evening. #
• Poor wife on the way home thanks to tooth. Frustrating that today it's quicker for her on train than for me to go in and pick her up. #
• New mouse for my work PC. For the first in years I'm trying a Logitech instead of Microsoft. #
• At the school picnic for our sins. #
• Watched the opening of Hard Boiled again this morning. I'd forgotten how spectacular (and bloody) that restaurant scene was. #
• Any recommendations for an Australian based Windows VPS provider? #
• Just received my VPS details.Deep breath and here we go… #
• Go say hi to Emilio at http://t.co/qxm4dXjC – my latest site that's just gone live. #
• Not sure on this Logitech mouse just yet, may be heading back to Microsoft before too long. #
• Grrrrrr. One mistake in entering an IP address for the VPS and now I have to wait another 24 hours for the change to propagate. #
• Looks like The Age has started it's summer time diet already. #
• Just improved the sync on subtitles for John Woo's The Killer. Can't wait to watch it now. #
• Just saw a horrific accident. I hope it wasn't as tragic as it looked. #derrimut #
• We've discovered an odd thing in our back yard – anyone have any idea what it may be? www,http://t.co/YAdWVhhn #
• Just saw second car accident for the day, police and ambulance blocking off road. #derrimut #thinkiwillstayathomenow #
• Sadly the 2nd accident was a fatality. http://t.co/JEwr8muC I've seen people do crazy things on the road. #
• 'the road' was meant to be that road. It's long, straight and no speed limiting devices. Idiots just can't help themselves. #
• And sadly this is the result. #
• Woo Hoo! VPS finally propagated. #

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• Struggling already and it's only 9.45… #
• Let's try that again – Tonight's 'Rae Is Away Music' – Ben Folds Five, Whatever and Ever Amen #
• Absolutely no focus this morning so I went and mowed the lawns. Feel better now and can actually get work done. #
• Ah, working from the deck. Perfect day for it. #
• Perfect day outside, may take the lappy out the back and work from the deck today. #
• Tried out an @oovie_australia machine at the shops this morning. Quick, easy and best of all today it was free! #
• Homemade hamburgers and chips, eaten outside. Hard to top that for a dinner. #
• Scrubbed the deck this morning (thanks Steve) before starting work. All set for a coat tomorrow morning. Plan is to do it early. #
• Whose bright idea was it to put the Copy and Paste keyboard shortcuts next to each other on the keyboard? #
• finished Black and Blue: An Inspector Rebus Mystery by Ian Rankin. My Rebus Kindle treck goes on. http://t.co/lCk3SByb #Kindle #
• finished Black and Blue: An Inspector Rebus Mystery by Ian Rankin and gave it 5 stars http://t.co/lCk3SByb #Kindle #
• Deck done. Hopefully will get another coat on tomorrow morning. #
• In the interest of energy conservation and keeping things a bit cooler I'm working off the laptop today. #
• Well done to us. 10% reduction in electricity usage compared to this time last year. #
• Wow @BBCChrisHawkins @ClaireSlevin – The Pursuit of Happiness on the radio, and not *that* one! You've made my Friday afternoon. #
• Looking at flights now. #christmasatslevs #
• Ooops. Meant looking at flights now #boxingdayatslevs @ClaireSlevin #
• Second coat done for the deck. Had enough left over to do the new table and benches too. Good start to the weekend. #
• Just how many ways do I need to make an espresso….my wife is a bad influence on me. #
• Watching Elvis in Hawaii. Aloha baby. #

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• Multitasking today. As I work I've begun the slow process of ripping our favourite DVDs to the network. #
• Business and important docs backed up to @crashplan. Hope it's ready for the 50GB of photos now heading its way. #
• Oh, how I wish I had enabled Undo Send for my Gmail account….sigh. @gmail #
• Favourite three eps of UK Apprentice – The Interviews, The Scavenger Hunt, Make An Ad. #apprenticeuk #
• Are @Microsoft time travelling? Copyright notice on the new MSE beta is (c) 2012. #
• Left over Chinese for lunch…..thanks again Zita! #
• I can't believe people still do splash screens. http://t.co/t7UA6KbH #
• Opened a 1lt tub of lemon survey. I don't think there'll much left to go back in the freezer. #
• Glad so many of my clients seemed to have marked Dec1 in their calendar to start a major projects. 9 emails in one afternoon, all big jobs. #
• How on earth did it get to be 1.00pm already!?! #

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