Category: Diary

Day 2 quick update.

The names : Henry Robert for our boy and Kennedy Lois for our girl.

Mum is absolutely exhausted as the kids aren’t being kind with feeds. Nana Zita is keeping our home front together and I’m off to bed.

More twin photo goodness at our twins Flickr set. No time to label them, that will come soon.

Quick update before I head to bed. Mum and kids are all fine. She’s in Cabrini Hospital if you’d like to send her an e-card. Both the kids at home aren’t that excited, one because she knows and the 0ther ’cause he has no idea on what’s coming.

Names will be confirmed shortly. Weights – she is 3kg, he is 2.5. Both have healthy lungs and he has a healthy appetite.

More photos to come.

I went in for an eye exam recently and came away having paid for new glasses. It’s been a while so was happy when I just got a call from my optometrist. Well, I was happy for a few seconds until they told me that I’d be waiting another few weeks for my new specs. Apparently as they were grinding the lenses one shattered and now they have to order another set from Japan. Sigh, guess I’ll just have to stay off the roads at night for a bit longer.

Ah, the joys of working from home.

You get to see the council truck come along and water the tree they recently planted on our nature strip. Sod the fact it’s been pouring all week and the ground is sodden – it’s (no doubt) on the computer, so it has be done.

You also get to see the very rare cat plant bloom.

Okay, let’s check.

• Glasses
• Sci Fi fascination
• Works with computers

It seems that the list is now complete and I am, officially too nerdy for my own good.

It looks like I’ve started collecting comics. Mehmet, a great guy for a Collingwood supporter, has tracked down the first four issues of Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 8 and I can’t wait to get more. I’m so lucky Rae didn’t realise just how geeky I am before she said “I do”.

I fill up my car every Tuesday evening on the way home from work and every week I stop and have a chat with the friendliest servo attendant in the world, Dawood at Newport Caltex.

Dawood always comments how nice it is to see me, how he’s pleased I took his advice to fill up every Tuesday and I always walk away smiling. Not something you would normally associate with the chore of filling up with petrol.

Tonight, however, he may have just earned Caltex a customer for life.

“Ah, my friend, it is always good to see you. And have you lost some weight lately?”

I was supposed to spend today chained to this computer catching up on work but I seem to have spent most of the day in assembly mode. I’ve put together a new whipper snipper and an office chair for Rae, although it looks cooler than mine so I may have to invoke the ‘I built it, I claim it’ clause that I had put in our pre-nup. (Heh, the thought of having a pre-nup, that’s funny).

It’s four o’clock now and the sun is setting. Time to get the washing in and to get stuck in to to some work that doesn’t involve an allen key, clothes pegs or cutting grass.