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My Tweets For The Week

  • Need to find the reset button for the kids and cat's internal clocks. Today will not be good. #
  • Relaxing evening. Calm kids, music instead of the telly and a great book on the Kindle. Need more nights like it. #
  • Parent teacher night for Phee. Feel so old. Was tempted to ask one teacher if he had started shaving yet. #
  • Oh my. Zita now has unlimited SMS as part of her plan…stand by every body. #
  • You can waste a lot of time following DAAS clips around YouTube #
  • "Hey Albert's dad!" Made me smile. #
  • Really enjoying the repeats of Spicks And Specks on ABC 2. #
  • No! Visual aura please stop growing, this is. not. a, good. time. #
  • One term down, 51 to go. http://t.co/yBYXBqI #
  • Supposed to be going to the game tonight but keeping an eye on the weather. At the moment it looks 50/50. #
  • Any one know where I can get handwriting sheets for a Prep in Victoria? Bert has already filled his out before I could copy them. #
  • Following up on outstanding invoices – least favourite part of running my business. #

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Age Gone By

I’ve written about how bad The Age is when it comes to subscriptions before so it’s no great surprise that today is the last day of our home delivery and we haven’t heard anything at all about renewal. No special offer as a loyal subscriber, not even a ‘hey, did you forget to renew?’.

Times have changed a little since that post. Bert is now at school and leisurely breakfasts with coffee and paper are a thing of the past. At most I’d get 15 minutes to rush through the paper in the morning and even that is interrupted with calls to help find lost socks, make sandwiches or finding clothes to wear. Then when we get back from dropping Bert off it’s pretty much straight in to work for me, so things will change.

We’re going to keep the weekend subscription (life just wouldn’t be the same without The Age on a weekend morning) and we’re going to take advantage of their secondary student offer. Phee will now bring the paper home from school each day (well, we can dream, but after a while we hope  she’ll remember). We will still get the Green Guide, Epicure and the sports section to read, just later in the day. Of course by then the main news section will go straight to the recycling bin – the paper can’t compete with the net when it comes to fresh news. It’s only during term time too, but $15 for the whole year isn’t too bad.

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My Tweets For The Week

  • Everyone sitting around the table talking and drawing, a very calm afternoon for a change. #
  • 7 minutes until sunrise and the young ones are all still asleep. #
  • Fingers crossed we'll finally have the sides of our house completed tomorrow. Better late than never. #
  • Love the Metro 'This Is Me' ads. #
  • 9.40 and I'm calling a no show. So annoyed. Does anyone know a landscaper/gardner who would be interested in some work in Melbourne's west? #
  • Just heard from the guy, should be here at lunchtime. #
  • For those playing along – the stuff for the sides has just been dropped off. #
  • Perfect song I can't stop playing http://youtu.be/NItwaz0nLJA even if Guy Garvey does look disturbingly like @HumanHeadline Derryn Hinch #
  • and work on the sides has begun. #
  • Proud of myself – actually kept up to date with all my paper work this quarter so I can do my BAS at the stroke of midnight if I want. #
  • Bunnings or bbq. Looks like bbq is just going to win out. #
  • That sounds like a bottle of Moet going pop… #
  • Nooooooooooooooooooooo! #gotiges #
  • Hawthorn next week, it's going to be a win. #gotiges #
  • Air con vents closed and smoke alarm batteries changed. #
  • Sitting outside, reading my Kindle while the twins nap. Perfect Sunday afternoon. #
  • Love the dog ear when you add a bookmark on the Kindle. #

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A Perfect Afternoon

Reading a Kindle with feet up on a chair.It’s a footy Sunday today, a Doggies home game so Rae, Zita, Phee and Bert have gone off and left the twins and I all to ourselves. I love these days, they are generally a lot quieter with only two kids around and today was especially quiet.

We went for a little drive to Dirt Cheap Books where the kids got to choose a book each. Everyone in the shop would have heard Moo debating loudly with herself over the best one to select. Mr Henry made his choice quickly (a sticker book) and didn’t waiver. Moo eventually settled on Stories For 4 Year Olds, after being talked down from the 5 year old book.

Due to popular demand we dined at McDonalds on the way back and then home where both hopped in to bed for an increasingly rare afternoon nap. I’d already (mostly) cleaned the kitchen, (most of) the house work had been done and I had already decided to take today off working  so I was presented with the rarest of things – an afternoon to do as I pleased.

It was overcast outside, but not cold, so I grabbed my Kindle, downloaded a new book, pulled up a couple of chairs and that’s how I spent the next two and a half blissful hours. It’s so quiet here it felt like I was the only person alive in Derrimut. The loudest sound was a couple of birds flying by.

The kids are awake now, reading their new books and playing with their Happy Meal toys. The footy is over so that means a happy Rae and Co are on their way home, the sun is already beginning to set on this first day of non daylight savings and I’m has content as I have been in a long time.

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The Sides

We moved in two and quarter years ago to basically just the house. We quickly added a drive, not so quickly a front and back garden, no where near as quickly the missing side fence and that left one thing to complete – the sides of the house. Up until today they were just as the builders left them, muddy weedy wastelands. We had tried a few times to get them done and finally Hire A Hubby came through. We’ve finally finished the beginning of our house.

Before

Sides Before 3

Sides Before

After

After 1

After 2

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Modern Life

20 years ago this scene would have been from a science fiction movie. Three laptops, a Nintendo DS, just out of shot Rob is on Facebook on his iPod Touch and the photo was taken with an Android phone.

Dinner table covered in laptops.

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My Tweets For The Week

  • Monday morning kick start. http://t.co/lXWxTOI #
  • Kick start didn't work so on to Plan B http://t.co/xVh9fPD #
  • For @richard_annable http://t.co/tR1ne7S #
  • Ugh. For some reason my eyes feel like they have been crying for days on end. #
  • Just realised that 9 months later my arm has finally healed. I can straighten it now with no pain at all. Woo Hoo. #
  • Thanks for fixing the issue with streams from the BBC @Kogan. Great to have music back again. #
  • Woo Hoo, new @Kogan kids television that we got cheap thanks to LivePrice has been dispatched. Will be a good surprise for them tomorrow #
  • Stuff it, party pies for lunch today. #
  • Any one think that Toll may actually deliver today? #
  • Okay, status says 'On for delivery'. Let's see if they do their job today. #
  • Truck backing up! #
  • Woo Hoo! They actually delivered! #
  • Moo "Come on, time's ticking Daddy". #
  • Everyone up at 6. It's going to be a long day. #
  • Don't forget your footy tips! #
  • Serious rain out there. #
  • School bell now 5 minutes late. What's going on? #
  • No one will believe this but I just fixed something in the house! It even involved using a screw driver. #oopsihandymanned #
  • Reasons I Love My Wife #42245 She already wants a new Android phone with more processing power. #
  • OMG! Line 41 – It's a real live marquee tag! http://www.mojomuesli.com.au Complete with added Comic Sans font attribute goodness. #
  • Bert and I had haircut, brought breakfast home, had coffee and read the paper. Pretty good start to the weekend. #
  • Can smell fire outside, sort of like burning leaves. #
  • Dr Moo is in. http://t.co/VEM78ie #
  • Bert is now picking actor voices in animated films. Like mother like son. #
  • Football widower again. Two eldest (one resplendent in his Tiger gear) going too so its me and the twins off in search of good Vietnamese. #

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My Tweets For The Week

  • Codril Night and Day can only do so much. I admit defeat. #
  • Is wondering why there is a pair of ladies underpants and a pile of polished rocks on my office chair. #movedtothetwilightzone #
  • Always forget to set up IIS when I rebuild my PC. #
  • Oh. No. I just made a major mistake that cost a client 3 hours work. Have apologised and am re-doing the work for them. Worse thing – #
  • it happened because I didn't follow my own procedures that would have ensured it didn't happen. #
  • Just found out Bert's show and tell item today was the fake tattoo we put on the weekend. Oh boy. #
  • The tatt. http://t.co/LPFaZBN #
  • Oh boy. Thank Yoda they are going to Nanas this morning. #
  • Guy outside school taking photos of people double parking to drop off their kids. Nasty surprises coming in the mail. #
  • Phew. It's good to have a cat to blame every now and then… #
  • Parking signs, still under wraps, up opposite the school now. #
  • The eternal question. Ice cream and topping or banana fritter? #eatingoutinwerribee #
  • Saturday morning. Time to do the weekly torrent downloads and get some work done. #
  • The guys at Brimbank Central @Optus shop need some basic customer training – they were shocking while were there. I ended up helping a guy. #
  • Bought a second Android phone just to make Steve Jobs (and Zoltan) cry. #
  • Wonder if Rae is sleeping in or playing with her new phone in peace. #
  • To market, to market to eat fattening calzones… #
  • I love it when the boys work together. http://t.co/gBZf2l0 #
  • What did I have to remember to do tomorrow? I remember it was important, but that's all. #
  • Rae found Ninjump for Android. I may never do any work again. #

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Here’s A Tip, It’s Footy Time

Well, I can’t avoid it any longer and I have to accept that footy starts this week. Not that I don’t like footy any more, it’s just when you know what’s coming you try and avoid the thought for as long as possible.

Regardless of my Tigers though the Tony Malloy Memorial Footy Tipping Competition is now open for business again. Join up for your shot at glory, the bbq or your chance to take home The World’s Ugliest Trophy. Head on over to http://www.footytips.com.au/comps/TonysT. For international visitors, the less you know about footy the better you’ll probably go. TWUT is yet to make it overseas, maybe this year…

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My Tweets For The Week

  • All SP1'd on my desktop, may as well get it done on the lappy now too. #
  • Thanks @kogan for looking in to the problems with BBC streams. Hoping you find a solution quickly, I need my @Inside6music #
  • Sitting on the deck watching two maggies fight over a tv antenna. #
  • Rae just spotted that the babies smile on the ad for Rafters is computer generated. Freaky. #
  • Get up and findBert sitting at the table writing his homework words again. #myboylovesbeingatschool #
  • Sitting doing work in an empty classroom. These table and chairs really are very tiny. #
  • Can't stop playing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XH2NO4Jsnw #
  • Didn't even get a goodbye this morning. Class door was open early, one glimpse of his teacher and off he ran. #
  • If you're using @gmail turn on Smart Labels in Labs. Combined with Priority Inbox they make Gmail indispensable. #
  • Walked to pick up Bert today, I think a snail would have got home before us. #
  • Pancake fail this morning. #kidswillstilleatthemregardless #
  • Today is not a good day to be without a sitter. #
  • Most Friday's are incredibly quiet so why has everyone chosen today to decide to get web site work done? #
  • Dear world, if you hear sudden loud swearing do not be alarmed. I am merely rebuilding my PC and at times it may get tense. #
  • Win 7 up and running. Now it's the hard part, installing all the programs and restoring data. #
  • Mini Tool Partition Wizard – fantastic tool! #
  • So far so good, one minor glitch with partitions but that was fixed. Up next, SP1 then CS5 #
  • Dinner out, on a Saturday night! Oysters followed by Cajun salmon and grilled veggies. Mmmmmmmmmm. #
  • Can't get SQL Server 2008 to install. Only want Manager so it's driving me nuts. May leave it until tomorrow. #
  • SQL Server 2008R2 successfully installed. Now we're back to full functional. #
  • Open the pod bay door HAL… stupid weather. http://t.co/r86bmWG #
  • Watching 'Flying High'. Brings back memories of first seeing it on vhs. #

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