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My Tweets For The Week

  • Bert's big day. #
  • Happy Bert. I didn't cry, just exercised my tear ducts a little. http://t.co/sru2B39 #
  • Biggest change – the house sounds so different with just the twins playing together. #
  • Can someone please explain what on earth the new @iinet is about? #
  • And that would be one deliriously happy boy home from his first day at school. #
  • "Greenbay are world champions". World? Give us a break. I guess that makes Collingwood the world champions too, and no one wants that. #
  • A monday night bbq. Novel AND yummy. #
  • In a post @tacobill stupor. So glad my new pyjama pants have elastic. #
  • Bert home today. The house sounds normal again. #
  • Why, of all mornings, would my database connections suddenly go flaky today. #
  • Woo Hoo!! Yellow pages delivery people just rolled up the street and bypassed our house. #
  • School Dad 101 : when you give your son a fruit tub for snack time make sure you also give him a spoon to eat it with. #hungrybert #baddad #
  • It's official, Rae has just left work for the last time. I'm now married to an unemployed layabout. Well done hon! #
  • Wondering if this thumping headache has anything to do with no caffeine today… #
  • One double strength short black later and headache going. Guessing that's not a good thing. #
  • Some of the crap on my bed side table. http://picplz.com/nMmD #
  • Ah well, the best laid plans of mice and men… #
  • Last Day Of The First Week http://picplz.com/nsW3 #
  • The award for worst api documentation for a payment gateway goes to……Westpac. #
  • Bert and Dad Time http://picplz.com/n8v0 #
  • The End Result http://picplz.com/n9Vh #
  • Lotso Lego http://picplz.com/n9V0 #
  • Footy's back! Go Tiges! (please, oh, please…) #
  • "Don't expect too much from your Tigers tonight." Le sigh. #
  • Bloody impressed with Tiger cubs to half time, but should be 3 more goals ahead. #gotiges #NABCup #

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Bert’s Day

Well, Bert had his first day of school today and he loved it. Normally when you pick Bert up from somewhere you won’t get a peep and you have to wait for him to talk but not today. As we walked across the oval to the car he started talking and didn’t stop until we got home. He was on a high all afternoon and is most likely still smiling in his sleep.

Couldn’t be happier, he seems to love the surrounds, smiles when talking about his teacher and has made sure his uniform is ready to go tomorrow. Hopefully it’s the first day of a long love of learning.

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Off To School

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.

Albert with his school bag.

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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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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.

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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!