What with becoming a parent and getting promoted I suddenly find myself needing to become a lot more organised. Although I’ve been using org-mode for a bit I need to get a lot more organised with it. Previously I had two sets of org notes. My personal set where sitting on my server which I [...]
Archive of posts tagged life
Project Veg Patch
I noticed I haven’t posted anything this month about what’s going on in my life. Well as you can imagine the impending arrival of our first child has kind of glossed over everything else. I have not yet achieved a state of panic but it’s very firmly in the radar now. Although I’ve been taking [...]
Primary Data
It’s hard to explain the impact of seeing a few grainy pixels waving at you on a medical monitor stand. While it’s a sign of our modern magical times that I can provide people with a picture of my yet-to-be borne child it loses some impact due to it’s static nature. While we watched this [...]
Getting warmer
We’ve been bumbling along with the central heating for the last few weeks. Every time the weather seemed to be taking a turn for the better it would invariably dive back into cold misty mornings. However it’s starting to look like spring is finally arrived and starting to make it’s presence felt. It certainly felt [...]
In other news
Rat diversions aside the weekend was a fairly sedate one. We visited a rather nice Japanese restaurant in town on Saturday with a bunch of the Cambridge LARP group. We left feeling well stuffed. I spent a chunk of Sunday attending to tasks as directed by the head gardener while she continued attempting the Saturday [...]
Goodbye Nana
The weekend was overshadowed by saying goodbye to my Nana on Friday. She was the last of my grandparents to go after reaching the grand old age of 95. Right up to end she maintained her sharp wit and sense of fun. The service was a nice humanist celebration of her life and was a [...]
Still paddling under the water
Don’t take the lack of activity on this blog as an indication that life has been quiet, far from it. Work continues to be an exercise of multiple plate juggling. Although most nights I’ve been either clocking up kills on CoD multi-player or vegging watching DVDs other stuff has happened. In brief: * I bought [...]
Busy busy bee
One reason my posting rate has dropped off so massively is I’ve been really busy at work. So busy that my capacity for intellectual thought in the evening is reduced to slobbing on the sofa watching DVDs or occasionally firing up CoD in split-screen and killing people with my wife. While I delivered my main [...]
2010 In Memorium
2010 has been a pretty good year for us, it seems like is has packed a lot in. Professionally I’ve been doing really well. The company I work for has had yet another record breaking year which has triggered my bonus again (although I don’t find out how much until I get back). It continues [...]
Still here
I should be on a plane at this point, however ash has conspired to cancel my connecting flight this morning. I’m now re-booked onto another flight this evening so I’ll still be in South Africa in time for meetings just on considerably less sleep. The weekend was lovely and relaxed. We attended to some wedding [...]
