For the last month or so, life has been less busy, so, of course, less has been getting done. Thanks to all of you who have given my blog support, and asked where the next installment is - well here it is. I have decided to change the order - so now it is possible to read from the top down to the bottom in the correct order (it also makes it easier for me to write...). I am also going to change the tone a little bit, to be more general and about life. I am also going to add more links from the blog to other bits on the Internet. I hope you enjoy it!
So now a little bit about Tuesday. Ann and I were at the Adelaide
Hyatt Regency over the weekend, where we had
our first night away from Thomas since he was born. It was great to be adults
again, and we could both drink together and lie in... Unfortunately this also
meant that we both got hangovers, and it was not until Tuesday that Ann felt
well again.
Yesterday (Monday 23rd) one of Ann's old work collegues,
Heather, came over for lunch. Heather has a daughter, Anna, who is nearly 3
- so it was great for Ann to have a chat with someone else who has a child near
to Thomas' age. After lunch, we all went up to the
playground,
where we all tried out the different apparatus. Thomas loved the swing so much
that he did not want to get off.
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Semaphore.
The sun was out, the temperature was a comfortable 22 degrees, and there was no-one
there. In England, we would have been fighting through crowds, and there would
be candyfloss ('fairy floss' in Australia) and ice-cream everywhere. Instead,
all we saw was the mini-golf having a new coat of paint on the obstacles, and
some work being done on the mini train that runs along the coast.
It was a great day to be by the sea, as by the time we got
back home, the sun was so warm that we needed the air conditioning on. We are
near the top of a hill in
Mattingley Court,
so it is quite cool, which should be good for the summer.
Hang on a moment, I hear you thinking, this is just like the
old blog... Well, at the moment it is, because I am filling you in on events,
and putting in a little bit that will let me put some links in to some of the
photos. There will be more views and opinions as
soon as I run out of events to talk about.
Mentioning events, this weekend it's my 31st birthday!
It seems like just yesterday we were in England and Ann was pregnant
and we were having a little party for my 30th... I even still have the candles
that were on the cake. I don't know what Ann has planned, but I think we are
going to the cinema. Once I am earning money again, we might be able to go away
for another night somewhere nice,
again.
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Today I was thinking about my keys - I know it may seem strange,
but have you ever thought about how many keys you carry around, and if you really
need them all? I have a key for both cars, a key for the house front door and
the window locks, and the shed key. When I was working at Possum IT, I had keys
for the front and back, and the computer room. A plethora of keys everywhere.
The strange thing was, that when we migrated from England to Australia, there
was a time that I had no keys at all - no car, no home, nothing that needed
locking up. I had this strange feeling when I got up from having a coffee, when
I checked my pockets for my wallet and phone, and I realised that not only did
I have no keys, but that I did not need them.
I have only once been locked out of my house (when Shirley came over to be with
Ann and me before the pregnancy), and we got in through a coat hanger - luckily
I had been painting the windows and left one ajar.
It makes you realise how much keys are required for life.
When we bought Ann's new Renault Scenic, I was looking at the Laguna, which
has no keys. There is a credit-card sized remote control, and the car detects
if it is nearby, and if there is someone in the driver's seat, you can start
the car by pressing a start button. For a woman, it would be great, because
she could leave her "key" in her handbag all the time.
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I had an interview with EDS today. I got there for 9am, and was interviewed by three people. They had initially turned me down for being too 'management', and then decided that they would interview me, after they could not find anyone else. Unfortunately, after I had explained my background and experience, they chose to ask questions that I could not answer - because I had never had to cover what they were asking. They asked how I would deal with multi-organisation systems (I have only ever worked in a single organisation at a time, so never dealt with this sort of thing). They also asked about one of my qualifications - pointing out a mistake in the wording that I had used. I was furious that I could have made a mistake like that, but after looking at my certificate, it turns out that I was not wrong - but not right either.
This afternoon we took Thomas to have his first haircut - what an experience! He seemed quite calm at the start, but then as the snipping and combing continued, he started to get quite agitated. He calmed down very quickly afterwards, but both Ann and Thomas were covered in hair. It is quite a change to see him looking so smart - we did not realise how much he needed his hair cut!
Ann and I have been looking around the shops for items that we might need for Thomas' birthday barbeque next weekend. We have been looking at pre-prepared meat products, and deciding if it is easier to make our own kebabs, or buy a selection of ready made ones.
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This evening Ann and I went to the cinema together for what
seemed like the first time in ages. We went to see "The Bourne
Supremacy" and enjoyed the story and the action, but we both felt sick
because of the constanly moving camera - like 'NYPD Blue'.
It seems a real waste of a film sometimes when there is a director who is trying
too hard. I can see why some of the action sequences need the camera to move
around to increase the feeling of rapid movement, but there was no need to keep
shaking the camera around when the main character was sitting in an Internet
cafe, looking at a computer screen...
Ann's friend Cathy came over to look after Thomas whilst
we were at the films, and her daughter Julia was over too. Ann was very good,
only talking about Thomas once...
When we came back from the cinema, Ann and Cathy chatted for about an hour.
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