Tennis last night was good, with a solid win against Ferny Creek. My opponent was no less than the head of Coles Myer IT, Noel Smith, who is one of our clients. I ended up +9 for the night which is pretty good, and leaves me with +8 overall for the season.
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The Wall Part 2 & Bernie’s Knee
Another busy week has seen Bernie totaly destroy the inside of her knee again, blowing it up like a baloon. It has also seen only one layer of extra bricks go down on the retaining wall, mainly because we ran out of stones to put behind it.
It’s my birthday and I’ll Blog if I want to… Happy 29th Birthday to me. This is my Blog on my corner of the Web and I’ll be as self indulgent as I want to.I found out why Bernie wanted my Palm Pilot, she was making the cover for it that she had been going to make for months. It is very nice too, Dark Green Vinyl with leather stitching. She also organised a week off work for me and booked us into a place in Halls Gap. It should be a nice relaxing break, probably just what I need, lots of trees, stars, open fireplaces, my laptop… There was even some marshmallows to toast over the fire and nice bottle of Port to sit back and sip.Extra kudos to Bern & Jase & Mon who organised for me to lend Jase & Mon some money a few weeks ago, and it turns out that was for the place in Halls Gap, so Bern could get it through without me seeing it.Time to go.
Bernie & I spent the weekend starting to build our retaining wall with help from Jase & Mon and the Kids (Connor provided moral support by waving from the window. He is so cute.) We got 3 courses of bricks down and Bernie and I are nearly dead, but a few more days and I’ll have a reasonable body! The only problem is that it is dark by the time I get home from work so I probably won’t get much more done until next weeekend
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NetBall & Tennis
I managed to play netball on Sunday, even though I was totally stuffed. We really missed Chris and Dave, who were injured. There is no tennis tonight as we have a bye. I got the keys to the tennis club on Friday, so I can start looking after the place now.
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Windows XP
I started to look at Windows XP today. It has some cool features, like keeping all your windows for a specific application together on the taskbar, and stacking them if you have too many. The biggest problem I have with it is that I can’t run Groupwise, my email/calendar program. Of course, maybe it is time I broke with Groupwise and started using something else. to be honest, that has been the one thing that has most kept me from going to Linux full time. I suppose it would be ironic if Windows XP was the thing that pushed me over the edge to Linux. 🙂
I also got a chance to sit and watch Blade, which is a great movie, if a little predictable. The very end was such a setup for a sequel that it made everything a bit hollow though.
Sunday was a busy day. We had the Janssen family around for an Aussie BBQ” lunch for Naoko’s sake. There was about 30 people around there, but I had to skip out about 2:45 for music practice etc.
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Joining the Tennis Club Committee
Thursday was a great game of volleyball, and then I headed straight on from there to the Tennis Club comittee meeting where I was made a member of the committee as the Maintenance officer. I have a bit of work to do, not least to stop the Treasurer from doing all the work. I’m a bit hamstrung at the moment until I can get a key though.
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RIP Bill Boote
This gets a special entry.. Graham lost his twin brother last Thursday night in a terrible car accident. Bill was driving home near Yarrawonga, and swerved to avoid a tree branch blown down in the storm. He lost it in the gravel and hit a tree. Bill, if you can read this, We’ll miss you. I’m glad you had the chance to spend dome time with Jen and Graham last week.