Tonight I’ve moved Everything over to Drumknott, The new Blog thingie Jase has written. Everything from before this is copied over, the rest in new.There is a bit of a gap, because I’ve lost interest in blogging (drumming) while I’ve been gearing up for the change.
I borrowed one of the projectors from work for the weekend and we watched Miss Congeniality with Sandra Bullock on friday on DVD on the big screen, On Saturday we bought and watched Charlies Angels and a few taped TV shows and Sunday night we decided to see The Matrix (again, but you can’t see it too often)
Last weekend saw a bit of work out in the garden on Saturday, with the tree in the garden finally comming down. There is still lots of work to be done cleaning up branches, and many of the sleepers still need to be cut up to firewood size. I’m off work next week so we should get some real progress then, although Bern having her knee reconstruction on Wednesday and our evaporative air conditioning is going to be installed on Thursday.
Bern’s knee seems to be getting better, she can now drive agin. She had an MRI on Friday, and should have more information when she sees the doctor on Monday.
The main part of the retaining wall is done. Many thanks to Bern, Jase & Mon, Terry and Daniel for all thier support. There is still a heap of work to do, finishng off the corners and breaking up the old concrete steps and replacing them with a nice sloped path. There is also the cleanup of all the old sleepers (next year’s firewood) and cutting down the tree in the soon-to-be vegie patch.
Things at work are progressing slowly, and I’m having trouble adjusting to the new format of the magazine. I also got sick of Windows XP and went back to ME. All of a sudden my hard disk is not thrashing all the time.posted
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.
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