Well it’s almost 8:30pm and I’m off to bed. My bags are packed, my cab booked and my alarm set for 03:15am.
Have a great week everyone and think of me hard at work in Sydney for the next week 
Ciao!
Here’s my own version of a Friday five
? This shows how much my life has changed: This morning I was off into town to look for a suit bag for my trip to Sydney on Monday and was looking for my watch (well, one of them 
) but couldn’t find it for the life of me. I looked everywhere (I thought) for about 15 minutes and in the end gave up and put my lovely Longines dress watch on. As I was leaving the house I brushed past the breakfast bar and knocked something onto the ground and lo and behold there was my watch! The funny thing (at least to me) was that my Tag Heuer Chronograph had been hiding under an (unused) disposable nappy(diaper) Oh the irony!
? Max has now got to the stage where you can chase him and he knows what’s going on. If he’s in the mood and you crawl after him he speeds away and laughs/screams hysterically! Very cool and great fun for me
? A difference between the UK and NZ. Today I parked in a car parking building in the center of Wellington and, after seeing my brother in the building and having a chat to him, left the car parked for almost 4 hours with the passenger window wound down. I came back to discover that the inside of the car seemed untouched. Good old NZ
? Our new fridge turned up yesterday It is so much bigger and much nicer than our borrowed fridge. We moved all the food over and the damned thing was only about a third full!
? I still can’t believe that I have to check in at 04:00 on a public holiday for my flight to Sydney on Monday…………
Oh the joys of once again being connected to the online world!
Where to start! The move went pretty well and we are now firmly ensconced in our new house with only a few boxes left to unpack. It’s bigger, newer, drier and Vic feels a lot more comfortable here than in our old place It has next-door neighbours that wander around naked with no curtains and a house out the back that had a bunch of giggling, bikini clad teenage girls running around throwing water at each other for hours the other day! Unfortunately the naked neighbour was not a sylph-like teenage girl but an overweight middle aged woman……..I just can’t seem to get the mix right
I also have the details organised for my first day of work next Monday – yay! The bad news is that it involves leaving the house at 04:00 to catch an 06:00 flight to Sydney, Australia (I’m there for the first week)…. and it’s a public holiday here in NZ! Bummer 🙁
Max has discovered a new trick – climbing stairs! This is the first 2 storey house he’s lived in and I was amazed at how quickly he picked the whole climbing thing up! I was sitting at the top of the stairs and Vic was behind Max so that he wouldn’t fall. The first half a dozen stairs were taken very tentatively but by the time he got to the second half he had it sussed and was going up the with no hesitating! We pick up a gate today for the bottom of the stairs…….
That’s all for now, I’ll probably do another update soon
I’ll be offline for the next week or so due to the move. I hope everyone has a great week and I’ll come visit soon
And to start my week off I got another POTD at digitalphotocontest.com with this shot.
see you soon!
2 days until the movers come and pick up the big stuff………..I’ve moved a load of small stuff today and I’ll be glad when it’s over 😮
Thursday went well with the Dell customer demo that I went to. It was quite strange getting up and going to work after 6 months of not having to! I really enjoyed it and the people that I’m going to work with seem very nice. I also ended up having a breakfast meeting on Friday at 07:30 so that I could meet the MD for Dell Australasia I formally start on the 27th of October and may away for the first three weeks! the first in Australia and the next two in Malaysia at a training boot camp. It’s all up in the air at the moment so we’ll wait and see.
Max is coming along in leaps and bounds and has started to use the small coffee table at Nana Jan’s place as a walker. He uses it to stand up and then pushes it along and moves his feet to keep up with it… clever boy! He and Vic are staying up at Janet’s place for a couple of nights – the guys upstairs are moving next weekend and I was worried that they’d have a mad party one night this weekend. Vic has had a couple of nights where she’s slept really badly (probably the stress of moving) and the last thing I want is her to be up all night because the neighbours are partying. The last time they had a party Vic was looking after her Mum after a small op and wasn’t here for all the yahooing and vomiting on my car……………
Sorry I haven’t been here much lately but things are a bit crazy at the moment!
Living wise I have organised all the necessities for the new house – power, phone and satellite TV For work I need a second phone line and broadband internet access so had a chat with the landlord tonight to make sure he’s OK with that (he is….phew!) Here’s a lo res clie picture of the new place:
On the job front I have been working my through the paperwork – there are 10 signatures needed! The really funny thing is that I’m going to a Dell/EMC/Microsoft customer session tomorrow as a Dell person and it’s still almost 3 weeks before I start! (27th October is my start date) lol!
Moving is a pain in the arse! The flat we’re moving to doesn’t have cable either so Max will have to say goodbye to Uncle Leo from TechTV
Today the weather is clear but breezy. Southerly swell and northerly breeze make for an interesting walk along the coast…..
As if XP security flaws weren’t enough I just went to this site and they were able to read the contents of my system clipboard! That was an unpleasant surprise.
Only seems to be a flaw if you are using IE5+
Fix
If you are using Internet Explorer 5.0 or greater, select Tools->Options and choose the Security tab.
Click the “Custom Level” button.
Scroll down near the bottom and change “Allow paste operations via script” to disable.
By default, Internet Explorer allows anyone to read your clipboard without notifying you – crap!
