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Off to Sydney again in about 4 hours!  It seems like only yesterday that I was away in Shanghai but it was 6 months ago!  I’m away for the whole week so updates will be pretty much non-existent I think.

I picked up an NEC 3520 DVD burner during the week and what fun I’ve had Max ruins all his DVD’s by taking them out of the DVD player and just dropping them on the floor sometimes.  It’s not the dropping that damages them but the fact that we have wooden floors in the family room and if any grit gets underneath the DVD they just get scratched to hell!  In comes my new DVD burner, a software product called DVD-X-COPY, a DVD-R disk and 15 minutes later I have a full working copy of the DVD.  I think this is going to be a real money saver as Max has already ruined two DVD’s and at 30-40 bucks a piece it will have paid for the DVD burner in about 5 non-knackered movies!

In mt last entry I showed some cynicism toward the 5 day forecast and my mother berated me for it when the next two days were stunning weather Although it hasn’t rained the weather hasn’t quite been up to the high promise given by the MetService 🙁 Today has dawned a beauty though and it’s a shame I’m flying out but here’s a picture of Max taking advantage of the weather in a little paddling pool that hasn’t got as much use as we were hoping.

Have a good week everyone

There’s nothing worse than a snotty doctor’s receptionist who insists you tell her what is wrong in a room full of other patients. I know we all have experienced this, and I love the way this old guy handled it.

An 86 year old man walked into a crowded doctor’s office. As he approached the desk, the receptionist said,

“Yes sir, what are you seeing the doctor for today?

“There’s something wrong with my penis,” he replied.

The receptionist became irritated and said, “You shouldn’t come into a crowded office and say things like that.”

“Why not? You asked me what was wrong and I told you,” he said.

The receptionist, “You’ve obviously caused some embarrassment in this room full of people. You should have said there is something wrong with your ear or something and then discussed the problem further with the doctor in private.”

The man walked out, waited several minutes and then re-entered.

The receptionist smiled smugly and asked, “Yes?”

“There’s something wrong with my ear,” he stated.

The receptionist nodded approvingly and smiled, knowing he had taken her advice.

“And what is wrong with your ear, Sir?” “I can’t piss out of it,” the man replied. The doctor’s office erupted in laughter.

Today was a shitty day.  First because I had to change three crap filled nappies before 11:00 (what have we been feeding him!?)

The second is that we had to have Vic’s family cat put down 🙁 Zebbie was 16 years old and has been really sick for the last four days.  So much so that he would wet himself in his basket and not have the energy to move out of his mess.

The vet said that it was probably a heart problem as he could hear a heart murmur and that he was retaining loads of fluid in his abdominal cavity. Anyway, he was put down at about 19:00 tonight 🙁

Bye bye Zebbie.

….. go mad

One of my mates sent me a few of these so you may see some of these over the next wee while.

All you needed to know about this interwebnet thingie……..

http://www.chavscum.co.uk/rlvi.wmv

Saffy is fast asleep in this shot!  I was at my desk working and she just walked up my stomach and fell asleep like this – crazy cat!

I forgot to mention that Max peed in his potty for the first time yesterday morning!  It was only a dribble but it was enough for us to heap praise upon him and for Daddy to make him eggy bread (french toast – his fave) for breakfast