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Things have been fairly uninteresting here lately hence the lack of posting 🙁 Work has been crazy during this short week and I’ve barely paused for breath other than to try and decide what Vic and I are going to offer on a house that we want to buy.  It’s a design-build package that they are about to build and we can’t quite afford to pay the full asking price and still have some of the extras that we want (double glazing, underfloor heating in the bathrooms The agent is coming around on Sunday morning and we’ll make a formal offer then and wait…….. very exciting and more than a bit scary!

In other news Max has been a right sh*t over the last few days.  Really grumbly and unsettled and throwing tantrums left right and center – of course it might have something to do with the two or three teeth we think are coming through at the same time 🙁 Thank God for Pamol and Bonjela!

Yep, I’m back in town and damn it feels good to be home!  Three more weeks and I’m back in Sydney for another week though – next time I’ll take a camera! I walk around and see all these things I want to take pics of but don’t have a small enough camera to take away. I see a shopping trip coming up

Max has learned three new things while I’ve been away 🙁 He now waves properly (not just opening and closing his hand)! You leave, he waves. You come back and he waves – so cool. 

He has also taken a shine to walking backwards! lol!  He’ll be standing in the middle of the lounge and walk backwards using little steps until he hits something.  He looks really funny – a little moonwalking dude!

The final thing is opening doors! Vic was sitting there and watched him walk over to the front door, reach up on tippy-toes to open the front door and then wander out down the drive! He’s only a year old the little bugger!  Looks like we’ll be locking the front door from now on……..

PS: Sorry about the over-abundance of exclamation marks in the post……!

I can’t believe it’s been six days since the last entry.  There’s not really much to say though……….

Max is covered in bruises from various “I’m so good at walking I can almost run – oh no my legs aren’t really up to the task – oh shit I’m wiping out at speed” episodes Poor wee man has many more to go, I know, but he looks like an abused child sometimes!  He’s also off baby formula now and has moved to 100% full fat milk with no obvious effects.

We’re looking at getting a house built!  The bank will lend us loads of money and there is a design/build package up for grabs about 5 minutes from where we are.  5 bedrooms and approx 2700 square feet. We are having a meeting with the developer on Monday to ask some questions………

aboutlight has stalled a wee bit 🙁 I don’t know what to use as a back end and although I have a semi working site up and running locally using pMachine the fact that I can’t allocate multiple categories really bugs me.  I can’t seem to get movabletype running locally either……….

No much else going on really – I’m off to Sydney on Tuesday for the rest of the week so it’ll be another quiet week in marcandvicdotcomland.

Who says guys can’t multi-task?  It’s another stunning day here in Wellington Vic and Max are visiting Janet and I’m sitting on the couch:

1) Trying to figure out a layout and backend for http://www.aboutlight.com.  I wouldn’t mind using a blogging/cms tool to manage it so am looking at pMachine, MT (again) WordPress and a few full-on CMS’s. I might also look at some gallery tools to see how configurable they are.

2) Keeping an eye on the 5th cricket ODI between NZ and Pakistan. 200-3 go the blackcaps!

3) Listening to The Alan Parsons Project – The Instrumental Works.  Released in 1988 it’s timeless……..

The joys of working from home It’s about 25C/77F and a fine, calm day.  I’m sitting outside under a big sun umbrella with my laptop hooked up to work via my WLAN and it’s thoroughly enjoyable

No TV! The little man came to fix it and took it away!  We have a Philips 32” widescreen and ever since we got it’s been out of focus at the sides and has had a strange discolouration in one corner. After 8 months I finally called someone to have a look at it and now it’s gone to the great TV testing place up the road……… I hope it’s OK tonight and not too lonely 🙁

Today Vic and I have been married for 3 years! Our lives have changed somewhat over these last few years and as far as I’m concerned it’s all good The 3rd wedding anniversary gift is either leather (traditional) or crystal (modern) so I bought Vic a bunch of Swarovski crystal roses. She always complains that I never buy her flowers so it was a win-win gift To celebrate we are are off out on a date tonight while my Mum looks after Max.

While I was trying to figure out a gift I was thinking back over our time together and I remembered when I proposed to Vic……..

It was the 2nd July 1999 and the day of the Lord Mayors parade in London.  The night was still and warm so we had caught the bus down to Tower Bridge to watch the fireworks.  We were standing on the bank of the Thames with Tower Bridge lit up and the fireworks started going off. Vic was standing in front of me and I had my arms around her as we gazed up at the multi-coloured extravaganza going on above us and I leaned forward, kissed her earlobe and whispered “will you marry me” in her right ear. She turned around, said yes and then we kissed.  The rest of the evening was spent in a warm fuzzy haze as we made our way back home.

It seems both a long time ago and just like yesterday.  Here’s to many more years together.