Mar 07
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) Ramblings
Where to start?
The last week has been mental and hence the lack of updates. The strange thing is we didn’t seem to do anything out of the ordinary but the week just seemed to get away from me!
Tuesday and Wednesday were spent in Christchurch on business and the work from that flowed over into Thursday. On top of that my new PC was waiting for me in the hallway when I got home but that had to wait until the next day (I know!) Since then I’ve been slowly getting it set up the way I like (hey, it’s not all that easy to get 1920×1200 desktop wallpaper!) and so know the PC that sounded like a jet has been switched off – yay!
And tonight we are filling out our census forms so that’s been fun………
The kids are fine so there’s no real news there. Elliot is getting more and more mobile and has started to let go of the furniture that he’s holding on to. It’s the standard fare with him all of a sudden becoming aware of what he’s doing and then collapsing to the floor – all very funny.
Oh and if Martin reads this I have got your email and will, eventually get around to replying – honest.
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Feb 16
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) Ramblings
Ordered me one of these today…..
With one of these 24” beauties! 
• Dell Dimension 5150
• Pentium 4 @ 3.4 GHz
• 1GB memory
• 2 x 250GB SATA drives (RAID1)
• DVD Writer
• DVD ROM
• 256MB Radeon graphics card
• Soundblaster card
And that lovely 24” widescreen monitor running at 1920×1200
Feb 10
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) Max, Ramblings
We’re back! Well, actually we’ve been back since Monday……
The first four days of my trip to Sydney were work so not much to say there – same shit, different city really. Friday night Vic turned up though and my focus somewhat shifted 
I won’t detail the weekend but suffice to say that we had a great time chilling out, eating in nice restaurants and going shopping mad. I think the main thing that Vic enjoyed was being able to go into a shop and wander around, try stuff on etc. without having to worry about a child (or two) getting in the way or running off.
Monday saw the kids delivered back to us in one piece and all the baby-sitters involved (thanks!) reporting that both kids had been little angels, slept through the night, blah blah (little buggers!) Max was pretty glad to see me back though and gave me big, squeezy hugs for the first 10 minutes bless him.
Here’s a picture of Max taken while I was away. A couple of times he’s grabbed his “steering wheel”, put a seat up on the couch and pretended to drive a car. This time however he piled everything he could find behind the seat and told Vic “Me have van now Mummy” lol!
Jan 31
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) Ramblings
It’s before 04:00 and I’m sitting here waiting for my cab to come and pick me up and take me to the airport. Another three days of sales kick-off rah-rah-rah in Sydney to come, yay……… The good thing about this time though is the fact that on Friday Vic turns up for two days in Sydney with me, yay (and it’s not a sarcastic yay like before!)
Have a good week people and good luck to those grandparents and aunties that are sharing the boys while we are gone
Jan 29
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) Ramblings
For Gina who is suffering under snow at the moment – a little sunshine for ya! This was breakfast time yesterday…..
Dec 11
But things are crazy busy at both work and home….
I hope all your Christmas preparations are going well. We’ll update properly in the next couple of days.
Nov 29
I should really do this chronologically…
Elliot’s third tooth came through last Tuesday (and it’s been a week before I told everyone!) It came and went a few times but popped through after a week or so of pain.
My day with Elliot sans Vic went really well but was almost pointless at the same time. Vic was gone for about 9 hours and Elliot drank a grand total of 30ml (about an ounce) during the whole day! The only time he got grumpy was when I tried to feed him – otherwise he was an absolute joy, the little bugger. Not surprisingly he’s fed really well since….
I played an hour and a half of tennis with a colleague this afternoon and am so sore. I won 6-4, 6-1 but, damn, I’m paying for it! The fact that I could even hit the ball pleased me greatly since I was pretty shite the last time I hit a ball – 8 years ago!
Nov 19
Not much news really except to say that I’m about 80% well now. The chest infection cleared up with a course of antibiotics but the asthma is kind of hanging around. The head cold decided to come back too so that’s been fun….. especially as I flew yesterday and pressure equalisation was not one of my body’s strong points. Usually I’m a fairly healthy person – so much so that I visited the doctor that the rest of the family use and they had no record of me. As we’ve been back in NZ for 2 and a half years it means it’s been at least that long since I visited the doctor.
In other, site related, news we’ve just passed 250,000 hits on this page so a big thanks to all you visitors