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You know that cold I had a couple of weeks ago? Well now it’s a full blown chest infection with a touch of asthma thrown in so I can’t clear my lungs 🙁 It’s not so bad during the day but after a day coughing and wheezing I have a pounding headache and my neck, shoulders and kidneys are really sore.  I don’t feel sick per se, just tired due to the fact that as soon as I lie down it feels like I’m gargling the contents of my watery lungs and I’m only getting about four hours sleep a night……… Hopefully the antibiotics and inhaler the doc gave me today will help.

I had fun yesterday (not!) by taking a trip to Christchurch for work.  The trip was neither here or there but my stomach did a flip when, halfway through my return flight, I realised that I had left my left arm (PDA in normalspeak) on a chair in the departure lounge hundreds of miles away!  My faith in the human race was raised a notch though by calling lost and found at the airport and being told that someone had handed it in! It should get back to me today.

Have a good weekend y’all Me? I have the New Zealand Defence Force ball tomorrow night (with work) where I’ll get all tarted up in black tie and get to hobnob with our equivalent of the Joint Chiefs of Staff – should be fun

I’ve had an absolutely stinking cold for the last 5 days and it’s starting to annoy me.  If it was a normal week coming up I wouldn’t be so worried but this is what my next nine days are like:

Thursday: Normal work day

Friday: Get up at 03:00, leave home at 04:00 to drive to the airport and catch a 06:30 flight to Sydney, spend the day hosting a customer who is travelling to Sydney for a storage demo, catch the 17:15 flight back, land at 23:40, get home about 00:30

Saturday: Weekend

Sunday: Weekend

Monday: Public holiday – much yayness!

Tuesday: Work the morning and then a get a cab to the airport for a 15:30 flight to……Sydney!

Wednesday: Training

Thursday: Training

Friday: Training then cab back to Sydney airpot, catch the 17:15 flight back, land at 23:40, get home about 00:30

My cold had better go at some point during this……

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I was writing a custom 404 page for this site and thought I’d have a look around our old joint site while I was poking around.

There’s no blog data but the photo album makes for interesting viewing. There are digital photos there that are seven years old and in looking through them I had a couple of thoughts…. The first was that I really over-sharpened my photos in the early days and the second was that I was really into panoramas Ahh – I miss the days of spare time…… 

Here’s a “recent” one – only three years old

Ta to my mate Rico for this

Once upon a time, a guy asked a girl “Will you marry me?”

The girl said “No.”

And the guy lived happily ever after and went playing golf and fishing and watched a lot of footy.

Where the hell do they go!  It seems that the only time that Vic and I slowed down was on Saturday night to watch the final of CSI that I had taped from a while back!  At least I got the concrete slab laid for the garden shed – now all I need is an actual shed

In other boring news it now 09:30 on Monday morning and I’ve had time to get up (at 05:15!), shower, drive to the airport, fly to Christchurch, circle for 30 minutes looking at the lovely fog from 20,000 feet, fly back to Wellington, rebook my flights for Thursday, drive home and have a coffee.  Not bad for 09:30

Over a week since the last update and what’s happened? Sod all….. 

Elliot turned four months on Sunday but we didn’t celebrate it with a big party and invite all his friends. A little family dinner (milk for him) seemed appropriate and it passed without incident.

As for Max he has now reached the age where it seems he doesn’t need a sleep in the middle of the day. I should say “doesn’t want a sleep during the day” because the stroppy little bugger could certainly do with a couple of extra hours! I guess his body is getting used to two hours less a day as he isn’t sleeping any more than he used to at night and we are paying the price. The really funny thing is you’ll sit him on his potty for half an hour before his nap time and nothing will happen then as soon as you put him in his room he’ll squeeze one out so he can come down and tell you about it!

Anyway I hope you are all well.

Tuesday night at 20:30 and I’m knackered – what a lightweight!  Off to bed for a bit of Harry Potter 6 I think…..

I leave in a couple of hours for 5 nights away doing Wellington-Sydney-Auckland-Wellington for work. Updates will be sporadic at best (like they’re not already!)

Hopefully Vic will be OK but if not then she has plenty of support to call on.  She won’t read this for a couple of days so remember I love you baby and I’ll be home soon.