I had a bit of a laugh whilst flicking through the channels today 
I came upon an old episode of Beyond 2000 which is an Australian magazine style science show.
The cutting edge news was a portable MP3 player (32MB I think) and some new software that would be released soon for helping to search for ET life – SETI@Home
The world changes so rapidly………
Someone around here is doing some work on the flooring of their apartment. I can’t tell if it’s above or below me – the whole flat is resounding with their hammer blows.
One of the bad things about working from home I guess 🙁
I’ll have to go out for a while at some stage though or there’ll be one more homicide investigation in London……………
Busy weekend hence no entries until now – here it is in chronological order.
? The All Blacks beat Australia 12-6 in the opening match of the tri-nations :vbg: Richie and Fi came around to watch the game which was a dour, error ridden, hard fought affair played in freezing rain. v.nervous toward the end but neither team really looked like scoring a try and running away with the match.
? Then it was off out to the Bluewater shopping mall for a few hours in an attempt to find Vic some maternity trousers. Even though she’s not really starting to show she is finding that more and more pairs of trouser aren’t comfortable any more. Hours later we get back to the car with 3 maternity tops (of course!) Maybe next weekend…………..
? Watched the last couple of hours of the England vs India triangular series final What a game!! England scored a stunning 325 in the first innings and had India struggling on 146-5. The Indian middle order came through though and India won with 3 balls and 2 wickets to spare. Great stuff!
? Saturday night was relaxed with Japanese noodles for dinner and a bit of grocery shopping (such an exciting married couple!)
? Most of Sunday was spent with my Uncle Andrew’s family visiting them before they move a lot further away next week. As with most of my family they are totally chilled and visiting them is always relaxing. After a nice lunch sitting in the garden we spent some time watching the movie Spy Kids with Megan
? Then after a 2 hour drive back it was round to Richie and Fi’s for a BBQ to finish the weekend off. We were going to see a movie but the weather was far too nice (for a change :() hence the food and wine instead.
So that’s it – another Cramer weekend over and back into work. Stupid me has booked a day off on Thursday and then went and setup up a customer meeting! D’oh
Hope y’all had as nice a weekend as we did
It’s been a while but I’ve got another Picture Of The Day (POTD) at [url=http://www.digitalphotocontest.com]http://www.digitalphotocontest.com[/url] This shot has been entered 12 times now and was picked at last :vbg:
Here’s some stats from the site (they’ve put up a new section)
? There are 10 categories with one winner picked per category each day
? 474 pictures were entered yesterday (12 July)
? So far 6395 entries have been received this month (approx 16,000 per month!)
I’ve been entering pictures here for about 2 years now and have 10 POTD’s with one monthly Best of Category and one monthly Grand Prize winner. It’s a tough site and getting tougher all the time so I’m glad to win anything these days.
Anyone reading this that has an interest in photography should visit the site and have a look around (especially the archive section) as there is some stunning work there.
News has reached me that Sesame Street is to introduce an HIV-Positive Muppet in South Africa.
This story explains how the muppet, which has yet to have a name or final color or form, will be female, have high self esteem and will be fully part of the community.
Via Sara
… we’re are going to be parents!!!!!!!
Me – a father! God forbid 
We’ve known for a few weeks but we’ve just been for our 12 week scan and everything looks OK so we’re telling the world :vbg:
We have been trying for a little while. Vic and I stuck to the “average” and took six months to get pregnant once she came off birth control.
The baby is due about the 20th January 2003. The scan confirmed that it is right on the average size for both length and skull size for it’s age and that the chance of Downs is less than one in 6,000. Phew! – I didn’t think I was worried until we saw everything was OK and then the sense of relief let me know that I was lying to myself.
When the scan first started the little bugger wouldn’t move so the radiologist? was having trouble getting the measurements. Then all of a sudden it started doing gymnastics! Twisting this way and that – arms and legs going like a little swimmer.
What a feeling! As the father it hadn’t really sunk in until today. Vic was tired and grumpier than usual but wasn’t showing at all. Today I saw our baby for the first time……….
God – it’s like being on speed (I imagine) I am SO excited!!!
What a great time we had yesterday :vbg:
The super six spent Saturday 6th July in the fresh air drinking New Zealand wines and eating New Zealand foods at ToastNZ.
Toast New Zealand was a food and wine festival that acted as a showcase for NZ wines, food and products. Over 6,000 people attended and it was held in the grounds of Syon House in west London.
Tickets were a bit steep at 28 GBP (42.50 USD/87.50 NZD) and once you got there you had to shell out at the very least 4 GBP (6 USD/12.50 NZD) for a 150ml (5 oz) glass of wine 🙁 Given the cost of it though a great day was had by all I think. We got there about noon and nabbed quite possibly the last table available. This was a great boon as people weren’t releasing tables so if you missed out at the beginning you were screwed.
6 hours of fine NZ wines, mediocre to good NZ food (yay for kumara chips, venison burgers and pavlova!) great weather and a well behaved crowd later we were back on the tube to the hour long trip home. We had all got a bit of sun and Vic was knackered so we came straight home while the others went out for dinner in Knightsbridge.
At 2 am I woke with a very upset stomach and a pounding headache and needed some middle of the night repairs – painkillers, antacids and loads of water later I managed to fall back to sleep and the slept in until 9:15!! Most unusual for me……….
Today has been spent chilling out and rushing to get KFC at 15:00 when Vic said in no uncertain terms that she “needed KFC right now!” So now I’m sitting here typing this and feeling slightly queasy.
I didn’t take my camera but did take my clie and there are some lo-res hots of our day here
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