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A first for us this weekend – this morning we were up and showered before Max even woke up!  We went out last night (leaving Max with Vic’s Mum) for Ali’s 30th birthday party which was great fun. It was, of course, even better due to the fact that the AB’s beat Oz by a record score of 52-21!!!!  We got home and got Max up to give him a decent feed and eventually got to bed about 02:00 We were up at 08:00 and were ready to go before Max stirred! It really was a strange way to start the day I can tell you!

I also had a wee photo shoot with Max yesterday and have posted 5 new images to the image database. Here’s one of them:

Max joined the world of omnivores today and had his first taste of meat!  Pureed chicken and kumara was on the menu for lunch and dispatched with gusto Not only was it his first meat but also the first food with any real texture and didn’t worry him in the least.

I think think is where his shit really starts to stink………….

PS: My interview at the agency the other day went really well and the client wants to set up a phone interview – yay!  I’m not getting my hopes up as the requirements and my skillset don’t match up exactly but, hey, this is two steps further than I’ve got before

Max had his first “I’m so tired I could just keel over where I am” moment today He was sitting up in his cot and Vic went to get a cloth to wipe his hands (he’d just been a tiny bit sick) and when she came back he was fast asleep like this! LOL!

I think my interview/meeting went pretty well yesterday.

I seem to be a good fit for the role from a skills perspective and the agency seems to agree. They put my CV forward to the client last night and I should hear if I have a phone interview by the end of the week.

This is the furthest I’ve got in 4 months so fingers crossed

Well it’s another Monday and the only difference is there are more spaces in the car parking building that I park to when I go into town

I’m off to see an agency tomorrow about a job. The role might be suitable – they told me the client’s name so at least it’s a real role! It’s also an excuse to see if my suit still fits………

I’ve also added another couple of pictures to my 26 things website – only 20 to go in 9 days 🙁

I just had to post this – I bought a lens cloth today and almost wet myself reading the blurb on the back. This is it exactly as it is written, spelling and punctuation intact.

THE SPECIALITY OF HIGHTECH CLOTH

1. Perfectly free of self generation of dust particles with an outstanding capacity of water absorbtion and clening

2. Clean up even the smallest dust particles, finger, marks and grease sports due to the triangular structure of the filamemt section

3. Does not cause any scratches on cleaning objections surfaces as silicon or chemicals are not incorporated.

4. Maintains it’s original efficiency even after number of washing.

USE OF HIGHTECH CLEANER

1. High class cleaner for glasses, plastic coating lens.

2. Special cleaner for furniture, musical instrument, audio/video,camera and record (C.D, L.D)

3. Shining cleaner for jewely, electronic products, beaker and hard disk.

4. Superb cleaner for car windows, so, good feeling for driving

After trying four I have at last found an IE “upgrade” that does what I want it to.  I’ve been looking for the ability to have tabbed browsing within IE for a while and all the other programs I’ve tried have done various strange things, mostly with popups. When most blogs have popup comment windows this can be a problem!

Avantbrowser seems to do everything properly If you’re an IE user (and 79.9% of you are according to my webstats) you should at least have a look at it.

PS: Yes, I use Opera and Mozilla as well, but IE is my main browser

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Not a good day today.  First of all not having a job is starting to get to me. I woke up this morning feeling pretty shitty about it actually. Luckily I had a day out taking photos with my friend Jay to look forward to.

That is until he cancelled at about 10:30…….. “no worries” I thought, “I’ll just nip out on my own” It’s a nice day today but after 3 hours and about 10 crap pics later I came to the conclusion that my head just wasn’t in it so I should give up and have some lunch.  Malaysian was what I felt like and so I found a small restaurant, sat down, ordered mee goreng, and pulled out my Clie to read a book.  Hmmm – no books in the list…….the 128MB memorystick was missing! After walking around for 2 hours there really was no point in back-tracking to find it so I gave up on it 🙁

I drove home in an absolutely foul mood and of course every idiot was out on the roads just to piss me off!  When I got home though I thought I’d hunt through the car and see if the MS had popped out while it was on the passenger seat.  Lo and behold it had come out of my clie, gone though the seat, onto the floor in the rear of the car and ended up under Max’s car seat base legs.

Whilst not in quite as bad a mood as an hour ago I still wouldn’t cross me…………..

Oh and here’s the one even vaguely decent shot I took 🙁