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It’s been a while since the last update and not a lot has happened.  Here’s the few things that have…..

? Max is starting to support himself really well when sitting up now.  It’s amazing how things can change over three or four days. At the beginning of the week he would last about 5 seconds before toppling over – now he sits quite happily for minutes at a time and can recover from minor off-centre incidents

? The weirdest thing happened while I was driving along today. A small dog (maybe a Terrier of some sort) walked up to a crossing some distance in front of me and paused to look my way. When he saw that there was quite a distance he started to walk across. When he got to the island in the middle of the road he paused again, a car stopped for him and he crossed the second side of the street! Cool dog

? Try going to Google – type in “weapons of mass destruction” and hit the “I’m feeling lucky button” Take my word for it, it’s worth it )

When having a bath with your son don’t wash him with very slippery soap and then drop him face first into the water!!!!!!

Even though his face will only be in the water for about 1/2 a second and he will take it pretty well you will almost have a heart attack and you will almost pull a muscle with your super fast, panic enhanced, hand speed.

I was shaking for about 30 minutes………..

Good weekend!

Yesterday we drove out to see my Dad in his new house and had lunch.  He’s recently moved to a small town about an hour away and we’d promised to visit.  We then drove about another hour and a half and went to the first birthday party for Abbey, the daughter of friends of ours Ali and Al.  Great afternoon with loads of cake, cheerios and champagne! After leaving there about 20:00 we got home just after 23:00 (coffee stop at Vic’s Mum’s on the way ) and Max played up until just after 01:00!!  A very exciting day for him I guess with loads of new people and things to see.

Today was a quiet day with our friend Gayle popping around for lunch and then my Mum visiting for a coffee. Here’s a couple of shots I took while Mum was here.

My life is dead boring at the moment so let’s read about other people’s………

Woman swallows fork trying to catch bug!

Gaint pre-schoolers in wrestling match

Does Stonehenge Depict Female Genitalia??

Ya gotta love search engines! I had a new comment left on an entry from over a year ago by Clayton who said he found my site while looking for CSS tutorials (like I know anything!) and so I thought I’d have a look at my webstats.  Here are the top searches that bought people to my site………..

? i love hairy men

? telling the babys sex on a scan

? baby at 20 weeks

? grannie sex

? hairy

? click smilies

? hairy women

? what increases sperm count

? sore arse

? hairy men

LOL!

Max had his first Christmas yesterday and got to open his first chrissie presents wrapped with special silver crinkly paper! (My Mum knew he would like the paper more than the present )

Mum always throws a mid-winter Christmas dinner and Sunday was the night for this years event.  She goes the whole hog with turkey, bread sauce, crackers – you name it.  This year was a great success and we had to take a present along (not more than $2) and they got numbered and then randomly drawn.  It’s amazing what you can buy for not much money!

All in all a great night and Mum’s digital camera was on hand for the photo’s

PS: As you can see from the Today in History entry it was exactly a year ago today that we told the world that we were going to be parents!  How time flies.

The weather here is atrocious – so of course Jay and I went out and took some photo’s

Waves – and big ones!

Jay just in front of me…….

… NOT!

Mind you I hacked my first pMachine backend file today!

Not a big deal….. I have set up a 26 things site for my friend Jay (look familiar?) and because PM doesn’t have popup comments I had to find a hack to do it. Found popup stuff easily enough but if you use a different page in the popup window PM still loads the standard comments page when you preview or submit the comments – bummer.  I found what I needed to change in the file that contains the commenting backend code OK but it only works for one weblog so that left Jay with a commenting page that didn’t return to itself.  I though I could let it go…….

Anyway long story short – I found a command called elseif and figured that might work – and it did! so now Jay and I both have comment pages the way I wanted them to work.

This is all I had to do – change this:

$returnto .= get_pref(“comments_page_$weblog”);

to this (most of this from the web):

if($weblog == “26things”) {

$returnto .= “../26things/pop_comments.php”;

} else {

$returnto .= get_pref(“comments_page_$weblog”);

}



to this:



if($weblog == “26things”) {

$returnto .= “../26things/pop_comments.php”;

} elseif($weblog == “jay”) {

$returnto .= “../../jay/pop_comments.php”;

} else {

$returnto .= get_pref(“comments_page_$weblog”);

}

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