Blimey what a year!
Managed to hold down a full time job and keep delivering!
Managed to finish my dissertation and got Distinction.
Managed to catch every cough cold stomach bug going, and pull a major muscle in my neck whilst sleeping (and no, I had not been moshing or head banging for weeks before the incident)
Managed to celebrate my Dissertation by staying out till 6 am, dancing in a dirty techno basement.
Managed to not get in trouble with my wife for staying out till 6am!
Learning to moderate my behavior as appropriate for the commercial sector... although i shall be sad when my team moves out of its little quiet corner and we have to tone down the lewd.
Managed to have a damn good BBQ in September, and fix some leaking rooves on my "out-buildings"
Looking forward to my Graduation ceremony!
Did manage to get the band back together, and play some gigs...more of that next year
Did manage to lay on some pretty good Allstars bashes
Did manage to get my ankle better enough to start exercising again after 6 months of pain / inactivity
Fails:
Didn't finish sorting our extension :(
Didn't get Dad anything for his birthday :(
Didn't lose weight overall
SO 2013!
Spending as much time as I can with Wife and kids!
Exercise & fitness,
Gigging (limiting to one a month i hope), and
Sorting house out!
Keep moving Foward!
What's happening in the life of the Ball Swarm
Tuesday, 11 December 2012
Sunday, 27 May 2012
Misc Musk MSC
Time is running out! With some help from friends we have finally finished the decorating and flooring of our little extension, at the expense of the garden! Need to spend the Jubilee weekend mowing, weeding and trimming it back, and sort out the leaking roof of my shed so that we can shove a load of our kit in there!
Soon, we shall re-emerge from 18 months of social chrysalis as beautiful social butterflies with the eventual return of infamous Ball BBQ's... where the meat flows like wine and the cheese is grated and gyrated!
Soon we shall have a house to be proud of, and have a chance to show it off.... the only problem being, i need to spend all my free time this summer finishing off my MSC Dissertation based on a software project i stopped working on about a year ago.
The guide says 20,000 words... and i have done nearly 15,000 already, but I am not sure how much of that I can use directly in the project. All of it can go in the Appendix at the very least.
I have a very shiney Gannt chart thanks to Team Gannt, and I am enjoying ticking off the stages of each chapter of my MasterWork.
Considering Buying that Dragon Voice Recog Software to help me chunter my way through the workload.
Student License at £83 is a lot of money, but if it saves me more than 4 hours work, its probably worth it..
Soon, we shall re-emerge from 18 months of social chrysalis as beautiful social butterflies with the eventual return of infamous Ball BBQ's... where the meat flows like wine and the cheese is grated and gyrated!
Soon we shall have a house to be proud of, and have a chance to show it off.... the only problem being, i need to spend all my free time this summer finishing off my MSC Dissertation based on a software project i stopped working on about a year ago.
The guide says 20,000 words... and i have done nearly 15,000 already, but I am not sure how much of that I can use directly in the project. All of it can go in the Appendix at the very least.
I have a very shiney Gannt chart thanks to Team Gannt, and I am enjoying ticking off the stages of each chapter of my MasterWork.
Considering Buying that Dragon Voice Recog Software to help me chunter my way through the workload.
Student License at £83 is a lot of money, but if it saves me more than 4 hours work, its probably worth it..
Sunday, 12 February 2012
2012 - THE WORLD IS NIGH!
squeeeeeel!
If it isn't 2012 already? Where did last year go? Mine flew by. I spent it debating, deciding and then preparing for my Voluntary re-dunce-ity from DMU. Baby No 4 arrived, i had 3 months off to enjoy seeing him turn from a pink yowling blob with worrying dietary issues into a beautiful bouncing baby boy....Wrote and read the eulogy of my last remaining grandparents funeral, managed a difficult home renovation lasting 6 weeks, did some consultancy projects and got an excellent job, did some smashing musical projects including an all time high Steal this band gig at Halloween and started my first ever period of enjoyable non sporting related exercise.
Life is good.
Thursday is the 16Th anniversary of getting together with my now wife of 11 years, and mother of my 4 children, and i think its safe to say (without tempting fate) that we have never been happier!
I hope to start blogging a bit more again, and put a more detailed blog out about the PROCESS, changing jobs and my minimal success as a small business man..including the support of some friends and difficulties of starting a business when you are the product, and working from home with 4 kids including a brand new baby..
In the mean time, Welcome 2012 & hug it to your chest! an interestig year of Mayan calendars and London Olympics. After last years ups and downs, and surviving it, I feel ready to takle this year head on, face covered in Wode, Loin-cloth flapping in the breeze, and my bronze long-sword held high above my head as a careen headlong across the moors yelling my battle cry, with my tribe behind me!
If it isn't 2012 already? Where did last year go? Mine flew by. I spent it debating, deciding and then preparing for my Voluntary re-dunce-ity from DMU. Baby No 4 arrived, i had 3 months off to enjoy seeing him turn from a pink yowling blob with worrying dietary issues into a beautiful bouncing baby boy....Wrote and read the eulogy of my last remaining grandparents funeral, managed a difficult home renovation lasting 6 weeks, did some consultancy projects and got an excellent job, did some smashing musical projects including an all time high Steal this band gig at Halloween and started my first ever period of enjoyable non sporting related exercise.
Life is good.
Thursday is the 16Th anniversary of getting together with my now wife of 11 years, and mother of my 4 children, and i think its safe to say (without tempting fate) that we have never been happier!
I hope to start blogging a bit more again, and put a more detailed blog out about the PROCESS, changing jobs and my minimal success as a small business man..including the support of some friends and difficulties of starting a business when you are the product, and working from home with 4 kids including a brand new baby..
In the mean time, Welcome 2012 & hug it to your chest! an interestig year of Mayan calendars and London Olympics. After last years ups and downs, and surviving it, I feel ready to takle this year head on, face covered in Wode, Loin-cloth flapping in the breeze, and my bronze long-sword held high above my head as a careen headlong across the moors yelling my battle cry, with my tribe behind me!
Sunday, 21 August 2011
The ultimate Fictional Analyst Programmer (Ballblog 7)
Has to be the Doctor, from Dr Who...Watch have been showing eccleston and tennant series' from the start about 4pm each weekday, so between php scripting, me and the swarm have been catching up on what we missed..
(no guilt, i have been chosing to spend the time i have been saving on getting ready for work and commuting watching DRwho instead!).
and I have today concluded, in a thought which came to me doing a Sudoku lying on my bed whilst training baby Dylan to be put down awake and go to sleep in his cot....that the Doctor (Dr who?) is the ultimate analyst/programmer....lets open the discussion with my thoughts on why:
Next time on irregular blogs -
Working from home with 4 kids
setting up windows 7 to take 2 internet connections
Buying a new laptop - amazing value from ebuyer.com!
Php - why its like Perl, only easier.
(no guilt, i have been chosing to spend the time i have been saving on getting ready for work and commuting watching DRwho instead!).
and I have today concluded, in a thought which came to me doing a Sudoku lying on my bed whilst training baby Dylan to be put down awake and go to sleep in his cot....that the Doctor (Dr who?) is the ultimate analyst/programmer....lets open the discussion with my thoughts on why:
- Always analyses the situation and experiments
- Always brings to bear prior specific knowledge
- Generally keeps calm in the face of adversity or resistance to change
- Is prepared to alter his hypothesis in light of firm contrary evidence
- Utilises available technology to develop solutions.
- Works along a firm set of morale boundaries in order to develop the most robust solution in any given situation.
- (never leaves behind any documentation)
Next time on irregular blogs -
Working from home with 4 kids
setting up windows 7 to take 2 internet connections
Buying a new laptop - amazing value from ebuyer.com!
Php - why its like Perl, only easier.
Monday, 20 June 2011
Ballog 6 -
Breast Feeding Debates
Ball Family Oscars (Boscars)
Dream Jobs
Tw@ Parking Pass
Tory erosion of the minimum wage
Day 8 of (Bob) Dylan
Our new baby, Dylan ball is on Day 8 post partum. Nice. Its been a roller coaster ride for @elizabeth and her breasts. (this is the point when my dad stops reading...bye dad). Liz is giving a really good run at Breastfeeding this time and I am ever so proud of her. She is knackered and undergoing amusing cognitive fail due to sleep deprivation. Yesterday she happily handed me my dessert, a bowl of meringue, cream and strawberry's. She and the swarm love that dessert... I however, have not ever eaten strawberry's, except once when I tried one and spat it out, in front of her, in 12 years of marriage and 15 years of being together. When I pointed this out to her she looked confused and said she thought I had always eaten them.... its funny how <4 hours sleep a night for 10 days can really screw with your perception of the world... just look at Lady Thatcher and the destruction of UK industry....
So anyway, I have decided to nick-name the new boy Bob. This is because my friend Stu Love often called his cousin James Robert Williams "Jimbobwilly"... as a result of that cool abbreviate I often called my son Thomas "TomBob", even though his middle name is not Robert. I really don;t fancy abbreviating Dylan to Dyl...or Dill...I have debating nominating Donald as his middle name - so we can call him Dildo...but Liz's not buying that for a second. So I might settle on Robert as a middle name, so the Bob Dylan reference makes Bob his legitimate nickname.
Dream Jobs
Today I turned down a dream job. I have had 1st and 2nd interviews at an engineering company doing tech work, and i was offered the job on Friday (they described me as the "outstanding candidate"). It was more money than I was on at DMU, high promotional prospects, ok hours, decent pension and medical, and most importantly work I would have enjoyed with some cool people. But I turned it down. I think I might be mad. 12 months ago it would have been a dream opportunity, to move from academia into industry....especially industrial with promotional options which could have lead to directorship in the next 4 years and options like working in Portland, Oregon or one of 15 other USA locations..... One reason why I took the Voluntary redundancy at DMU was that it'd put some money in the bank for me and let me have more of a consultancy lifestyle, hopefully earning near to what I was on as PAYE, but paying less tax (Dividends at 20% instead of PAYE Tax & N.I. at 40%) as a Ltd company - and spending more time at home with my family.
Having been off now on paternity leave for over a week, I have certainly come to value the potential freedom and enjoyment of being at home in the day, seeing my kids and wife more, and spending more time in natural daylight. I have really bonded heavily with Emily over this last month, she doesn't just run past me shouting mummy any more if she needs something... she seems to consider me a useful parent too now, which makes me happy. I have other job options, but I hope I get to spend more time with my wife and kids. This is why I am slightly torn in half by the opportunity to have an interview for another job for which I would have to work away from home mon-thurs...trading my family time short-term for big bucks, but becoming a weekend dad.
Not even heard if i have got the interview for that, so we'll cross that bridge if and when we come to it.
On now to the Boscars (- or Ball family oscars).
I need to put out a few thank you's to people for the help they have given the me, Liz and the swarm over the last few years.
TW@ Pass
Firstly, what's going on with the people who park on the school run ignorantly or antisocially just to get 10 yards closer to school, for example parking over people's drives or in the Yellow "school no parking" zone.... I propose some kind of name and shame sticker campaign, provisionally named "TW@ Pass" - Which could be designed, distributed, and stuck onto their vehicles every-time they are spotted performing such misdemeanour's. There's a dad on the nursery run who regularly drives right up to the school gates and parks in the Yellow zone rather than normal spots for parking 20-50 yards further up the road.
Tory Erosion of the minimum wage....
Just when you thought the TORY's had copped enough of a facefull of backlash over their devious NHS refroms, one of them comes out with a ludicrous IDEA to wave minimum wage for disabled people to help them get jobs . At least the government stepped out and refused to back him up..eroding the minimum wage....so you can pay your immigrant philipino pool cleaner£1 an hour to fish champagne glasses out of the filter? Suit you sir..
Ball Family Oscars (Boscars)
Dream Jobs
Tw@ Parking Pass
Tory erosion of the minimum wage
Day 8 of (Bob) Dylan
Our new baby, Dylan ball is on Day 8 post partum. Nice. Its been a roller coaster ride for @elizabeth and her breasts. (this is the point when my dad stops reading...bye dad). Liz is giving a really good run at Breastfeeding this time and I am ever so proud of her. She is knackered and undergoing amusing cognitive fail due to sleep deprivation. Yesterday she happily handed me my dessert, a bowl of meringue, cream and strawberry's. She and the swarm love that dessert... I however, have not ever eaten strawberry's, except once when I tried one and spat it out, in front of her, in 12 years of marriage and 15 years of being together. When I pointed this out to her she looked confused and said she thought I had always eaten them.... its funny how <4 hours sleep a night for 10 days can really screw with your perception of the world... just look at Lady Thatcher and the destruction of UK industry....
So anyway, I have decided to nick-name the new boy Bob. This is because my friend Stu Love often called his cousin James Robert Williams "Jimbobwilly"... as a result of that cool abbreviate I often called my son Thomas "TomBob", even though his middle name is not Robert. I really don;t fancy abbreviating Dylan to Dyl...or Dill...I have debating nominating Donald as his middle name - so we can call him Dildo...but Liz's not buying that for a second. So I might settle on Robert as a middle name, so the Bob Dylan reference makes Bob his legitimate nickname.
Dream Jobs
Today I turned down a dream job. I have had 1st and 2nd interviews at an engineering company doing tech work, and i was offered the job on Friday (they described me as the "outstanding candidate"). It was more money than I was on at DMU, high promotional prospects, ok hours, decent pension and medical, and most importantly work I would have enjoyed with some cool people. But I turned it down. I think I might be mad. 12 months ago it would have been a dream opportunity, to move from academia into industry....especially industrial with promotional options which could have lead to directorship in the next 4 years and options like working in Portland, Oregon or one of 15 other USA locations..... One reason why I took the Voluntary redundancy at DMU was that it'd put some money in the bank for me and let me have more of a consultancy lifestyle, hopefully earning near to what I was on as PAYE, but paying less tax (Dividends at 20% instead of PAYE Tax & N.I. at 40%) as a Ltd company - and spending more time at home with my family.
Having been off now on paternity leave for over a week, I have certainly come to value the potential freedom and enjoyment of being at home in the day, seeing my kids and wife more, and spending more time in natural daylight. I have really bonded heavily with Emily over this last month, she doesn't just run past me shouting mummy any more if she needs something... she seems to consider me a useful parent too now, which makes me happy. I have other job options, but I hope I get to spend more time with my wife and kids. This is why I am slightly torn in half by the opportunity to have an interview for another job for which I would have to work away from home mon-thurs...trading my family time short-term for big bucks, but becoming a weekend dad.
Not even heard if i have got the interview for that, so we'll cross that bridge if and when we come to it.
On now to the Boscars (- or Ball family oscars).
I need to put out a few thank you's to people for the help they have given the me, Liz and the swarm over the last few years.
- The biggest shout goes to mum and Rod, because without them we would have really struggled.. They help with the school run, and always have milk.
- Liz's mum Jenny ( and her husband peter) also helps a lot and is good for bouncing HE idea's and career decisions off.
- My dad's also good for career and 'tech' talk, so thanks to you guys loads for all that you do to help the swarm in its first shaky steps to world domination.
- Get well soon Anne, if you are reading this still from your hospital bed in Belgium, best wishes and our thoughts are with you.
- The Widwives, one trainee in particular, and the ladies that came to our house when liz was struggling... those ladies do a very important job in society and i wish them all well.
- DMU colleagues - thanks you guys for being so supportive of my decision to swan off and leave you all holding the broken pieces of the processes and systems i have been supporting ( mostly atlas style) for that last 12 years. I wish you all the best, particularly ISAS, BSG and QL support team-mates who have stretched, challenged, supported and shaped my skills, knowledges, techniques and opinions for the last 1/3rd of my life! I hope you all get something good and satisfying out of the new order, or out of your redundancy, may you all get what you wish for.
- I'd like to thanks everyone who commented or "liked" my facebook marathon of updates during the course of Liz's labour. 3&1/2 years ago when we had Emily, I had neither an internet phone or a facebook account and the whole process of the labour experience was a very lonely thing for Liz and I. This time, for Dylans birth, with facebook and my N900, I kept the world thoroughly up to date on the rate of contractions, Liz's cervical dilation, and how we were feeling, and as a result we got a constant stream of jokey / supportive comments, requests for pics and information and it really bouyed us up and kept us going...between contractions Liz occasionally enjoyed being read some of the best bits.
- On the job front, My friend Matt is deserving of a golden Boscar envelope because in his own way he has helped to set me free from my old career and given me a chance to try something new. To a lesser extent so has my friend Nige. Check out both their music projects on their reverb nations...well worth a listen
TW@ Pass
Firstly, what's going on with the people who park on the school run ignorantly or antisocially just to get 10 yards closer to school, for example parking over people's drives or in the Yellow "school no parking" zone.... I propose some kind of name and shame sticker campaign, provisionally named "TW@ Pass" - Which could be designed, distributed, and stuck onto their vehicles every-time they are spotted performing such misdemeanour's. There's a dad on the nursery run who regularly drives right up to the school gates and parks in the Yellow zone rather than normal spots for parking 20-50 yards further up the road.
Tory Erosion of the minimum wage....
Just when you thought the TORY's had copped enough of a facefull of backlash over their devious NHS refroms, one of them comes out with a ludicrous IDEA to wave minimum wage for disabled people to help them get jobs . At least the government stepped out and refused to back him up..eroding the minimum wage....so you can pay your immigrant philipino pool cleaner£1 an hour to fish champagne glasses out of the filter? Suit you sir..
Tuesday, 14 June 2011
Ball Blog 6 - A father of four!
Facebooking the Birth
Missing System of a down at Download
Assisted Suicide and Granddad
Cognitive effects of sleep depravation
Well folks... Dylan is here. Those who don’t know me on Facebook will have missed a very exciting time in my life....most notably enjoying a baby birth whilst in possession of an internet enabled phone. Many people who know me know that I am very open about what’s happening in my life... my own fathers (himself a father of 4 too)comment on my status update about the current diameter of my wife’s cervix was "TMI!", but apart from that every one of the over 400 comments on my various updates was positive and supportive :)
So this is day 3 I think...Dylan was born at 18:24 on Sunday 12th June. We finally left hospital at about 01:00 and I got into bed about 02:00... the little boy was hungry and Liz spent most of the night with him on the sofa feeding.... the good news is last night he fed at 8pm, again at 11, and then at 7am! So, although we took shifts on the sofa, we both got a good few hours to catch up from being awake for 36 hours with only a few cat naps from Friday night through to Sunday.
Back when we found out System of a Down were playing at down load, we knew we were not going to make the gig. I just hope there is online footage :) We were hoping he'd be born during their set... but it wasn’t to be.
We watched the Terry Pratchett TV show about Dignitas last night(link to iplayer). Made it through to the end, but I did get upset when I watched poor peter and his wife when he took the final draught. It reminded me of my own grandfather, who died horribly and painfully of cancer, in agony, over about 3 weeks, in 2000. Since my Nana had died in January 2000, he was distraught for something like 6 months and regularly cried and told me he wanted to die too. He hadn't told any of us he was already dying of Prostate / bowel cancer... so he got his wish in the end from mother nature, but the programme made me think what a painless and dignified end he could have had, opposed to the writhing agony and prescribed heroin (dia-morphine) which was his sad demise.
After Lord Sir Terry's programme there was a Paxman debate in the intro of which he asked whether assisted suicide should be legal... Some bishop immediately made me cross, he thought the situation was coercive - but then...so is the church, so I imagine he'd be an expert in spotting coercion.
In my opinion, the debate is not whether or how Assisted Suicide should be legalised, the answer is clear really...the debate should be when it will be legalised, and how will we write good legislation so that the system cannot be abused.
All of the above is my subjective opinion, and frankly I reserve the right to change my mind entirely when I have had more sleep. I have already seen the effects of my cognitive function impairment based on sleep deprivation.
I play a face book game called gardens of time, in which the player plays spot the difference, or spot a list of items from a picture on screen. Speed of spotting gives more points and silver, which can be spent on objects to be placed in a game garden...buying nice things gives you experience and reputation, which in turn unlocks more scenes to play.
I am usually quite quick at it and have progressed through the game, but I tried to play for 10 minutes last night, whilst very tired, and was barely able to find 6 differences in 2 pictures in 5 minutes...usually it takes me 20 seconds max....So I now have firsthand experience in how badly I am effected by lack of sleep...
Similarly I was trying to cook dinner for the kids last night and had a meltdown because I couldn’t find anything in the freezer potatoey to give them as their carbs... I freaked back and forth between freezers looking, and eventually my mother-in-law went to local Tesco to get me potato waffles and chips...it was only when the dinner was done and I was stacking the dishwasher that my analyst mind pointed out finally that I could have just shoved on some penne, which the kids love and would have cooked quicker too.
Missing System of a down at Download
Assisted Suicide and Granddad
Cognitive effects of sleep depravation
Well folks... Dylan is here. Those who don’t know me on Facebook will have missed a very exciting time in my life....most notably enjoying a baby birth whilst in possession of an internet enabled phone. Many people who know me know that I am very open about what’s happening in my life... my own fathers (himself a father of 4 too)comment on my status update about the current diameter of my wife’s cervix was "TMI!", but apart from that every one of the over 400 comments on my various updates was positive and supportive :)
So this is day 3 I think...Dylan was born at 18:24 on Sunday 12th June. We finally left hospital at about 01:00 and I got into bed about 02:00... the little boy was hungry and Liz spent most of the night with him on the sofa feeding.... the good news is last night he fed at 8pm, again at 11, and then at 7am! So, although we took shifts on the sofa, we both got a good few hours to catch up from being awake for 36 hours with only a few cat naps from Friday night through to Sunday.
Back when we found out System of a Down were playing at down load, we knew we were not going to make the gig. I just hope there is online footage :) We were hoping he'd be born during their set... but it wasn’t to be.
We watched the Terry Pratchett TV show about Dignitas last night(link to iplayer). Made it through to the end, but I did get upset when I watched poor peter and his wife when he took the final draught. It reminded me of my own grandfather, who died horribly and painfully of cancer, in agony, over about 3 weeks, in 2000. Since my Nana had died in January 2000, he was distraught for something like 6 months and regularly cried and told me he wanted to die too. He hadn't told any of us he was already dying of Prostate / bowel cancer... so he got his wish in the end from mother nature, but the programme made me think what a painless and dignified end he could have had, opposed to the writhing agony and prescribed heroin (dia-morphine) which was his sad demise.
After Lord Sir Terry's programme there was a Paxman debate in the intro of which he asked whether assisted suicide should be legal... Some bishop immediately made me cross, he thought the situation was coercive - but then...so is the church, so I imagine he'd be an expert in spotting coercion.
In my opinion, the debate is not whether or how Assisted Suicide should be legalised, the answer is clear really...the debate should be when it will be legalised, and how will we write good legislation so that the system cannot be abused.
All of the above is my subjective opinion, and frankly I reserve the right to change my mind entirely when I have had more sleep. I have already seen the effects of my cognitive function impairment based on sleep deprivation.
I play a face book game called gardens of time, in which the player plays spot the difference, or spot a list of items from a picture on screen. Speed of spotting gives more points and silver, which can be spent on objects to be placed in a game garden...buying nice things gives you experience and reputation, which in turn unlocks more scenes to play.
I am usually quite quick at it and have progressed through the game, but I tried to play for 10 minutes last night, whilst very tired, and was barely able to find 6 differences in 2 pictures in 5 minutes...usually it takes me 20 seconds max....So I now have firsthand experience in how badly I am effected by lack of sleep...
Similarly I was trying to cook dinner for the kids last night and had a meltdown because I couldn’t find anything in the freezer potatoey to give them as their carbs... I freaked back and forth between freezers looking, and eventually my mother-in-law went to local Tesco to get me potato waffles and chips...it was only when the dinner was done and I was stacking the dishwasher that my analyst mind pointed out finally that I could have just shoved on some penne, which the kids love and would have cooked quicker too.
Saturday, 11 June 2011
Ballblog 5
11 days overdue....evening of day 10 waters broke....
last night i dreamed weird dreams, because i was expecting at any minute to have liz go into labour.... the weirdest dream was that the kitchen has flooded with about 6 inchs of water, and i was sloshing about in there trying to make her toast in the toaster!
So the midwives came this morning, cheked her out...induction tomorrow if no labour sooner. Liz is nervous bless her... i am just anxious to get my first baby cuddle with my new son....so hurry up woman! :P
Kids and wife watching liar liar and loving it...emily going up for a nap in the moment, will see if Granny and gramps will have the D and T so liz and i can nap too...may as well, we might be up all night...all our other kids have been evening / night labours, and born at dawn.... all hail SOL!
So, just a mini blog... hope baby comes soon as i have 2 job interviews next week for two really excellent posts.
More soon.
last night i dreamed weird dreams, because i was expecting at any minute to have liz go into labour.... the weirdest dream was that the kitchen has flooded with about 6 inchs of water, and i was sloshing about in there trying to make her toast in the toaster!
So the midwives came this morning, cheked her out...induction tomorrow if no labour sooner. Liz is nervous bless her... i am just anxious to get my first baby cuddle with my new son....so hurry up woman! :P
Kids and wife watching liar liar and loving it...emily going up for a nap in the moment, will see if Granny and gramps will have the D and T so liz and i can nap too...may as well, we might be up all night...all our other kids have been evening / night labours, and born at dawn.... all hail SOL!
So, just a mini blog... hope baby comes soon as i have 2 job interviews next week for two really excellent posts.
More soon.
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