The background to the current state of my life is:
- My wife is pregnant with our son, 4th child, and now 4 days overdue
- My wife got made redundant this year... once her employer knew she was pregnant, her 12 month contract was not renewed......
- My work has had a major restructure and I decided to see how highly I was valued by applying for voluntary redundancy..turns out, they will pay me to stop going there from 29th July!
- I am in the late stages of an MSc in Information Systems Management, working on my dissertation on Attendance Monitoring in Higher Education
- I am setting up my own limited company to sell Consultancy and Contract work in IT
- I play Bass guitar in one active project ( system of a down tribute) one mothballed but soon to resurface metal band Halo of Crows, one mothballed but occasional band No Junk Promise, and occasional covers / one offs for Allstars
- I run a Leicester / Firebug quartely gig night called Leicester Allstars - where local musicians or bands form one off covers / tribute acts for one night only...Loads of footage of covers on my youtube account http://www.youtube.com/user/Mhunky
- I co-admin and develop a very niche web-game called Age of Chaos which has been running since 2002.
- I am currently addicted to a darned facebook game - Gardens of Time. Blogging this to keep myself checking my account!
Not so good news:
- Still no signs of Baby number 4 making his exit from Wife.. Bless her its getting hard to walk, although she said today was not so painful as yesterday.
- Didn't tidy my study
- reached a sticking point in my development of a board game clone (Creature Castle) in MS Access which means I might have to restart from scratch... will probably treat the current as a procedural prototype and write the next version in php
- Car exhaust (section 1 of 3) has started "blowing" since service... so the garage man's prediction it would last till November looks to be about 84% over exuberant.
Good news:
- Had a good day. Went to Leicester's Riverside Festival (twice), saw my friend Mr Plow and his band playing some new hits from the brand new vinyl LP due out next month. Love those murder ballads...worryingly, so does my son Tom.
- The kids got to meet the excellent Mr Bloom from Cbeebies.. ( i had no idea who he is or what he does, other than a hazy recollection of puppet vegetables), but the Swarm (my pet name for my kids) had a lovely time and were very well behaved and i managed to get a lovely photo of them on my N900
- Got the email saying the deadline of my MSc has been extended...so the immediate pressure is off (Could have been due to hand it in end Sept this year..) but i am still going to keep working on it
- Liz and i managed to put away about 6 bags of clean washing
- Had a lovely dinner at my mums
- Kids watched the return of the king
- Had a week off work
- Had a job interview
- PRIMUS TICKETS ARRIVED
- Back to work tomorrow (7 weeks left until Voluntary Redundancy end of "Notice" period, of which 3.4 weeks absent due to paternity and holiday)
- No shirts Ironed, again
- Kitchen not very tidy.
SHort term:
- Sleep! a baby is coming
- Contact Accountants
- Register Business at Co's house
- Get Corporate Bank Account
- Learn about book keeping
- Insurances
- Write outline for garage conversion to get quotes
- Download and install sweethome
- Finish MSc
- Finish Creature Castle
- Improve Age of Chaos UI and graphics for Facebook game release
- Make enough money to take Liz & Kids to Euro-Disney
- Get System of a down tribute band members availability for Wayne
- Make enough money to take Liz & Kids to West Coast America RV traverse, from seattle to LA, via all the cool places in between
- Buy a big house in Leicester, and a holiday Home in Penarth
next time on BallBlog - Tai chi, and the logic of applying for Voluntary severance.
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