School holidays ...

So the grandsons and Sunnyboy have been on school holidays.  The first week it rained and the second week their Uncle took them to a movie.  They spent most of their time playing with their Mum's Wii.  (so is it called Wiiing?)  They have been playing with racing cars on the Wii and the carry on is as much as if they were really driving them.  Of course the game comes with a steering wheel for each player and it is quite amusing to watch them.

Once Mum comes home she shoos them off it and sits there playing her own game with has about the worst game music I have ever heard, long and boring, same tune over and over.  Still it isn't as noisy as the boys.  

Saturday was ANZAC day, so today (Monday) is a public holiday and the teachers have a "student free day" so they don't go back to school till Wednesday.  And this is counted as week 1 of term 2 by the department.  

Still the really main thing is the Daughter is working now, and after three months will be made permanent.  

I suppose I should be thinking more deeply about what I am going to be doing to earn a few pennies.  I will have to think hard - and fast - about that. 

Still in the land of the living ... sort of ...

Sorry its been a while and I still wont be writing much.  Just to let you know I am still here.

Never made it to Queensland for various reasons and still here on the farm.  The old person moved out and has a government flat about two kms down the road.  My sister is here with Sunnyboy.  My oldest son is also here for a while.  He was having problems in Queensland and felt a sojourn with Mum would be a good thing. lol.

The daughter got a job and works part time at the moment.  When her three months trial period is over they might give her longer hours.  It isn't all that far away from here and so very convenient. 

I am not working per se, but babysitting the boys for the daughter and getting ready to invite people over to my "Studio" to teach mixed media arts.  

I have loads of ideas for my blogs, so just give me a while and it will be up and running again.

cya

News

Well Christmas has come and gone, a mad rush right up until the last moment.  I left my job and it still hasn't sunk in.  I guess maybe next week when the others go back I might feel a bit adrift.  I am going to the City tomorrow and I am quite nervous about it.  Silly, I know, but there you go.

The old person has a two bedroom flat in Leumeah for the moment, and seems to have settled in quite well.  We got him a mobile phone so that he can make and receive calls.  It is cheaper than having a line phone, as it is prepaid.  He still comes over to do washing and generally annoy us.  We didn't see much of him while the X was here, but the X is bad enough anyhow.  Having to deal with two of them at the same tame is very frustrating.  It wasn't particularly jealousy, but more like just dislike.  The old person is not a sociable person and the X is from my "past", so it worked out well.

We also had two of my other grandchildren here, my oldest son's daughter and youngest son.  The older boy elected to go to his gran's place in Port Pirie, but I think he was having it a bit rough with one of his aunties there.  

It was super having so many children around for Christmas.  Christmas should be shared with kids, and it seems to make it more fun.  I do not cook at Christmas, I buy some cooked chooks, some premade salads and paper plates and plastic cutlery.  We rounded up a big box and put a garbage bag into it and it was fine.  That all of it should be so easy.  The X actually bought food as well for the day and the Missus made a fruit cake which was really nice.  

I will put in a link on the side to my new blog which I am keeping for public viewing, this will remain a close family blog, not for public.  I will update all of them during the week.  Look out for more announcements.

Quick note ...

Just a quick hello, as I have been back working full time and not had time to scratch my butt.

I went to the funeral of the husband of my supervisor at work.  It was nicely done at a funeral home out at Leppington - behind Denman Court.  It was very sad, and it was hard greeting her afterwards, but I couldn't not greet her.  I hand stamped a nice card for her and gave it too her.

She has been off two weeks.  The Boss's secretary phoned her and she said she just was not up to being with people.  I feel so very sad for her.

The Americans are in the process of voting for their new President.  Whoever they choose the weight of the world is going to be on that person's shoulders.  If it is Mr McCain, things should naturally progress from how they are now, but I have a nasty feeling if Mr Obama gets in things could get very bad.  

I think either way Australia will probably fare reasonably well, but it will not be easy in the present circumstances.

Did I mention I handed in my paper work to leave work in December?  I think I did.   I still do not regret it and hope that it will work out to be wise and move forward from there.

I am teaching myself a new computer language - Python - and it is fairly straight forward.  I am learning the concepts of Object Orientation which although I know what it is, I have not done in previous languages.  I want to use it to do gaming programming and multimedia in 3D.  I will keep you posted how it all goes.

Must go, but next weekend after another full week of work, I will post a longer item and pass more opinions.  I have also started up a fun blog which you can find here.  So till next time ...

So sad and so awful ...

Yesterday has to have been one of the worst days for work. One of our "other" ladies, who is on maternity leave, came in with her little boy. He is not quite two and is very funny. He was dancing around and we were all laughing and enjoying having such a sweet child with us. At 11.30 I went off to have my lunch, as I always do.

When I came back I noticed one of our ladies gone, but I assumed she was either out for a smoke or cuppa. Another lady came and said her husband had a heart attack. The lady who was on maternity leave left just as they were telling me. It was a really dreadful thing. One other lady was crying and later in the afternoon, we found out via a phone call that he had passed away.

I just have felt so very bad for this woman. She had been married to him since they were 19 years old and they had raised a family of five children together, including twins. They had been married for over thirty years. It is all so very sad, and so very awful.

I will write more later. Having a few computer glitches ...

The Chrome Wars ...

Well, for goodness sake.  About the same time I downloaded Google Chrome as my web browser, the daughter downloaded Internet Explorer 8 (IE8).  I rather like Chrome and I am hoping it wont be too long till it will be supported by Exit Reality.  (Yay!)  Maybe it is just the fact that it is not a Microsoft thing.  Actually, I have always been supportive of Microsoft and its ideas, when everyone else has been very anti.  I don't like reading nasty things about Bill Gates, especially if it is personal. I think his building of Microsoft has been an inspiring story.  

However, when we have gone to use IE8 on the daughter's computer, when clicking on the icon a message comes up informing us Google Toolbar is not supported.  Sure enough, if you do a "Google Search", you can still use the search engine, however,  you cannot connect to any of the websites.  

Now I have heard of some childish things before, any parent has (lol).  But seriously this is one of the  most pathetic things I have ever come across.  It is only a backlash against google for bringing out the beta version of Chrome at the time Microsoft was bringing out IE8.  If IE8 is so good it should be able to stand alone without the makers resorting to this sort of childish payback behaviour.  

I also notice in Chrome, when I go to access my Hotmail, that a warning comes up that I should update my browser.  

Guys, get over it.  Microsoft will always rule the world, you do not need to resort to this kind of childish behaviour.  Just fix things so that it all works fine both ways.  Find ways to get along.  The Chrome browser is probably here to stay, I like it and I know plenty of people who do as well.  But business wise, they will always use IE xxx because it is the industry standard.  

Tell you what, once it supports Linux and Macintosh (Apple) I think I will change the whole hog.

For crying in a bucket ...

Bin raining ...

Having my "Nanny Nap" this afternoon,  I was rudely awakened by what I at first thought was a heavy wind.  No, it was a rain storm.  It was heavy enough and windy enough to have been a cyclone.  But this is Sydney, and "they" will tell  you, "We don't get cyclones in Sydney", so who am I to argue.  What was it then ... ?

I have been quite tired lately, so I am off to the Doctor's tomorrow to find out what could be causing it.  I have a feeling I am still anaemic.  The doctor tells me I should eat red meat for the iron and then says not too much because of my pre-diabetic state.  Luckily I can also take iron tablets and I am using resistant starches to help with the insulin.  That and the Weight Watchers should see me right - eventually. lol.

My arts and crafts are stalling, partly because I don't want to buy anything else now that my layby is done and I need new this that and the other thing.  Partly because I have the artistic equivalent of "writer's block".  I have been trying to design my own cards, and the first couple have been really nice, but lacking that certain level of professionalism I would like, and just a bit short of "complete".  Still, better to be experimenting and doing something than just sitting there staring at the idiot box.  

There is no news. One of the reasons for not writing for a while, is that nothing has happened. Oh, the daughter went to Canberra to stay with my niece, but she will have to blog about that, because I wasn't there.  I have joined myspace, but that is hardly news.  Even her ladyship is so normal (touch wood).  She stood out in the rain, just waiting for it to stop and went back to her grazing.  

I am off work this week, as it is the second week of the holidays and not much happening at work, but the daughter is going to be babysitting up to six kids and I don't want the old person terrorising them.  He said he missed them terribly while they were away but has treated them horribly since they have been back.  He is a very scarey person.  The daughter says his Gemini traits are worse than Jeckyl and Hyde.  

So if I think of anything, I will either edit this or I will write another post ... adieu