Google’s Usenet History is fascinating if you’ve ever used usenet.

Ben’s learnt how to sit up! Last weekend he definitely couldn’t do it and this weekend he can. He’s also worked out how to get onto his hands and knees, but hasn’t managed to move them yet, so crawling is probably only a month or so away!

From Zend!

We’ve just watched Shattered Glass from Love Film. What a good film! Interestingly the lead is Hayden Christensen (aka Anakin in Attack of The Clones) . Shattered Glass proves that Christensen is actually an actor, so therefore it must be Lucas’s fault that he’s so wooden in Attack of the Clones!

As an aside, I was convinced that Georgina had chosen the film by searching LoveFilm for the actor (I thought he was Legolas in Lord Of The Rings, but was mistaken!) She claims otherwise is adament that it isn’t, and she claims is sure that it was from a Salon article…

Nevertheless… it was a good film to watch, even though we both expected it to be dire!

A fairly typical weekend has passed in the-allens’ household. Not a lot has been done other than chores! We did get the stair gates up though in the optimistic thought that Ben may start crawling soon. Certainly, he’s moving around enough now that we need one upstairs. Georgina got these really cool looking ones that are like sideways roller blinds – useless though! Jon can’t work it at all and we can’t do them one handed, so we ended up using the old ones from when Jon was little for the stairs after all.

2004 was a good one, with any luck, 2005 will build on it :)

Comments are working again, I think! Seems that I had to re-register the plugins with nucleus to get it to recognise them.

*phew*

Now all I have to do is come up with something controversial so that I actually get some comments :)

We had a great time!
We stated Christmas day to the sound of Jon’s excitement that Santa had actually come. We’re not actually sure that Jon was convinced that he would. For the first time in living memory, Georgina jumped out of bed so she could watch him open the presents in his stocking. I stayed in bed listening to lots of “wow”s and “wow wee”s which was great. His enthusiasm is infectious. After we all got up, Georgina and I had a bacon sandwich whilst we opened the presents under the tree. I got some cool loot, with Georgina sorting out my wardrobe and Ross & Amy helping me understand design issues (Thanks guys!)

We then all piled in the car and drove to Jen’s in Blackburn. Christmas Day is a great day for driving as there’s so few cars on the roads, hence we made good time! The highlight of the afternoon was, of course, the dinner! Tim (with mum’s help) made an excellent Christmas dinner with all the trimmings. It was so good that Jon ate lots too! We then opened more presents and Jon and Ben were overwhelmed with more loot! I also got some cool stuff :)

All in all, a very good day.

On St Stephen’s day, we went over to Georgina’s Aunt and Uncle’s house for lunch. Georgina’s Nanna was also there. Jon behaved impeccibly and another excellent lunch was enjoyed :)

Today, Georgina has been tidying up as we are expecting he uncle tomorrow. We also bought an artificial Christmas tree at Homebase (75% off!) for next year as I reacted badly to the live one this year. I have no intention of having rashes on both arms again!

I see that nearly a whole week has gone past without me noticing! It’s clearly been a busy week with the highlight being the demise of the wireless network card in my laptop. I rely on the laptop with wireless network when I’m working from home, so replaced it remarkably quickly!

Yesterday we had a few drinks at work to celebrate the end of the year – no more work til January now!

Hmm.. the transfer of this site to a new server has broken the comment system… will fix when I can!