I received a Monty Python CD and a book providing ideas about what to do whilst waiting for my computer to crash. I also got a box decorated by Jon with stickers along with a nice poem. Jon was as excited as I was; it turned out that he wanted to “help” me to open the presents. Apparently, helping from Jon’s point of view means that I watched whilst he opened! He was terribly disappointed when he discovered that there wasn’t a toy for him in the presents. Apparently, he hasn’t yet grasped the concept that other people receive presents that he can’t play with…

Of course, the good humour didn’t last. A little later, Georgina suggested to Jon that he should be very nice to me and give me lots of hugs and kisses as it was my special day. That went down like a lead ballon and let to a pantomime-esq situation of Georgina saying “oh yes it is!” and Jon saying “no it isn’t!” I have a three year old son who would rather do anything else other than give me a hug and kiss…

My new G5 is here! Now all I need to do is work out what all the buttons do…

Update: Here’s a picture of Ben taken with it :)

I’m glad it’s the weekend. This is the week that we discovered that one of our live servers had been hacked. It’s now been secured, but still needs reinstalling. As a result a new server is stitting on my desk patching. When it’s finished, we’ll be taking it to the datacentre and moving all the sites form the compromised server to it.

All in all, not the best of weeks.

3 – 0!

I’ve bought a new Canon G5 from A Small Life. Can someone tell me why in this day and age it takes 3 days to transfer money electronically from my internet bank to his ?

How cool is this?!

Jon’s just discovered the concept of running into his room and slamming his door…

We’re still obsessed about sleep. Well.. about Ben’s sleep. He’s not getting much at all and as a result is very miserable all evening. This is making us less than our usual sunny selves. Last night was not good as Ben didn’t settle for his night time sleep which meant that we didn’t either and we don’t know why. The main issue is that he can’t seem to get himself to sleep without being on the breast/sucking a dummy. However as soon as he’s asleep and the breast/dummy is removed/falls out, then he wakes up. At least it’s the weekend!

A Small Life

Voted today. For the local council there were three names on the ballot paper: 2 Tory and one Labour. I had to choose two…