YL - gargh

Feeling overwhelmed here over work/career choices.

falsedan - cripes

Beers bought on a Friday can be claimed on expenses. Today I have a Cooper's Green (amazingly), but it doesn't taste as I remember because it's sodding room temperature aaa

Shoshe - mouses!

Yesterday we caught two little mice in our humane mousetrap! We released them several miles away, far from other houses (by a creek at uni).

falsedan - slow day at work

Current work challenge: write FizzBuzz. Befunge is the obvious choice of language to me...

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Jen - Bespectacled

Age is catching up with me. That plus too many hours in front of a computer screen and a tiny, tiny iPod screen (where's my iPad?!). Just for reading and computer work, mind you.
Pics to come when Dan wakes up and can take them.

Kit - the pink floyd car

I taut I saw a Pink Floyd car, I did! I did!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40260071@N05/3704529626/

(Much better than my photo in the dark, just as the traffic started moving)

Tancred - BCMSN w00t!

After three months of rather solid study I’m very happy to say I passed the Building Converged Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks exam this morning. Two more exams to go to the CCNP :) Then one more for the CCDP :)

Jen - Long weekend

There used to be a time when long weekends were cherished, especially ones that coincided with the end of daylight savings! Sleep-in heaven! Not any more. Now it's four whole days at home with munchkins. Four very long days.

Thanks for a wonderful diversion and an excellent evening at your wedding, Red Bec. It was such a happy occasion and I'm glad it all went well. It was fabulously organised and ran super smoothly (from my view, anyway)!

Jen - Nine years

On this day around this time, nine years ago, the Hive was meeting Dante for the very first time. How time flies.

Friday afternoon special kit

I find out today that the paper I'm going to give at an Industry conference isn't in May, it's on next week. oops!

Dan: can has fever

Felt crappy and lethargic all day, and was assuming it was just general under-caffeination. Got home to discover I had a light fever (as does Jen).

I don't think you can get fevers from not enough caffeine, but I don't plan on risking it.

Jen - students are back

Today I was horrified to find that the new student cards double up as VISA debit cards.

Shoshe - I'd tap that

On Monday we started collecting sap from the first of our maple trees. We've got about 4 liters already, and that's just from a few days and that one tree! Three trees and 4-6 weeks to go. We'll probably make the first batch of syrup in a few weeks.

Jen - Year of the Tiger

Happy Chinese New Year everyone. The weekend was spent, first cleaning then eating (big family dinner on Saturday night), then relaxing, with a spot of sorting and shopping on Sunday.

Also, I can't believe that I didn't write about Atticus. The last week of January was a big one for us. He had a hair cut! And turned 5! And started Kindergarten! All in one week (or thereabouts).

And he's doing great, by the way. Settling in, starting to actually join in and listen to his teacher. He's off the Epilim now too. We think that's probably helped a lot with his behaviour. Yay!

Also... Dante is finally in his permanent class for the year (Week 4 already and they're still stuffing around... but at least he's not in a class of 42 anymore. Back to a reasonable 31). Now he's been moved to a 4/5 class. Not with last year's teacher anymore but hopefully one that's just as good, and back with his good friend Will (who's in Yr 5 this year). He's already got his first homework sheet and excited about learning.

Scrumping Kit

The neighbours' grapes are ready for scrumping.

Shoshe -- toasty warm

We have decided that the most appropriate temperature scale to use is absolute. It is currently a toasty 255K outside. That's warm even by Martian standards*!

*But not in summer, when it can get up to 50 degrees warmer. Goddamn it's cold out.

wading through the end of 2009

I havent liked quite a stack of news that I've had in the last few weeks. The craziness of the driving back and forth all over the place is a bit nuts too.
And so, being Russian Orthodox and having access to a secondary calendar, my 2010 starts today - the Old New Year - 14th Jan.
Happy New Year everyone! Go the old new 2010!

Also, you shoudl all come to my festival - www.corinbank.com
(maybe a saner blog post soon)

Shoshe - nice neighbours

We accidentally left the car's boot wide open for about 20 hours the other day. Luckily, that was about the only 20 hours in the past week and a half that it didn't snow. The battery died (NRMA-equivalent took care of that), but everything in the car was still there! That includes the muesli bars -- we figure the local critters couldn't smell them because it was too cold for scents to waft.

Kit Boo Web

Big brother is monitoring my net access, so no more onesentencehive @ work for me. Boo. 

Jen - First week of 2010

A full week has passed. The year is moving forward. Back to work - it's like we've never left. Child care has started up again, next week Vacation Care begins for the boys.