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.

falsedan 1, global credit crisis 0

New job starting tomorrow, doing support and development for a perl-based résumé indexing application. The company is in Musselburgh, so I shall be sharing a bus with Tancred.

Becstarr - Back from the South Coast

Been down the South Coast to Ulladulla to visit friends and futher onward to Bermagui to visit Joel's childhood rockpools and beaches. Camping, beach swimming, and kid-wrangling have meant that I have spent only about 2 minutes in the last 9 days thinking about work. Good stuff.

Jen - Musical Education

The kids are getting edumacated this evening. Dan downloaded some old music videos and played them for the kids at dinner time...

Charley Lownoise & Mental Theo - Wonderful Days
Mr. Oizo - Flat Beat
Apollo 440 - Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Dub
Underworld - Born Slippy

Some old favourites.

Dan: mistaken for a grownup

Xmas was lots of fun, with all three kids now fully comprehending the gift extravaganza that is Annual Gift Giving Day. I was mistaken for an adult, and got cool things like a coffee machine while everyone else got all the lego. Ate entirely too much and am now suffering from a surfeit of tasty food.

Jen - Present giving

Had a great Burn Family Xmas late lunch yesterday - piles and piles of presents. The kids were reasonably well behaved and not too ridiculously spoilt!

This morning has been more relaxed. But now we are off to my side of the family and I'm sure it will be chaos and bedlam.

Merry Christmas folks.

YL - Merry Christmas & political pawnage

It was so good to see everyone. It is true, I still exist. Although even Dante said "I'm sure you were just a figment of my imagination!" And Atticus was sure I was "Cushion". At least that's a solid object right? Merry Christmas all!

However, work is not so pleasant. After weeks, people's true colours are showing up and it's not enjoyable to be used as a political pawn in someone else's inter-departmental games or to be used as a scapegoat/buffer to cover up your fallibilities or take the blame.

Oh and for the record, I don't always have to agree with you just because you're senior in age/years of medical training.

falsedan - strine

On the phone to Mum and couldn't help thinking, she has such an Australian accent.

Escaped London, in Embra now. My landlord runs a brothel in town and keeps asking me to fix the computer there…

YL - storm

It's kind of cool out there. That wind seems like it's tearing past my apartment so hard. I'm almost expecting it to hail or something!

Jen - End of Year Festivities begin

Went to a Golf Day this afternoon. 18 holes at Marrickville in 4 hours. We didn't win but had lots of fun. The winning team got 3 below par.

Next up - lawn bowls.

Kit - new is much the same as the old

Holidays are over, and like yenli, it's back to the grindstone. Budgets, forecasts, programs.
To the Federal Liberals (and the NSW Labor party): stop stuffing around and let your appointed leader lead, instead of stabbing them in the back.

YL - deja vu?

In the continued rat race, it's back to social hermitage and into exam mode.

Ben - Who ya gonna call?

I must have seen Ghostbusters at least a dozen times over the past 25 years; maybe more. But I only just yesterday noticed that there is a packet of Staypuft marshmallows in Dana's kitchen.

I've really got to work on my observation skills.

Happiness!

Such relief when I left work (at 7pm) last night. Going on holidays!

Kit ??

Did I just wash out my wheelie (rubbish) bin before breakfast?

Jen - Holidays over

Jaime and Shannon came to stay and it was GREAT FUN! The kids loved "Jaime-n" (as in Jaime 'n' Shannon) and Shannon and Holly, of course, and miss them lots now that they're gone. School is well and truly back - second week of term 4.