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Sometimes Daylight Savings Time can be useful

Andy — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:27:49 +0000

This morning is about the only time I’ve been relieved we have the Spring Forward version of Daylight Savings Time. I woke up at about half past three this morning and couldn’t get back to sleep, so I eventually got up – the great thing about DST is that it was really half past four so it wasn’t such a bad time to get up (keep thinking positive)…

Due to the lack of sleep, I found it especially funny when Frankie decides to join me in the shower – the crazy thing is that I’m sure he’d have stayed in there if I hadn’t shouted at him to get out. He also protested a little bit too much when I went to towel him down and get him dry, but after a couple of attempts at chasing him around the kitchen he eventually settled down and purred like crazy whilst I petted him with the towel. Unfortunately I don’t think Basil would be as keen to get in the shower which is a shame as of all the cats, he is the one who needs a shower the most. However, he’s also the least likely to be able to jump out of a slippery bath tub.

Confusing Status progress. [Flickr]

absoblogginlutely — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:11:14 PST

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I'm not really sure how a completion can be in progress. Either it's complete or it's not.

It's getting late in the day in our Exchange2010 training!

You know you shouldn't download addons right? [Flickr]

absoblogginlutely — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:09:05 PST

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A brand new (to me) laptop with ie8 installed. The very first web page that fires up (msn.com) asks me to download and install a new plugin. Below that is an advert with the top stating "I know I shouldn't, but".

Made me laugh anyway, but I guess you have to be a sysadmin to really appreciate the irony.

Baked Eggs. [Flickr]

absoblogginlutely — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:45:05 PST

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The ham edges were slightly burnt but that just made it nice and crispy. I'd definitely make these again - made a great brunch.
Recipe at coleensrecipes.blogspot.com/2010/02/baked-eggs-sunday-mor...

Baked Eggs. [Flickr]

absoblogginlutely — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:44:56 PST

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The ham edges were slightly burnt but that just made it nice and crispy. I'd definitely make these again - made a great brunch.
Recipe at coleensrecipes.blogspot.com/2010/02/baked-eggs-sunday-mor...

Another sneezing weekend.

Andy — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:52:45 +0000

Today is the last day of a long weekend (I had Friday off) and it’s felt like a looong weekend. As usual I’ve ended up with a cold for my time off. I’m pretty sure the body relaxes when I get a break and so does the immune system
With the amount of snow we had on Friday, I spent the morning shovelling the driveway on Saturday and spent the rest of the day coughing and sneezing. The annoying thing is that this cold has been around since about Tuesday – I could feel the symptoms coming on but couldn’t get rid of it. I felt better Wednesday afternoon and Thursday but not yesterday or today. I’ll be sitting curled up in a blanket with a Winston keeping my lap warm this afternoon watching the game. Hope your weekend went better than mine.

No way to tell which report to run [Flickr]

absoblogginlutely — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:11:12 PST

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All reports come with the same description. The link doesn't even help differentiate each report.

A Geek Christmas carol is now available for download.

Andy — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:41:04 +0000

Our FriendsInTech production of A Geek Christmas Carol is now available for listening – enjoy and let us know what you think of it. Previous productions are also available to listen to.

Machine guns in Helsby – over a bird?

Andy — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:36:53 +0000

I have a google alert that keeps track of the mention Helsby – partly to see if I’m mentioned somewhere on the web and also to keep track of other Helsby’s and also the town Helsby in the UK.

There was a recent article the other day where police were called, with machine guns, to help capture an escaped rhea (similar to an ostrich). I can’t believe that birds are that dangerous that armed police were needed. I think someone was watching too much Jurassic Park. The full article “Escaped Rhea causes chaos at Helsby High School” is online for more amusement..

Chihuly pictures posted online

Andy — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:39:01 +0000

Last Sunday afternoon I took Kristen out on a surprise trip to the Columbus Museum of Art Chihuly Illuminated exhibit as it was a family day and had extra events going on. What I didn’t know what that the family day meant the $10 entrance fee was waived which was excellent as it the exhibit area is pretty small and the rest of the museum was not very impressive. The exhibit itself was good although I don’t think it was as good as the one at Franklin conservatory. Although the big pieces were pretty amazing and made your mind boggle as to how they would have been made. Photos online in my Chihuly flickr set don’t really do it justice – especially as the forest of spikes seems to have come out in black and white for some weird reason.

Happy Anniversary Luv!

Andy — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:05:08 +0000

It’s our tenth wedding anniversary today – time flies by so fast. We’re off to a nice restaurant tonight to celebrate. Thought I’d add one of my favourite photos from our wedding all those years ago.

Kristen is no longer in quarantine!

Andy — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:50:17 +0000

Kristen was due to go into quarantine for the next 10 days as she undergoes tests to ensure that the cancer in her thyroid has completely gone. They give her some radioactive iodine to swallow which means she is not allowed to be near people.

It now turns out that the isotope she is going to be given is type 123 which does not need the quarantine as opposed to type 132 (I think) that does, so all those changes to her schedule that she made were not necessary, but at least she doesn’t have to lock herself away in her room for 10 days.

On the downside, she has no reason to play half life anymore (hahaha). I mentioned this to Kristen whilst she was taking a drink last night and she almost snorted it out of her nose – it’s great to be married to a geek girl who got the joke

Funny Maru video

Andy — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:36:22 +0000

Kristen forwarded me a link to a new Maru video -very funny and worth 3 minutes of your time to watch – I think we might be purchasing some new bins for our cats soon…..

Swine bugs….

Andy — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:39:04 +0000

It’s been hot in the house the past couple of nights and last night it was really difficult to get to sleep. Kristen called the AC man out today and he arrived this afternoon which was nice. After looking at the unit inside and the thermostat he went outside to the unit that was not working (it was the other day). Taking the side off the electric work he quickly said “There’s your problem” – a bug had wedged itself between the contacts and shorted it out. A quick trip to turn the power off and as we were walking back to the house I said “Hope the bug died a slow and painful death” – especially as the stupid thing cost us $134 – about $90 of that was a call out charge and then “labour” for the 30 minutes he was here – would have been nice if the labour was included in the callout – hmmph…I guess I’m a little grumpy as it’s not quite called down enough yet.

Facebook vanity url’s

Andy — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:23:10 +0000

Facebook now do vanity url’s so you don’t have to give out a horrendously long name. Now you can give out something like http://facebook.com/helsby for me. I tried andy and andyh but they are only accepting names with more than 5 characters. You can’t change, swap or sell the address once it has been assigned to you, but you can get your own by going to http://www.facebook.com/username/.
Well worth doing to make it easier for people to find you.