Eight down, forty-four to go

Sheeeesh! This blogging is becoming a bit of an ordeal – something I dread, yet feel totally obliged and compelled to maintain! Rotten luck! After burn-scarring people’s retinas with the last subject-line, it’s time for an update.

Since our Bonnievale holiday, we’re already 8 weeks into 2007, and we’re pretty exhausted. We’ve been camping, Jamie discovered the hosepipe, he’s popped his 8th tooth (4 top, 4 bottom), had a couple of garden-baths and mastered the art of dismounting high things. Combined with a recent discovery of ‘tunneling’, his almost unlimited explorative skills have taken him into the garden, through the gate, without our supervision. Charming. The stuff neurosis is made of.

Anyway, our weekend in Stanford was great – if not just a heck of a long way away. The beauty of the area was magic, and certainly worth a visit again in the future. My plane has had several very successful flights now, and I’m pleased to report that it is a great design.

Jan visited a sleep-clinic a few weeks ago, the situational hilarity of which would probably be best conveyed in her own words, but in essence was expected to sleep with about 10 million electrodes glued to her head and body. Anyone familiar with Jan’s sleep issues could take a rough stab at the fact that this was not going to improve her odds of sleeping at all.

So, about 5:30am the next morning, she arrived home to tell me that at about 2am they’d come to her in the ward and sheepishly asked if she was planning to sleep at any stage so they could actually glean some information. Sigh…

She’s also realised, and subsequently had diagnosed, that she’s got carpal tunnel issues on her one arm, which will possibly/probably require surgery. Not cool at all.

Finally, I’ve been working my ass off at work, and the deadlines are looming ever closer. We’ve been knocking out some really impressive stuff, but like typical engineers are being sorely tempted to re-build Rome. It’s so hard to stay on the straight and narrow! I’ll be going to Birmingham sometime in May for a security expo, and thereafter hope to connect with my boet in Edinburgh, so amidst the approaching storm clouds, a few rays poke through!

Oh – Got me the new Switchfoot (Oh! Gravity), and loving Buckley. Playing a little more guit again, so that’s also good.