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Ramblings / January 18, 2004 / John
The first week of John’s new job is over now and he is very tired but says he has enjoyed it a great deal. Its been really strange but nice as Ive had some time with Harmony and a couple of hours on my own in the house. The walks up and down the road
Rants / January 9, 2004 / John / 0
Isn’t Sky Digital great? Isn’t it though. It’s such a good idea! In the days of terrestrial only TV, things were pretty clear cut. You paid the license fee and you got BBC1 and 2, both funded by the license, which showed no advertisements whatsoever, and you also had ITV and Channel 4 which showed
Ramblings / January 1, 2004 / John
Ok, so here’s what you do for the best cashews *ever*. Right, you’ll want some raw cashews (from the baking section of tesco), vegetable oil, some freshly ground black pepper, and some salt. Beside the cooker, lay out a pan with a sieve over it, and two plates with a couple of sheets of kitchen
Ramblings / January 1, 2004 / John
….and thank God for that. We made it – I’m off to have “We Survived 2003” T-shirts made. Anyway, a new start this year. Start my new job in a few weeks, we’re back in our newly refitted house, and I’ve just built an enormous curry for New Years Day lunch. I’m frighteningly organised today
Ramblings / December 31, 2003 / John
Our 2 week old washing machine is broken. We have to wait till after the new year until the parts arrive and are fitted. Doh. I was standing at the sink at 11 o’clock at night last night washing a sink full of clothes. Not good. I have to say that I admire the women
Ramblings / December 28, 2003 / John
Some of you might remember that I’ve written a bunch of freeware video games – remakes of old Speccy and C64 titles. Out of interest, they’re available on http://www.yoyo.org/~jmd/games/. Anyway, it all started with a truly awful Repton clone called Lizards which I wrote in 1995 or thereabouts. The game was pretty bad, but did
Ramblings / December 25, 2003 / John
Ten to Five they were up. We didn’t get to bed until 2:30. Gahhhhh. I have a meal to cook. The children are in a playing frenzy 🙂 I had a brief moment of calm at about six thirty – the central heating had packed in during the night and I as out fixing it.
Ramblings / December 24, 2003 / John
D’oh! Tristan, Matthew and Harmony are growing increasingly excited and the likelihood of them being asleep before 9pm is reducing in direct proportion. Looks like a late night of wrapping for us. The plan was originally to do the wrapping on Monday and Tuesday evenings, but Debbie and I are full of the cold and
Ramblings / December 20, 2003 / John
It started snowing about two hours ago. We now have a four inch deep white carpet and a dirty great snowman in the orchard 🙂 We all went charging out in the dark and had a good old play while the snow was still falling. Needless to say, they all came in freezing and were
Ramblings / December 19, 2003 / John
As of January the 12th, I’ll be working with a company called navyblue. I’m doing a bit of everything this time round – UNIX administration, some database stuff, some programming in various languages. I really hit it off with the guys who run the company – they’re a fantastic set of guys – very excitable