Archive for December, 2003

  • The 1950s

    The 1950s

    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...

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  • Lizards reborn

    Lizards reborn

    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...

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  • Aaaaaaaaargh!

    Aaaaaaaaargh!

    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...

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  • Christmas eve; 6:17pm; three children; haven’t started wrapping yet

    Christmas eve; 6:17pm; three children; haven’t started wrapping yet

    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,...

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  • Santa is Coming!

    Santa is Coming!

    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...

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  • A shiny new job

    A shiny new job

    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...

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  • lets get organised.

    lets get organised.

    Well, we re back in our house. Its a bit surreal living here again, but its so nice to have light around us in the house that has so many memories. Little Matthew played the Innkeeper at the little nativity play they had in class...

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  • Dr Bob’s silver camel has a new home.

    Dr Bob’s silver camel has a new home.

    I’m writing this at my nice new shiny desk on my nice new shiny iMac while waiting for a curry I’m building to cook in my nice new shiny kitchen. The garage is stuffed full of what few possessions we have, but we’re back in...

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  • Dr Bob’s silver camel has a new home.

    Dr Bob’s silver camel has a new home.

    I’m writing this at my nice new shiny desk on my nice new shiny iMac while waiting for a curry I’m building to cook in my nice new shiny kitchen. The garage is stuffed full of what few possessions we have, but we’re back in...

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  • The Penultimate Day

    The Penultimate Day

    Well, we’re semi packed and getting ready to go. We’re moving back to our house tomorrow, whether they’re finished or not. We really can’t wait any longer – we can’t get anything done in this house. I need to look for a permanent job, Debbie...

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