Monday, March 27, 2006

Batteries

    posted by Justin @ 11:29:00 pm

Buy cheap AA NiMh batteries from ebay and you don't get anything fancy. Like actual 'cover art'. But they were cheap, and they appear to work :-)

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An open letter to the R&D department of Ferrero Australia

    posted by Justin @ 12:45:00 pm

Passionfruit Mint Tic Tac's - what were you guys thinking? These things taste about as good as it sounds like they taste like - awful.

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Skun rat anyone?

    posted by Justin @ 12:20:00 pm

The dog got clipped on the weekend. Here are the obligatory before and after pictures:

Before:



After:

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Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Anzac Biscuits

    posted by Justin @ 11:43:00 am

Did I mention the neighbours are nice?

I just got brought a tray of Anzac biscuits from the lovely lady next door.



They're still warm!

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Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Dog wash

    posted by Justin @ 11:04:00 am

We got a dog. For the uninitiated, we have inherited Anna's sister's doggie. 

Anna gave him a bath yesterday, and then perhaps unwisely let him go outside. Of course he immediately started scratching in the dirt.

Here is Anna repairing the damage:

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Monday, March 13, 2006

Public holiday for Meeee

    posted by Justin @ 8:16:00 am

SA public holiday, I don't have to work but Anna has to, and the kids have to go to school. Bwahahahahah!

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Friday, March 10, 2006

Neighbours

    posted by Justin @ 10:21:00 am

Our neighbours are so cool! They invited us, and several other neighbours for a BBQ on the weekend. So we got to meet the locals, swap stories and chat. The dogs all got to meet as well, though they weren't quite as friendly as the humans. A bit of growling and snapping.

So our neighbours bought the block when it was first parcelled out, and have lived there ever since. Heard some great stories about the neighbourhood, and got a good feed as well :-)

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Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Coffee

    posted by Justin @ 9:57:00 am

In the interests of productivity, rather than continually going up to the house to make a cup of coffee, I've been making a whole pot and bringing it back to my work area.

This has increased my coffee consumption markedly.

It remains to be seen if this is a bad thing.

Team meeting day today. First one with a video conferencing component. Here's my prediction - one of the first things I get asked will be "Are you wearing pants".

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Tuesday, March 07, 2006

The Daily Grind

    posted by Justin @ 6:38:00 pm

Life quickly settles back to 'normality'.

Sleep, eat, work, eat sleep.

Sound familiar?

Working from home has it's challenges, but it's surprisingly dissimilar to working from .. work. Most of my work communications were via phone, email and IM. Nothing new there. Not being able to turn to ones neighbour to talk crap for a minute or so is somewhat isolating, but on the upside I have the dog to talk to if I need to vocalise.

And he hardly ever talks back! 

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