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Fast, slow, fast, slow... (Kilala.nl (Cailin Coilleach)) by Cailin Coilleach
Obviously our lives have changed a lot now that Dana's here and with all of the changes our professional lives have gone through. After seven weeks it seems that things are finally starting to ebb out though and there's a semblence of routine to our days. Unfortunately one part of said routine is that I spend way less time on the web and thus my journal gets neglected a little bit. So here's another bulk update :)
Last Friday was killer =_= I'd been making a few overhours left and right all week, but I'd decided to compensate these hours on Friday since we had some visitors coming over to our house. Of course it's obvious that the one day I have an appointment that things get hectic at the office. Out of the five people supporting BoKS there were only two in and one of them (not me) was set to get on his plane to Spain. Of course we just -had- to get a nasty production issue that had me home by 1700 instead of 1400 :/ Mind you, I'm not complaining about the work itself, it's just that life sometimes sends you these planning curve balls.
In contrast the weekend was both relaxed and veeery slow. Saturday we took care of the house and went shopping in Amersfoort. Since we had a little bit of leeway in our spending money we could afford to get Marli a substantial renewal of her post-pregnancy wardrobe. I also got an awesome new coat from
Scotch & Soda. I just noticed that S&S; has an outlet store in
Batavia Stad, so maybe I ought to visit that place sometime soon :)
Sunday was the "slooow" part. Half of the day was spent watching the
Spongebob marathon on Nickelodeon, with the other half being spent on the search for a new house. We're looking for a more modern streethouse, as opposed to the aging apartment we're living in. Almere may be
Squaresville, but there's some affordable yet goodlooking houses over there.
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One thing I have to be wary of are the small hours of overtime that sneak in every day. With our very busy schedule at the office and a veritable deluge of incidents, tickets and projects there is never an end to work. This week I prolonged three out of five workdays without even noticing it!
On the upside this means that I'm actually enjoying my work and the challenge that it gives me. On the downside this means that it's way too easy to accidentally forget the -other- important things in life. I mean, there's a reason why I get up every morning at 0530 and why I start work at 0630! I was supposed to be home every day before 1600, so I could spend some time with Dana before it was bed time! And here I am, hacking away at work, meaning that I'll arrive just in time to prepare dinner. :/
So I have to quit that! Besides, I already realize that I could be putting in three hours of overtime every day and it still wouldn't put a dent into our ticket queue. There's only so much work that one man can do...
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Things have been pretty frantic the past week! I've been so busy I couldn't even post a quick blurb to my journal ;_; So, let's quickly run the list of things that have happened before I have to run to a meeting.
As I mentioned before, Dana has changed her daily routines. She's sleeping less and she's crying and sulking more at night. She's also changed her feeding habits which has confused the both of us to no end. Of course Dana's only been with us for six weeks, but it's very easy to lose confidence. Seriously, how the heck do you know if you're baby's fine if you haven't even gotten to know what each mode of crying means? *sigh* Of course it's all a learning experience, but it can sure get exasperating at times.
The household is running fine, though I've cut myself a little slack. With Marli still recuperating from her surgery and me back at work I'm not -that- keen on running a perfect household anymore. Sure, the first three weeks were fun, living in a spick&span; house but these days that's just not a realistic goal anymore. Once Marli's recuperated things should start looking up again.
Work has been very busy. Last week I finally got access to our ticket system, only to stumble on a queue of over a hundred and thirty (>130!!!) tickets. Ouch. It doesn't help that there's only two of us working this queue and that the other queue (we use two ticket systems) has a comparable amount either. The good thing about this is that I haven't been bored for one minute, simply because there's just so much to do ^_^ The work's interesting and challenging, the people are nice and diverse and I'm just enjoying the heck out of myself :D
Finally, I've started the
BoKS Access Control users group on
LinkedIn.com. I'm trying to build a global network of BoKS admins, users and developpers so we can finally start sharing some information. Until now it'd been very hard to get answers to your questions, which will hopefully get easier from now on :)
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*phew* What a weekend...
Yesterday and today were spent shopping, shopping and shopping some more. We bought at least four hundred euros on essential baby stuff, like clothing, other textiles and bathing goods. Aside from that we also went to check out some better fitting clothing for Marli, though that didn't turn out too well. Our lunch at Ikea was alright though :)
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Meh... iPhoto is not without its bugs, unfortunately. I'm busy copying a few gigs of pics from Japan to my Powermac. iPhoto keeps borking up the exports, saying that a number of files are locked due to activity. This lock appears to be taken away, once I give iPhoto the command to "revert to original" for the pics in question. It seems that the editing process in iPhoto doesn't always clean up its crap :/
This bug's changed a process that should've taken fifteen minutes into an hour's endeavour.
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A very busy schedule (Kilala.nl (Cailin Coilleach)) by Cailin Coilleach
I'm very happy that I have taken three weeks off, starting next Monday. I really wouldn't be able to make all the preparations for the
Anime 2007 festival, since I'll be driving around the country in a van to gather a lot of Big Stuff (tm) that needs to go to Almelo.
Up there you'll see my schedule for the next three weeks. Items in blue are activities that I'll be doing for the festival, work, or our relationship. Items in red are sports-related. As you see only the last four days of my holiday are empty, meaning that I can relax and rest up a little by then. Everything else is booked solid...
Well, here I go! *strikes fighting position*
Ikuso!
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After I left Marli of course took it upon herself to make guests of our household think that I'm a complete loon. She's left literary greats such as "Boobies rule!", "Cat's are great" and "I *heart* Thomas" littered across the board. Knowing that my wife can enjoy herself with such silliness really makes me love her even more :D
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