First Tooth

Well this week has been an eventful one...

Noah got his first tooth, after falling off the sofa round a Ben (my brother's) house onto his top lip (first of many no doubt) - the top tooth came through. Pics soon. Looks like we might have a bugs bunny on our hands. He's also v. near to crawling, doing the back-forward bum wiggle...

Another revelation, and not approved by some, is the 'Jolly-Jumper'. Noah absolutely loves it - and just sits inbetween the doorway bouncing up and down. There are those who think that it's bad for their legs, and I can see if it was badly adjusted or over-used it would be, but done properly, the exercise and enjoyment he gets is just amazing. His coordination and ability to 'jump-up, jump-up' changed overnight. Thumbs up from us.

On a more painful note - the bloody computer has been freaking out. It developed a mad instantaneous crash after iTunes v.5 (cheers Apple... but I do love iTunes) was installed, and I eventually traced it back to a clash with the graphics drivers, unfortunately by that point is has lost it's mind. So I decided to perform a Windows 'repair'. More like a baseball bat to the legs actually.

Three times this week I have performed a repair over a repair over a repair, just to get back to some semblance of normality, but it's obvious I now have a totally mental machine. Just in the last touches of migrating all of the customisations to my other disk and will go into the full reformat and reinstall. Now to put this into perspective, and given that I am a bit of a geek who likes to fiddle - I have never reinstalled the operating systems in 4 years - I've added and removed hardware, software and other devices. So maybe that's not a bad thing. We'll we'll see anyway.

On the work front I was nominated as part of the 'Win of the Quarter' Team and for an individual 'Branch Award'. We got the WotQ, but I missed out on the BA. Both were down to my relationship with a client, someone with whom I've developed a good relationship with over time.

Jac is in the final negotiations to go back to her job 3 days a week part-time, although they are playing silly-buggers, trying to say that after maternity leave, you are not entitled to continuation-of-service. This is appalling and amazing that, in this day of 'maternity-rights' how they can even think of trying it on after speaking to their 'legal people', well we'll see...... Take on the Taylors.... that's all I'll say.

Laters,