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Mary has a taste and think it's a bit spicey actually.
Hmmm, ahhh, I realise that my buds are a bit zapped.
But it'll be grand. After all it's not _that_ hot.
While eating dinner Fionnuala & Mum watch Dad eating & almost dying.
Poor guy ... much mellowness.
Mum takes pity and swipes his plate and replaces with edible food.
:-7 sorry Dad! Mary has to leave it too.
F & myself out in Titanic bar .... I look it up & update Cobh page.
The Titanic bar,
Irish Times,
Old liner port terminal in Cobh becomes Titanic Bar.
Vincent Keaney is a bit of a character, he has raised the white star flag again in Cobh.
The terminal building has been for many years the post office and social welfare office.
Fionnuala saw on RTE, "The man who won the lotto and bought the dole office".
urgh - PIC docs, mails, tiredish, diary. updates on geocities/yahoo jamesc_ie.geo GIMP & grokking the GIMP
winnt logo.sys, Start->Crash Explorer->Exploder, boot.ini, config.sys
Fionnuala's babysitting for Andrea. *CANCELLED* CI have free drinkies in O'Sheas at 17:30. Keith Greenan, Pat, James Curran, Mark, Mark, young lads on left. Lots of Bulmers, some sausages & chips. Mulled wine in Mary's house. *Still in O'Sheas at 10:30, we followed R&M to Bleeding Horse* Robbie & Maeve back from states in the Bleeding horse. Frederico, Fergal, lots others. Spare ribs late.
Do hex tutorial effort with MArkH, Tornado BSP book & install, Ben's back, looking up PIC docs. Unicycle gets delivered to work without contact name so Dorothy sends a mail to leopardstown. Eek! I setup netscape, new profile, delete mail, tell it to REALLY delete mail, delete it. Gone. Bike not ready until tomorrow.
telnet headyin 389 (ldap)
Ring Fionnuala & head home walking after stashing unicycle. In creche I head in & Daire is as usual stand-offish for a bit. We get coat & hat & Daire walks all the way home with me. A bit slow going ... we meet Fionnuala in car at top of our row.
Cook miscellaneous stuff for dinner, sausages & waffles for Daire. Reheat stew & potatoes for me. Orange spicey chicken/veggies plus toast for Fionnuala.
dspsrv gang out in Messrs waider will put pics up. Headed in with car. It's raining a bit. Get parking after doing one lap around quay-customHouse. Direct lostish/can'tseemap lady down road to a St. In messers I go all the way to the top before finding them all the way down the bottom.
John's coworkers, pint of plain, Waider, Joe, Diarmuid, Mike. Rafe & Vicky come in later & head away again. Dancin ... Joes on redbull+vodka? John many (some flaming) Sambukas. Strange sugar buzz all evening. John gets Waider to fall on him & twists ankle. OW. Lashing rain on way home. Give Waider a lift. Pictures as promised
Nice walk ... not as frosty as recently ... over fence, path/mud, brisk. The path has LOADs of rubbish on it :p[
I realise credit card missing from wallet. EEK! Diary (future & poast), play with pics/GIMP another little, work/family/friend emails. After completely forgetting credit card I find it on my desk. EEK! Lunch, sate meatballs, Bronwyn has burnt her finger with soup. ow. Walk/talk with Ian. Ian,Fermoy.
ssh/ssl vunerable no imap login for Fionnuala & s3 external mail Looking for Waffle recipies on web MyrIAD SV status meeting with Ronan & Ken & Mark in lab. Then intro talk with Ken. Writing 7.001 test spec.
I walk home, Fionnuala collects D from creche with car. I arrive as they do. I cook chicken+tarragon+garlic+chillie+pepper+paprika+oysterSauce+fishSauce+lemonJuiceRind+orangeJuice+carrot+celery that I had marinaded yesterday. Add frozen green beans. It turns out yummy. We have rice & the rest of the rose with it (I like it this time - it's cold from fridge).
Fionnuala makes lovely mince pies. I veg in front of TV :(
Birds at home are doing interesting things. Little tits eating the nuts from bird-feeder
hanging on tree. Other birds can't hang off it. Robin comes occasionally. They all look
very fat.
Neighbours next door have lots of rubbish bags in their back garden and a magpie has
found a big piece of bread. One gets dropped in our garden and a flock of starlings pecks at it.
We also get a close-up view of one of them shaking a worm and then gulping it.
(D&me having breakfast).
We see 6 (house probably) sparrows on the fuscia also interested in the bread.
Another magpie sits for a while on top of shead with a different piece until rook & more
magpies come along.
Big fry-up at 12ish for Fionnuala's breakfast. Daire Heads to bed for a nap by himself after fry-up lunch. Assumpta calls in afternoon stuck for babysitter, chat about Christmas doings.
Now ..... MORE Shopping!!! (well, for Fionnuala) We drive into town, half-forgetting Santa is calling. Drop Fionnuala & head out to collect stuff from Eogahn's house. People aren't there until 16:00/later. Ds & myself walk by surfdock & look at lots of boats down to Ocean bar. Meet a man & Daire gets jelly-beans & really likes them. Get Eogahn's stuff & head home. No sign of Santa but is sign of postman.
We cook celery+Aubergine+garlic+tomato+herbs/condiments + lamb+Aubergine+tomato+stock + potatoes on top stew. Everything fried first. Daire stirred. When F comes back we pick her up. Stew is roasting hot & yummy. We have chilled rosé with it. I like it this time but not F. D plays a bit by himself, then film with Santa on TV ... more worrying/confusing than anything else for D. Then D to bed by F. Guitar, Glenroe
Fionnuala babysits for Assumpta, I play guitar a good bit, play tin-whistle, watch TV.
Chop up veggies & marinade chicken for tomorrow 00:20ish when F comes home.
We head to bed ... no shower, relative cleanliness discussed again. Eeeeuwww.
I head directly to tk-maxx. Go through mens, then girls, ... bought £300 of clothes ... CLOTHES!!!? For me & Bill & John & Mary & Eimear? maybe. Bow-tie for B/J, chain-belt for F. I head to Waterstones, browse books - for me & get one for Granny. I send SMS to Fionnuala, she phones me back saying they're in work, Clonskeagh, checking mail and getting Jenny's number. Hogges/Figgis has much better sci-fi selection. Look at Jack Vance, Philip K Dick, .... Fionnuala phones in shop but can't really hear me. They're still waiting for bus. Cold. I SMS them a bit, get Abrekebabera meal in deserted Abrekebabera. Walk up fiercely crowded Grafton St. looking into HMV.
Then we meet up, F&D from the bus. Daire LOVES getting the bus! They were waiting in cold for ages ... the no 11 to the Goat/Clonskeagh. We went to Wagamamas. Yummy noodles & japanese food. Then Fionnuala headed to meet some guys in ?Bleeding Horse? and met up with Frances later somewhere else ... & went clubbing too. Myself & D got the Bus back to the car after a goodish wait & then home.
Daire likes D. He's pointing it out everywhere! He says "That's my name.", pointing at "Dublin bus" or the keyboard or other D-words.
We gewt home 20:10ish, D eats two petis-filous, get dressed for bed, bit of TV. Upstairs, brush teeth, nice story, "don't like the wind" - no wind today but there was a few nights recently. He heads off to sleep okay though.
I showered, got breakfast with Daire finishing his, then F&D gave me a lift into the Gallops. I walked across the fields to S3.
F was shopping today & did found some decorations in Dun Laoighre as well as getting a few MORE prezzies.
Reviewing docs, unsub & big mailbox tidy. Meeting general presentation from Ruarai on Myriad, Stephen Dolan joining too. Mails to Karel in Prague on SV env, review of Ronan test & mail, Mark writing UART driver doc. forms in to Laura holidays sort with Bronwyn - eek only 11? add 24, subtract 15 install imaker on PC - too old Listening to Fat Boy Slim Norman You've Come A Long Way Baby
I bring bike to bike-shop after lunch .... whack into big pothole on way and burst back tube. Clattery-cycle/walk to Stillorgan. Leave bike in for repair, take bikeseat & stuff off it, ring F (not there), walk back.
F heading to ? with ? tonight.
In work I check work emails, then talk with James Curran about attaching tcl to processes.
Then long talk with Fiona & Mark introducing MyrIAD & drivers.
Lunch, more drivers UART & clockGen.
Today the repair guy called & Dad "drove him hard" on just throwing money away on things that break down again.
I looked up UPSs, Dec 12
Writing this diary too!
F collected D, leaving I talked with Mark, Trish (who's back from Poland), delivered letter to Martin, headed 6ish, back tyre very soft. D on couch playing when I arrive. F cooking burgers & curry sauce & waffles & veg .... yum!
F heads out to go to play in Tallaght with Sheila. D & myself finish dinner, I have tea, Daire has ANOTHER waffle and cheese too. We watch a bit of TV and then head upstairs to play JumpAheadToddlers on PC. (found the CD last week when I opened PC to find out motherboard & swap in memory .... Daire had put in the crack between CD drive & top of PC. Put on Daire's PJs at PC and then Aedin called, delivering bowls & candles back. Bit of a rush D to bed ... but he cried & we brushed teeth & turned on music ... the wind is up a bit again. Aedin headed shortly. I watch crap on TV ... news - Clinton is visiting. F back, I review Ronan's test spec, watch thing on CH4 ... ? Bed & read Tom Sharpe a bit.
I get into work, check work/other mails. Busy enough day, MyrIAD status mail/meeting. Get payrise & bonus. Mail Roger from Unicycle Source UK about buying unicycle/tools/tshirt? & applets not giving error (jre/mvm not installed). Mail from Edward at scan.co.uk about memory, PCI video/capture card (don't have Miro), (BFO) Hard disk drive - 47G.
Fionnuala's looking up ski hols WHEE! :)
Austria
St. Johann in Tirol
Hotel Moser
Skigebiete Österreich
St. Johann in Tirol
Home collecting Daire. We cook burgers, Daire has beans and bread first. We then spend ages looking for christmas lights without luck. I get crossish, Fionnuala looks when she comes home, then has burger, Prince William on TV, ...
Dad phones & talks with Daire for ages before bedtime. He kicks my tea over & I'm still a bit cross. Fionnuala brings him upstairs and then back down & gets him dressed for bed. The modem on the PC at home has died and David Walker took a look. He put forward the theory that perhaps lightening/other surges damaged more than hard drive & modem. So Dad was asking about replacing motherboard, getting new PC altogether or getting surge protection. I was telling him reliability would never be 100% especiaslly for PCs. I looked up windoze shutting down problems, Dec 11 I also tried looking up our "Abrupt reset" problem which there is very little info about.
We head for a drive, stop ladies view, meet Tomek, Radek?, Slawek out for drive, robin eats some mince pie. Gap of Dungloe. Lovely lakes & rocks all over the place.
Drive for Limerick ... 1:30, traffic in Limerick itself looks terrible. We visit Fionnuala's parents, watch space cartoon thing & then Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. Cheese & salad & bread + tea and then more fry for tea.
Drive back fine, some traffic but mostly 60mph/70. We drop Eimear to Castletroy, visit her student house. 20:30 leave for DSublin, arrive back 23:00 (stop for 72.?p petrol + milk) Daire sleeps at the start, wakes at garage & sings/gives out.
must look for prezzies
Compustore,
scan.co.uk
HArd Disk Drives
30.7Gb IDE IBM ATA-100 75GXP 'Telesto' (8ms 2MB Cache 7200rpm) £123.38
PC Guide HDD reference
Performance, Quality, Reliability
looking for new PC parts, Oct 13 looking for new PC parts, Dec 6
Rush cycle against BLASTING wind to pick up Daire who is in kitchen with Helen. I collect him at 6:15. There is a bright half moon, the stars are out and Jupiter/Saturn are bright too. Fionnuala is playing soccer. Make ham+egg and toast for Daire. I have some Quiche Fionnuala had cooked. F comes home & has dinner too.
Neanderthals, The crow ar an teilifís.
Fionn cross with Daire over stuff during morning & I get extremely cross at dinnertime, then sleep for a few hours. Late film Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
We set the big kite up and fly it a little bit but then half the neighbourhood descends around us and participates in the kite flying - which is quite entertaining. They first have a go of the little kite - which then gets passed from person to person until much later. There is also another stunt kite being alternately flown or wrapped around trees. I bring Daire in to the toilet and we head back out again.
Christopher is out with David and Daire/David and two little girls of about the same age and Patrick who is a little bigger play with kite lines/launching kite or just watching. The bigger girls _try_ to fly the kite - it's BRUtal - but thankfully the big kite is of very solid construction. Much repairs & relaunching. It has to be kept downwind by continually turning it back and forth so almost every time they fly out of the window and eventually crash to ground or into the trees. Kids love running around after it though.
I fly it a bit and they get the hang of it more ... before one of their charges goes missing (back to a neighbours house). Then Christopher flys it ... gets a bit better too. Daire & David play together - David has his footbakk. They head in general downhill & downwind. Fun fun! I get them back a few times and follow an expedition through the prickly gorse. Show CHris how to launch kite by self too.
Eventually they head in, I bring Daire inside too (Fionnuala is asleep) and head back out for one last fly. Attach blinking light which makes a spectacular high curve, very slowly landing in gorse. EEK! It went SOOOO far! I recover it and fly more before heading in.
Kieran & Morgan's party, the apartment is quite easy to find. Lucia & Paul are the only guests there before us. Inside there is a lovely high ceiling, a large figgis tree with lights, nice paint colours, floorboards. Daire eats some things and is quiet in general but does go hunting for tortilla chips. He asks to go home and Fionnuala headed away with him (& visited Aedin on way home). Darren & gf ?Denise? had arrived & a few others.
I stay on, lots more people, lots of white & then red wine. Yummy bits of vegetables & dips. Lift home from Paul & Lucia with Mary. Cook toast+ham+egg before bed.
Shopping - Stillorgan shut, go to Cornelscourt. Aedin visits. Daire into bed sometime in night ... a bit disturbing. Cold toddler kicking feet.
MyrIAD context, timers driver study&chat, UART
Messrs, waider, Pauline, Conor, John, Diarmuid, Mike, ... Great night - much chat about lots. We arrive in - table with 3 longish haired, 2 with almost-beard, big Diarmuid, 2 others. Eek! Pauline gets on grand :) Much talk about Genie going on about Parachuting on dspsrv. Yummy pils, then lots of cokes for me. I get a goldslager for John when no jammy. Run completely out of money. Drive back ... wired on coke (acola).
Mary's 18th party in ramblers. LOADs of food - sandwiches, etc... Bulmers, Brian, Jennifer, Sinead, Brendan. Pauline & Brian have a fight. Not talking first, then talk. Pauline crying and gets a bit drunk, sick. We drive home, D won't sleep on floor ... :-7 I sleep on couch, watch the rest of the Matrix, lovely.
Headed at 12:07ish, got to Stillorgan 12:15 - not fast, just usual brisk cycling pace. I think my tyres are going soft ... required pedalling even when going downhill!
.... Victor something, he's quite a young guy ... I'd guess 30ish ... due to have baby January :) First checked out my neck ... I probably pulled bits of my trianger ... triangular muscle from neck to shoulder and right down to middle of back.
He straightened bits of my spine, with a kindof heavy pen thing that gave a jolt to the right spot. He looked along spine & lifted my hind legs up together while I looked/put arms in various poses to see what was straight and not. one bone in lower back I suspect windsurfing others where triabgle muscle is attached in middle ... and others higher.
Then he grabbed me from behind with my arms crossed and squashed until a few things creaked.
Then he put a few needles in my neck where the muscle was stiffest and connected me up to a machine which drove current around for 15 mins. 12ish (volts?)
I'd say it did my back good ... I could feel stiff things going out of it.
I don't feel much difference in neck but I'd say it would help it along.
Have to wait for muscle to heal ... he said apply heat to it ... I got fish and chips & coke for dinner. yum. Ate at desk.
Necks stiff but okay, would love massage .... Daire gave me a little one this morning :-D
Finished up perl scripts for InProjectAudit/KPA checklists ... small changes from Fionnuala & tidy.
Andrea visits with Emily & with tummy tubby & other of Daire's baby things.
She brings a lovely lego duplo present for Daire. He opens it up & we put it together &
play a bit. Emily gradually gets more brave and crawls a little.
I cook pasta & spicy tomato+chilli+ham+yellowPepper+onion+garlic sauce.
Pauline's party. Aedin comes to babysit at 9. We head in via Dundrum, much talk (me trying to retell the old stories from Fri night to Fionnuala - the missions - one huge redemptorist and a younger smaller priest, the huge drover & the wee dog "just throw hime a little bit" - poteen). We park across road & head in.
We have mulled wine (WINE!?! WINE!! it emerges it is mulled wine+brendy+herbs but the non-alcoholic ingredients are lacking - we drink from large glasses and it is difficult to drink without inhaling noxious fumes - blowing them away is a tactic we adopt. It splashes and attacks Fionnuala's eye.)
Loads of girls. Brid, Audrey, Jean, Laura. (Pauline knows Brid, Brid knows others). Jacqueline, Sinead McKee, J..... Buckets of cocktails. Bill & Susan arrive after pasta milanos. Fionnuala heads away 11:30. I stick with red wine. Much chat & talk. Bill & Susan head ... I hang on a bit talking with Pauline. Then she comes to Burgerking with me to get fresh air & we run out of Burgerking after a wee bit to get more fresh air. Meet the girls who'd headed off to score coming back. I head soon enough after that. 3:00ish
Walk down O'Connell St., across through throngs of nitelink Qers, up along E side of Stephen's green, down Leeson St., out past Donnybrook. There I see a taxi with light on & hail it. 04:00ish. Get home 04:30. Eat miscellaneous & drink juice, Fionnuala a bit awake.
Subject: Re: EEP!
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 18:14:06 +0000
From: James Coleman
To: "Clarke, Sheila - RI Japan"
CC: finnc@s3group.com
Week just about over.
It's dark here at 5:30 now :( ... and my poor bike had it's lights smashed a month or so ago :(.
The cycle home involves navigating mounds of earth, huge puddles and soaked grass.
(in area without street (or rather field?) lights)
(record levels of rainfall this Oct (& I'm guessing this Nov too so far))
"Clarke, Sheila - RI Japan" wrote:
>
> Gosh, it's only taken me 4 months to reply to this!!!! My most humble
> apologies - my rate of correspondence has hit record lows in the last year.
> I'm sooooo behind... If it's any consolation, you're not the only one who's
> been kept waiting!! Waider actually resorted to emailing my mobile (yep, I
> have one of those now!) to see if I was still alive!
Cripes ... actually I hadn't realised that subject line was originally mine ....
though it makes a bit more sense now!
>
> Anyhoo... sounds like things are as hectic as ever your way (or were back in
> July at any rate!!). Hope you've managed to catch some surf since then! My
Managed to do a good bit ... but never enough really .... maybe this weekend again
... last weekend was force 8-9-10 & huge waves ... much too much for me :(
Today was actually SUNNY after a week of wet cycles to work.
So far ... I've not gotten myself in any trouble ... though I've developed my
upwind sailing once or twice through necessity! ... I'm still terrible with
technique .... my tactic so far is to hang on until close to large obstacle or
falling off. The harness at least usually prevents board from ending up too far
away.
> roller-blades rarely saw the light of day this year, pretty sad really. Did
Mine have been in the attic for a year now! :(
> manage to get in some _serious_ sailing though! See attached pics! That was
no attached pics :(
> about it for sporting activities. I was in another play last month though,
> so that kept me busy for a couple of months. My last show in Tokyo *sniff*.
-.-
We managed to spend about 3 weeks in France ... yummy food - we drove.
Daire likes steak-hache-frites in restaurants & also got quite a kick
out of sleeping in hotels and regularily inspecting the toilets of many varied
French establishments.
Funny in work - have been sooooo busy after having no project.
Things should improve soon as new project starting up now.
My sister Pauline's working in Dublin now for the last few months (in same company
as my brother Bill) ... & she babysits a bit for us allowing escape to Ballroom Dancing
these days. eep!
>
> Oh yeah - I'll be home for good on Dec. 18th!! Yep, finally decided that
Oh yeah ... like that just reminded you.
Please allow me to climb back off chair (fell off it Tuesday when I read this!)
> I've had enough of Japan, for now at least! Am currently in the process of
> trying to sort out 6 years worth of crap and figure out what to keep and
> what to dump! Great fun...
Jayzzzz! Hire a big container truck & mail it to yourself.
>
> That's the "big" news really. I'll be heading to Australia at the end of
> Nov. for a couple of weeks, and then it's back here for 3 nights to pick up
> my suitcase, and then home!! After that, I've no idea!!!
Wahooo!
The possibilities!!
>
> Talk to you soon (sooner than 4 months at any rate!),
Leave us know when you're coming in ... (dec 18th is a Monday).
We could do drinkies out in the airport like something I vaguely remember from ages ago.
We've also got a spare bed out in our place if you'd like to visit a wee bit longer at any stage.
Talk tya (urgh --- ultra-chic young-Dub speak)
James. :)
We go shopping to Dun Laoighre. Coat & jumper & socks for D. Us two men are a bit cranky ... we find a lovely place after passing Burgerking and McDonalds and Abrakebabra ... The Red Onion. F has scrummy crostini with goats cheese, I have big breakfast, D has fried eggs. EatingOut Red Onion Cafe adlib review
Walk pier, see boats, D out of buggy, Tourist office, play with fountain, back to car, shopping, home. Cook mince. Cook dinner for Fionnuala's mum & dad & Eoghan & Aedin. Fresh tagliatelli + the creamy seafood sauce we had Thursday + some yellow pepper. Cabernet Sauvignon & Bourgogne. Cheese & ice-cream & coffee afterwards.
I cycle home & search for Billy Drummy's phone number without success. The Clarence Fionnuala has managed to cook us dinner (tomato & lentil soup + rice), Daire is in need of attention but only gets a bit.
Arrange to meet Billy D in Portewrhouse at 20:00. I get ready & cycle in 19:20ish, bike is much lighter without saddle bags, car pulls out & scrapes me on Stevens Green. Tie up bike on bars opposite pub (handy!). Arrive a bit past 20:00. I head in & wander round bottom floor & get spotted ... Bill arrives while I'm at bar & then we have a grand chat with Billy & Barry about all sorts. Drum Beat Digital Bill knows Dublin Restaurants. We don't REALLY love any place in Dublin to recommend? EntertainmentIreland Porterhouse shows
Walk with Bill, then cycle, home before 24:00. F TV shower (persuaded) bed mmmmmm.
I collect D from creche and we get home. F home too. We put on spagetti, Saute onion + garlic in butter, add peeled chopped tomatoes + salmon, cook packet of hollaindaise sauce, debone salmon, chop & add it with prawns & sauce back. Pauline arrives in middle of all this. Myself & F head off, D is a bit happier than last week.
Samba, rock 'n roll, waltz, .... Collect money in Stillorgan. Back, much present & talk.
Home, good humour. Quite windy & driving drizzle from E/SE. Against me a bit but with us from creche to home. I collect D in creche and we head into shop with all wet weather gear on. Get grapes, bananas, mandarins, milk, D gets Barney yoghurts. At home we put bike in shed, bring in shopping, D has banana and then grapes. I fry pepper+onion+courgette+garlic and cook tomato soup and add noodles. Daire has his with pasta and I have some too - F gets home before 19:00. Soaked wet, she has soup, then gets changed, then we have cheese + grapes + tea. I spout on for ages about M0 & ADHD & levels of it in me/S3/others, schooling children, ....
F puts D to bed and then watches Who wants to be a Millionaire (last bit) on TV. Comment on lack of sex recently :) I need to take a shower. We both pick up books after talking ... & don't get far ... I catch myself sleeping with GEB & F sleeping with rockety-book.
D crys during night & I head in & give him soother. I thought it was nearly waking up time ... but it wasn't. He arrives in later & sleeps beside F kicking & tossing. She eventually gives up & brings him back to bed. When I get up next morning though Daire is arriving up from the kitchen, half dressed, wants breakfast. He's had an accident in bed.
dspsrv mail, etext collections The Universal Library Project Bible Koran Moslem woman
I see quite big, flouncy mushrooms by the entrance of the Gallops but don't stop. Daire is hopping off the walls, running and banging into doors in creche ith smaller Michelle. Then he's suddenly tired and it's hard work getting coat on. Fionnuala's home when we arrive, Daire's cross a bit, we look at holiday photos until we fight. Pauline comes out bedecked in red poncho. Fionnuala cooks us breaded chicken, potato & salad. Then we talk & head away ... Daire is quite miserable we're going.
loads of cars & people collecting in school, wait a little - then waltz - MUCH easier than last week R changeL changeR boxF(samechangeL) boxB boxF boxB also changeL changeR turnClockwise90 turnClockwise90 turnClockwise90 turnClockwise90 foxtrot - (V or W) L 1 2 mansturn(quickquick) 1 2 ladiesturn ... rock 'n roll - 1 2 rockstep 1 2 breakstep (girl turns)1 2 rockstep 1 2 rockstep barn dance
Home, Pauline has read loads of french book to Daire. I put him to sleep. We talk loads to Pauline, Mary calls, we go through Argos catalogue, eat fruit, drink tea. I bring Pauline home 12:15 much talk on radio 3/4 Antos 1st crazy driving, then Friday 13. Home 1:0x, fill tummy, bed.
Christ! Aug is missing!! Aug4-Sep8 Practically all of diary written into Palm at home or in odd waiting moments. Copied in today, holiday diary typed up in email & here yesterday, still pencil notes to be copied in. Dream in morning after sex ... in hotel in Avignon ... very sensual, squeesing berries in mouth .. dripping onto nipples ... yeow. btw ... lots of sex on holidays ... not v risky but we're going to have another baby soon.
Web browsin, help mark a bit with IOP makefiles, SMX, CMX demos. 16:00ish oil burner repair guy calls, I leave note for F & take car home. He's very chatty, burner doesn't co-operate straight away ... waits until it's been taken apart a good bit and cleaned. The pipes also are a bit kinked and moving them helped enough oil to get through. We go through all the radiators in the house, back to shed, talk renault cars, 30 pounds. back to work at 17:00, meet Martin & put drill in car & talk, change note to F when I head after 17:30.
Drizzly wetish ... hat is quite good, need leggings. Daire & myself home on bike. Upstairs checking radiators - every one is warm. We cook potatoes in microwave and milk (& garlic/cheese/salami/pepper) and have some roze from Frejus. Cotes de Provence, caves Cooperative Daire has pasta wheels (lots) and blackcurrant roze water.
Watch holiday video with Daire, then I'm persuaded to bring him up to bed, get him ready, we read Mega poussin in French & English. TV, F calls Pauline & we catch up on news. Family that had genetically selected baby to help cure older daughter debate on BBC and in our house too. Dishwasher on, up to bed, brush hair for an hour - disturbs poor F - but I pretty much got durn tangle out (tangle initially formed windsurfing ages ago .... grew & stayed a long while.
I look up Bladerunner & Philip K Dick (other sci-fi fans on hols => he was debated/recommended) Bladerunner FAQ Philip K. Dick dot com
I look up Rudyard Kipling stuff on web a bit: Just so Stories, How the Leopard got his Spots Rudyard Kipling Just so Stories I add to wishlist in Amazon.
Actually doing work too, lashing rain in afternoon SMX docs, ruarai plan tcp/ip work linux PC setup, Rachel, Ronan also doing related stuff
Looks like good windsurfing weather here! :) Well .... if the wind would moderate a bit that is! :-7 Galeforce 8.
I send email home & to various friends, touch base with Fionnuala, cycle to collect Daire ... It's windy and drizzling - we get eggs. Home, bike in shed, we collect courgettes, chop & FRY IN OLIVE OIL, ADD GARLIC, CHILLI, herbs & pepper, tin of tomatoes. Fionnuala comes home with a Philips Rocket Pocket eBook to keep & review. We have the courgettes with pasta & spagetti. Daire has chilli-less pasta with sauce from a bottle. He tastes chilli & drinks water quickly! Leffe bier for me.
Some TV - English news. Fionnuala does much video editing. I read Rudyard Kipling's the Gardner & Jan&Feb of Peter Mayle's A year in Provence. It's quite an easy read.
Look up where A year in Provence is based. Their house is above the road between Bonnieux and Menerbes, close to the village of Lacoste. In the Luberon mountains & national park, near Mont Ventoux. I read Mar,Apr,May before sleep. The interaction between the English & French is extremely funny.
Irish TV - yer man Eamon something visits Copenhagen, visits Carlsberg, loathes Irish bars, harley, gay pride. TnaG good.
I read Rudyard Kipling's Baa Baa Black sheep ... very touching.
Further north to eat grapes from vineyards in Chateauneuf du Pape. (and of course taste the wine!) Chateauneuf -du- vin Les vignes en mouvement
We drove a bit and stayed in Avignon. No room in ETAP, get a place in ibis hotel next door. Walk in to town, eat at restaurant ... quite English? Singer in square.
wake up with naked cuddle from behind - mmmmm. D arrives in while we're having sex. He's quite blaze about it, we're pretty gentle.
Everyone up by 830ish, me into shower, down for breakfast in a bit. Lots of misc packing, clean of kitchen, take down hammock, tidy garden, eat leftover food. D cranky, me too a bit. Liam visits outside. Leave just after 10ish.
V calm drive, Derek Davis & Darrina Allen talking food of radio. Starving when get to Wexford. Parking is difficult, 1st pharmacy, then soup+sandwiches+eclair+cappuchino, walk up+down shops, grapes+groceries car. £15 petrol 20l. Rosslaire, straight in, car Q, D out with toy car, then cars onto boat.
F rests in cabin (786 front left) while D&I explore - inside, then long time on deck, at side 1st looking at shore, then chimney, up front, scary smoke, down back, heli circle, lots of ppl& jumping on orange floats. Back to F, eat grapes, D has a nice spot on windowsill, then F comes explorlng shops, restaurants, cinema, excellent kiddy corner - we stay a while- headache from deisel, then food - tikka masala bud chcps saus salad £17!!ow back to c, D loo&poo, wash hands w soap every time, scary flush. I writeup diary, Din PJs & to bed, F too. Me diary & X files, lovely night moon & lights on water. Bed on floor after cuddle.
Diary, mum & dad back from mass. Fix chair? Get poppy seeds. French mariqolds & onion line We visit Granny, we all walk up the road & the dogs come with us. D & myself eat blackberries. Talk, pick apples, F weeds Js trees a bit.
Drive back afternoon, tidy bike, tractor, stop in ? Explore, Chinese, big wait. Takeaway.
We head out & see start of cow milkinq, I head in to get slightly more dirtiable trousers (& P's boots). D has great fun splashing water beween bin & bucket in Dairy. More bkfst.
Garden tour - sunflowers! Attempt at repairing chair, fish out old bikes to help & end up repairing that.
D+grandad+me+Sam in tractor over bumpy tracks to count cattle. I open gates/wires. D scared of big cattle a bit. Back for dinner, then more bike repair, scrape rust & spray white. Go spreading fertiliser in tractor, D falls sound asleep.
Have tea & call Fionnuala, then drive to Cork to collect her. Back in Cobh D sound asleep in car, garden tour, bike repair - then D awake with wet carseat. F cleans D who's V groggy & hot. I rinse out clothes & seat.
We all have tuna salad for tea, D cross & heads to bed with F. More bike repair, in looking for wheel I find an orange tractor in the rafters. Photos are taken & tractor is cleaned, sanded & rustpainted.
Shower, car to town, the Voyager loud music & Guiness. Outside for 1 drink, then inside. Meet Denis & Emma. Burger & chips, home, tea, bed.
Use case reviews in work, talk Flavio + Rachel, fraggles, doozers, Hubert, Kamila, buy Polish hses. Then proj can mtg- all IOP, 15 eng, Ru+Bernard+Ferg. Mot=>too much money, good eng work, negotiate final deliveries now. Ferg=>lots learned, me=>keep&publish it e.q. Use cases, RPC. Dinner, walk w Mark, markc shows me IOP machines & cdburn. Use case rev takes all afternoon. Update mine, pcopy car stuff,check mail.
Hi Fionn, collect Daire, lots of parents, D climbs up bike onto pillar, cycle home. F cooks, I make box of replaced broken cd boxes, D eats ice-cream. Sausage+mash+chilliBeans+spinach. Olivier & Martin headto Killiney with "jolie filles". We talk French to O.
I type up diary in Palm, ideas for apps, fionn on phone, eventguide + himalaya + beauty Q of Leenaune + tvplay + comedyclub. Talk of work - PIO process fagan reviews ... doesn't quite lead to sex .... :)
D & me file stuff & put wsurfer on car. Killiney, few ppl out, put wsurf together, lock car, board, then sail to beach. Wind not quite as onshore as had thought. Interesting trying to get up initially in the waves. Turn around & beat away shore NEish, then back SW. Chop/waves interesting, going about ugly but fall in only on occasion. Closer than comfy to break waves on shore 2wice. Avoided fish lines, pibn't scare fish too much I hope, went over drag-patch of weed 2wice. Lights on when coming in. Waves grab me+gear when land. Carry board+sail up beach, then seperate,phone, pack gear, dress, home.
up real late, lice stuff in my hair, filing F's bank, share docs, rec mobile phone info in palm, shower, detangle, chilli olives + mi-wadi+ice
Move car to Stephen's green, park on 2nd pass. Daire goes in buggy. I qet coke, then Great Outdoors watersports is inspected, in Temple Bar we get OS 51 & Fionn looks at boots & Daire likes walking stick. Cross river & visit food centre, lobsters in tank, seafood chowder+pasta, no seats, F & me cross. We find a nice doorstep & lunch, then Daire goes to loo, then into café mocha for hot-choc-esp, Capucchino & hot-choc. Visit Boots - shave gel, lice shampoo, condoms, hairties. See Marina exiting Boots. Brisk walk back to car. Daire sleeps, I get key cut & bike pump in Stillorgan. At home Daire heads to bed & it later up late watching film.
Collect Daire from creche. Thunder & lightening Pauline visits. Cook potatoes & pork chops in with veggies (& two courgettes from garden). Mushroom soup/sauce. Chilli and red currants decorating. QUite nice. Daire has pasta. Much guitar playing & tin-whistle/recorder. Bring pauline home, play through irish tunes, sex, bed.
drive Milltown, stop+look at TVs. Thsn 15:00 MM-Inagh-Corrofin-Gort-Loughrea-Athlone--Dublin I ram wheel into break in road surface at side of road while keeping in for potential overtaker. It deflates fast. We change it quickly, D sleeps. Slowish 40ish mph traffic for a good bit. Have difficulty getting by one Polo driving in middle of road. Now home, courgette harvested & bakep on top of pizza. Unpack & wash on. F thinks her arm has been so sore as it has been developing muscle.
F tired, we head back to hse, GPs arrive & sandwiches. D goes down for sleep bua bounces around. we mow lawn & pull weeds. I packed power saw instead of drill. Doh! Except F is really pissed about it - I don't like this. Anyway - mirrors not hung, doorstops are also a hames.
Drizzly weather but still warm (I think). Daire to bed, TV, then F & I head out to Milltown Malbay. F brings me up & down to check out the potential pubs. We go in the one we parked right in front of. Guinness for me and G&T for F. Families in bar for a while. The two sitting next to us turn into trad players. An older flautist and a Californian fiddler. Another guinness, foreign girl (Spanish prbly) likes the music, barman buys cd & gets autograph. F is not persuaded to walk home. (just as well - in the dark)
We grab icecreams & coke for me. I help Daire keep his tidy. Then look at shop and up into Potato bar, buy local map, soup for D, chilli+potato+salad for me, cheese+chutney+p+s for F. Coffes+biq deserts. Apple tart, icecrm+jelly, biq brown heavy. Buy cheese in farm shop, D runs around, likes stones, Piqeons on roof. Walk back to car, pile in, drive & see the dolmen. Ha! Ths new map had it.
On to Lahinch, debate what to do, I get stuck with washer jammed in wsurfer gear. Hammer, tear hand, squeeze, check car(locked- don't know where others have gone) Finally break washer, gear together (new enemy- sand), out. I get qoing v little, schlumplerfled by the waves, come in then, leave sail & head surfin. Good few surfers out, catch some waves, board handles interestingly- v buoyant, scoots & fast in water, look for F a few times.
F & D have had a great time in swimpool. Pile gear in, board on top, back getting sore, dress. Drive back home, I unpack, F cooks, D tired- helps cook, rinse gear, wee on loo, ready for bed. Dinner then lots of tea. Diary, F asleep, back sore, shower bed.
Motorola ppl in work ... don't see James much except for 9:30 meeting. James in meetings with Motorola in work, much tidying & doing stuff which hadn't chance to do earlier in week. Kamila looking at gigantic use of shared memory.
Head home & collect Daire. We tidy up inside, collect wetsuit etc, then use up stuff in fridge: bacon+mushroom+beef+mangeTous+garlicButter+cream(sour) +tuna & pasta from night before. Fionnuala comes home & starts packing with Daire before dinner. Then pack wsurfer, tools, Daire plays in car. Eventually we're ready & head. Roads ok, miss N7 turn off M50. Nenagh bypass open. Arrive 23:x Daire qoes into bed & then in cot. We have tea & sandwiches & chat.
Out on water there's plenty wind for me, see Ken a few times. I start with accidentially clipping into harness and actually manage to use it quite well within a short time .... sitting down when wind is strtong enough, knees bent to pull my weight in over board when wind drops a bit. up-down-up-down-up-down-up-down-up-down-up-down-up-down-up-down-up-down Randall gives me some advice on water/dryish starts: push arms high up ... objective to get sail as high as possible ... then foot up on board right under self. I manage it a bit later with a bit more wind. Stay out a good long bit, talk to Ken, then I head in after the guy from Iona heads in too.
It's quite dusky .... derig & pile stuff in car, board on top. Phone Fionnuala, wetsuit off, it's quite dark at this stage .... most wsurfers gone, two other cars arrive & go though. Drive home through town, stopping in Aprile's in Stillorgan for cod+chips+Coke. Martin & Fionnuala are discussing ?(work&diy&...) at home. Bring in wsurf gear .... it lashes rain & soaks things ... handy for cleaning the gear. I leave stuff out a bit, then bring in everything but board & wetsuit on line.
Movie on TV Jerry Maguire
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Also looking Motorola up http://www.motorola.com/General/index.html http://www.motorola.com/General/units.html http://www.motorola.com/NSS/ http://horizon.motorola.com/ (GSM) http://global.motorola.com/location/loc_display.asp?loc_country=ireland http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/1578/gsm.htm#GSM http://www.gsmworld.com/technology/mobile_internet.html http://www.gsmworld.com/technology/index.html http://www.gsmworld.com/technology/links_mobile.html http://www.motorola.com/NSS/Products/GSM/introgsm.htm http://www.motorola.com/NSS/Technology/ http://www.motorola.com/NSS/Special/cellsteps.html http://www.gsmdata.com/ http://www.gsmdata.com/overview.htm http://www.item.ntnu.no/~palat/GSM/node28.html http://www.item.ntnu.no/~palat/GSM/node2.html http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/gsm/js-intro.html http://www.nationalgeographic.com/maps/index.html http://info.er.usgs.gov/education/teacher/what-do-maps-show/index.html weather, winds, wsurf technique
Hullo, Finished up Lucent project (working practically by me ould self for maybe a year now ... now onto a Motorola OMC project ... with some interesting history! eep. New PC ... one partition, BUckets of stuff on it .... I think it's time to format. URGH ... tried out M$ Outlook to read & send mail :( Faster than Netscrape, more stable IMAP interface .... But it's hung on me already loosing message (like Netscrape) It doesn't thread messages!!!!! Huh? A few ... vital ... things missing Can't bloody filter on To: field in views & can't filter to IMAP folders. mutter mutter.
Hi, James Coleman here. I'm starting on new project (Motorola IOP). My old PC, cook is being kept for the meantime for the Lucent project. There are going to be Lucent people here using a local account on that PC, installing Lucent's OMC build environment in Wroclaw. Perhaps talk to Orla Johnson if you want to know more about that. .... anyway, I've been given PC Nomos (193.120.88.174) and it needs some setup/reinstallation. Checkdsk reports quite a number of bad sectors on the hard disk ... and it looked like these were new, various installed components were unusable (eXceed, clearcase, ...). The Motorola IOP guys have an automatic winNT installation from the network ... but this hasn't worked for me. They've also got winNT CDs etc.... There is basically a problem when setting up the network identity of the computer. It is not possible to add the PC to domain S3. The error reports "unable to connect to the domain controller, have admin check the computer account" What is the Domain controller for S3? (88 subnetwork ... does this make a difference) Nomos's IP: 193.120.88.174 Gateway: 193.120.88.230 subnet: 255.255.255.0 DNS: 193.120.91.129 WINS: 193.120.88.55 Does that data look okay? Nomos (and I) are on the top floor between Kamilla and James Curran's desks.http://www.arcetri.astro.it/CC/PerlMan/pod/perl.html http://www.arcetri.astro.it/CC/PerlMan/pod/perlipc/Named_Pipes.html http://www.arcetri.astro.it/CC/PerlMan/pod/perlipc/Sockets_Client_Server_Communica.html http://www.google.com/search?q=Interprocess+Communications+in+UNIX&meta=lr%3D%26hl%3Den&btnG=Google+Search http://www.phptr.com/ptrbooks/ptr_0130810819.html http://www.phptr.com/misc/0130810819.pdf IPC & Shared Memory http://www.pdc.kth.se/doc/fujitsu/manuals/C/ss/index.htm http://howto.tucows.com/LDP/LDP/lpg/node7.html http://howto.tucows.com/LDP/LDP/lpg/node8.html#SECTION00710000000000000000 http://www.doclib.org/Linux/docs/LDP/ http://www.linux.org/ http://www.linux.org/help/ldp/index.html http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/lpg/node7.html Linux IPC http://www.opengroup.org/tech/dce/ OSF Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) http://www.bu.edu/~jrd/FreeDCE/ http://www.bu.edu/~jrd/FreeDCE/dce11rpc.html http://www.netwaysglobal.com/DCE/ DCE RPC for Linux 2.0.30 http://www.dsps.net/dcemenu.html intro to DCE http://pandonia.canberra.edu.au/ClientServer/ http://pandonia.canberra.edu.au/ClientServer/old/socket.html xsockets, TCP, UDP, RPC Why turn off RPC??? Wouldn't socket iface be just as open to hacking? (possibly more? no encryption, more vanilla calls/data) http://pandonia.canberra.edu.au/ClientServer/socket/socket.html sockets, TCP, UDP, sockets in Java, perl, Javas RMI http://pandonia.canberra.edu.au/ClientServer/rpc/rpc.html http://www.whatis.com/rpc.htm http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ioss390/ios390rp/rprdesc.htm Using Remote Procedure Calls good http://hissa.nist.gov/ High Intergity Software Systems Assurance http://hissa.nist.gov/rbac/ Role based access ctrl http://hissa.nist.gov/rbac/5277/titlerpc.html NIST, comparing RPCs Also Automated test stuf, PEST http://WWW.NIST.GOV/itl/div897/sqg/pest/pest.html http://hissa.nist.gov/project/swebok.html http://www.swebok.org/ ftp://ftp.mfi.com/pub/unix-review Surviving SW testing http://expect.nist.gov/ http://www.opennc.org/tech/rfc/mirror-rfc/rfc20.0.txt http://www.performancecomputing.com/ http://www.sei.cmu.edu/ata/ata_init.html http://www.sei.cmu.edu/architecture/definitions.html http://www.eircell.ie/htm/oneir/products/coverage/index.htm http://www.esat.ie/map/index.asp
Motorola User View reading ... thinking ascii iface should be implementable. What ifaces used? FIFOs/shared mem/RPC where? Catch Alistair in morning, checks some stuff on network. Other hacking just reveals what know already, nslookup, telnet to cook looks funny (belfast). Using oldfield .... 2G used up on C:, I clean out old stuff & then compress the drive ... that actually seems to qork quite well.
Review Paolo's doc half before lunch. Then Fionnuala arrives with Daire and a picnic for us. She heads to Icon for Bill's going away dinner. We walk past S3 and down the road and we find some lovely rocks. We have ham&cheese&... rolls and yops and apples and grapes. Then Daire plays a little with his cars, climbs on the rocks ... and wanders further away too. People start kicking footballs and throwing frizbees & it's time to head back. Nappy change then we drive to Icon, head inside, meet the gang & I walk back to work.
Finish doc review & head to meeting with Paolo & Orla. Radek works with Footprints in afternoon .... network init problem DID need the admin password. Install thewn went no problem but HDD corrupt so mightn't be so good reinstalling stuff.
Just about to leave work when Ruarai calls, mtgs in Cork next week. Talk to Alek - wsurf+msg to Kamilla. Home just before 6.
I collect Daire from creche, he's there with Brid & Lauren in the back garden. Shows us the fish again.
At home we get a quick bite of soup to eat, then collect saws & head on bikes to Aedin's house. There we meet Fionnuala's Mom & Dad and have some tea and then chop down a dead tree and a branch of a live palm in front. Head back ... getting tired & hungry. Daire in great form though ... singing "NeeeNahhh NeeeNahhh NeeNahhh" on the bike. Much snacking on peanuts+figs+olives+feta to satisfy hunger. Fionnuala gets D to bed. Then tea+TV, then bed, little of GEB.
Softball match in Terenure. I arrive quite late 7:20ish. Austin is umping. We play quite well first innings, other team (Loan Homers) find their balance and really get going ... scoring lots of runs. I play later on, really is hard to hold the other team .. they're good batters.
At home we grab a bite to eat, then head to woodies, get paint, wood, nuts&bolts. Home again, we put composter together, splutch compost heap out of corner. Wash & paint wall yellow. Put composter in corner & compost back in it. Fionnuala heads for a jog in the middle & paints again using up the last of the paint afterwards.
Softball practice ... Fionnuala reluctant to leave me go ... beautiful blue skys, warm, sun. Head back to Clonskeagh with Diarmuid & Aevanne to get gear. Warmup, throw a bit, Then hitting practice (& fielding & running).
Talk with Bruce (email) & Masood, restart & install useless Framemaker on PC - won't open any of Lucent's frame 5.5 docs :(. Lots of jag4.8a/jag4.9 messing for GPRS. Still getting seeming nameserver problems. BSS sim in jag4.8a hardly gets going at all. In 4.9 it runs & does big tree audit happily .... and seems to rtestart when it runs into the same error. Hmmmmm. I attempt to edput volume file back and it KILLS me. No matter what template I use it won't go back into sablime :( I update status report getting ready for Friday.
Waider's in Norway, coming back to Ireland tonight? I tout the dark spiritual nature of electronics on the dspsrv.
Head with Martin dinnertime to collect roof bars for car. Kind of excited late afternoon, can't wait to get going. Arrange for Pauline to come & bring Ciara. Talk with Alex about buying board. Fionnuala comes 5pmish and I grab gear from Martin's car & head.
In N11, right after Merrion down to Blackrock-Dub road, cross DART line towards Ringsend. Straight on then right & then turn in right after bridge. I see Randall first over by prefab and talk with him a small bit, ... then head over to the shop. Talk with person minding shop a bit, then Brian comes back from water and we start collecting stuff together, talking about prices, etc... Ben & Ken call over to see how it's going & Pauline & Ciara come to say hello too. We rig up sail ... all colecting etc takes about an hour.
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I dump stuff in car, get gear, haul wetsuit on & head out. Very little wind but I head across & back a good bit. Meet loads of people on the water. Eventually Ben has a go & I swap for a canoe. Get involved in capsising Philip & Noleen & then emptying the water from the canadian canoe before go back and onto windsurf for the last bit. Eventually in, showered, much talk, two burgers, more talk around board, .... eventually carry over & tie it onto car. Bring Pauline & Ciara back home before heading myself.
Lovely baking smell at home, Fionnuala's baked carrot cake. Fionnuala admires the new gear when I extract it andadd it to the hall. Nice stuff. I'm gasping & drink juice & milk and have some tea before bed. Mmmmm ... more nice sex, with condoms again like last night. ... waiting till after eye operations before babying.
Lots of link mails & some IS updates & MR noting.
I collect Daire & we go to shop & get some shopping. Then we head home. Daire has some yoghurts, we cook pasta too and he has very little ... but I have more. Then we do some tidying/washed, water/wash the flowers. We turn on the TV and see some of Portugal vs France. Quite good football really. Daire has loads of "tea" - ovaltine & drinking chocolate ... and I'm telling him to hold it properly all night & eventually he spills a full cup onto himself & couch. We clean up & dress him for bed.
Bed for Daire, more football for me & removal of socks from washing machine & washing/hanging out washing. Don't quite get around to tidying some things into attic. Reading GEB too ... did I say I finished the latest Dan Simmon's "The Rise of Endymion".
Fionnuala comes back - she's been in town, first in the Doodle place making the present for Ronan & Ritva. She brings back Daire's bowl which is actually quite nice (inside). (Daire says "wash it!" though. She then took Pauline & Ciara to a couple of pubs. Martin back from doodling too.
Running 4.9 OMC all morning realising nmcIntf has been badly affected by MIB changes.
Afternoon, link mails & miscellaneous stuff IS updates & mails, diary & nmc 4.9 messy config .... trying out different BSS simulators. Looks like currently in 4.9 no alarms forwarded? M-GET of logRecords => only ACC alarms are retrieved. Changes in database or data for other alarms/logRecords? Can see objCre/Del/stateChg records not being retrieved.
Softball BBQ in our house. Home, prep stuff with Pauline & Fionnuala. Daire helps too! We're pretty rwady by 20:00 and light BBQ a bit after. Chris arrives & then Ken on bike .... then Dutch guys and after we've all drunk & eaten Darach comes with Diarmuid and Martina & they have burgers on the last heat of the BBQ.
In work link is fully broken. Mail about this to&from many. Tired of work since hassle recently but I get some fun fixing paths in Cygwin for palm dev tools, asdk1a1, sdk, m68kpalmosgcc. Dinner yum, sort some payslips, slowish taxi all way down Torquay Rd emerging in Cabinteely (right & quik left) Mtg longer than Bernard expected I'd say. His wife is expecting Fri. Loads of comments from Marina who does minutes. Updates tbd asap.
Softball match in Marlay park. Quite wet, collect Sarah at yellow house as we're short a girl. I head to Nutgrove, shops closed, Stillorgan closed. Back home, Pauline's there. Fionnuala's headed to Leopardstown Heights Residence comittee with Assumpta. Do shopping all in a rush in Cornelscourt. Get loads of burgers, sausages, ....
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Daire gets me up at 9 and brings his Elmo flap book in to read. Go through letters & shapes & etc.... fun! I get up & dressed & he heads down to get his baloon & toys. Play with soft WinneThePooh jigsaw then breakfast. We eat, then I get bike from shed, water plants, get Daire's clothes on & head to creche & on to work.
A few mails to people to try & get my mib working & about softball BBQ. Review status & schedule with Orla.
Dinner with Ben & Joel & Mags & Fergus - nice baguette, almost too much - then walk. Joel's holiday photos are good - especially ther one AFTER the pounding against rocks with waves.
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Now it's just roasting. whew. I'm starting to sweat! phoo! Yeaow, 4 mins late with Status report. tel.cgi updated a bit to point to phone info & hall of Fame & funny inconsistencies "$firstname\_$surname.jpg"
Good softball practice. I get a big whack in the leg by the ball. ow. Nice round bruise. Cycling I am I think.
Fionnuala back, get ready for Conor's birthday. Present wrapped, card made, Daire dressed. I head in, we first mull around, then blow bubbles inside & outside with kids chasing them. Daire stays in car outside. then pasta & sausages & sauce for little people - Conor & Daire & Nicola & Orla. David comes later with Christopher. Fionnuala arrives after shower. Baby Emma is crawling round & sitting in Conor's car. They all get popcorn & crispy buns & smarties & are soon off playing again.
After a bit of a tidy we go kiting - I eventually get lots of kites up, Chris has his diamond, We've our diamond, but wriggly drogue is too heavy for it, Stunter really zooming in the wind once it manages to get up, Too gusty & windy for triplane, Stan's kite is loose & funny & won't fly. Other kids out too. Chris & myself stay out flying a bit after the others head in. fionnuala gets Daire & I