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monkey see Sammy do...

Wednesday, 21. December 2005, 12:15:07

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Sam is each new day becoming more interested in copying what other people do... which leads me to the terrible thought that from now on I and other members of our immediate family should take care to be on own best behaviour, lest we find in Samuel a reflection of our faults.

But for now here he is trying to copy his grandpa's awful dancing and singing!

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over worked?

Friday, 16. December 2005, 19:17:50

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you decide...


this is how I look on a friday at a quarter past 7 PM when I should have left the office 75 minutes ago!

oh well...

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planning and re-planning and talking about planning...

Thursday, 15. December 2005, 17:41:43

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When you propose to get something done you want your work to go as smoothly as possible, you rightfully want to be as efficient as you can. And for this you rely on careful and considered project planning!

That being said, there is still something to beware of: over-planning!

It happens when you spend more time discussing your project plans than working on your project! Whatever it was you were supposed to get done has become far less important than the way you will do it!

Risk assessment, resource planning, scheduling tasks - all these are very much needed to assure success, but sometimes you may find that when you stick to your plans too much they start standing in your way. And sometimes this doesn't happen because you planned badly!

It seems improbable, but there are times even the most carefully planned projects go awry simply because someone could not look beyond the plan!

So stray from your plans a bit from time to time - do something unexpected - and you'll be working closer to reality: because, let's face it, in real life unexpected stuff will happen pretty much all the time!

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old Portuguese proverb

Thursday, 15. December 2005, 15:55:33

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There is an old saying in Portugal that states more or less the following: "you are a child but one day you will be a parent". The moral thereof being that as annoying or just plain despotic your parents may seem to you, you will one day find out there was a good reason for the way they were... and the way you find that out is by becoming a parent yourself.

Even the littlest of babies know exactly which one of your buttons to press to get you to do things the way they want you to. And they test you - constantly - to see what it takes to break your will!

Last night (at a quarter to three) I was submitted to one such test. It was a "Take me in your arms I sleep like an angel, put me in my bed I cry at the top of my lungs" kind of thing. So I became the despot, layed Sam in bed and stood by him with stern a face for a few minutes while he cried and coughed and kicked around like crazy. He would have it my way and sleep in his bed, I remember thinking slightly terrified of my own thoughts, or else!

As luck would have it my son quickly understood that crying was not going to help and remembered that what he really wanted was to get some sleep, and that he could just as easily do it in his bed! But I went to my own bed riddled with the possibility of the test lasting longer - just how far was I willing to go to let him know I meant business? Could I have left him crying and kicking in his bed for the rest of the night?

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xmas card

Wednesday, 14. December 2005, 14:55:10

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Done! Gee just look at my big baby boy, I'm just lucky the Christmas tree is still standing after this photo shoot! (more photos on the album
Now I just have to send them!

Also done some Xmas shopping too.
Got gifts for my mother-in-law and my mother (so now we just have to figure out what to get the grandpas)!

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stuff to do... hopefully before the holidays

Wednesday, 7. December 2005, 19:13:36

  • Tidy up at home!
  • Install Linux on my laptop - I miss my penguin!
  • Get back to work on my Perl scripts.
  • Take Sammy's picture next to the tree and send it as our Xmas card.
  • Make sure I send the cards at least one week before Christmas.
  • Make and keep that doctor's apointment (the one I should have gone to in September!)

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xmas madness...

Wednesday, 7. December 2005, 15:23:15

"What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more..."

For most of us these days, the heart warming meaning of Christmas entails an encreased lightness sensation around the bank account area.

Are kindness and generousity to be measured by the size of the money roll in your pocket?
Of course, if you have the means why should you not buy lovely expensive gifts for your loved ones? But then we seem to have forgotten how to demonstrate our love without reaching in our wallets!

So, the warm fuzzy feeling of knowing someone cares for you is significantly undermined. On your part because you either receive an expensive trinket that means nothing to you or get a cheap gift that you had no real need of. On the giver's part, because they just bought something expensive expecting its price will let you know they care, or bought something cheap because after all its Xmas and they really had to give you something.

For my part I have no solution to this connundrum, my gifts are chosen with my heart but are still payed for with my wallet. But I try not to loose sight that Xmas is a lovely excuse to spend time (and yes money) being with (and shopping for) the ones you love.

There are some gifts very much worth giving that could never be wrapped and squezeed through a chimney!

And so, on that note: here's a smile,a hug and a kiss. Here's a kind word, a compliment, a cozy cup of tea by a fireplace with some cake and jokes on the side! Wrap those around your heart while you storm the shops and maybe somewhere deep in warm fuzzy places you can still remember the true meaning of Christmas!


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"So are you to my thoughts as food to life..."

Tuesday, 6. December 2005, 19:23:28

Having started a Portuguese blog I thought, to speak the truth I was more sort of reminded that it was about time I had an English blog-o-thingy too!

However, and since I have neither the time nor the inclination: this is not meant to be an exact translation of the other thinga-ma-blog (http://spaces.msn.com/members/babypooka)!

So, as an opening post I'll just paste here the words of the bard, so you'll know (if you hadn't already guessed it) where the quote on the page top came from.


So are you to my thoughts as food to life,
Or as sweet-season'd showers are to the ground;
And for the peace of you I hold such strife
As 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found;
Now proud as an enjoyer and anon
Doubting the filching age will steal his treasure,
Now counting best to be with you alone,
Then better'd that the world may see my pleasure;
Sometime all full with feasting on your sight
And by and by clean starved for a look;
Possessing or pursuing no delight,
Save what is had or must from you be took.
Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day,
Or gluttoning on all, or all away.


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