("Lately" in this case means "sometime in the past seven months".)
Yes, I'm still here. Pondering the following:
- You make time for what's important. Unfortunately this site hasn't been important enough to me lately. Bugger.
- Alex learning to walk is important. So is his ever-expanding vocabulary.
- Buying a house is a very involving experience.
- Building a swimming pool is a VERY involving, and frustrating, experience.
- Moving house sucks. Especially on a 40-degree, mega-hayfever day.
- Two things that I never want to do again are move house and build a swimming pool.
- Buying a new car is very simple and easy compared to the house and pool.
- If you want to be frustrated, hire Lazaway to build your swimming pool.
- My wife Lisa is very, very patient. Especially with pool builders who couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery.
- According to Alex, the set of whole numbers begins with "2, 8, 6, 4, 3" every time.
- According to Alex, the most interesting thing to do in the evenings is to walk (or be wheeled) through the neighbourhood looking for a giraffe. And then a cat. And then another cat.
- Ceramic giraffe statues in other people's front gardens are very interesting to certain small people.
- Sometimes you can pretend that a shoe, sitting on the floor in the back of someone's open garage, is a cat. This is getting more difficult each day however.
- Getting a product ready in time for a window of opportunity in the market can take a lot of work. On weekends even.
- Sometimes you just have to say "oh, bugger work" and spend some time updating your online journal.
- According to Jenna, sometimes you just have to have pizza.