Cheese and Beans

This week the video for “Telephone” by Lady Gaga was released. There are not enough adjectives. It’s inventive, loud, original, and perhaps most importantly, it’s different. The famous quote from the annuls of Apple comments on the crazy ones; that they change things. Love her, or hate her, Lady Gaga is changing pop music as we know it – dragging us with her as she turns the machinery.

Over the past few weeks we have been keeping a brave face on a rather sad story at home. Simpson, our many adventured cat, has run out of lives. What we thought was a cold didn’t get better – and taking him to the vet turned into a week’s stay in hospital.

It’s all change again for my personal blog – gone with the minimalist theme, and in with the loud, in your face theme. I would like to say this was all planned, but of course it wasn’t. During a fit of “what can I do next” last night, I ended up looking at the free themes over at WooThemes, and came away with this one – it’s called “Mainstream” if you are insterested in slapping it on your wordpress install.

For some unknown reason (and remember this is a professional software developer and web designer talking) the web server this installation of wordpress is sat on will no longer let me upload files.

Taken while en-route to school this morning… what a change – over the course of three weeks we have gone from all walking, to all riding bikes. The youngest still has explosions of temper as she makes unplanned trips into bushes, walls, lamp posts and other obstructions, but by and large they are all doing great.

Thankyou to the fat little man on the rusty racing bike who must have puffed and wheezed his self down the road in an effort to overtake me as dangerously as possible, and having completed said act of bravado, slowed to an asthmatic crawl. Confronted by traffic (which I stayed in line with), he first wobbled into oncoming traffic, and then onto the footpath – causing families to take avoiding action.

A higher power than myself has dictated that I must move locations in the office once more – and I find myself sat back at the desk I had early last year. I’m well on my way towards having worked in every office of the entire building over the last nine (!?) years.

While skimming the various news outlets around the internet before turning in for the night, I happened upon a news story relating the frustration of home schooling parents who cannot find faith related science books that teach the same thing that their children would have been taught in school.

This is original – a hand written blog post.

After delivering copious amounts of chocolate biscuits to the kitchen at work, I arrived at my desk to discover this…