tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85694722007-11-27T19:22:27.150+10:00Spy Journal PersonalJethroBlogger450125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569472.post-54286316888297959412007-09-25T13:00:00.001+10:002007-09-25T13:00:43.059+10:00New WebsiteIts finally here. <a href="http://www.spyjournal.biz">SpyJournal v3.0</a> was launched this week.<br />These pages will remain for archival purposes. However please change your link for this site directly to <a href="http://www.spyjournal.biz">www.spyjournal.biz</a>. If you are reading via RSS please change your RSS Feed to <a href="http://www.spyjournal.biz/rss.xml">http://www.spyjournal.biz/rss.xml</a> for the whole site feed, or for a <a href="http://www.spyjournal.biz/syndication">custom RSS Feed</a> design your own.Jethrotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569472.post-16041222551428017952007-09-05T21:51:00.000+10:002007-09-05T21:57:24.776+10:00Day in the life - Home at last4:30 pm Went to clients - met Helen and Lena on the way. Got there early which is good so had time to do final prep. Went through all required work in time and answered all questions. Lena did well. Helen got lost after a while but it was her first look at Drupal so OK.<br />7PM Took the girls out for dinner then a train ride home.<br />8:45 Said hullo and goodnight to the older 2 girls, chatted with Jude for a bit and got back to my PC - it was missing me.<br />9:30 Now back in front of my PC answering email and some other jobs. Lena is working on websites - will be here for a couple of hours yet. I will get through the 20 odd emails I have to deal with tonight, work quotes, requests for information, an instructional email, deal with any issues Lena has, try and advance some of my backburner projects if I can and try not to cough too much. Should hit the sack around midnight with any luck. Will be a solid 20 hour day today. Will try and get 6 hours sleep before starting tomorrow.Jethrotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569472.post-81821763372815676122007-09-05T15:14:00.000+10:002007-09-05T15:17:10.730+10:00Day in the life – Late AfternoonHad water, more discussions and reformatting documents. Merging 2 documents together. One was a bugs found and irrelevant features report along with best practice recommendations for further system enhancements.<br />More coffee - another latte is being sucked down.<br />In 45 minutes I will be out the door here and heading to my next client where I will meet up with 2 of my staff. We are running a training session, and I am teaching them how to do that.Jethrotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569472.post-38574957464282175852007-09-05T14:02:00.001+10:002007-09-05T14:07:02.168+10:00Day in the life – MidafternoonHave edited numerous documents, had several discussions with various people about content of documents, perused code and analysed validation rules.<br />I need a break, but not going to get one. I have sent another guy out for some water for me.<br />Talked to my brother Dave online briefly 0- has to leave the USA.<br />Back to work - more discussions.Jethrotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569472.post-6565329226801600882007-09-05T12:32:00.001+10:002007-09-05T12:33:42.002+10:00Day in the life – Lunch11:45 Went for a brisk walk to a local food court and ordered a Japanese Pork Curry. Sat and ate. Yum!<br />Walked back briskly.<br />12:15 Back at work writing documentation of code for a file import process. Fun!Jethrotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569472.post-87502947884573009412007-09-05T11:14:00.000+10:002007-09-05T10:15:25.695+10:00Day in the life – work morningEnjoying coffee (a latte with 1 sugar) while I work. Today I am working on the final touches of a system documentation project. We have been reverse engineering (from source code) a Delphi Borland school data management system. We have developed a business process flow document and numerous flowcharts, an entity relationship diagram, screen shots and explanations for fields and tables, a data dictionary, analysed code and documented validation rules and processes, identified hooks and out of the system including import and export interfaces and parameters and much more.Jethrotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569472.post-63322394214967713402007-09-05T09:14:00.000+10:002007-09-05T09:15:21.666+10:00Day in the life – Sleep and wakeWent to bed at 2am<br />Woke to the alarm and snoozed from 6:30 to 6:50<br />Showered and dressed<br />7am checked email and followed up on developer who was completing work while I was asleep – all done and looking good<br />7:15 left for train station<br />7:30 catch train and listen to music while reading novel<br />8:15 get to clients and get changed into business slacks and shirt<br />8:17 straight into business process flow documentation discussions<br />8:45 its my turn for coffee so I get a 15 minute jaunt to the local café to collect coffees for myself and 2 others in this mini project<br /><br />more to come laterJethrotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569472.post-46441506828743789002007-09-02T07:23:00.000+10:002007-09-02T08:32:41.058+10:00Recent BooksI haven't put up a list of books I've read recently for ages.<br />Here goes - I may have missed some though.<br /><br /><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=spyjournal05-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=0446580376&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" align="right"></iframe>The next after the Bourne Trilogy is the Bourne Betrayal. Eric Van Lustbader wrote this one after Robert Ludlum's death and with the family approval. - He has done a great job you would think you were reading Ludlum himself.<br /><br />I give this a 4.5 out 5 and definitely recommend it for any other Ludlum fans out there.<br /><br /><br /><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=spyjournal05-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=0091794994&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" align = "left"></iframe><br />This book is a great spy thriller. Set in a futuristic but fairly realist world, the cold war is back - only this time its USA vs the rest of the world, and the argument iis over who controls near space. GPS satellites are the only way anything happens, airplanes land using them. ships navigate with them, the world will grind to a halt without them. Enter a family man spy, his brilliant scientist wife and their precocious daughter and you have a recipe for a gripping thriller. I couldn't put this one down.<br /><br />4 stars out of 5.<br /><br /><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=spyjournal05-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=0812579895&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" align = "right"></iframe>Ben Bova's "The Precipice was a little disappointing. I like my science fiction to be also a head jerk, and this one was very formulaic. The results were fairly predictable (although there is a twist at the end) and the characters were very flat. Not up to Ben's usual standard.<br /><br />2.5 stars out of 5<br /><br /><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=spyjournal05-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B000M670PU&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" align ="left"></iframe>Elizabeth Boyer has written a series of novels based in a world of Alfar (Elves) that exist side by side with the normal realm of humans. None of them seem to be connected (I have read the first 4 so far) but the stories all stand on their own anyway.<br />The stories are quite fun and have some humourous moments in them. the characters are not well developed emotionally or intellectually, but there is enough depth to the story and the description of the environment to be believable (for fantasy). Quite worth it for offbeat fantasy lovers.<br />I have read "The Sword and the Satchel", "The Elves and the Otterskin", The Thrall and the Dragons Heart" and "The Wizard and the Warlord".<br /><br />3.5 stars out of 5<br /><br /><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=spyjournal05-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=0440169127&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" align="right"></iframe>This is a cheap trashy crime novel with not much of a plot and not much in the way of a story. I picked it up out of a bargain bin at the train station and almost threw it away but I wanted to read something on the train. The trashy free newspaper would have been a better choice. Don't bother buying it, or wasting your time reading it.<br /><br />0.5 stars out of 5<br /><br /><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=spyjournal05-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=0330435493&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" align="left"></iframe>John Fullerton has written "The Monkey House" in a very believable style. Makes you think he had been there. Set in Sarejevo in the heart of the Balkans crisis and seen from the viewpoint of a policeman there this is an impelling inside story of the war's effects on law and order in Sarejevo. Fullerton is a war journalist and covered this war so the reality described is obviously been experienced by him.<br />The story itself is the attempt to solve a seemingly inane murder in a city full of death and dying. The monkey house itself is an apartment block curiously untouched by rebel fire in the heart of shelling. Apparently their own live there.<br /><br />I recommend this one - 4 stars out of 5.<br /><br /><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=spyjournal05-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=0575075325&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" align ="right"></iframe>A series of very offbeat fantasy / fiction short stories with authors commentary between them. I think it would have helped if you had read her previous work (which I hadn't). Gentle has some reasonable craft as a writer, but she seems fixated on the development of a few specific themes, women in military being one of them.<br /><br />2.5 stars out of 5<br /><br /><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=spyjournal05-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=1857238818&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" align="left"></iframe><br />Elizabeth Moon is a fantastic writer. I owned one of her books "The Speed of Dark" before and bought this series of 3 books in an omnibus edition. Fantastic. They flow from one to the other in one large book!<br /><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=spyjournal05-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=1857238826&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" align="right"></iframe>The story is awesome. The plot has lots of twists and there is a huge amount of character development. There are 2 main characters, and 4-8 sub characters who are well developed, but even all the ancillary people needed to make a huge space faring book be put together are well explained and don't seem out of place. In fact the only errors I could find in the books were 2 spelling mistakes and 1 typesetting error.<br /><br /><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=spyjournal05-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=185723880X&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" align="left"></iframe>I really enjoyed these novels and Moon does a great job and providing very realistic descriptions of haute cuisine, horse riding (eventing and to foxes) as well as space warfare that you can imagine yourself being there.<br /><br />5 stars out of 5Jethrotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569472.post-10261695407460630862007-09-01T23:04:00.000+10:002007-09-01T23:13:01.369+10:00SnakeCaught a great carpet python today. We were up Mt Mee and I think the car in front hit this beauty on the road. May not have done any damage that I could see. It was slithering off as we pulled to a stop and I leapt out. Caught the beastie by the tail and lifted it up and gave the kids a good look at it. It was very nice for a while, but after it started to get a tad stroppy we put it down and it immediately got into a striking position and proceeded to make big mouth open strikes at us. Now we know a fair bit about snakes (and have 2 already) we weren't worried but were able to show the kids how to react.<br /><img src="http://www.spyjournal.biz/spy/images/01092007366-400.jpg"/><br /><br />This snake is a 1-1.2 metre carpet python. <span style="font-style:italic;">Morelia spilota mcdowelli</span><br />More pics on <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alborath/tags/snake/">Flikr</a>Jethrotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569472.post-23581388971526575312007-08-26T21:29:00.000+10:002007-08-26T21:31:56.575+10:00Playing blocksI had lots of fun today playing blocks with my 2 youngest girls. It is amazing what their imagination can conjure out of a few simple blocks. We built rockets, trains and of course towers to the sky. Mercedes at 3 has very good skills at balancing blocks, and also has some quite awesome conceptual ideas. She built a village of houses. I was awestruck. Erin played more with the results of her construction and made up stories also.<br />Blocks are lots of fun.Jethrotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569472.post-39274870769454828922007-08-23T02:03:00.000+10:002007-08-23T02:06:00.493+10:00hard at workjust completed a 2nd 21 hr day in a row<br />no end in sight of this workload just yet<br />ouch<br />good news - am insured for 1.7mil now<br />nearly finished building a website for <a href="http://www.tramanco.com.au">Tramanco</a> - go live is soon!<br />going to bed...zzzJethrotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569472.post-31899981345788602922007-08-18T23:02:00.000+10:002007-08-18T23:03:21.652+10:00Dinner and a MovieWe just had a great dinner party with some clients, - two gents and their wives and 2 kids each – kids roughly same age as ours. We were able to share a roast lamb (2 actually) and vegies – on a “groaning board” of food and followed by cherry cheesecake. The kids then watched a movie while the adults played Carcassonne and chatted.<br />I had my last game of football for the year today – don’t know what I will do next year sport wise yet.Jethrotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569472.post-30878807442940902642007-08-12T15:51:00.000+10:002007-08-12T16:20:11.215+10:00PicnicToday we went to a family picnic for a major client that I have been consulting on and off to for close to 2 years now.<br />It was a lot of fun including a bouncy castle, superslide, animal nursery, all food and drinks supplied, face painting and balloon animals.<br />Here are some pictures.<br /><img src="http://www.spyjournal.biz/spy/images/12082007353-400.jpg"/><br /><img src="http://www.spyjournal.biz/spy/images/12082007354-400.jpg"/><br /><img src="http://www.spyjournal.biz/spy/images/12082007355-400.jpg"/><br /><img src="http://www.spyjournal.biz/spy/images/12082007356-400.jpg"/><br /><img src="http://www.spyjournal.biz/spy/images/12082007357-400.jpg"/><br /><img src="http://www.spyjournal.biz/spy/images/12082007358-400.jpg"/><br /><img src="http://www.spyjournal.biz/spy/images/12082007359-400.jpg"/>Jethrotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569472.post-3097953016522283352007-07-29T14:23:00.000+10:002007-07-29T14:25:23.894+10:0024 hour STAR blogathonMy good friends Doug and Cathy are doing a 24 hour blogaathon to raise money for STAR, the riding facility for children with disabilities - <a href="http://domesticpsychology.com/blogathon/">check them out</a> - and support them if you feel so inclined.<br />They have a couple of webcams streaming from their house.Jethrotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569472.post-85916988589566608472007-07-28T09:52:00.000+10:002007-07-28T09:54:34.273+10:00BackDidn't really go away, but you are now visiting me in a new place - nice shiny new server - works much better - same website.<br />New website is coming.... so is Christmas - hopefully before then!<br /><br />Lots of new posts and content coming soon - I promise...Jethrotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569472.post-3362366881179683452007-07-15T23:57:00.000+10:002007-07-16T00:02:53.883+10:00Wow, what a crash!The commentators, Phil and Paul were just commenting on how dangerous this downhill was when 2 riders, Michael Rogers (an Aussie) & Arroyo came together & into a barrier & one went over the edge.<br />They are ok fortunately. Arrogo larded in a tree. Rogers lost some time as his bike needed replacing.Jethrotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569472.post-36530870478373265772007-07-15T23:27:00.000+10:002007-07-16T00:04:54.175+10:00Happiness is...Big projector screen-surround sound, lazy boy chair, Tour de France.<br />oh, & a tablet PC and a wireless internet connection.<br />l am lazing in my chair, sipping my drink while watching the tour. Today is a massive climb. It's the étape 8 - Le Grand-Bornand Tignes 165 km stage. I am really enjoying the four this year. since we got the Tr aerial properly tuned in we can watch SBS, our premier channel for Soccer and the tour de France.<br /><br />Having just bought a new tablet Pc, I am enjoying learning how to make it work well. I wrote this entire blog post using the handwriting technique on the screen of the laptop.<br /><br />The other thing I had fun trying today was the voice recognition feature in Vista. I was able to train my PC to listen to my voice & do as I told it to do today.<br /><br />At the moment I am watching the leaders on the first major Category I climb of the day. There is a frenetic pace being set.<br /><br />The greet they about the internet today is being able to check real time the actual time differences between the groups on the Mountain using the <a href="http://www.letour.fr/2007/TDF/LIVE/us/800/index.html">Tour de France website</a>.Jethrotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569472.post-55291094007890648622007-07-04T19:42:00.000+10:002007-07-04T19:55:45.606+10:00Brisbane Webloggers MettupBelatedly I am blogging the details of our recent Brisbane Webloggers Meetup.<br />It was good to meet some new and one old face. I had never met Duncan before in the flesh but way back we commented on each others blogs.<br /><br />Anyway - we had a great night and forged some new relationships. I missed photos of two people unfortunately but have the rest here.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.spyjournal.biz/spy/images/20062007283-400.jpg"/><br />Duncan from <a href="http://www.duncans.tv/">Duncans TV Ad Land</a><br /><img src="http://www.spyjournal.biz/spy/images/20062007287-400.jpg"/><br />Mick from <a href="http://micksworld.com/">Micks World</a> (thanks for organising it Mick)<br /><img src="http://www.spyjournal.biz/spy/images/20062007290-400.jpg"/><br />Michael from <a href="http://redblock.com.au/">Red Block</a><br /><img src="http://www.spyjournal.biz/spy/images/20062007288-400.jpg"/><br />Peter from <a href="http://blog.sitemost.com.au/">SiteMost</a><br /><img src="http://www.spyjournal.biz/spy/images/20062007291-400.jpg"/><br />And last but not least, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/01120600098856663846">Lena</a> who works for me and contributes on my <a href="http://www.spyjournal.biz/techtips/techtips.html">Tech Tips</a> and <a href="http://www.spyjournal.biz/blogtips/blogtips.html">Blog Tips</a> sites.Jethrotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569472.post-4670000993872938952007-06-14T23:22:00.000+10:002007-06-14T23:24:17.852+10:00Paris HiltonI have previously avoided talking about Paris. I guess everybody else is!<br /><br />Poor girl, actually having to do time for her crime.<br /><br />Hey that sounded sarcastic, and that was my attitude - before I read <a href="http://purplecellar.blogspot.com/2007/06/paris-hilton-and-bible.html">this article</a>.<br />Thanks you <a href="http://purplecellar.blogspot.com/">Lydia</a> for waking me up to myself - for there but for the grace of God go I.Jethrotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569472.post-45436174118837757462007-06-11T12:17:00.000+10:002007-06-11T12:18:02.884+10:00Fast drivingDoug linked to an awesome video of fast driving - a <a href="http://realityme.net/2007/06/04/driving-pikes-peak-really-fast/">really smooth Pikes Peak speed run</a>.Jethrotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569472.post-87994563801054571762007-06-11T11:29:00.000+10:002007-06-11T12:17:05.648+10:00Windows VistaI have had the absolutely glorious fun of installing Vista this weekend. Long weekend, not having to work Monday, combined with PC having unexplained startup failures etc hardened my resolve to try Vista. I'm still unsure if it was a wise move or not, but at least I am (much) better acquainted with the beast.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Short summary</span><br />If you are a light to medium user of a PC using internet, email, office applications and the odd windows game - eg solitaire, then go for it. Get someone else to install Vista for you. You will love the rich easy to use interface, the classy graphics and the ease of use.<br /><br />If you are a medium to heavy user, have specific applications you need to run, want to install scanners, printers, cameras, gaming devices etc then please read the following carefully "DO NOT INSTALL VISTA on a critically needed machine, on your only machine, if you do not have 2-3 days to waste fixing /researching problems drivers etc or do not have broadband"<br /><br />Starting with the install, heres a list of some of the problems I have had so far.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Install</span><br />I have a mirrored raid drive for a system drive and 3 500Gb other drives. Vista was good enough to pick up the Raid drive and would have installed on it if I hadn't selected the option to change things. When I wanted to back out I couldn't and had to end up exiting the install. On restarting the install the array had broken, and I had to rebuild the raid array. Vista did however find the drive an after a short (presumably quick NTFS) format (there are no options) It installed.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Connecting to the domain</span><br />Most users wont have this problem unless they are running a server with a domain for user authentication and logon. I had made the first user on Vista Admin. When I connected to the domain it created a user account for me using my user name, Tim. After I installed Office I tried connecting Outlook. However my previous use of Outlook had been in a user folder called Tim.Jethro (user_name.domain_name) Outlook refused to start. renaming the folder didn't help. After several tries at removing and re adding users I ended up reinstalling Vista and setting the first user as Tim (on the local machine domain). When I connected to the server domain it successfully created a Tim.Jethro folder in the users folder (to distinguish from the local user Tim folder). Installed Office and Outlook worked! Along the way I discovered that when installed, the Administrator account (system admin account for the local machine) is created with no password and then disabled by default. I have gone back and enabled it and then set a password. Note the only way to do this is to log in with your first user account, go to the advanced users tab and edit the Administrator account and uncheck the Account is disabled box) Then you have to log in with the Administrator account (no password) then click CTRL-ALT-DELETE and change the password.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Installing Drivers</span><br />I spent a lot of time researching and downloading drivers for my hardware and peripherals. Lots of time!<br />My canon scanner installed fine but refuses to find a TWAIN source to scan from. I have yet to resolve this one.<br />Check my Delicious tags for <a href="http://del.icio.us/jethrocon/vista">Vista</a> and <a href="http://del.icio.us/jethrocon/drivers">Drivers</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Installing Applications</span><br />Lots wouldn't work at all. Some had compatibility issues. Some were outright difficult. Installed ok, then buggy when running. Some refused to recognise the options set in my user account from the previous install on Windows XP.<br />I found this <a href="http://kb.wisc.edu/helpdesk/page.php?id=5175">Vista Application Compatibility</a> page helpful.<br />Virtual CD / DVD software refuses to work or even install in some cases. That means I have to get the original cds from bookcases, cd folders or system boxes etc, instead of from the ISO archive I have on a file server on my network. Frustrating.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Using Vista</span><br />I have two 22" widescreen monitors. I have different applications on different screens for productivity reasons. I liked XP's ability to remember where an application opened last and its size (maximised or not) I have yet to find this feature in Vista.<br />Generally using Vista is ok once you get used to the new interface of explorer. There are some nice features and the graphics are pretty sweet.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Recommendations</span><br />I am not going to be installing Vista on any other PCs in the near future. I will be waiting until I have at least 12 hours free time - a luxury for me! (Doug take note!)<br />I will always keep an XP box available with the applications I need on it available - even after I get around to converting all my users PC's over (one day).Jethrotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569472.post-90582757325955260602007-06-02T15:53:00.000+10:002007-06-11T12:19:35.903+10:00AFL FootballToday we were beaten 164 to 3.<br />Thats not good!<br /><br />However we were playing one of the top teams who are all university students and they can RUN! We did play better and better as the game went on so that was one good thing.<br /><br />We have a week off now and then we get back into it. The next 5 games look like at least 3 we can win, and the other 2 should be very close.<br /><br />Can't wait!<br /><br />My cracked rib is still sore but coping with game playing with pain killers.Jethrotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569472.post-4184684348148483142007-05-26T19:01:00.000+10:002007-05-26T19:32:32.829+10:00Judes Birthday, Footy and cracked rib, Asics Gel shoesIts Jude's Birthday tomorrow. She is sick at the moment but we are hoping she is well so she can enjoy her day tomorrow. We were going to go on a picnic with church, but as they are going to a non kid friendly place, we decided not to go. Instead Jude will go to her mum's place for afternoon tea.<br /><br />I cracked my rib at football training on Tuesday night. It was so sore yesterday that I took some Tramol last night and again today before football. I played about half a game and managed some good hard tackles and hip and shoulders without feeling any pain! Glorious.<br /><br />Tonight we are just going to kick back in front of a movie and relax.<br /><br />Yesterday our new shoes arrived from the states. We ordered from <a href="http://www.roadrunnersports.com/">RoadRunnerSports.com</a>. Jude got a pair of <a href="http://www.roadrunnersports.com/rrs/products/ASC1105/">Asics Gel Evolution II</a> and Igot a pair of <a href="http://www.roadrunnersports.com/rrs/products/ASC1264/">Asics Gel Cumulus 9</a>. we were most impressed with the service. They only took 7 days to arrive!Jethrotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569472.post-20216839081022190622007-05-23T20:27:00.001+10:002007-05-23T20:27:50.239+10:00Awesome Rockclimbing Photographs<a href="http://www.onsight.com.au/gallery/temp/index_5.htm#150">Simon Carter Photography</a>Jethrotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569472.post-56934485922085248352007-05-09T19:44:00.000+10:002007-05-09T20:01:26.090+10:00So much stuff, football, fitness and funI can't believe that I haven't posted on here since April 18.<br />I am supposed to be developing the new replacement <a href="http://www.spyjournal.biz">www.spyjournal.biz</a> website but as you can probably guess I haven't.<br /><br />I have been flat out with fun stuff. Football and personal training are keeping the fitness improvement happening. I have my first game this weekend. The last 3 weeks I have run the boundary - that gets you covering several kms in a game! I shall probably run the same in the game on Saturday where I will be playing forward pocket off the bench for the <a href="http://www.aflsq.com.au/sas/afl/sq/oneclub.asp?PID=260#teams">Strathpine Swans Div 1 reserve grade</a>.<br /><br />I have also been flat out with business, our software development team is growing with 2 new staff in recent times. We are looking for Excel work to keep one guy going and web development work is always welcome.<br /><br />The kids are a blast. I am making plenty of time to play board and card games with them. Its great to see them excited about playing games. New games of recent times include <a href="http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/822">Carcassonne</a>, <a href="http://www.hasbro.com/heroscape/">Heroscape</a> and <a href="http://www.sjgames.com/munchkin/game/">Munchkins</a>.<br /><br />Jude and I have also relaxed in front of a few movies and quite a bit of some cool tv shows. We have nearly finished watching My Name is Earl Season 2, started The Unit Season 1, Heroes Season 1 and nearly finished Stargate Atlantis Season 3. Dr Who Season 3 is about to start coming online so we can get watching that also.Jethro