Quick update

I've just not had a moment to sit down & post properly of late. I've been going days without hitting the power-switch on the PC. Then when I do my inbox is full of clutter I have to wade through to get to the good stuff. Anyway, a quick note to say all's well. Aeryn's not as perfect as before, but I reckon that's down to us still trying to figure out her needs and get the right routine for her. Mind you, by anyone's standards one feed per night is pretty good.

I've set up a Picassa web album alongside the Flickr one, because Picassa works better off the desktop.

Still waiting for the library to start, but got a few days on River City in the meantime. Which I'm off to now...

You Need Hands

My favorite photograph from today's visit

At Last!!!

After a long labour our beautiful daughter, Aeryn, was born by Caesarean at 11:00am this morning weighing 10lbs and 2oz

Mother and baby are well and happy, despite Abby's needing an hour of surgery after the birth.

More pics will be on Flickr soon, but here's one to be going on with.

Incomiiing!

Abby was admitted to the Southern General today at 4pm to be induced.

When I left the hospital at 8 she felt like she was beginning to get period-like pains, so all seems to be progressing according to plan.

Leaving her in the place on her own,scared & beginning to be sore, was not fun and is not really a good way to be handling these things IMHO, but them's the rules.

By the time I next post we should be parents.

Make a fireball shooter - Boing Boing

Make a fireball shooter - Boing Boing


This looks like fun. Has to be a practical application for stage I can find for this.

How to hack RFID-enabled credit cards for $8 - Boing Boing TV

How to hack RFID-enabled credit cards for $8 - Boing Boing TV

And they said Chip & Pin were more secure.

We didn't believe them, but they said it.

Still waiting

No sign of the baby yet.

Fortunately the senior midwfe came into our 'consultant' appointment today & stopped the Student from giving Abby a Membrane Sweep. Essentially, they swirl a finger around the neck of the womb in the hope that it mixes up some hormones and stimulates labour. Except that you're only supposed to do it if the baby's head's engaged. Doing it now could have encouraged a breach birth.



Also, there's no sign of a start-date for the library, either. I'm getting rather pissed off now, especially having been summoned to fill in forms for an 'accelerated start'. Seems they can't do anything until they receive a copy of my new Disclosure form. I've had mine for a fortnight, so I don't know what's happened to theirs!

UK Law

Two lovely examples of why UK law manages to bugger up everyday life for the ordinary folk.

A couple of days ago we heard the quite scary story of how a North Sea oil platform was being evacuated due to a security scare. If Al Qaida could manage to organise an attack on such a facility I'd be much more worried about them than I am now. Then it turns out it was all a panic caused by a 23 year-old woman who worked on the thing having said she'd had a dream about there being a bomb on board. From what I've read this lead to a series of Chinese Whispers which created a panic. Almost funny until you then hear that the woman has been arrested, is being charged with breach of the peace and has been sent to a secure mental unit for 'evaluation'.

All because she had a bad dream and the folk who overheard her discuss it paniced and are now embarrassed by their over-reaction and waste of, reputedly, £1,000,000 in costs for the evacuation.

Case two sees a man who was attacked whilst sitting in his car by thug wielding a knife and a baton get three years for driving over him. Anyone stupid enough to attack someone who is sitting in a car takes the risk of getting run over whilst said person tries to escape. As long as he didn't back up for another go there should be no case to answer here.

I despair.

Review: Jumper

Hayden Christiansen playing a teenager with superpowers, now where have I seen that before?

Well, anyway, the point of this is to tell you if it's any good or not. Put succinctly, it is. True, it's not great, but it is fun, has well-executed effects, good action sequences, pretty protagonists and a good villain in Samuel L. Jackson. It's kind of like an Essex Girl, this movie. ie Easy to get into, pretty forgettable and none the worse or less entertaining for it.

Hayden does little different here than he does in his two Star Wars films, but it works well enough and the supporting cast do an admirable job. Annasophia (didn't that used to be two names not so long ago?) Robb outshines them all in a cameo as the younger version of the love interest, as she is beginning to do in all her appearances. Definitely a major talent developing there.

None of the characters die and there's a minor plot-twist/revelation that looks like it might make a meatier sequel and I hope it gets one. For some reason they felt the need to give Diane Lane pretty obvious blue-tinted contacts over her brown eyes. I guess they thought she needed to have the same eye colour as her son. Shame it didn't cross their mind to do the same for AnnaSophia, as her eyes are blue and Rachel Bilson's are very dark brown. Guess that didn't matter so much to the film makers...

Darkside Ravings - New Job 2

Darkside Ravings - New Job 2

Link to LJ page.