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Weekend update

Posted on May 12, 2008 By admin

Tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiired.

We went to Leics this weekend to see Katy’s parents. Donna and Will came up on Saturday to collect the fish from Mel’s pond (he wanted to get rid of it and they bagged all the fish, plants and rocks for their own pond). Katy had a nice chat with Rita and we all enjoyed Pam’s curries on Saturday night (though we suffered the following days – gotta love those chillies).

We came back to Cambs Sunday evening after depriving Mel of even more fish – the aquarium ones this time. We got half a dozen plants and about a dozen fish for ours, which finally make it seem nice and populated now. Best news is that none of them were floating upside-down this morning. See how the next few days go.

The weather is really starting to heat up hereabouts. They’re forecasting 24 today. I already miss winter.

Plans are going forward for our trip to Canada at the end of the month. We have the hotels booked for Montreal and Quebec. We only need to book the Hilton and arrange transportation across all the cities. This should get done this week.

We need to get the tires looked at on the car. It would seem that the alignment or the tracking is off because the wear pattern is off and they seem to be balding on one side more than the other. This is going to prove fun to do because of English law – if the tires are deemed unsafe, we can’t drive it off the lot but at the same time this is our only car and Katy needs it to drive to work. Fun.

Did I mention that we’re both tired?

We are.

I can only hope that the coming weeks don’t kill us for the vacation and that the time we spend in Canada is fun and uneventful.

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Feeling adrift at the minute, and not liking it.

Posted on April 18, 2008 By admin

There seems to be a whole lot happening around me these days, and I'm feeling more and more like I'm reacting to it (badly) instead of actively participating in it. I feel like a bystandard in my own life. Recently, I can't seem to shake the feeling I have that I'm drifting along, but I don't know what to do about it. All I want to do is stay home and read.

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I hate it when this happens

Posted on March 27, 2008 By admin

Spending an hour listening to two german interns talking about their student project in heavily accented english while sitting in direct sunlight in a generally warm room is not a good thing when you've hardly slept the night before. I kept nodding off and doing the whole head-bobbing thing. Uncool.

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February has been a shit month

Posted on February 29, 2008 By admin

The month is over and I'm glad it is. Looking back on it, February has been a shockingly bad month. Craptaculous, even. Katy was sick. Tokyo was cancelled. We both had a case of the grumps. The fridge decided to pack it in and blew up† and now the laptop is showing signs of imminent total graphics controller failure.

I can only say:

†We had a power cut last Wednesday that was supposed to last 2 hours but ended up lasting about 15. When the power came back on, it did something that the fridge didn't like. It started making a really loud clicking noise and was pronounced dead the following evening when we realized that everything in the freezer had defrosted. It's not too bad – we managed to salvage most of the meat by making huuuuuuuuuge meals and keeping stuff in the office fridge. We only lost about £70 worth of food (an average weekly shop). The really annoying thing though is that even though it's all under warranty, they can't send an engineer over until next Tuesday. So yeah. No fridge. Fun…..

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Not with the program today

Posted on February 25, 2008 By admin

I am not awake, nor do I want to be right now.

I keep thinking to myself “don't forget to do this, don't forget to do that” and in the next thought, completely forgetting what I was telling myself not to forget.

My portable HD hasn't arrived yet. Nor have all the other items we've bought and had delivered to the office.

The japanese travel agent that was handling my flight to tokyo is being a PITA and I can't be bothered to deal with them anymore.

All in all, I'm in a rather bad mood today.

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Ho hum

Posted on February 20, 2008 By admin

I've realized that I'm feeling very blah at the moment. Part of it is probably due to the February blues, but I think there's a bit more. I've been having a lot of very weird and sometimes distrubing dreams lately (though I blame Pam's curry for a batch of those) and I find that I'm not as productive as work as I'd like (now having said that, I can still slam out some bitchin' code when I feel like it – I just don't seem to feel like it as often as I did these days).

I dunno. Sometimes it feels like I'm so anxious about getting the 5-year plan mapped out that I'm missing the day-to-day fun stuff. Thoughts about having kids, buying a house, staying in the UK or going back to Canada post-EBI, yada yada are sometimes a bit heavy going.

I sometimes wish I could somehow throw my hands in the air, say sod it all and take a reality break for a few weeks. I dunno, just hop on a plane with Katy for a long trip just the two of us, and no other worries.

But then reality kicks back in and tells me that I need to get this new code into production before the end of the week.

Yay.

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Been a rough couple of days…

Posted on February 11, 2008 By admin

The last week has been a bit rough. I cancelled my trip to Japan hours before I was scheduled to leave. Katy was feeling very unwell and, though it had the potential to be something very serious, tests have now shown it was just side effects of coming off the pill. I don't regret the decision I made and would have done the same thing again, but I am still a bit bummed about not going. Katy's still feeling less than stellar. The hormone changes, coupled with stress about not really knowing what's happening, are playing havoc with her mood and her stomach. I'm not all that far behind, to be honest. It's a good thing that we've taken thursday and friday off. A 3-day week and a 4-day weekend are sorely called for.

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A sign of things to come

Posted on December 13, 2007 By admin

I have just been cold-called for a mortgage offer.

In October 2005, before deciding to move to Hinxton, Katy and I called a few places to see what our chances of getting a mortgage were. This was in the era where people were giving money away hand over fist. We were told at the time that our prospects were not suitable (mostly because of my work visa shit). At the time, I had over 2 years left on my visa, but that was still not enough to satisfy the bankers.

Today, there are less than 6 months on my visa (now granted, it's going to be renewed without contest as soon as I get my passport renewed, but they don't know that) but apparently, my “circumstances” have changed enough that the mortgage company that called me at the office is really interested in offering me a free, no-risk mortgage consultation. They were reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllly interested. As in, almost begging.

The fact that the housing market is close to a meltdown has nothing to do with this.

Of course not.

You cynical people.

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The weekend can't come soon enough

Posted on December 7, 2007 By admin

I don't know why, but I'm so tired today I can't think straight. It's been a loooong week and, at times, not a very good one. I think that I've caught whatever bug took Katy down last week. Hopefully, it won't be as bad. I feel like I haven't had a good night's sleep in too long and it's making me a bit braindead. I've been staring at my screen trying to fire up enough neurons to start some debugging, but it's not working. I just want to go home and go to bed. Sadly, the universe doesn't work that way.

Fooey.

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Not a morning person

Posted on December 4, 2007 By admin 2 Comments on Not a morning person

I'll be the first to admit that I am not a morning person.

Seriously, I'm not.

My normal morning routine is to snuggle next to Katy until the snooze button has been smacked a few times, then go downstairs to make tea and get breakfast ready. I'll watch the news, wave Katy off to work and then sometimes make myself another cup of tea while I check my email. I'll get dressed and mosey on off to work.

This, I find, is a gentle way to get ready for work.

Giving a shit-covered cat a shower at 7:30 in the morning is not, I repeat, not a preferred way to start the day. It happens to rank quite highly in my most-unpleasant-things-to-do-before-tea list of badness…

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In the second scroll of Wen the Eternally Surprised a story is written concerning one day when the apprentice Clodpool, in a rebellious mood, approached Wen and spake thusly: "Master, what is the difference between a humanistic, monastic system of belief in which wisdom is sought by means of an apparently nonsensical system of questions and answers, and a lot of mystic gibberish made up on the spur of the moment?" Wen considered this for some time, and at last said: "A fish!" And Clodpool went away, satisfied.
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