life
Christmas shopping like a boss
Sunday, 8 December 2013 @ 11:18am
Makedo
There was a large set at SciTech in the main exhibition on our last trip and 8yo made a wearable R2-D2. It was the first time I’ve seen it in action and I’ve since acquisitioned a few sets of 3 as group presents for friends’ kids.
EcoToys
One of my automatic go-tos at least every Silly Season, if I’m organised enough I’ll occasionally poke in to organise a birthday present as well. Beautiful and quality stuff (a Green Toys tea set that I bought for 7yo a couple of years or so ago got taken outside so they could have tea party with water and then got left outside since is still looking in very good nick, could probably scrub it up and have it looking more or less new) that gets played with constantly because it looks good and doesn’t break when you look at it. Just wish I had more money.
Skype interfering with http on OSX Mavericks
Saturday, 7 December 2013 @ 8:08am
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So turns out our NSA spyware proxy may actually be Skype.
The intermittent http losses had been getting closer and closer together and it eventually got to the point where I lost it twice in a day. I was in the middle of burning Debian CDs (to reinstall the kids laptops, because apparently using the 7.1 cds I have and upgrading is not as good as downloading the 7.2 cds and using them) and quietly simmering about having to do a clean reinstall, when JJ came up with the brilliant idea to kill Skype because apparently Skype uses port 80.
Seven
Saturday, 30 November 2013 @ 1:35pm
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She recently found a birthday buddy. I’m just slow and have been busy, hence the late celebration post.
I got told once (not directly, the person doing the telling was telling it on a forum) that personalities are more or less developed by the age of 7 or something to that effect. If this is the case, then my daughter has my nasty streak which is not something I wanted her to inherit, but fortunately she is a lot nicer than I am most of the time.
OSX Mavericks http problems
Friday, 29 November 2013 @ 10:23am
It started sometime after I upgraded to Mavericks (it was 10.9.something by the time I got around to it, and I really do quite enjoy using it) and before the next update. I would be poking around on the internet and seemingly at random, everything would just stop working.
Everything that wasn’t going over http would work fine (ssh on terminal, im programs, Tor).
I initially assumed there was something wrong with dns so tried using OpenDNS instead of my isp, but that didn’t fix it.
What do you want for Christmas
Friday, 8 November 2013 @ 9:57am
6yo: Mummy what do you want for Christmas?
Me: world peace and everyone to stop shoving their beliefs down everyone else’s throats.
6yo: w…orl…d…pea…ce…world peace I think.
[I look over and realise she’s writing a list]
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The kind of big day one can generally do without
Tuesday, 22 October 2013 @ 11:43pm
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All times are estimated :P
4am: 4yo wets the bed for the second morning in a row (yesterday morning it was 5am). I bathe him and strip the sheets and make up half the bed and in the meantime he goes to his bed where JJ is. JJ comes and squeezes into the dry side of the bed with me (tight fit as it’s the equivalent of a single at this point)
Random keys
Friday, 27 September 2013 @ 7:43pm
8yo (watching me touch type): how do you tap random keys and come up with words?
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Freo heave ho...
Friday, 20 September 2013 @ 2:40pm
So once upon a time (not really so very long ago, only a handful of years), JJ’s favourite AFL team the Fremantle Dockers made it into a qualifying final (and then got knocked out). I said that if they ever made it into the finals again, I would do the anchor in my hair.
They’re currently up for a semi.
So…
I wonder if whoever it was got the idea for the Minbari horn crests while waiting for their hair to bleach
Christmas Island: long photopost and fyn's bad luck saga
Sunday, 11 August 2013 @ 11:02pm
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Back in Perth now and this post is going to be a long one.
The holiday has been great because I was home and crap because in the second week, I got a swollen gland or lymph node that pressed onto the nerve of one of my back teeth and caused a LOT of pain and made eating difficult, and the kids got sick. In the third week the kids recovered and I got sick (two days completely out of action and just general misery, persistent headache and neverending mucous production for the rest of the week and continuing as I type). I am feeling slightly bitter about it and thinking it’s brutally unfair but at least I stayed there the entire time unlike a certain Christmas where I got medevac’d.
Victory is sweet
Friday, 2 August 2013 @ 2:49pm
I’d told the 4yo to go and rest up prior to a planned outing as he’d power chucked from the dining table to the back door at lunch time and we wanted to make sure he was okay for the trip (which didn’t eventuate as he was still coughing in a manner that had us paranoid that he might do it again).
I heard screaming matches between him and the 8yo and walked in, found the 4yo lying on the bed looking sleepy and upset and the 8yo playing his DS. Told off the 8yo for antagonising the 4yo (he protested, but he has been antagoising his siblings for the past couple of days). After giving the 8yo a serve I again told the 4yo to lie there and rest up and as I was walking out he smiled and said “Ahhh nothing is sweeter than victory.”