Happy Birthday Kate! Thirteen today! You have grown up.
Lots of Love,
Mike, Jan, and Jamie
XOXOX
Merry Christmas
MERRY CHRISTMAS to all my readers! 🙂
HAPPY HOLIDAYS to one and all!
It’s All Gone Quiet
Jamie has been very excited all day, too excited to even sit still. She is in bed now and it’s all gone quiet, so with any luck she will have gone to sleep. I can’t wait to see her face in the morning. (Hopefully not too early 🙂
Christmas Eve
Woohoo! It’s Christmas eve! All the shopping is done: and if not, it’s too late! All the presents are wrapped and under the tree. Jamie is very, very giddy with excitement. It’s dark outside. No chance of snow, but you can’t have everything. There’s not long to go now!
A Quiet Day and Some Exciting News
I’ve had a fairly quiet day today. We’ve been looking after Megan today and she’s sleeping over. That has kept Jamie fairly occupied all day. I’ve got some reading done. Jan went shopping and I think we’ve got all the pressies now.
On the computing front, the exciting news is that I have been working on my B2 Link Manager add-on. I’ve made excellent progress and already implemented a couple of new features. I think the next version will be version 1.0. It should be ready shortly.
NTL Transparent Proxy Servers
NTL Transparent Proxy Servers are a pain in the pipe!
Their load balancer went down over an hour ago, and it’s still not back! I can use any of the individual proxies, but they are very intermittent. If I get a page, then I don’t get the images, or I don’t get the CSS file. It’s really annoying!
Update: For those looking for a proxy. I have set up an experimental proxy here
Wrapping Finished
Phew! Just finished wrapping (nearly) all the presents. They look very nice under the tree. WE’ll have to see if they can survive unmolested for the next two days! 🙂
Saturday
An odd day today. Jan, Kim, Jackie, and Paula went off to Manchester to do some Christmas shopping. Me and Steve stayed at home to look after the girls; Jamie, Bekki, and Megan. Graham was here, but he went Christmas shopping as well.
Eventually I had to go shopping too. I went in to Stockport centre which was pretty packed as expected. I managed to get almost everything I wanted within the first half hour. But then the last thing took me almost another two hours! Typical. Anyway, everyone was back by the time I got home.
We didn’t do much after that, just chatting and stuff. Graham and Jackie went home with Bekki, and eventually Steve and Kim went with Megan. Jamie went to bed at nine, and I decided to slob out in front of the TV for a change. After much flicking through the channels, I eventually settled on watching Die Hard with Bruce Willis for what must be about the tenth time.
Now I’m off to bed to continue reading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
