Down at Gatwick (after a bad drive in the dark & wet) for hopefully the last time on the current training schedule. I think that there is going to be some more next year that I might have to get involved with.
Listened to some good iLife Zone back issues on the way down this morning, and sitting here in Costa Coffee at North Terminal I feel embarassed typing on my old Compaq Armada running Win2K, rather than a slick and sexy black MacBook!
My challenge of producing the family video for New Year is actually going OK, and I think I might actually do it on time. Got through and edited another heap of clips last night.
Tasha has excelled this weekend, in completely re-decorating our bedroom. Most of the work was done on Saturday, which left yesterday for her to go buy some dressings. My solution of glue, seems to be working for holding the curtain rail to the roof of the bay window.
Anyway must get back to some people watching, before heading over to set up my presentation equipment. I have some goals (tasks that occur regularly) which I want to start the new year with, and I need to think hard about setting realistic but challenging targets for.
Decided that the family needed some fresh air today, so we headed off to Carsington. The kids took their scooters and we treed along the side of the water. The weather was quite foggy, so there weren't that many people around - it was good to sweep the cobwebs away and feel like doing something slightly more energetic that raising the hand to the mouth!
Christmas Day over and it was brilliant. The kids didn't wake up too early after we'd been tracking Santa all day on NORAD tracks santa. We opened most of our presnts, then Mum & Dad came round. We had beef (not turkey) this year and Dad had arranged some party games. He produced some more fireworks. Aftre the second was was discharged (at about 5:45pm) a disgruntled neighbour, who stayed in the shadows at the bottom of the garden (so we don't know who it is), became very aggressive and threatening - Happy Christmas to you too!! We had to call off the fireworks, as we felt things would turn nasty. that kind of drew the evening to a conclusion really.
Some of the 400 muffins Tasha has made for the bazaar!! As well as a lot of large cakes. She hopes to sell them all in record
I was done at a training centre near Brighton this morning. Got up at 0345 to start driving. Horrible weather and a big accident (which hadn't cleared when I came back), meant it was nearly 4 hours in the car - a small hire car. At my destination I fuelled myself on a big breakfast, only to find out that the training centre also offered a very high quality free lunch as well. Two very square meals and the early start, meant I was pretty drowsy on the way home (another 4 hours in the car), so I stopped at the services, reclined the seat and played an energergiser Pzizz - the rest of the journey was fine!
