Adventures in home working

• Stayed up late in the hope I will sleep tonight. Enjoyed "I am legend" pretty interesting and great sets, lots to talk about to Stephie #
• Just approved a comment on the blog from another AOSD sufferer, I’ve learnt more from blog contacts about it than I have from my specialits #
• Just back from spending the morning at the Sand Castle indoor water park. The perfect place for a wet Sunday #
• Just finished playing wii tennis with Anna, I won but it was very close, and then wii fitness. Debbie’s asleep so off to do the washing now. #

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• Woke up at 9:30 managed about 5 hours sleep out of 11, just finished sorting out the house and now taking the twins out for breakfast #
• Jen has joined us now and we are at the pier amusements crashing motor bikes and playing air hockey #
• On the flight last week I picked up a booklet from the free newspaper – The No Diet Diet – Interesting. I’ve just one-cilcked it on Amazon #
• Walking into Blackpool with Stephie to watch I am Legend and buy a "film feast" from Morrisons on the way #

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• Talking to Dave Snape about SoftGrid #
• This is such a cool podcast http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3452.html especially the bit about virtual reality #
• Just woken up after a 20 hour day yesterday #
• off for a walk with Debbie #
• Debbie was bitten by a dog, bruised but skin not too badly broken – just taken her to the doctors to see if she needs an injection #
• On my way to Preston to meet Graham, Stu and Charlie to talk collaboration #
• Sad that Sams not able to meet us for lunch #
• completely drained, but still managed to do a highlight report, funny how the more work I do the shorter the highlight report! #

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• On the flight to Farnborough, spent the morning talking to Ged #
• Walking from Farnborough to RP after a bumpy flight and an aborted landing. Calming down and listening to podcasts #
• Talking to Lewis about too loads of stuff #
• Long chat with Steve Morgan. Steve Langford joined in and filled me in on dynamic sourcing #
• Falling out with Steve Jeffers, way to sensitive to any hint of challenge #
• Discussing lab futures with Steve Morgan and earlier with Lewis #
• Off back to the airport with Carl Cooke #
• Talking to Ian Wilson about the new architecture org #
• Home now after a good talk with Ged on the plane back #
• Arms, feet and shoulders are telling me that its time to forget work for the day, and I’m listening! #

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• Blog written, emails done, been for a walk, scheduled meetings. #
• Now gorging on chocolate cake at cafe nero and reading feeds #
• A short walk now and then off to Chorley to meet with Stu and probably Charlie at 11:00 #
• Just back from Chorley and good meeting with Stu and Charlie. Picked up kids on the way home and had very frank discussion with Citrix #
• long evening working on VDI and sorting out my email and rescheduling the next few days, didn’t get to go swimming and regretting it now! #
• going down to Aldershot tomorrow, anyone else flying down, or there already? #

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• I suppose there’s one good thing about being up half the night in too much pain to sleep, I have time to write some blog posts! #
• Forced myself out of bed #
• Discussing lab strategy with Rob, lots of potential #
• Very impressed with Dragon Naturally Speaking, almost 100% just using the build in microphone on my tablet. Doesn’t run on Vista 64 though #
• Playing around with the eproductivity template #
• 40 lengths swimming with the twins #

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• Dragged myself out for a walk, although my shoulders and ankles resisted. Very windy, very tired, pleased to be at Boaters Landing reading #
• Caught up with about half of my backlog of reading, 50% feeds, 50% analyst reports #
• Buying Dragon Naturally Speaking off eBay for £19 worth the risk that it won’t meet my needs, looking forward to trying it on my Blackberry #
• Watching the Bill Gates CES keynote over lunch #
• Spent the afternoon designing a spreadsheet to use as a decision support tool for desktop and app delivery strategy, fill it in tomorrow #
• Taking the girls to swimming, will be working in the pool side lounge, which is a very relaxing place to work #
• @sdownes1972 Just streaming the CES keynote again for Stephie to watch at 750kbs, sorry Stu! #

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• Playing with ToDoMatrix on my Blackberry but deciding that it is too complex and I prefer to forget all the things I never get around to #
• Massive clearout of the study, the loft is proving a godsend! now I have a little room to breathe, still lots to do though in the future #
• Spent an hour reading Fatherland 2/3 of the way through now #
• Just finished a wonderful swim with the twins, pool to ourselves, Stephie came to and worked on her laptop via wireless in the lounge #

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• Reading the papers and planning the weeks TV sitting in the sun at Boaters Landing with the kids #
• Having fun watching Alvin and the Chipmonks with the BG’s #
• Just shutting down all of the wireless networks in my study. Wireless networking is now from a router in the lounge, a long way away #
• This article prompted my wifi purge http://tinyurl.com/25c2gu #

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• Celebrating the first full nights sleep for 3 weeks! #
• Spending some one to one time with Anna, one to one time is pretty rare in my family. #
• Realising that I am using Twitter like a diary, and after many failed attempts its the only diary I have kept for more than a week! #
• Talking to Sandra 65 years old and the best waitress ever, the classic example of a others first person and great fun #
• Investing all my Sainsbury’s loyalty points in £60 worth of energy efficient light bulbs, that’s a lot!! #
• Spent a great afternoon paying wii sport with Anna and reading Fatherland, one of several library books I collected today #
• Dragged myself to the pool and managed to swim 20 lengths, still pretty sore. Reading New Scientist in the pool side lounge now #

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