Rebecca's teething

Rebecca is rather poorly at the moment - I had to leave work at 1 yesterday to pick her up from nursery. She is very warm, sleepy and floppy - just wanting to sleep on you (which is nice in a way!). She woke up in the night as well a couple of times - 1.30 for me but she settled and as I type at 8.15 she is still asleep - so looks like she isn't going to nursery again. This is much more of a problem than it used to be as of course I work in Bourne End now!! I also had a 12pm meeting today which I'm going to have to re-arrange.

I posted the openoffice thing on Wednesday then almost immediately I received an update from Microsoft - Office 2003 service pack 2 is out. The junk filter on Outlook 2003 doesn't appear to be tremendously effective - well not as good as it was. I'm also being hit every 5 minutes with a trojan virus on the chalfontsports email which is rather annoying.

Playing hockey tomorrow - my ankle is still hurting so wondering if this is a wise decision - but I don't wish to pull out (again) at this late stage - besides its against Aylesbury and I always score a couple against them. Think I'll be taking a month out after that though - boring. Not much else planned for the weekend - think i'm supposed to be on a curry night tomorrow with the men's 1's - other than that I think I'll be catching up on work!

Had a good meeting last night for the membership subs review - few details to finalise but it is about time the club had a bit of a restructure - nothing too serious and should be very good for all sections - new and old.

OpenOffice.org 1.1 Product Description

Have a look at this - is open source finally coming of age? Read about it in Computer Weekly in the in brief section. I wonder if LINUX will ever come to challenge Microsoft.

Renewed my Microsoft Action Pack yesterday - allows me to evaluate the latest Microsoft software and recommend it to my customers. Generated quite a few leads for the Business contact manager for outlook - but wasn't able to follow them up as no one had the skills to do anything with them.

The new Microsoft small business accounts looks interesting - wonder if it will integrate with Actinic - as it integrates with Business contact manager for Outlook. Maybe the day will soon be coming when it is practical to make phone calls from your computer - i know it is out there but not exactly mainstream at the moment.

Sunday's hobbling, Monday's work

Sarah went to the second Junior hockey training on Sunday morning at Newland Park - a very good turnout with plenty of new Juniors - we've had a few phone calls and emails asking for details. I think the 5-12 year olds now have an extra quarter of an hour this year to match the time of the 12+ age group (do 12 year olds go to both sessions?!)

So anyway, I had the pleasure of Rebecca for Sunday morning - my foot was on the way down (ish) and my knee still very large. I dropped some post off then went to the swings at Robertswood / Cheena Meadow. I cannot believe I was the only person there - it was only about 10am - amazing. Anyway, Rebeecca absolutely loved it. Below is a photo - as you can see I tried to get her to walk / run around (which she can just about do) and we spent at least an hour there. When I offered to take her out of the swing she just shook her head and put her arms by her side - hilarious. She also enjoyed the slide for the first time. Then we walked back. Noticed a public footpath I'd not seen before on Denham Lane which I couldn't see where the obvious entry point was.

Spent the afternoon and evening working as I'm still behind with stuff. Had massive problems with FTP'ing updates to my client sites - until late on I opened port 21 on the firewall - I've no idea though whether that is dodgy for worms and things - hope not - anyway the situation has improved somewhat but still not exactly simple.

Yesterday was mostly spent working - - got a fair amount done - but couldn't get to sleep thinking about what still had to be done! Had to miss the parish council meeting due to the volume of work - first one since July so a shame. Still wondering what to do about all my voluntary things - think I will re-visit it in a month and evaluate what I'm doing and how things are settling down.

We had the carpets cleaned yesterday so the lounge was empty and we chased Rebecca ran around with us pretending to chase her - I'm not sure we've all laughed as much in one hour as that - what absolutely brilliant fun - hopefully do the same again tonight before she goes to bed.

Sarah is off in Copenhagen next week for a couple of days - the day of Rebecca's MMR - so I'll be taking her. When it actually comes to your turn there is still the doubt because of the media furore but will have to get it done.