Following on from thoughts of relations, and something pennski  said about First or Second Generation Immigrants, here's some of my family tree. I was born in England, but my mother was an immigrant, so I am a second(?) generation immigrant. My father was born here but his father was an immigrant, so i am a third generation immigrant. My father's mother was born here, but her grandfather...

I haven't been posting much again recently, it seems. pennski   kept everyone up to date with our drainage issues (all the 'making good' has now happened so we are just waiting for the vestigial smell to go away). Other than that life has been pretty much occupied with work, rehearsals and Clarke Award reading. It's amazing to think that we are only just over a week away from another show...

Ganked from pennski

In some ways, I am remarkably like my cats: anything that comes into the house, I do rather tend to think it's mine. For keepsies. I had houseguests, but apparently I'm not allowed to keep them? They went away! pennski and bookzombie were here, and now they're not. We are desolate, the boys and I. We eat leftovers, and watch long movies about poor leadership, futile gestures and...

Yesterday was our wedding anniversary (18 years!) and we went out to the local indian restaurant for a meal. They had recently had the door repainted and it was stuck in a semi-closed position. I pushed it. It wouldn't open. I pushed it again. It stayed stubbornly stuck. I put a bit of shoulder action into the push. Door opened, accompanied by the tinkle of glass as I smashed the glass in the upper...

From a few people, most recently pennski Your result for The Perception Personality Image Test... HFPS - The Humanitarian Humanity, Foreground, Big Picture, and Shape You perceive the world with particular attention to humanity. You focus on what's in front of you (the foreground) and how that fits into the larger picture. You are also particularly drawn towards the shapes...

There is no doubt this week has been a tough one. We are only a week now away from implementation of my latest project and several fairly major issues came out of the woodwork. Luckily one of them was for someone else to deal with and the other wasn't my doing but I managed to solve (yes, I can do a robust design for a new approach in 20 minutes thank you very much!) This is pretty much business as...

So what's been happening besides the Clarke Award stuff mentioned a few days ago? Work continues to be work; I had my QR yesterday and it went pretty well all told, certainly nothing to worry about. Today we had our annual business review in which I failed to win the Gold Award I was nominated for. No real surprise there; the person who did win in my category frankly deserved it far more than I did...

Thanks to pennski : What Winnie the Pooh character am i? Your result for The Deep and Meaningful Winnie-The-Pooh Character Test... Owl "Correct me if I am wrong," he said, "but am I right in supposing that it is a very Blusterous day outside?" "Very," said Piglet, who was quietly thawing his ears, and wishing that he was safely back in his own house. "I thought so," said...

Here's where I'll be! Sunday 22nd - flying around, connect in Chicago, to London, crash in hotel near Waterloo getting there about 10am Mon 23rd. Tues 24 - train from Waterloo to Brussels. me: recover, then work. i can has internet cafe? zond-7: work meeting 25th i think. I have no concept of Brussels. Rook says it's cool. Zond-7 says it's the most boring city ever. I say look for the gay neighborhood...