I managed to cross off precisely two items on my to-do list today. Fortunately they were big ones, so a fairly productive day. Also, one of our clients complimented me on my management of her projects this week, so clearly I’m on top of things from her point of view!
I went for a walk around Victoria Square in Birmingham today. Rather obviously, but I didn’t realise it, there’s a statue of Queen Victoria there, so I took her picture.
On the way to school, Ben managed to walk into the barriers they put in the middle of paths to deter cyclists.
Ouch.
As a result he’s got a massive bruise on his forehead. Oh well…
In other news, I wrote an article that was published in the php|architect magazine. I received my copy today!
It rained all day. I didn’t get much walking done as a result. Did manage to tick off the main items on my todo list at work though!
We did some more painting with the kits that the kids got for Christmas. Then we played on the Wii :)
I also spent time today taking photos in Manual mode, so I have started to understand the meter built into the camera.
I bought Georgina a copy of Fallout 3 this morning and then took the kids to The Engine House at the Severn Valley Railway this afternoon, whilst she played her game. We enjoyed ourselves as there were few people there, so I didn’t have to worry about how noisy the kids were :)
I ordered some DS cases from Game‘s website and they arrived yesterday. When we got one out, they were much to big and very generic, so they had to go back. Fortunately, Game have a sane returns policy, so I was able to take them back the branch in Birmingham and get a refund. Whilst I was there I checked out the cases they had in stock and found a much smaller one that was more suitable. It was even in the sale, so I saved money :)
This is a photo of the man who holds the Subway sign. He’s always on the phone!
Today both kids managed to be rude to their mother and I shouted. The day didn’t improve at work where I managed to be very unproductive all day and didn’t get half the stuff done that I wanted to. To cap it off, it rained all the time during my walk around Birmingham at lunchtime.
Hopefully tomorrow will go better.
As a result of the rain, today’s photo was taken indoors with my new flash and I quite like it, even if I did have to take 73 pictures to get this one!
I managed a brisk walk to the centre of Birmingham and back today at lunchtime. Whilst in town, I returned some clothes that I had bought Georgina. Turns out that I’m not that good at choosing clothes for her :)
I also discovered a statue of Nelson near the Bullring!
It snowed! Not a lot, but nice to see snow in January rather than April like last year. Today was a work day, so I was in Birmingham. We spent the day writing a client for a web service. The main thing we learnt is that “interoperable” doesn’t means “just works”.
It’s cold.
It’s very cold.
It’s so cold that the ice on the car didn’t melt all day.
We stayed in and took the Christmas decorations down.
