Aside from Brooke's birthday, we finished the cricket regular season on Saturday in a tense game that saw us take the points and the Minor Premiership.
Chasing 76 runs, we took about 70 overs to reach the target as the large field was extremely slow and any balls hit along the ground struggled to beat the infield. We scored a mere 19 runs in the first half of Day 2! But some lusty hitting in the lower order saw us pass the score with 8 wickets down.
To give an insight to the slow outfield, our skipper Terry hit 10 runs from 113 balls faced!
Now we're onto the finals, which are all sudden death games against 4th placed Guildford Leagues.
If you're keen, we're at Roberta St Park Greystanes with play starting at 1:30pm on Saturday and Sunday.
FINAL TABLE
Monday, March 10, 2008
Sunday, March 09, 2008
Brookie's Birthday Weekend!
Well! I'm exhausted!!
Brooke's birthday went off without a hitch... started on Friday night with Pizza with Julie & Con and their kids of which Hannah stayed the night with us... the Saturday morning was visit from Niki's friend Rachael and her kids with more presents for Brooke.
I then took Brooke down to my parents where she went on with her Gran for a shopping expedition to Parramatta and she came back with a stack of clothes.... then we all went out for dinner at the local Chinese place and ate waay too much.
Sunday, was up early, Brooke got her new bike she wanted and we were off to her "Build-a-Bear" party at Penrith. That was really good and well run, and for $35 a head, it was good value but I recommend no more than 6 kids all up. Brooke invited her sister Kate and 4 girls from school for the party and after an hour or so at Build-a-Bear, it was back to our place for a teddy bears picnic.
At 2pm we were taking the kids home and by 4pm, Niki's family had arrived and we had a big dinner as well... now, its late, the kids are zonked and I'll be heading to the office tomorrow for a rest!! LOL.
Brooke's birthday went off without a hitch... started on Friday night with Pizza with Julie & Con and their kids of which Hannah stayed the night with us... the Saturday morning was visit from Niki's friend Rachael and her kids with more presents for Brooke.
I then took Brooke down to my parents where she went on with her Gran for a shopping expedition to Parramatta and she came back with a stack of clothes.... then we all went out for dinner at the local Chinese place and ate waay too much.
Sunday, was up early, Brooke got her new bike she wanted and we were off to her "Build-a-Bear" party at Penrith. That was really good and well run, and for $35 a head, it was good value but I recommend no more than 6 kids all up. Brooke invited her sister Kate and 4 girls from school for the party and after an hour or so at Build-a-Bear, it was back to our place for a teddy bears picnic.
At 2pm we were taking the kids home and by 4pm, Niki's family had arrived and we had a big dinner as well... now, its late, the kids are zonked and I'll be heading to the office tomorrow for a rest!! LOL.
Friday, March 07, 2008
Happy Birthday Brookie
Sunday is my little bubba’s 7th birthday. I am amazed that 7 years have passed since her arduous birth (well arduous for Niki… 50hrs of labour thanks to medico stuff ups!) and she is now a bright and bubbly 1st grader.
The weekend is going to be fully taken up with birthday stuff… tonight, our friends Julie & Con are coming over for Pizza and Ice Cream Cake (Brooke is in charge of the menu!) and their daughter Hannah will be staying the night for a sleep over. Then Saturday, I’m taking her down to her Gran & GranPa’s where she’ll be heading out for clothes shopping and a girly day of shopping with Gran. Saturday night Mum & Dad will bring her back and we’ll be having Chinese and then on Sunday, her actually birthday, we’ll be taking her down to Build-A-Bear at Penrith for a little party with some of her friends. Then we’ll be back to our place for a Teddy Bears Picnic which will be followed by Niki’s family coming around for dinner on Sunday night. Apparently the menu is Chicken and Macaroni & Cheese… mmm!
So in short, that’s my weekend! I will still be going to cricket Saturday arvo, but other than that I wont have time to scratch myself… should be good though.
Thursday, March 06, 2008
Happy School Morning
My work diary was free-ish this morning and Niki's Dad had to be at the hospital this morning at 7:30am for an Angiogram (sp?) as he's not doing too well with his heart at the moment.
Niki was taking him and had been in a lather about how to get the girls to school and I was only too happy to take the morning off work and take them to school.
Niki was gone before 7 and I got up (after only having gone to bed at 2am!) 20 minutes after her to find the girls in the lounge room watching cartoons. Their hair was done immaculately by Niki but they were in the pj's and when I came out Brooke was standing on the lounge! lol.
So, I played Mr Mum this morning and enjoyed it. Breakfast of toast and juice... a chat about school. Brooke was getting a birthday award today at the school assembly and then I had to shower and get ready for work.
Soon, it was me in my suit and tie, the girls in their uniforms trundling along to school. There were no fights about who was sitting in the front - Kate graciously let Brooke have the front seat - and we went to school.
The girls' school though is in two campuses and we went to the Primary first to drop off Kate. No drop and go for me, we parked got out and Kate was talking a million miles an hour about the various classrooms and which teacher resided in each room. Went down to her room and she showed me where she hung her bag and took me inside and showed me her desk and some of her artwork on the walls. Met her teacher as well.
Then we were suddenly inundated with other girls all of them hugging Kate and Brooke (this is the new custom apparently, everyone gives everyone else a sisterly hug) and then she was off with a quick kiss from me and Brooke & I went back to the car.
Drove the half-k to the Infants dept and again the same scene was repeated. Teacher in the class room, artwork on the wall, maths books on a desk proudly showing Brooke's name. Then there were more kids and hugs and Brooke was happy for me to go...
I ended up getting the 9:20 train from Glenbrook and it was a nice change of pace for a work day. Got into the office at 11ish... very civilised :)
Niki was taking him and had been in a lather about how to get the girls to school and I was only too happy to take the morning off work and take them to school.
Niki was gone before 7 and I got up (after only having gone to bed at 2am!) 20 minutes after her to find the girls in the lounge room watching cartoons. Their hair was done immaculately by Niki but they were in the pj's and when I came out Brooke was standing on the lounge! lol.
So, I played Mr Mum this morning and enjoyed it. Breakfast of toast and juice... a chat about school. Brooke was getting a birthday award today at the school assembly and then I had to shower and get ready for work.
Soon, it was me in my suit and tie, the girls in their uniforms trundling along to school. There were no fights about who was sitting in the front - Kate graciously let Brooke have the front seat - and we went to school.
The girls' school though is in two campuses and we went to the Primary first to drop off Kate. No drop and go for me, we parked got out and Kate was talking a million miles an hour about the various classrooms and which teacher resided in each room. Went down to her room and she showed me where she hung her bag and took me inside and showed me her desk and some of her artwork on the walls. Met her teacher as well.
Then we were suddenly inundated with other girls all of them hugging Kate and Brooke (this is the new custom apparently, everyone gives everyone else a sisterly hug) and then she was off with a quick kiss from me and Brooke & I went back to the car.
Drove the half-k to the Infants dept and again the same scene was repeated. Teacher in the class room, artwork on the wall, maths books on a desk proudly showing Brooke's name. Then there were more kids and hugs and Brooke was happy for me to go...
I ended up getting the 9:20 train from Glenbrook and it was a nice change of pace for a work day. Got into the office at 11ish... very civilised :)
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Founding Father of Gaming Passes Away
I was going to write another inane post on my trip to Melbourne, anti-terrorism measures and the virtues of Qantas, but instead I have just been knocked for six to learn that the founder of gaming Gary Gygax has passed away.
For us gamers, Gary was the legend who invented Dungeons & Dragons and was a huge influence on many genre's of gaming from table top military gaming through to the RPG scene.
He passed away at his home at Lake Geneva Wisconsin.
RIP Dungeon Master
Post script: Some tributes here and here
And a further one here which is very similar to my story...
For us gamers, Gary was the legend who invented Dungeons & Dragons and was a huge influence on many genre's of gaming from table top military gaming through to the RPG scene.
He passed away at his home at Lake Geneva Wisconsin.
RIP Dungeon Master
Post script: Some tributes here and here
And a further one here which is very similar to my story...
Monday, March 03, 2008
Off To Melbourne
Just a short note to say that I am flying down to Melbourne this afternoon for a work trip and wont be back until Wednesday… so no post tomorrow!
My antennae is screwy...
OK, this can get confusing…. Follow carefully.
A few months ago whilst we were out an electrical storm went over our house and I suspect that our TV antennae / foxtel dish was struck by lightning. Our Foxtel box was dead and the TV in the main lounge room couldn’t get free to air TV (call this Set A) and the TV in the bedroom (call it Set B) stopped working and could only get static and an electrical pulse. Niki’s parents gave us an old TV they had for the bedroom (Set C) and we got the Foxtel people out to replace the box.
Since then, we got a new TV (Set D) – which we put in the bedroom and moved Set C to the front of the house at Christmas so the girls could use their new PlayStation. However Set C refused to work in the front room, but the old bedroom tele (Set B) did even though it wouldn’t work in the bedroom. We also never had Set A fixed to pick up free to air TV and get free to air TV in the main lounge room via the Foxtel dish, but because Channel 7 doesn’t broadcast through Foxtel (idiots!) we don’t get Channel 7 in the main room.
However in the front room, where Set B is now hooked up to the PlayStation we can get all the free to air channels…. Set D in the bedroom however, gets the reception badly with Channel 7 being the only one that is watchable.
Why am I saying this now? Well yesterday I did a tip run and cleared out some junk which included Set C and the VCR that hasn’t worked since the storm either. Then last night, while I was watching the cricket Niki was watching TV in the front room. When the cricket finished, I offered her the big TV in the main room, but she couldn’t move because the show she was watching was on Channel 7… so I said I am going to bed. She then came in to the bedroom to watch Channel 7 there…
I haven’t got all this fixed because I personally am not a huge watcher of TV. I watch LOST and am watching Underbelly but I have downloaded most of LOST via download and I missed last weeks Underbelly and downloaded that too… I find watching free to air TV a chore and even last night with the cricket the fact that I saw the same farking AAMI add with those two ugly twin boys selling green slip insurance every 4.5 minutes started to wane on my sanity…. Also, I am not really sure how TV’s / Foxtel / Antennae work… how come I can get some channels on one set and none or only a couple on others… I am a bit worried that to get someone out to look at it would cost a bomb and as I said, I don’t really care…
If Channel 7 would broadcast thru Fox like the other stations do, then I wouldn’t have to worry about anything!
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