Richard J Green

Christmas

Richard 

Christmas is over, and were back at home with the Internet available, so now is the time for blogging.

First off, I would like to say thanks to all the family for making it a great Christmas. I’m sure you all know it was Madison’s first Christmas, and I think she really enjoyed it. Pictures and video will on the Baby-Green site soon, once I have time for that, but I obviously have lots of new Christmas presents to play with.

Noteable presents include:

  • Dell PowerEdge Server from Nicky
    It’s a 4 CPU, 4GB RAM beast which I shall have lots of fun with.
  • Sony Cybershot 7.2 Megapixel Digital Camera from Mum, Dave and Nan
    For all of us to take pictures of Madison and life with more ease and greater mobility.
  • Creative I-Truige 2.1 Speaker Set
    For me to make nice sounds from my PC with
  • Lego Star Wars II for PlayStation 2
  • SingStar for PlayStation 2

I obviously got more than that for Christmas from various other people, but those are the main things which I just wanted to point out. Christmas flew past this year so fast, I’m a little without words for much of it, so this blog is short, but I just wanted to highlight the biggest event of the christmas period.

I proposed to Nicky, and she said yes, so marriage is on the cards at last.

Enjoy the video and the pictures which are on the way, and look forward to 2007 x

by on December 28, 2006

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Work Work

Well it’s been a while Baby-Green readers, and what a while it has been.

As Nicky said in her last blog entry, I was looking into something very good for us, and that very good thing is now here. Not sure how many of you people knew, but I was offered a job for a company in Basingstoke called Capita, doing 2nd line IT support. Obviously the thought of a job in Basingstoke with more pay is a good thing, and I was much looking forward to the prospect.

However, Xerox couldn’t let that be. I was sat down in one of the meeting rooms at work one day after going in my notice to leave, thinking I was going to bollocked for the Severity 1 incident which had just happened and something I had or hadn’t done, but in actual fact, it was quite the opposite.

They offered me a job as a Technical Architect….sounds good doesn’t it.
Obviously I accepted the offer, which now means, I am no longer working on the helpdesk answering the phone, but working on the background solutions such as the server deployment and configuration, working out new ways to combat technical problems in the oh so complicated place that is QinetiQ.

Also, it means I will get to go to other contracts of Xerox and work on those too when my skills are required.
All of this boils down to more money, and great job satisfaction for me, as this is the kind of role I’ve been looking forward to doing since I wanted to work in IT. I’m not going to get specific about the salary here or anything, but people who need to know already know, and if I say it will make our lives much easier, that’s all you need to know.

Perks of the job include company mobile and laptop, along with a 2nd laptop for accessing QinetiQ stuff, and then I get a monthly car allowance to pay for the mileage etc I do. The only downside so far, is I have to go on a 1 week training course in January, away from home. Did I mention I get business cards :)

by on December 28, 2006

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Monday monday..

Well another start to the week at work, I think someone is stealing my weekends!

I bought a dress today for the xmas party on Thursday, only one I semi liked, brought it home and Rich didn’t like it :( So I’ll take it back tomorrow and look for another one..

Tonight we laid the rest of the flooring in Madison’s room, took hardly any time, apart from the last piece next to the wall where we had to cut it out to fit round the doorframe, that took aaaaages to get it to fit properly, but seeing as we finished at 10, the room has been left in a state ready to be cleaned tomorrow along with the rest of the house ready for the guests at the weekend! The only rooms that look ok are the kitchen and the study.

Got a lot of work to do to get the rest of it in shape, the spare room is full of tools as are 3 of the landings and the living room is littered with toys. Also we wanna get the curtian pole up in Maddy’s room tomorrow. We really dont have much left to do in her room now, skirting, curtains, border and plug and light sockets, then its a month off for us to enjoy the house a bit, before we start planning the kitchen next year!.

Am very annoyed with Kira today as this morning she decided to wee on the bed!!!! They have been so good recently, getting used to going outside, really thought they were used to it and then this! It was raining pretty hard but it’s no excuse really, so might need to do some reading up on how to stop this for good, cos we can’t have it keep happening.

Anyway, I want and early night tonight so I am gonna drag Rich to bed, tomorrow could be the start of something very good for him and us if it works out, but I shall let Rich tell all tomorrow if it all goes to plan :D

Night night x

by on December 11, 2006

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Aparent Success

Richard 

Well this weekend has gone pretty well by all accounts.

Friday we dsidn’t do very much at all. Saturday, we got up at about 10am and then got working on Madison’s bedroom (Sky also called to arrange the installation (attempt 3) for between 11am – 1pm) so off I went with my paint roller and brush and got busy.

Mum and Dave poppoed in for a drink on their way to Reading, while Sky arrived and guess what? They couldn’t install it……anyway, I’ll get to that in a minute.

Mum and Dave left, so we got busy again with some more decorating, then not too much later, Dave, Angie and Sophie arrived for dinner. Spagetti Bolognase for about 10 people was served, and a very tasty one in my books….success part 1.

Dad and Angie left at about 7.30 so me and Nicky decided to go to Ikea to buy the flooring for Madisons bedroom as they where open until 11pm.

Back to Sky: Seems the bloke in the week lied about the flat roof installation….I would never have guessed, and it seems the two that turned up on Saturday weren’t too keen on climbing our 3 story plaza resort to install it. After a long debate we agreed they would leave me a roll of cable and some cable clips, and I would run the internal cabling and they would come back in the week to fit the boxes and the dish…….success part 2.

Sunday arrives and we continue working on the monsters bedroom….paint applied, so I move on to the cabling, by which time Mum and Dave have been here for about an hour, so I need to get moving really.

Four or five floorboards, about 100m of satelitte cable and some sweat later, we have a very tidy and nice looking Sky cable install….much better than they would have done being that it took me about 2 1/2 hours to lay the cabling alone….success part 3.

Dinner this evening was the biggest success……a new dish in the scheme of things for me. I decided to do steak with a peppercorn sauce and those fancy french potato’s which I can’t spell…..dolphin-something. You could say I was concerned about cooking this as the least, but in the end, I think my best dish to date, and confirmed by all present…..success part 4.

Now, I leave for bed as after a few glasses of wine I’m feeling a little sleepy Zzz Zzz xxx

by on December 10, 2006

He will say about time too….

Nicky

 

Well I have been moaned at and badgered to finally get round to writing this. I can’t help it, I’m busy being a Mummy, and working full time and looking after a house!

It’s almost christmas, we are still only about 2/3s done with xmas pressies (still dont have a clue what to get some people!) and hopefully should be writing and sending off cards this weekend.

We have a very busy few weeks coming up, this weekend we have sky, decorating, a trip to ikea, and both sets of Richards parents over for dinner! Next weekend we have my horde over for the weekend for curreh, wii and general sillyness :)

Weekend after its nearly christmas!!

Maddy has a nursery xmas party on the 22nd so we are gonna take her to that which should be fun, and we have parents evening! (how grown up does that sound) on the 19th. We have been getting little report cards every day telling us when she eats poos and drinks and what she plays with….I have noticed a theme which quite often seems to be – ate little dinner, ate all pudding! What a porker!

Anyway, more washing up and clearing up awaits…or should we just go to bed and leave it till tomorrow? Lets see whats on the TV :D

It wont be so long till the next blog I promise…

 xxx

by on December 8, 2006

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