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Saturday, 19 February 2005
tummy bugs and free time...
My week off (using some leave saved over from last year) began a little prematurely on Thursday - I'd been awake much of Wednesday night either dealing with Ella's sickness or my own; we appeared to have come down with exactly the same stomach bug at the same time!
By Friday evening, though, I was feeling much better - it's a bit of a shame that I can't account for much of the goings-on of those days, because I was semi-conscious on the sofa for much of them.
Ella's not back on her food yet*, although she tends to go through periods of light eating, but as long as she keeps nibbling, and dashing around with her usual cheerful ebulliance (which returned this morning) we're not too concerned.
As her cognitive skills (52kB MP3) improve (along with a craftiness that I'm sure belies her age!) I can't help but realise we've got two proper children now... no evidence of babyhood left - which might explain why Beth's so keen to hold all our new nephews and neices!
So - to a week off. I'm hoping to embark on some musical projects while I'm at it, although Beth and I have some serious 'spring cleaning' to be done while the children spend a day or two at their maternal grandparents.
That's it, really. I don't think I've mentioned the latest installment in my web server 'improvements' - a live webcam feed that keeps an eye on the studio 24 hours a day (when it works!) It's the sort of thing that sometimes helps, too...
Links of the day
I'm afraid all of these links are themed - and not particularly correctly. This is simply my attempt to collect them into one place. If you like people making fools of themselves on the internet, please feel free to click. Otherwise... you have been warned! (It's all rather too Broadband-friendly as well - sorry!)
- www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/206373 : The latest 'internet superstar' is born - "Numa Numa". A student, lipsyncing to a Romanian disco hit? Er... yeah.
- msnbc.msn.com/id/6987134 : Proof, if it were needed, that he is 'famous'.
- media.ebaumsworld.com/index.php?e=shebang.wmv : William Hung - mentioned in the MSN news article, out Darius-es Darius with his performance, leading - it would seem - to cult celebrity (for how long, though?)
- www.compfused.com/directlink/181 : A frankly terrifying alternative to the original "Numa Numa" video, I understand this is an audition for a reality show, although I don't think this is where I originally found it (finally tracked down via www.readheaded8itch.com's blog)
- www.transbuddha.com/mediaHolder.php?id=47 : Another audition piece, I believe. Surely these people know that their exploits will end up on the internet? (note: Quicktime required).
- he.fi/video/armi_ja_danny.mpeg : You think all that was bad? This is a commercial Finnish pop video circa 1978... (Note: 37MB[!] mpg video)
- ryanparrymusic.com/the world is terribly infested.wmv : I'm afraid we've reached my preferred level of 'incorrectness' with this - frankly, if I'd had the confidence as a teenager, I would have done the same. (Note: 17MB wmv video)
*Ella was obviously reading over my shoulder when I wrote this a little after lunch - she ate almost all her tea, and half of Christopher's!
Posted by james at February 19, 2005 2:21 PM
