I was thinking of leaving this post until tomorrow (which can be taken to mean after I go to bed then wake up a few hours later) but I’m still up marking and I desperately need a break from that. It is now a little over an hour and a half since the birthday (41st, if you’re interested in the details of my life) officially ended, so I can now give a complete rundown of the days events:
To start the day off just right, I got the chance to sleep in. Since I have two small children, sleeping in means sometime around 8:30 in the morning. The girl came into the room to let me know it was time to get on and the coffee was on. She knows that I’m a much happier man if the coffee is already made when I shamble out of bed.
After breakfast, the rest of the family left the house to give me two hours of peace and quiet. I had a quick nap then went off to the school to pick up the marking which is currently looming. Back at home I did a bit of paper shuffling to make me think I was getting something done, then noodled around on the computer. Since I couldn’t do the Leopard upgrade like everyone else seems to be doing, I contented myself to installing Sapiens, an uber-cool app launcher for the Mac (and a big shout-out to D’Arcy for twittering about that). I also found out via Dean Shareski on Twitter that Chris Sessums and I have the same birthday. I hope you had a good one, Chris.
The family returned, we had lunch, the boy went for a nap and I went into the office to get some marking done. Well, that was my intention as I went into the office. Proximity to the computer was too much for me to resist, so I ended up writing up my previous blog post about convocation. It needed done anyway, so I feel that it was a worthwhile use of my time.
After the boy awoke, we went to play in the back yard. Since it was my birthday, I was given the choice of supper. My daughter pointed out that I really like pizza. Unable to come up with a better alternative, the pizza was ordered then consumed upon delivery. Birthday greetings were sung and I found out that we are getting a digital video recorder installed as a gift to me.
After that, it settled back to a regularish sort of evening. Once the household duties were done, I started marking math tests which I am still doing (writing this post notwithstanding). I suppose it is time to get back to those math tests so I can sneak in a few hours of sleep before morning.
Next time - the last-ish post.
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