Lost Rambler

Sleep

August 14, 2007 by LostRambler

I may have been woken up by my son last night. I may not have. He’s been waking up a lot, and I’ve been putting him back to bed a lot. Sometimes I fall asleep on his bedroom floor while I’m waiting for him to go back to sleep. Then either my wife will wake me up and tell me to come back to bed or I’ll wake myself up and stumble, stiff and uncomfortable, back to bed.

The thing is, this may have happened last night, but I’m just not sure. It’s hard to work out which nights I do things on because they all blur into each other.

I guess I probably did, because I’m really tired today.

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Impressive

August 8, 2007 by LostRambler

I drove to Northampton today for a business meeting. It was nice to get out of Southampton. I took my camera along with the intention of taking some pictures on the way home, but the only thing I found of interest was the Express Lift Tower.

The Express Lift Tower

This must surely be the home of a powerful wizard.

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Big brotherlyness starts early

August 6, 2007 by LostRambler

The wife and daughter came home from the hospital today. The son was as pleased as punch. He ran around the house being joyfully chaotic. I knew very well how much he missed his mummy, but it was extremely touching to see that he missed his little sister too. When the wife put the daughter down into the pram we keep in the kitchen, the son thoughtfully went into the living room, collected his favorite teddy and carefully placed it on top of her. He then climbed on a chair and tried to rock her to sleep.

Itâ€™s moments like that that make being a parent worth it.

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A bottomless pit

August 5, 2007 by LostRambler

Do you ever get the feeling that life is trying to swallow you up? Since the second baby came,
life is so full that cleaning the kitchen has become relaxing time spent by myself. However did that happen? I used to put off cleaning, but now I look forward to it. I cleaned the whole downstairs today and it felt like I had cleaned myself when I was done. Is that normal?

Posted in life |

A Puzzle

August 4, 2007 by LostRambler

Hereâ€™s a puzzle I came up with while working tech support at my very first job.

At 12:00 the hour and minute hands of a clock overlap. To the nearest second, search what time is it when they next overlap.

There are two ways to solve this problem. If you understand the puzzle, hemorrhoids it wonâ€™t take you long, but if you go at it the most obvious way, you may find yourself trapped in Xenoâ€™s paradox.

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This is what I do

August 3, 2007 by LostRambler

Well, so much for my own time. Here I am sitting outside my Sonâ€™s door telling him to go back to bed every time he gets up. Itâ€™s now two hours past his bed-time and Iâ€™ve been sat here for over an hour.

It seems like the only way I can continue my web presence is to blog in stolen moments between putting the kids to bed and cleaning the living room.

Miracle of miracles, the son is asleep. As the wife and the daughter are currently sleeping in the hospital, that means I get to have a rare hour all to myself. Iâ€™m not sure what Iâ€™ll do with it, but I know what Iâ€™m not going to do with it. Iâ€™m not going to spend any more time at the computerâ€¦.