Some stuff

Well it has been another busy week or two. The weather has actually warmed up a little since my last post, especially this weekend. I would have gone for a surf today (water temp 21 deg) but I had to go into work. Lani took the kids to Southport Park for a play. Hopefully I will be back to 2 day weekends from now on.

Last weekend James had some friends over for the day and they ended up putting together a video called "Red Steel" based around the Nintendo Wii game of the same name. The video features the 4 boys and Jasmine shooting at each other and dying over and over again. Total carnage. When I got home from work I was impressed to see that James had uploaded the video to our PC and had already done a fair bit of editing himself. I didn't necessarily like the theme of the video particularly some execution style killings but then again it has to be better than Cowboys and Indian which I played as a kid. At least there wasn't any racism in his video. When I post the video up on YouTube I will add a link on this blog.

Yesterday James got together with his mates again for a birthday party and they went to Timezone in Surfers Paradise which includes Laser Skirmish and Putt Putt golf. I think James had a really good time because he came home totally hyper.

I finally bought a table tennis table recently. I have been wanting to get one for ages but kept denying myself because I don't really know anyone to play against competitively. But with all the overtime I have been doing I decided to buy something I really wanted. I tried playing with the kids but their interest diminished rather rapidly. Now I just have to find someone to play against. Money can't buy everything.

Lani has been keeping herself busy with work. Tomorrow she is off to Toowoomba which is like a 2 hour drive away. She travels all over the place with her job. It is amazing how much of a difference a GPS makes. Lani used to hate driving anywhere that she needed to refer to a street directory. Now she does it with ease.

Jasmine has been having some DID (Damsel in Distress) issues lately. James seems to be having all the fun and she is missing out. She is desperate for some kind of pet but Lani and I still aren't too keen on the idea because the only pets we can pretty much have are reptiles and they aren't particularly interactive, plus when the novelty wears off we will have to continue to take care of it.