Come on Chosen One - update 2

Well we are still at home, contractions are really strong now and every 5 minutes lasting a minute. The midwifes have told us to stay at home in comfort for as long as possible but Faye is getting really tired now so we might have to head off soon.

Hope that when we get there Faye is in an advanced stage and they dont send us home. I dont think Faye will like that !!!

Now gone over but it is looking good.

Best stop blogging and start helping :-0

Come on Chosen One - update

Still here and everything is starting to slow down :-(

Dont think it will be tonight now.

Must be my fault for blogging about it happening :-0

Come on chosen one

Well today is the day. Thanks for the comments from yesterday everyone.

It looks as though chosen one is going to come on the day s/he is due. Faye has been having contractions since about 11pm last night. I was rubbing her back talking to her about them until I heard her snoring so I guessed it was OK for me to try to sleep for a bit. She did keep waking up though but the contractions were not strong so no need to panic. I left for work as normal but have "worked" from home this afternoon because the contractions have been about every 10 minutes and lasting 30 seconds. It did start to go quicker i.e. it got down to every 7 minutes but has gone back to every 10 minutes BUT they are a lot stronger now. Still not going for a minute yet.

Faye is coping really well and is using the TENS machine. We are going to stay here for a while as it is more comfortable.

We are kind of hoping that it builds up around 8pm so that we have a chance of a parking space after visiting hours :-0.

Keep your fingers crossed for us all,

James

The world through my eyes

I am one of the many males in the world that has a colour (color for our friends over the pond) deficiency. Deficiency sounds better then my normal term of Colour Blindness. I'm not blind to colour, it just kind of merges into one when I see red, green or browns together.

What I hate though is when I say I am colour blind the first thing I get asked is "What colour is this?" and they point out allsorts of things normally the sky and grass !! What people forget is that I was born like this so have been told that the colour up there is blue and the stuff that a cow eats is green.

I hope that chosen one is not colour blind, I found out by chance when I drew a picture of my favorite food. A hot steaming bowl of tomato soup aged about 7 and threw my toys out of the pram when the teacher said it must be oxtail soup because it was brown and not red like a tomato. I got a note to take home and a trip to the optician followed the next day. At least they never thought I was stupid or lazy !!

A search of the web has lead me to this website where you can actually see the world how I see it. Click Here

Makes me glad I can see blue and Yellows.

The Ishihara plate one is good though, I can not see anything on ether but the hat one I can make out all the colours of the hats. Strange hey.

Baby News: Due tomorrow but no sign of the chosen one yet. You will all be 2nd to know.

Harry Potter

Well went this afternoon to see the latest instalment in young Harry's adventures.

Harrys first love interest is bit of over the top, he says 2 maybe 3 lines to her ! I have to say I never got into this one and found it the worse film out of them all. It just had so many bits missing and to me just did not get anything across. I cant even really sum it up. My attempt would be Harry wins a game that he should not of been in.

The others had a bit of everything and this well, just didn't. Mrs Palace Fan says that the book is loads better. I really need to put down Carl Hiaasen and read the HP books.

What I did notice though was that Seamus, the young Irish wizzard who always gets a spell really wrong (not in this one though !) Looks like Wayne Rooney.

This a early shot of him


And here is Rooney: Sorry but not having Man U Kits on the blog.



Seperated at birth I think so !

Baby News: Due on Tuesday :-0

Footy News: RIP George Best

Tired

Too tired to blog but here goes; Upgraded the mac to 1.5 gig of Ram now and everything OK with the baby.


Baby News: Faye went to the midwife today and next week they are closed ! so they can not see her and the following week they forgot to book her in ! Baby is due 29th. She has to go to the local doctors next week now but can not get her usual female doctor.

Footy News: Well a shock about Roy Keane. I fully expected him to leave at the end of the season and would of thought he would of got his wish to say goodbye to the clubs fans. Something happened I guess but I am sure that we will never find out due to clauses in the final payout.

Palace take on our big rivals Brighton on Sunday. The game is away but on Sky and hopefully I should be able to watch it. We need revenge for the loss not so long ago.

Photo Booth: Done using the mirror effect.

Time Warp

Went to the birthing centre yesterday and learnt quite a bit to be honest on when to call and some pain relief methods. They really dont want you turning up at the place too early they said that we have to wait for 1 contraction lasting a minute every 3. Think we will be leaving to get there a bit earlier !

We drove there as a bit of a dry run and got there OK but parking is a nightmare. I really hope the baby does come at night so that we have a chance to park in the car park. For those in London we are going to the Royal Free in Hampstead.

Have I hit a time warp? As we were walking back from the hospital after a visit to the birthing centre we went past this place:


2006?

2 weeks today :-0

Photo Booth Pic: Todays is using the X-Ray effect

Photo Booth

This was done using Comic Book

iMac Pics

Here it is:


And side on, amazing to think that everything is built in and no base unit.

iMactastic

What can I say other then the iMac is rather great.

Front Row works like a dream and is great the way I can bring up videos, iTunes, movie trailers. It really is good. The EyeTV box I bought is working really well, I think that is down to the fact that the big tree out the front of our house has lost it's leafs. Come Summer the signal will probably be worse.

It is really quiet compared to the Rev B, seems faster although does need more RAM.

The inputs (USB, Firewire, Headphone etc.) are now in a better place at the bottom of the screen and keep the wires a bit tidier.

It does seem thinner as well.

The iSight built in is great and we have managed to link to Fayes mum and dad and it worked fine. We also bought a webcam for my mum and her husband and connected it up yesterday but when I got home it never connected. It is a firewall problem probably but I'm no XP expert. I have done the decent thing though and sent them a list of websites to help sort it. See how we get on later.

Once I have sorted out the area where the iMac lives I will take a photo of it.

Baby News: Just over 2 weeks to go, tomorrow we are going to the hospital to the birthing centre to check out the pool.

Footy News: What a great game, Only managed to get the 2nd Half because I was coming back from my mums but what a ending. Well done England.

It's back for one day only.. Fact of the day: Females learn to talk earlier, use sentences earlier, and learn to read more quickly than males.

My new one for each day is going to be a photo from photo booth, well, until we all get bored of that one. Once I get on the iMac I will post one up. Faye is watching Parkinson that we recorded last night on to it.

The iMac is here :-)

Quick post from work as might not have time tonight as will be playing.

TNT had me waiting all day but it has turned up.

Will post my views and pictures as soon as possible.

Must dash home now.........

Where is my iMac.. Oh well tea anyone

Well the mac is not here :-( I did receive my new footy manager game so will have a look at that later.

I called TNT and the mac is meant to be in Luton but they can not be certain that it has arrived. It should be out for delivery tomorrow though. Hope so. Update tomorrow from work.

What I want to know is what happened to the cup of go juice in the morning, yep the good old cup of coffee or tea to start the day. Nowadays I get a whiff of Orange, Blackcurrent, mango or some other fruity smell and it's a cup of tea... Thats not a cup of tea it's a stewed bag of twigs and leafs. Where's the hit of caffeine to get yer going?

It used to be generally be the woman in the office wondering past my desk with these strange slightly sickly smelling cups of hot water but now I get a deep "alright mate, I got Apple, ginseng, Ginger and Blackcurrent because I can feel a slight tickle in throat. What you got?" Well I have a strong coffee to get through the first hour followed by another one to get me to lunchtime. I was sat a desk today going through some work and the guy had a desk full of fruity teas. All sorts of various flavours he had. (Owen's desk if anyone from work is reading, Matt you can probably borrow some off him or have a Strawberry and Mango from your better half)

Got to love a good detox ;-)

Mrs Palace Fan is drinking them at the moment but that is because she does not have caffeine.

Her fav flavour is Pear and Apple; Whats your favorite flavour or even strangest mix you have seen?

Come on don't be scared to comment on here....

iMac update

The latest is that TNT are saying that I should have the mac tomorrow. The TNT site though says it is in Holland. Fingers crossed that tomorrow there is an update from my work omputer to say it has arrived.

I should also get my copy of Football Manager 2006 tomorrow. Think this might be taking a bit of time before chosen one comes.

Today is 3 weeks to go before the due date :-0

footy, Bangs, iMacs and Gti

Went to the footy yesterday and watched a great match but saw a crap ref. When Warnock from Sheff Utd says that the ref had a great game you know something is wrong we lost 2-3. Got an international break and then the grudge rematch against Brighton.

Our friends came up yesterday with my godson and his sister. Had a small firework display in the garden, not for long though :-0, after a couple of fireworks went a bit haywire in the garden and nearly set the hedges alight we went over to the park over the road to finish it off. Managed to get a small crowd that lasted all of one firework . They saw us light it and run like the wind only for the most pathetic firework to fizz and then go out. The small crowd went straight off after that.

The iMac is finally starting it's journey to me. It has started to ship from Shanghai (3/11) so hopefully it wont be too long. We have bought our parents web cams so that they can see Chosen One via our built in iSight on the iMac. Need to get it to work between the Mac and PC using iChat and AIM.

We have decided to keep the little 206 and see how we get on with it before rushing out and getting a larger one. One huge reason is best explained with an example; we went down to Swiss Cottage to get a few bits and bobs and parking is tight but hey with a nippy little 206 we managed top get there quick and straight into a tiny gap to park. Now if we had anything bigger it just would not of fitted and we would of been going round and round for ages.

Its grim up north but they love their dogs xx

I saw this today on email :-0

You have to love the judge's comments.
News from Yorskhire
Extract from the Yorkshire Evening Post:

"A drunk who claimed he had been raped by a dog was yesterday jailed for 12 months by a judge. Martin Hoyle, 45, was arrested by police after a passing motorist and his girlfriend found a Staffordshire bull terrier, called Badger, having sex with him at the side of a road in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.

Prosecutor Ben Crosland said the couple had stopped to help because they thought Hoyle was being attacked by the animal. But when they got closer they saw that he had his trousers round his ankles, was down on all fours and the dog was straddling him from behind.

"The defendant mumbled something about the dog having taken a liking to him," said Mr Crosland. "The couple were extremely offended and sickened by what they saw." Another passing motorist contacted the police and Hoyle was arrested as he walked with the dog down the road.

Hoyle, of East view, Marsh, Huddersfield, told police "I can't help it if the dog took a liking to me. He tried to rape me."

He repeated the rape allegation at the police station and added "The dog pulled my trousers down." Hoyle, who has had a long-standing alcohol problem, was jailed for 12 months after he admitted committing an act which outraged public decency.

His barrister said Hoyle had no memory of the incident because of his drunken state, but was now very remorseful and incredibly embarrassed.

Jailing him, Judge Alistair McCallum told Hoyle "Never before in my time at the bar or on the bench have I ever had to deal with somebody who voluntarily allowed himself to be buggered by a dog on the public highway. Frankly it is beyond most of our comprehension. It is an absolutely disgusting thing for members of the public to have to witness

Story is Here

Thanks for the Palace comments, big hello to another Palace fan called James.

Baby News: Faye has now finished work and looking forward to "resting"