Complete Strangers Wave at Me!

I'm guessing it's along the same path as the Macintosh. When you buy a Mac, you don't buy a computer, you buy into a community. About 10 months ago we bought a new car (second hand, but well worth it). As our family is expanding, we decided either to go for an MPV or an Estate. Well we narrowed it down, and found the ideal car which left the competition behind.

The Fiat Multipla is by far the ugliest car on the planet. My friends call it the pope-mobile, however I either call it a duck billed platypus, or (because of the colour of the car, and my uncle's history with gerry anderson) Thunderbird 2.

I have to admit, that when I first bought the car, and drove it around, it made me beam with delight, and I quite often had urges to wave at other multipla drivers as they passed by. However, my wife managed to surpress those urges in me. But even now, there's other multipla drivers that happily wave at me for no other reason than we have the same type of car, and are completely over the moon about it.

As I said before, it's the same sort of issue as with Macs, when you start using them, you just can't give them up. But with the Multipla story, it may have a shorter lifespan than expected. Fiat have changed the ugly part of the car...


It's no longer that ugly, but at the same time, I feel it loses it's identity. Despite it being a fantastic car, I fear that may not now be enough. But please feel free to give me a wave in your Multipla as you drive by!

Long Time, No See.
Ok, ok let's see what's been happening since May...
Both our boys (Thomas and Reuben) have grown and developed a fair bit, and now we're expecting our third (from the scans we think another boy).
Reuben, I've mentioned, was diagnosed as Hemi-Plegic, but he's an absolute raving looney none the less. He's as stubborn as a rock, and then some, which is good for his situation, but sometimes hard for us to deal with.
Thomas we think may have something along the lines of 'Semantic Pragmatic Language Disorder' Which means he has a good intelligence, but bad social skills. We had a school photo taken of the boys, and they look absolutely fantastic. I wouldn't swap them for any other child in the world.

Summer Hols were fantastic at Bible week, and I'm looking forward to next years too.

My old Mac died (Blue & White G3), so it got replaced with an eMac, which... I've probably mentioned already.

I dropped and broke my old Treo 600, which was given to me in the first place. Well gutted, it's been one of the most useful things to me recently. I sent it off through insurance, and they lost it! so I got a brand spanking new one instead off them Woohoo. So the first thing I did when I had it was to get hold of a rock solid case for it!!!

Now the biggie. I've been offered a job starting next year. It's not been finalised yet, and it may fall through, however it's the same pay, but a more relaxed environment. Taking advantage of my Graphic skills, also managing a small network of Macs and PC's. I'll be so happy to finally get out of my current job, where I'm not even appreciated for all I do. It'll be interesting to see who takes my role as Mac Guru after I'm gone.

Aw heck, I'm always at the end of an eMail.

Small Update...

Just downloaded a nifty little Mac Blogger tool called 'MarsEdit' which will hopefully help me keep this a bit more up-to-date.

Lots been going on, lots to talk about... but it's late, and I'm going to bed. G'night