We had a big weekend with a pre-season football carnival on Saturday and it was Alex's 13th birthday. My baby boy is growing up. He got home from the camp about 3 on Friday afternoon and it was up early Saturday for football. He scored a try in the first game and managed to get a kick in the head in one of the tackles and ended up very groggy with an egg on his forehead. It was a beautiful day, starting out cool but quite hot.
The Crusty Demons were on in Wagga and Alex went with Daniel and Zeke so we had to head over to Wagga straight after football. The carnival was all about representative selections, but I think Alex was more interested in the Crusty Demons. Carly went too with a couple of friends. I looked after Riley until Lauren came home from work but he slept the whole time. Later Emily came around with Scarlett and Daniel's sister, Tiana, turned up so we cooked up and all had dinner together. It was nice.
When the boys got back, Zeke was so animated telling us all about the big jumps and backflips, it was priceless. The all had a great time, the only negative being that it finished too early. We got home around 10 so Alex could get back to his birthday present: Guitar Hero - Legends of Rock. He used to spend every minute playing the demo in Wagga when we went shopping, and was thrilled to get it.
Dad is still very sick in the hospital and it doesn't look like he'll be going home any time soon. He still can't get around and is hooked up to the oxygen. Trying to talk to a doctor is nearly impossible. I rang there 3 times today but with no luck. I talked to Dad on Saturday for about 20 minutes but he doesn't sound so hot. I'm sure he's still very sore and wouldn't be able to move much without pain. We can only wait and hope he improves with time. At this stage there's not much point in flying up there. I'd only be visiting the hospital and since I can ring him on his mobile phone I'm able to keep up to date. Being over 1000 km away is very frustrating though.
Work is hectic too. For the last two weeks I've been cleaning up all the old computers ready for sale. It meant wiping the hard drives and reinstalling the original operating systems. Today I packaged up about 15 of them with monitors, keyboards and mice, and bought 2 of them. One for Alex and another for a friend of mine. They're a real bargain. Alex is definitely in need of an upgrade and the computer I got him has 1 GB Ram, a big improvement on his current one. We'll give his old one to his cousin. I still have another 5 computers to fix up, then we can get rid of the lot. We've been falling over them for months at work. The Department of Planning wants all our stats for the first half of this financial year too, and I've been printing off reports so I can complete the spreadsheet they've given us. It's a lot of work and will take a couple of weeks to complete. I have another similar job to research the number of dwellings and subdivisions over the last 6 years, which is also going to take considerable time. Five o'clock comes around before I realise it. But that's a good thing.
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