As one door closes...................

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We are waiting for a decision from the powers that be about whether Hazel qualifies for the Disability Living Allowance. We had our eyes on a very nice Hyundai i30 5 door diesel automatic. Sadly, the new prices for 2011 - 2012 have placed it out of our range now. The i20 is still OK but it is quite a bit smaller and we are both quite tall and need good leg room. So I have been looking at the other cars again with particular interest in the new ones. When I was looking before, I was impressed by the Kia range but they didn't come into our price range for the size we needed at the time. There is now, however, a new Kia available which looks a much better proposition, The Soul. This looks very nice indeed and has a lot of headroom by the looks of it. It ticks the same boxes as the i30 and also fits the original parameters we were looking at. We need to have a look at it but, so far it may be our best option. 

Traumatic fun?

Just spent a difficult couple of hours looking at yet another SharePoint problem. The customer wanted to have a particular display style for her 'Announcements' web part. Easy peasy.............not. Every time I changed it to the way she wanted it to be, the whole darn page re-positioned itself. So I got the boss involved and it did it for him as well. Eventually we came to the conclusion that it was one of the site graphics causing the problem, shifted it and lo it all worked properly. When I contacted the customer, she expressed joy and said, "I always thought there was something funny about those pictures, they didn't work properly for me either.....".

Things to come

A pleasant weekend with the children again. We had Samuel and Keane on Friday evening and Saturday morning. Then just Samuel until the evening and also the following morning. Sally went off to Lunnon on Sunday and dropped into a bar to hand over a CV and landed a trial out of it so she may be ok there. The final hearing of the court case today, all ended well. We should be able to start work on the house within the next couple of weeks with luck. I wasn't there but the judge was, apparently, very helpful to all concerned and made sure all parties were happy with his time scale. Now, our main worry is that Ian and Lulu get a reasonable home to move into whilst we work the oracle on their old one. The whole job may take as long as ten years but, eventually, it will be theirs again.

The last of series Dr Who on Saturday was pretty good and there looks to be a good show starting on Sky1 this evening, "Terra Nova"  is produced by Spielberg so it should be pretty good. It's claimed to be the most expensive TV series ever so I expect to see the money on screen.

"Kof Kof!"

A week of unalloyed pleasure, not! Sunday and Monday with a fever - not pleasant on a hot day - and Tuesday sleeping it off while turning into a chesty cough. The cough is still with me and seems likely to continue until the end of the weekend. I have, however, managed to clear a fair few logs this week so my averages are up to normal again. I also managed to begin my Christmas shopping and have already procured four presents with plans for three more.

Hazel has been pretty good until this morning and is even beginning to pick up again now. She is still changing her drug levels though so nothing is safe yet. Like me, most of her medications are not intended to be taken with any of the others. Dispensers cringe when we walk in to the shop.

but looks as though she might!

Thanks Max, always one of my favourites.

It's been a busy day already with several major jobs finished and packed away. My eye is still a bit painful but much better than yesterday so I live in hopes of tomorrow. Hazel was good again this morning, if only we could find out what causes either the good or the bad days we could do something about her pain. I had the unusual pleasure this morning of sitting in an office with a good view over the main campus and watching the university wake up. It was fascinating to see how the various groups arrived and began their day. The workmen from the building site first, then the staff of the union shop followed by huge swathes of school children on guided tours and, eventually, a few bleary eyed students.

Is the girl who says she never does.....................

One more day!

It's sad really, I'm getting more fun out of the poem than I am from anything else at the moment. Hazel was not well this morning and, due to changing my eye drops, I have been in some pain as well. Not the greatest day of our lives. The final roofing project is just brilliant though, I was moved to say that it looked beautiful. It's a very light grey and just stunning as a very large area. Once the cats get at it, however, it will quickly turn to dark brown spots. The job yesterday was tiring but ultimately satisfying until I checked one of the modules this morning. I then began to notice just how much was missing from the front page. I tried to pull it back but gave up and have handed the mess to the web team.

And I think you'll say I'm right.....

It's coming.............

I have just spent about half a day correcting a mistake made by one of our lecturers on a module site. The thing that really got to me is not that she made the mistake but that the software was not protected so that she couldn't do it. When a site is created for a module site, a few very important parts of it are coded into it. These parts are not always where the new owners of the site want them but, as they don't work anywhere else, tough! Until they try to move them..................... Then the small cuddly bear hits the windmill. The parts can not only be moved, they can be cut and pasted. This makes them totally useless immediately. Well done guys, instantly useless web site. Even after we worked out how it had happened, we had to work out how to reinstate the code in such a way that it worked and didn't interfere with any of the code still in place. This took a lot of thought and clenched buttocks to test it out. Fortunately, we got it right and were able to document the whole sorry mess in case, or when, it happens again. There must be some way of stopping access to this code, surely?