I was browsing thru our latest picture batch, and I saw these ones we took of Kojack not long ago, he is sporting some shirts the wife bought him 
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Love the pictures, he is a great cat, but sometimes I wonder if he thinks he is a dog … most cats shy away from people hugging them, this one just wants to be cuddled and hugged by the wife and kids al the time, except my youngest daughter, he runs when he sees her, she is a little “rough” with him, hehe 
Im too sexy for my Hair
Ok, so what does a 33 year old Managing Director (Thats Chief Executive for the US folks) of 2 very tech companies gets for XMAS ?
A nice briefcase ? a laptop ? a silk tie ?, one of those “how to become a better manager” over priced books ?
Naah .. Santa (AKA the wife) got me not what I needed, but exactly what I wanted this year .. a Nitro Powered, 1/10th dual gear automatic RC Car
Look at that engine .. cant wait to power it up this weekend and go play…
I was impressed .. every year she tries to impress me with tech gizmos, the kind of stuff the Executive in me should have, this year she decided it was the inner-child on myself that really loved XMAS and it was time to please that child instead .. and pleased I am
So now it’s time to buy some nice alloy’s for it…
Today my youngest daughter (Sierra) was hospitalized for a scheduled operation to replace the tubes on her ears.
The operation was no big deal, and she did brilliant, she had had it already once before, and it’s a procedure very common on young children who tend to get allot of ear infections at that age (Sierra is 3).
A few months back, my 4 years old daughter Savannah had also had the same operation in that same hospital, so today the staff there had a surprise for the wife, one of the pictures they took of Savannah and a clown a few months back, was on the main page of their Autumn Magazine.
What can I say, they have good taste.
So of course, being the proud parents we always are, we had to scan it and send it out to everybody in the family
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Today I started a new chapter on what I hope to be a healthier lifestyle.
Since I got married for the second time in 2000, and shortly after gave up smoking, that I started to put on weight, eventually I stopped “enlarging” around 2003, but now that my kids are growing, I don’t want them to see me as a fat blob and think it’s ok, so I decided to get on a routine, more healthy eating habits and to bike the 1.7 miles to work and back every day.
Now, of course this is England, so it means .. I got a short window of time of when I can do it, but hopefully I can make the most of it.
Amazingly enough, it took me just 13 minutes this morning to bike the distance to work, I arrived with my legs feeling like bricks and my lungs were feeling as if I had smoke a pack of cigarettes one one go, but still, it was quite easier than I tough.
The bike I bought is called a “Skedaddle Montana Cruiser” .. funny story there also, I had seen a bike like this for sale used on ebay, but was missing the rear rack, so I decided to look who the manufacturer was and try to get a new one, after searching for a week and calling every major bike shop in the UK I finally found out the manufacturer of these bikes was called “Cycle Citi” and their warehouse and offices went up in flames last year.
yeah, it’s funky looking, thats why I love it
Decided to dig a bit more and eventually I was able to find their new site and phone, after a bit of sweet talking on the phone, I managed to convince them to sell me one of the bikes they had salvage from the fire (they put some of their stock that didn’t burn on a warehouse in Wales).
I drove tot he warehouse and was quite shocked, allot of the boxes were pitch black from the ashes of the fire, but luckily the bike I wanted was on a separate section that was undamaged.
So long story short, I now no longer need to drive 45-60 minutes to Manchester every day, I can just take a leisurely stroll on a fairly flat route to work, and try t get a little bit in shape in the process .. I dont know what I will do in the winter, I will try a raincoat .. see how it works
It’s official, starting today I am in debt up to my ears, but I am also a homeowner in the UK.
We got the keys to our new home in Sandbach at 5:00 PM EST, we then took a drive to the property to check how the old owners left it, we were pleased, they removed everything they had to and didn’t left a mess to clean up.
My Co-Workers are actually amazed a the speed and efficiency of our purchase experience, 2 other people in the office bought properties the past month, and their experience was allot worst than mine, actually, I cant fault mine at all, I kept bugging the solicitors to get moving, and they did .. so it pays to be a pain i guess 
We wont be moving until the 1st of April, we decided to install new carpets and paint some of the rooms in the house first, this way when we move in, we dont have to mess around with furniture in order to pain and re-carpet.
This is the second house we own, the first was a pre-fab in Florida, which was 1/13th of the price of this one (yeah .. split this house price by 13 .. thats what we paid for our Florida one), house prices in the UK are insane .. but what can you do, one needs a place to cal home.
And the amazing thing is, this is the North of england, where housing is actually cheaper .. this place down South and you can double the price… ouch.
But hey, we are ecstatic, we have a place of our own, on a great and safe community, were we can raise our kids and hopefully, just be happy
We have just returned from our Paris/Erurodisney Holiday.
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Today I am “sick as a dog” .. now, I hardly ever seen a sick dog, so I don’t understand were the term comes from.
Whatever the term, I feel like shit .. my daughters have been sick, and I got whatever both of them had, doubled, and with a vengeance .. my throat hurts,, I got a high fever, I pulled a muscle on my neck from coughing and blowing my nose … and I literally “look like shit” also :p
So I stay home from work today, no sense in going there and getting the other guys sick as well.
I need to get my tonsils removed, they are so prone to infection, and every time I get a small cold, they make it even worst.
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Today was Savannah’s first day at school, we got her all outfitted with her school uniform, she looked very adorable,, and very British.
When we got there, the teacher tough her the procedures and then she went outside to play, part of me was very sad to see her go outside on her own, on a place she never been before, surrounded by kids she is no acquainted with also, but the other part of me know it’s OK, she will be fine and start making new friends right away.
We usually take the girls to the creche on Saturdays,, and they play there for a couple hours while we shop, and it’ been OK because they go together, to see one of them go on by herself was the tough part .. my girls are growing before my eyes, and I need to adapt to it.
I’m a very protective person, and it is tough to accept your kids will bee away form you our your spouse for such a long period of the day, and you relegate the task of keeping them safe to others .. very tough .. as one always believes nobody else can keep one’s kids as safe as one self ..
I just don’t want her to think we abandoning her at that place called school, or for her to be scared or hungry, cold, hot, [...], lonely, or anything else but happy.
But in the end, she seems to have loved it, and will be going back tomorrow (and every day from now on) .. I guess it bothers me more than it bothers her
Today I took on the task of cleaning the car .. the kids make a constant mess on the back, and there were papers, toys, fast-food wraps, everything on the back-seat floor and trunk.
Once I was done, I had a full trash-bag (and not a small one, but a big black bin liner) .. who the heck do you get a trash-bag full of crap form a back-seat.
Easy .. drive around with a 2 and a 3 year old
Once it was clean, washed and vacuumed it was new again, I love to look at a nice clean car .. hopefully it will be clear for more than 24 hours this time.
… to Manchester
Today (July 15th) we moved to manchester .. I went down to a local rent-a-van place were I got an Iveco white van to load up al our stuff, after driving the Iveco for 1/2 a mile I retuned back and asked for a different one, the steering wheel shaft was too close to the pedals, and my foot kept on getting stuck
30 minutes later and I was loading up a Fort Transit
I drove to Manchester by myself .. and the 3 hour drive would have been very pleasant, was not for a snag on M6 were it took me 1 hour to drive 500 feet.
I made it just on time to meet with the realtor and get the key .. after that I drove by the office were I dropped my computer, I made it back to Cardiff at about 1:00 AM
Then at 9:00 AM I returned the Van, packed the Multipla with the family and away we were to start a new life in Mancs
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