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Showing posts with label -2004 2005. Show all posts

31 December 2005

Event highlights (Cambridge years: 2004 - 2005)


Cambridge life

  • Watching all the movies on the IMDB.com top 250
  • Punting
  • Botanical Gardens
  • Library and crepes
  • Sally visit
  • Mum and mike visit
  • Caroline visits
  • Granchester


Day and weekend trips

  • London sightseeing (including Buckingham Palace)
  • Turner Whistler Monet exhibition in London
  • Last Night at the Proms
  • Mamma Mia in London
  • Cheshire Triathlon
  • East Bourne
  • Fri night skate
  • Jessie's wedding
  • Sandringham Estate
  • Suffolk with Amanda and Johnathon
  • Visits to Gus and Carol
  • Sailing with Gus


Holidays and trips

  • Diving in Egypt
  • Prague
  • Canada
  • West Australia
  • Jersey & Guernsey


Business Trips

  • Gothenburg
  • Stockholm
  • Copenhagen
  • Salzberg
  • Dublin
  • Munich
  • North Carolina (training for Volvo trucks)
  • Belley
  • Amsterdam
  • Madrid
  • Lison
  • Brussels


Create

  • Life Trove
  • Gramps eulogy
  • Volvo site + Strategy documents + Denmark SPM map
  • Volvo CE web strategy
  • Ally board presentation


Hiking

  • Myburgh Ravine (Russell)
  • Edith Pass (Banff)

8 June 2005

Non fiction books read (Cambridge years: 2004 - 2005)

Personal Development

  • Getting Things Done (David Allen)
  • Don't Sweat the Small Stuff (Richard Carlson)
  • The Tipping Point (Malcolm Gladwell)





History

  • A Brief History of the Human Race (Michael A. Cook)




15 May 2005

Gratitude (2004 - 2005)


Cambridge life

  • Our flat in Cambridge that I hunted
  • Love Film service
  • Botanical Gardens next door
  • Rollerblading
  • Tennis with colleague and at gym


Life Trove

  • Starting my blog in 2004
  • Used the blogger platform
  • My wonderful Ixus i camera


Volvo

  • Duxford so close to Cambridge
  • The amazing people at Volvo
  • Matts - a wonderful boss
  • Caroline
  • The cafeteria especially the roast 


Australia organising

  • Ally's encouragement to move to Australia
  • Ally organised our paperwork for Australia

1 May 2005

Connect (Cambridge years: 2004 - 2005)


Friends and family

  • Amanda and Johnathon
  • Wilga and Norman


Volvo

  • Mats
  • Caroline
  • Andreas
  • Andrew
  • Dorothy
  • Richard
  • Sharon
  • Brian
  • Charlie
  • Jay
  • Mark Vicner
  • Martin Soderlund
  • Greg Peacock
  • Carl Lilleroth
  • Hubert Musconi
  • Chris & Donal


Expressing appreciation

  • Gramps eulogy
  • Letters to Mike
  • E-mail to everyone at Volvo
  • Letter to Caroline
  • E-mail to everyone at Volvo


Ally

  • Ally HR plan
  • Ally's delight when I showed her Brooklands Court
  • Punting picnic along the River Camb
  • Our mutual love of our orchid

31 March 2005

Progress (Cambridge life: 2004 - 2005)


Cambridge life

  • Finding apartment
  • Meditation for a year
  • Ally HR plan


Diving

  • Learn diving (Paddy course) in Egypt


Blogging and photography

  • Start Life Trove with blogger
  • Start photography
  • Ixus-i to start, then Canon Powershot for Canada
  • Capturing memories into Excel (to later become part of the blog)
  • Picasa


Volvo work

  • Finding passion and confidence in work
  • Managing budget (pivot table)
  • Mindmanager (for to do & strategy)
  • Technical Director job description
  • Getting Things Done (David Allen)


Purchases

  • Canon S2 IS camera (12 x zoom)
  • i-pod
  • Canon ixus-i camera

3 March 2005

Priceless moments (Cambridge years: 2004 - 2005)


Blogging and photography

  • Starting my blog and photography (an instant love affair)
  • Learning to use Dreamweaver and creating a site around the blog
  • Bird in flight in colleges


Cambridge living

  • Finding and moving into our Cambridge apartment
  • Library (for movies)
  • Cambridge crepes
  • Gym & tennis (with Louis)
  • Rollerblading
  • John Barleycorn ribs
  • Picnics
  • River and punting
  • Botanical Garden
  • Cycling along river
  • Dinner with Amanda and Johnathon and by the fire
  • Ally's face as she fed the lambs at Wimpole Estate
  • Meeting up with Nicky (rollerblading, Lion King)


Volvo

  • Volvo.com meetings (Bokenas, Rostaried)
  • Abba party and dancing forfeit on table
  • Barbecue at Matts - whole clove of garlic!
  • Mindmanager
  • Getting Things Done
  • Tennis with Louis
  • Volvo Sailing day
  • Making Mark and co laugh in Gothenburg


Trips


UK
  • Weekend away in East Bourne with Colleen and Steve
  • Cliffs where scatter ashes

Egypt, Prague
  • Diving in Dahab
  • Ride on a horse ridden carriage (Prague)

Canada
  • Zip lining in Canada
  • Rollerblade Stanley Park
  • The Grind walk
  • Lake Louise

Business trips
  • Amsterdam conference with Volvo (Ally with me)
  • Shopping in Greensboro (i-pod, rollerblades, clothes galore)
  • Driving on icey roads in Greensboro
  • Snow in Greensboro with Caroline - driving
  • Iguazu Falls and seeing Toucans

Western Australia
  • Birding in Australia
  • Shannon National Park (cosy hut, dam, forest walk, little shop)
  • Geo caching (Lighthouse & Magazine) - Macavity the Cat
  • Rottnest Island (bicycles, camping, lighthouse, quokka, restaurant, birding)
  • Snuggling up in the cosy cabin at Shannon National Park
  • Lunch at Margarrette's River - and a gorgeous parrot, river walk


Movies


2005



2004



31 January 2005

Insights (Cambridge life: 2004 - 2005)


Don't sweat the small stuff 

  • Everything passes.
  • Let others be right. Choose being kind over being right.
  • Instead of judging, be an anthropologist.
  • Accept the moment as it is.
  • You are what you practice most.
  • 100 years from now, we'll all be gone from the planet.
  • Don't be fooled by your low moods.
  • Everyone is a teacher, here to teach you about yourself.
  • Let go of need for approval.  You can't please all.  Even landslide victory is 55%


Getting Things Done (David Allen)

  • Collect it all. Now (2 mins), actions, someday.
  • What's the next action?
  • What's the purpose.
  • Mind like water.
  • To do in Mindmanager

24 July 2004

Affirmation (Cambridge life: 2004 - 2005)

 

The Blog

  • Take photos of colleges etc.


Ally

  • Finding apartment in Cambridge
  • HR plan: "I just want to say that I have the best husband in the world! He kept me calm, was unbelievably supportive and when the chips were down he came through for me. G, just in case I haven't said it enough times you are fantastic!"


Volvo CE

  • Dealer website presentation and roll out
  • Used Equipment project (Mascus)
  • Sales & Marketing Master Plan (Volvo)
  • Selling in dealer sites
  • E-business strategy ppt (Volvo)
  • SPM presentation  (to managers, in Mindmanager)
  • Managing budget (pivot table)
  • Technical Director job description
  • Building Violin for Europe
  • Matt's marketing role strategies (in Mindmanager)
  • Mindmanager


Volvo praise

  • Steve Johnson and Charlie - mature beyond years
  • Mats - say so much in a sentence
  • Asa - I'm your greatest admirer!
  • Caroline very impressed


Personality

  • Naughty Santa at The Hardcore Hiking Club Xmas party


Life Trove

  • I stumbled upon your blog... …and just wanted to tell you how absolutely beautiful it is! The photography is breathtaking. It only fuels my lifelong passion to visit the UK. Thanks for blogging.
  • Your blog is incredible, as is this post! Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Louis (size of universe)  
  • I love your home- page. It's the best one I've ever seen, and the spiritual vibes vibe totally with my own. I've been dreaming about my home-page for a while and I imagined something like yours (before I saw it). Unfortunately you're 35 years in front of me, so I can't catch up. Definitely your friend.
  • Robyn:  Love your photo's. Love your news of outings, sightings and family. Thank you over, and over again, for keeping everything posted and up to date. Visiting your blog is one of the highlights of my week.
  • Robyn:  Have brought my Dad in to see your blog. Ally is taking him though the site showing him a bit of everything. he is amazed by the technology and the fact that you will have this scrapbook for your children's children. Reminds me of the Egyptian belief that, if your name is kept alive, then you are immortal.
  • Tony Carlyon:  I just have to say that I have never been so impressed with either a blog, photographs, or someone’s life in general. I am amazed by everything you have done, and even more amazed that you have documented it so scrupulously, and have been kind enough to share it with everyone else! Thank you! 
  • What fun to surf here, it must not have been a mistake since I enjoyed it so much! Best wishes from Michigan, USA

17 July 2004

Spiritual moments (2004, 2005)

 


15 July 2004

Challenges (Cambridge years: 2004 - 2005)


Financial stress 

  • Getting out of tax net (Nic input, compiling spreadsheet, dealing with KPMG, expense, that night in Duxford)
  • Fund closes, dollar weakness
  • Selling house in Cape Town


Volvo CE

  • Sarah leaves
  • Budget review with Donal
  • Volvo splash-page
  • Taking over Andrew's role
  • Volvo extranet presentation: feel Donal's judgement
  • Ander's irritation when I moved into main section
  • SPM - mindblank


More

  • Fixated on Ally getting fat
  • Bad trip Amsterdam
  • Kitchen counter damaged
  • Shoulder pain

3 January 2004

Cambridge years (2004 & 2005)

"Living in Cambridge, with nature around you, it's so fresh."   Syd Barrett



The best of times

My two years in Cambridge have been amongst the happiest of my life.  So many highlights and great memories.  Cambridge is such a beautiful and relaxed university town with gorgeous, photogenic colleges and green gardens and parks, especially along the banks of the River Cam. 

We stayed in a wonderful apartment  with views of a lush garden and a bowling green.  Also, we were right next to the Cambridge Botanical Gardens (with our own secret entrance) and the River Cam was just 5 minutes walk away.

It was while living in Cambridge that I started this blog as a way to keep my family updated with our lives.  I started taking photos with a little Ixus i camera and gradually photography became a real passion which continues to this day.  Cambridge is so rich in opportunities for photography, especially the beautiful colleges at dusk.


In and around Cambridge

We really made the most of living in Cambridge and enjoyed many fun activities.  Highlights included:

Home life

Friends and visits

Photography

Walking, cycling, punting

Exploring and enjoying


Further afield in the UK

We also did plenty of trips to further afield in the UK.  Highlights included:

Day trips

London

Weekends away


Outside the UK

Ally and I also had some fun trips and holidays outside the UK.  These included:
  • A visit to see our family and friends in Cape Town
  • Learning to dive in Egypt in the Red Sea - and amazing experience
  • Spending time with our Canadian family and seeing some fantastic sights (including Vancouver and The Rockies)
  • A weekend visit to Prague
  • A wonderful weekend in Gothenberg just before Xmas to show Ally the lights
  • Taking Ally with me on a business trip to Amsterdam - it no longer felt like work
  • Ally coming with me on a business trip to Belley in France 


Working at Volvo

I worked at Volvo headquarters in Duxford, just outside Cambridge and was responsible for the European public web site and the dealer extranet.  I also got to drive a whole lot of global projects.  It was a fun job with great people and I got to travel a lot which was a big bonus.

Here are some of my best memories of my time at Volvo:

The people
  • The fantastic people from the Duxford Office, Europan dealers, Volvo IT North America Team, Volvo Group Web Council and CMS Services. I'll miss them all.
  • Mats - best boss I've had and great fun to work with too.
  • Working with Caroline and becoming great friends.
  • Great laughs with Andrew and Richard - even if our sense of humour is not always the cleanest
  • Punting with work friends in summer and getting dive bombed.
  • Volvo Wedding Fever
  • The whole Mr Andrew Titley saga.
  • Lunch time walks around Duxford with Dorothy, Katarina, Henrik and Anna - past the pink house and the pink car.

The work

The Duxford Office
  • Being able to see and touch what we sell - yellow machines - a nice change after the intangibleness of financial services.
  • Watching herons on the Volvo Lake around our Duxford offices.

Get togethers and parties

Food
  • The Volvo caffetaria in Duxford - especially the sweet chili sauce and the roast on Thursdays
  • Ribs and shandy at the John Barleycorn (the local pub in Duxford).
  • The Volvo Xmas hamper and Xmas dinner.
  • Work dinners at good old Nandos.
  • Barbecues at Mats and overdoing the garlic in the Tsatsiki just a tad. Then getting on the wrong train to Whittlesford and ending up in London.
  • The delicious Chololate biscuits served at the meetings at Volvo Headquarters.
  • Smaka restaurant in Gothenberg.

Farewells


Business trips
  • The "joys" (not!) of Gothenberg City Airport and Stansted on a Monday morning.
  • Visiting Sweden multiple times - there was one time I knew Gothenberg better than Cambridge
  • Visiting LisbonMadridSalzbergBrusselsMunich, Dublin, Amsterdam, Eskilstuna, Hannover, Copenhagan, Gothenberg, (many times!), Stockholm, and Belley.
  • Visiting every Head Quarters in the Volvo Group (Volvo Group HQVolvo CE, Volvo Penta, Volvo Trucks, Volvo Aero, Volvo Bus) and trying out their caffetarias.
  • White river rafting in Asheville including Andrew's rifle shot faart in the boat.
  • Visiting North Caroline in the US (particularly the beautiful scenery around Asheville)
  • Gothenberg (particularly summer meetings at Bokenas, winter meetings at Rastaried , Xmas outings at Liseberg).
  • Driving from Greensboro to Asheville (with Andrew) and ending up in Virginia by mistake
  • Driving around Greensboro with Caroline in the snow and getting lost.
  • Getting locked out of my hotel room in Sweden half naked - and having to go to reception to get another.
  • Having to don an oxygen mask on a Ryan Air flight - nothing like a near death experience
  • Test driving a dump truck and excavator in Eskilstuna.
  • Spending time with Helen and Martin Jerresand and playing with little Carla.


Favourite books
  • Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
  • His Dark Materials (Mark Pullman)
  • Woman in White (Collins)
  • A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson)


Top movies
  • Return of the King (2005)
  • Crash (2004)
  • Million Dollar Baby (2004)
  • Kill Bill Vol 2 (2004)


Related

2 January 2003

Dairy (Apr 2004 - Apr 2005)



date I S
08-Apr-04 2 2 Pat O Donnell.  Not enough dealer sites. Stress visible to work mates.
09-Apr-04 5 3 4 day easter weekend.  Worried about work.  Watch Nosferatu & Dune & Spartacus.
10-Apr-04 5 4 Watch movies.  Start in bad mood, improve once do some used equipment presentation.   Hitchcock, Name of Rose
11-Apr-04 9 7 Usual Suspects.  More used equipment presentation for board.  See Great Tit.  Walk along river.  River houses.  Wrote "moment".  Wrote down Gramps letters. Elephant Man.  
12-Apr-04 9 6 Walk with Amanda & Johnathon, birding at Welney (5 new ones), Once Upon a Time in America
13-Apr-04 7 7 phone dealers.  Pat O Donell looks better.  Work good.  Leave work @ 7 pm.  Nooky with Ally (stayed home).  
14-Apr-04 9 6 phone lots of dealers, work great, sit outside, pub with colleagues, watch Apocolypse now, exercise, sign on for triathlon
15-Apr-04 8 6 meditate pre work great!  Brainstorm with Sarah re site mapping (brilliant), Caroline tit tat, phone lots dealers, rest of Apocolypse Now, tired and grumpy after work
16-Apr-04 8 6 Mats saw POD & didn't mind.  Saw One Flew Over Cuckoo Nest.  Captured 100 top reads.  Worked on computer till too late!
17-Apr-04 10 6 RSBC reserve.  Saw spotted thrush.  Library for videos & CD's - Tom Jones.  Crepes for lunch.  39 Steps.  Worked on "moments" for many hours.
18-Apr-04 9 7 Working on treasure trove all day.  African Queen.  Shopping.  Birds list almost complete. Nookie. Start  "God of Small Things"
19-Apr-04 7 4 Nipples sore.  Anxious Monday.  Update meetings.  Andrew back.  Used equipment prices.  "Psycho".  Rollerblading in dark.
20-Apr-04 7 6 UE presentation (no sweat).  Branding presentation.  John Barleycorn for lunch.  "All About Eve"  Caroline & I friendly again
21-Apr-04 6 4 Sore back & neck.  Site map meeting with Carl was cool.  POD going fine.  Roert Aebi said no.  Out for drink with work mates.
22-Apr-04 7 4 Amsterdam.  Do presentation.  Relax on way.  See Margo at Kuiken.  Watch Dutch videos & ramble round red light district.
23-Apr-04 7 7 Return Amsterdam.  Lucnh walk.  Great meeting with Mats re site map.  Work on moments. Sore shoulder. Meet Andreas re salary.  Activities excel.  Great spiritual chat with Ally
24-Apr-04 8 5 Minsmere reserve (3 new birds).  Movies from Library.  Good, Bad & Ugly.  Very sore shoulder.
25-Apr-04 8 7 Used equipment.  To Granchester for lunch.  Nookie.  Casablanca.  Sore shoulder still, but ok.   Life of Birds.  Calculate time frame for earth - inspiring.  Reach 70 top 100 movies!
26-Apr-04 7 7 Relaxing day at work. Late train.  Walk at lunch.   Sarah is brilliant, a real asset!  Work on birds.  Watch "The Others"
27-Apr-04 7 7 Went out to meditate twice at work.  Activities spreadsheet for team.  Space distances.  Reflective on time and space.  "Kill Bill 2" at cinema.  Leave work at 5:45.
28-Apr-04 4 2 Shoulder very sore. Work frustrating.  CMS system slow.  Not creating much.  Difficult with dealers.  Needed to sleep so went to bed at 7:30 pm.
29-Apr-04 7 7 Good meeting with Sarah. Meditate in loo!  Home early.  "Some like it hot"  Shoulder better. Update my movies.
30-Apr-04 6 8 Relaxing day at work,  Meditate at work again.  Logo hassles.  Richard has been away - missed plane.  Launch Munich.  Watch TV with Ally. 
01-May-04 8 7 Lots of time on Treasure Trove - reformatting & assessing April.  Shopping & library.  100 sexy moments.   Manhattan
02-May-04 8 7 "On the Waterfront"   Shopping.  Welney Reserve.  Gargenney.  Great nookie.  Good exercises.  Scrumptious dinner (lamb)
03-May-04 6 5 "The Hours"  Research evolution - order "Life on Earth" and book Prague.  Computer crashes on way to London.  Set off alarm and lose phone.  Whirlwind. Shoulder feeling good. 
04-May-04 8 5 Eurostar to Brussels to see VCM.  Time on quotes.  Start to collect top 100 songs.  Stay at Kerry's.
05-May-04 7 8 Arrive work at noon by train.  Clean up files on computer + docs toolbar.  Relaxed - meditate several times during day on train + plane.  Good brainstorm with Richard.  Plane to Hannover
06-May-04 8 9 Konicke goes well.  Relaxing day working in their office.  Plane home.  Relax several times.  Categorize quotes.  Counting one to ten going well.  Watch Ghandi and eat pizza.  All feels good.
07-May-04 9 8 Late to work.  Office 2003.  Great relaxing in loo.  David Attenborough box 2 arrives.  Buy Canon Ixus i.  Watch The Great Dictator.  Great nookie.  Tired from all late nights.
08-May-04 8 7 Library for books & CD's and crepe.  A Streetcar Named Desire.  Write letter to Ivor.  Get into video site.  The Graduate.  Good exercises.Homemade lamb dinner.
09-May-04 8 8 Late get up.  Meditate.  Tape music.  Research GPS systems.  Goto King's College for evensong (life goal).  Van Helsing.  Life on Earth
10-May-04 8 7 Used equipment is approved.  The Seventh Seal.  Fascinated by Bergman.  Buy cinema books.  Investigating diving holiday.  Macros on counts.  Send Ivor letter.
11-May-04 7 5 Budget panic - not taking salaries into account.  Expenses.  Giving Sarah the exciting stuff.  The Great Escape.  Angry with Ally re days off from work.  Shoulder ok.
12-May-04 7 6 Finish Kuiken site.  Brainstorming meeting with team.  La Tasca and jazz bar with colleages.  Out till 2 am.  Ally books for Egypt.  
13-May-04 8 5 Get to work late.  (Ray forget pick up!)  Not very motivated.   Mc Donalds.  Feeling a bit frazzled all day.  Shoulder sore.  Watch Run Lola Run.  Documentary re Great Escape. Rollerblade.
14-May-04 8 5 Designer comes in - animated.  Update meeting.  Finish Croatian dealer. Look at competitors.  Yahoo photos.  Last Life of Birds. Shoulder sore.  Blogging & photos online.
15-May-04 8 6 Spiritual tantric nookie.  Library .   Hair cut.  Lots more good nookie.  Mash. 100 greatest stars on channel 4.  Shoulder better.
16-May-04 8 6 Ben Hur.  Spellbound.  Life on Earth 2.  Reflect on insights. Cycle for Lonely Planet. Speak to mum and Jo. (Jo's birthday)
17-May-04 7 6 Very stressed start.  Taxi with Marie (French).  Computer hassles.  Camera arrives.  Kuiken said "wonderful".  Board presentation prepare.  Took Marie out for walk & dinner.  Bank transfers
18-May-04 7 3 Budget meetings.  Used equipment presentation for dealers.  Splash page presentation.  Sarah resigns.  What a shock!!  Groggy.  Start Notorious. 
19-May-04 6 3 Very wobbly, anxious start.  Create Sojac site.  Good meeting re VTC contact us tool.  Worried re budget.  Rest of Notorious.  Pizza.  Rollerblade.
20-May-04 6 5 A day of fiddling with budgets - feel like I won in end.  Brian not like splash page concept.  Rollerblade and basketball.  Pub.  Set up extranet & complete budget. 
21-May-04 7 6 Budget F2's. Do Koenicke site.   Mc Donalds.  Nookie.  Blogging update for week.  Set up scanner to scan old photos.  Bed at 3 am. 
22-May-04 9 6 Late wake up.  Shopping for table & library.  Learn to send photos to blog.  Very excited!  Sleep.  Watch Troy.  Inspired to write & create.  Worried re budget. Ally's passport arrives.
23-May-04 8 6 More blogging.  Lovely lunch on patio.  Walk in reserve close to flat.  The Hidden Fortress. Life in the Freezer.  Nookie.  Budget.  Record music.
24-May-04 7 7 Koenicke site.  More budget with Rachel.  Cabin Fever.  Do an hour's exercise & meditating.  Shoulder good.
25-May-04 6 6 Finishing Koenicke site.  Fligh to Gothenberg.  Stay at Caroline's.  Write poem re long jump.  Shoulder great
26-May-04 8 6 Drive to Bokenas on the coast.  Volvo.com meeting.  I lead a great presentation team.   Impress Charlie.  Go on quizz hike - phone for answers!  Great photos.  
27-May-04 7 7 Very tired.  Meetings in morning.  See Fieldfare.  Go for walk.  Goood meditation by sea.  Good chat with Caroline in car. Scenic drive. Framfab demo of contact us.  Park.  Flight.  Blog.  Bed.
28-May-04 7 6 Late to work.  Odd jobs - not too motivated.  Koenicke,  Finland dealer.  Mc Donalds.  Lift for Katriene to airport.  Magazines.  Bus & train to Imperial Hotel in Prague.
29-May-04 8 6 Walk through old city.  Town centre.  Charles Bridge.  Castle.  Lots of photos.  TJ Fridays dinner.  Prague by moonlight.  Horse driven carriage.  Perving.  
30-May-04 8 9 Walk in park. View from tower.  Read "Power of Now".    Great classical music in St Nicholas Church -  very spiritual.  Much meditation and reflection.  Great!
31-May-04 9 8 Brunch of cheese and meats.  Boat trip - meet Tony and Nicky.  Jewish cemetary and synagogues.  Write blog - hooked!  Great restaurant with view.  Meditiate while walk back.    
01-Jun-04 7 7 Volvo budget & dollar flutters.  Ally issue.  Communist museum - moving."  Back to London.  Blogging.  Real mixed day - but meditation at end saved it.  Power of Now.  Sugar diet
02-Jun-04 5 3 Panic attacks in am (budget).  Several dealers issues (esp Swecon & POD).  Feel like not achieving - and the pain is strong.  Harry Potter and Prisoner of Alcazam.  Adam's dad dies
03-Jun-04 8 6 Wake up feeling shit.  Get budget sorted - fretting unecessary!!  POD sorted.  Good work day!  Saving Private Ryan
04-Jun-04 10 6 PoD live after somescares - they're delighted.  HSBC internet banking.  Mindmapping software. Life map. Great nookie (relaxed) Blogging - HTML coding  Stay up to after 3 am. 
05-Jun-04 8 6 Blogging a lot.  Set up photo album.  Library for books & CD's.  Nookie.   Buy speakers.  Strawberry fair.  Picnic.  Some Gladiator
06-Jun-04 9 6 Create a web site and upload content .  Great!  The Day After Tomorrow.  D Day remembrances.  Calendar Girls
07-Jun-04 10 6 Kuiken says yes!  Find great mind map software.   Do map for Ally's carreer development.  Building my site based on treasure trove, inspired by Sarah's friend   CMS internal links dicovery.
08-Jun-04 9 7 Great site mapping meeting with group.  Ally's carreer development maps. John Livingston Seagull.  UE to Pat O Donnell.   Rollerblade.  Sit down meditation to music.  Need to switch off more - mind rampant.  Aware & trying.
09-Jun-04 7 5 Too much computing passion takes it's toll.  Tired, very sore shoulder, mind overworked.  Dizzy.  Usability company at Volvo for splash.  RFQ to Tony.   Untouchables.
10-Jun-04 8 6 Still paying price - tingling back.  Tired. Productive day at work - Swecon, SMIA email, logo etc. Goodfellas.  Clean flat.
11-Jun-04 7 7 logo resolved.   Tell PoD.  Inform Spanish dealer.  Benchmark.  Caroline visits from Sweden.  Work lunch @ John Barleycorn. Spanish Tapas.  Amazing nookie.
12-Jun-04 7 5 Shopping & library with Caroline.  Amilie.  Helping Ally with HR plan.  Tingly and stiff back.  Bad tempered later in night.
13-Jun-04 7 7 Ally's HR plan.  Granchester for lunch with Caroline.  Nookie.  Download dreamweaver.
14-Jun-04 9 6 Stay home for Ally.  Shoulder very sore.  Fantastic work on Ally's project - great stuff!  ROI, appendices etc.  Ally is so relieved & happy.  Nookie with paddle
15-Jun-04 6 6 Blog from Google toolbar.  Tired today.  Read some blogs.  Attempt to push Swecon site.  Sign up at doctor. Ally home for steak dinner.  Nature programs.  Very sore shoulder.  Order Frontpage.
16-Jun-04 6 6 Do lots of emailing.  Get Frontpage & Dreamweaver from work.  Start building a site in Dreamweaver.  Work hunched too long.
17-Jun-04 7 6 Go through all the domains.  Sarah's last day.  Initiate dealer logos.  Brief splash page.  Robyn loves blog.  Football at pub.  Browns.  Sarah touched with card & gift
18-Jun-04 8 7 Mutiny on the Bounty.  Learn lots re Dreamweaver.  Sweden draw in Euro. Talk to Anders at VTC re dealer sites.  Lie on grass.  E business meeting.  Nookie.
19-Jun-04 9 5 Dreamweaver all day - driven.  Bad, tingly back.  Library.  Book store to read.  Wine tasting at Maria's.  More up & out needed.
20-Jun-04 10 7 Fantastic progress with site - same design as blog!  Rollerblade with Ally.  Cambridge Botanical gadens. Bath, listening to top 100 music.  Bit of Ally presentation.   Great nookie.
21-Jun-04 8 6 RFQ's - mind maps.  Help Ally with presentation.   Great English football.  Rooney mania.  Blog.  Retrieve dictionery.  Goto Physio.
22-Jun-04 7 6 Doctor for shoulder.  Keep exercising.  Advertising.  Volvo Trappe.  Excel grouping.  Buy dreamweaver.  Ally's presentation a huge success.  Sweden Italy football.  Dreamweaver - wrap text so no override!!!
23-Jun-04 8 7 Mindmap for Matts.  Contact us.  Offline advertising.  Talk to Her.  Naviigation on blog.  
24-Jun-04 7 7 Xray.  Create home page prototype for site.  Disappointing splash page.  Straight line advert online.  UK lose to Portugal in Euro.  Rollerblading passion
25-Jun-04 7 7 Unmotivated at work.  Work on dictionary and quotes.  John Barleycorn.  Picnic at Jesus Green with Ally.  Fun fair.  Blogging delight with fair photos and space / time blog.
26-Jun-04 10 7 The Omen. Trollerblading to library for books on web.  Start building site > quotes.  Ally buys plants and flat things.  Great nookie. Shoulder great!
27-Jun-04 7 6 Bring all quotes & insights into one excel.  Summarise CWG.   Carol & family to lunch.  Hedgehog.  Great rollerblading along river to Trinity college.  Some blogging.
28-Jun-04 6 6 Very tired at work.  Mascus meeting.  Matts back.  Leave work at 14:45 to Madrid.  Work on quotes.  Hotel movie.
29-Jun-04 8 6 Madrid - go see Volvo Maquinaria.  OK.  Bus through Madrid.  Sleep in park.  Then past art museum to botanical garden.  Kehoe and photos.  Flight back to London.
30-Jun-04 7 6 Used equipment hassles - how get people to right place?  Blog Madrid photos.  Watch Euro semis (Portugal winds).  Rollerblade.  
01-Jul-04 7 7 Used equipment - IP tracking.  Own splash designs.  Budget stuff.  Stressful but ends well.  Find hosting co.  Good meditation 3x day.  Euro semis (Czech v. Greece).  Rollerblade.
02-Jul-04 6 6 More invoices from VIT - huge stress.  Think I'm K50 over!  Xanor and I'm ok!  Work it our (credits)  To Matts and Maria for barbecue.  Abba
03-Jul-04 10 6 Build my entire site in a day.  Buy hosting space & make it work.  Yahooo!!  Bit of Full Monty.  Try to see Shrek 2 but full.  Eat out.  Nookie.
04-Jul-04 10 9 Finishing touches to site.  Geocaching blog.  Write to Eve and Mike.  Jo writes to me re blog (blessing!)  Have a good cry - awesome!  Watch Shrek 2 and goto Nandos.  Meditation great.
05-Jul-04 7 7 Order camera waterproofing.  Used equipment public site looking good.  Upload more on web blog.  Cut lock into garden.  Rollerblading.  Watch some Blue Planet
06-Jul-04 6 5 Mum's upset re tax - hurts.  Tax capital gains fear - ask for it sent.  Unmotivated at work.  Good used equipment meeting.  Web usability research.  Tush lickers.  Exercise.  Blue Planet
07-Jul-04 8 6 Slow day at work.  Research web stuff.  Go see Sarah at new work.  Work on computer till late - blog some, check other blogs, look at chakras.  Shoulder quite sore.
08-Jul-04 7 6 New opportunities with Violin and TeamPlace.  Scan on photos of gran and gramps.  Find Blogex etc for great blogs.  Shoulder becomes very sore. Raining, it puring.
09-Jul-04 7 5 Lots of surfing and blogging.  Unconstructive day, looking forward to Egypt.  Watch When Harry met Sally.  Good nooky.  Shoulder a bastard!
10-Jul-04 7 6 Library.  Buy DVDs.  Surf to find some great sites. Marianne to visit.  Johnathon & Amanda.  Late night.
11-Jul-04 6 5 Day of travel to Egypt.   My shoulder is really getting me down.  Worried re ally size.  Read web mags.  Realise site can look like blog.  Walk through dahab, new moon for pancakes & shakes - weird (memories of tour leading)!
12-Jul-04 9 6 Redo blog design with CSS template.  Diving classes.   More worry re Ally - not affirming.
13-Jul-04 8 5 Only meditate once.  Tensions with Ally - 1997 type doubts.  3 confined dives.  Botch it a few times - not concentrating.  Nice meal at Chinese restaurant.  Put 1996 & 97 travel journals on site.
14-Jul-04 8 6 Best diving ever.  Shoulder great.  Meditate once only. Finish of 1997 travel journal.  Italian food at Hilton. Ally has ear wax done. 
15-Jul-04 9 7 Amazing diving - meditate underwater.  Moray Beach.  Ally thinks it's the coral!  Fun in group.  Exam saps confidence a bit - get stressed.  Lovely curry dinner & swim.  Good vibe in group.  Nookie.  Africa 2001 sumary for site.
16-Jul-04 8 6 Three dives including The Island (for spotting fish) and night dive.  Diving is cool.  Work on memories of Nepal for site.  Eat twice at nice reatautrant - lots of thick shakes.  Ally did own thing.
17-Jul-04 9 7 Two most amazing dives.  Blue Hole and Canyon.  Zany video guy.  Memories of tour leading.  Barbecue at Posseidon.  Write up Egypt.  Letter to Adal.
18-Jul-04 7 6 Go get video.  Have lunch with girls and Mike.  Fly back.  Transcribe 50th wedding anniversary.  Late night drive home.  Read some Dreamweaver.  Try out site and it works 98%.
19-Jul-04 7 5 Back to work.  Shoulder naggy again.  Blogging.  Fix site designs.  Very excited re site.  Out for dinner with Carl and Jean Fredrik etc.
20-Jul-04 7 6 Budget meetings with JF.  Farenheit 9 / 11.  Dinner with Carl.  Work on site.  
21-Jul-04 7 5 Splash page at work.  Team Place learning.  Also Violin for training tomorrow.  Work on site to add web section.  Need to get away from site now!  Worried I am looking old.
22-Jul-04 7 5 Email from Rory re rand / dollar puts me into a spin.  Work good though, Violin and teamplace etc.  Watch some Mystic River.   Experiment with site
23-Jul-04 8 4 Financial worries taking toll.  Feel tired and anxious.  Training for Violin and teamplace.   Some cool blogging.  Rest of Mystic River
24-Jul-04 7 5 Buy wedding present.  Fun cards.  Drive to Lemmington.  See Carol and Gus.  To wedding of Jessie and Greg.
25-Jul-04 8 5 Went out walking with Norman & family.  Brunch.  Blog wedding.  Lots chatting with Gus re database.  .Net.  Rif with Ally re working from London.  Drive home.   Fargo.  Nookie.
26-Jul-04 6 4 A lot of underlying tension, especially in morning.  Hang on!  Email from mum re house prices in CT.  Basic HTML skills.  Spiderman 2 
27-Jul-04 8 6 Teamplace training.  Build some Violin and TeamPlace.  Some internetting.  Rollerblading.  I love Colaberation tools.
28-Jul-04 6 6 Lots of Violin.  Goto Mats for barbecue.
29-Jul-04 7 6 Sore throat - I'm sickening.  Most of day of reconciling budgets.  RFQ.  Learn to FTP my blog to g-trove.  No images appear.
30-Jul-04 8 6 Work on Violin, strategy meeting, JFL thinks I am good.  Trip to London with Ally.  London skate.  Good nookie.
31-Jul-04 8 6 To London for touristy things.  London Bridge.  Hop on bus.  Royal Mews.  Belgian restaurant (Belgos) for lobster with Sally.  Joseph
01-Aug-04 6 5 Ill with deydration + cold.  Drive home.  Blog.  Steal Magnolios.  Fantastic nookie with saucy  DVD.
02-Aug-04 6 6 Stay at home.  Meeting re RFQ's on phone.  Patriot Games.
03-Aug-04 7 6 Stay at home.  Nice blogging of Ally's stuff.  Some nice sleeps.  Flooding in W London.  Upload the Nepal photos.  Email William.  Watch Richard Attenborough
04-Aug-04 6 6 Back to work.  Violin.  Caroline casues trouble with splash pages.  Not too motivated.  Flight to Austria.
05-Aug-04 7 6 Salzburg.  Good, productive meeting with Peter Gluck.  Lovely walk on hill above the city.  Great blogs too.  
06-Aug-04 6 6 Work on RFQ brief.  Train and fly to Guernsey. Nice dinner with Rosemary and Nick.
07-Aug-04 8 5 Have financial chat with Nick.  Wealth not as bad as thought.  Nice lunch and dinner out.  Swim.  Ally flutters.  Mind still canot accept wealth thing.  Certainly not as bad as could be tho!!
08-Aug-04 7 6 Guernsey walk - explore a German bunker.  Lunch with two friends.  Drive and views.  Flignt back to Gatwick.
09-Aug-04 6 5 Bit stressed at work.  Feels like old times in a way.  Get quite a bit done tho.  Banking hiccup.  Expenses.  RFQ off.  Shopping at Waitrose.  Nice evening with Ally.  Life of Mammals.  Amazing monkeys
10-Aug-04 6 6 General day at work.  Nookie with Ally.  Steak dinner.
11-Aug-04 8 6 Constructive day.  Global budget 2005.   Teamplace on folders.  I,Robot with Martin.  Ally's back in London
12-Aug-04 7 6 Global budget with JFL.  Dinner at Nandos with Andrew and Lynette.  
13-Aug-04 6 6 London Usability co re analytics.  Naughtly vids.  Olympic ceremony.  Do web trends stats for JFL
14-Aug-04 7 6 Olympics.  Review clothes.  Send tax.  Library and shop.  Beautiful Mind.  Bourne Supremacy.
15-Aug-04 8 6 Shopping for clothes.  Finding Nemo.  Read HTML.  Great nookie.
16-Aug-04 7 6 Schindler's list.  Exercises - shoulder great!   Dealer sites phoning.  Download and read report on web.
17-Aug-04 6 6 Starship Troopers.  Used equipment wrangles.  Multiple approvals.  
18-Aug-04 7 6 Budget - Mats adds K 17.  Nice pics for Violin.  Movies online (Love Film).   Olympics - great win for US Hamm.  Good exercises.  Looking for a big break.
19-Aug-04 6 6 More olympics.  In a bit of a rut.  Shoulder a bit sore again.  Budget F3.  Work uninspiring - I need to make it!   RFQ spec.  Survey.  Bit of blogging.  Different focus needed.  Rollerblade.
20-Aug-04 7 6 Clean to do lists.  Rear Window.  Olympics.  Now sent email to Shirly, Nicky., Julian Blogging - Ally is prevalent
21-Aug-04 8 6 Some Seven Samuaria.  Memento.  Comments.  Olympics
22-Aug-04 8 6 Fowlmere Reserve.  Olympics.  Great blogging.  Reading History of Virtually Everything - inspiring
23-Aug-04 8 6 Very productive day at work with breaks.  Some more Seven Samarai.  Olympics.  Brilliant comments "My Shout."  Need to chill out tho!
24-Aug-04 7 6 Rest of Seven Samaria.  Some Stranger on a Train.  Install comments on blog.  
25-Aug-04 7 6 Caroline come to visit.  Online surveys.  CRM study.  Splash page.  Out for dinner.  Heart to heart chat and share a bit too much.
26-Aug-04 6 5 Mats seems critical and stressed.  Torn between him and JFL.  Budget turmoils for global.  I just not interested!  Breakfast at Tiffanies.
27-Aug-04 6 5 OK day till end when Mats stresses me out again.  Ally big disappontment with photos.  Very, very bad mood - lose temper with Ally.  Strangers on a train
28-Aug-04 6 6 Shopping food.  Clear up.  Get names for my iTunes.  Dodgeball.  Kerry here for weekend
29-Aug-04 8 7 Mum and Mike over.  Sleep.  Play with their photos and blog them.  Nice family feel.  Exercise.
30-Aug-04 7 6 For a walk with M&M.  Pretty good work on my Europe strategy for Matts.  Lots of good food.  Fun with M&M - good joking.
31-Aug-04 6 6 Mats wants me to create a strategy.  Quite chuffed with my slides.  Busy day.  Nice to come back to Mum and Mike.  Rollerblade.  
01-Sep-04 7 6 Good day at work.  Lots done.  Watch The Sting.  
02-Sep-04 6 5 Stressed and tired.  Nice slides for presentation on strategy.  Grumpy with Ally.  
03-Sep-04 7 6 Good mind mapping.  Punting with M&M on Cam
04-Sep-04 8 7 Day in Ely with M&M.  Impressive Cathedral.  Great photoshopping with images - antique portraits.  Watch Knight's Tale movie.  
05-Sep-04 8 7 Goodbye to M&M.  Gardens for read and sleep.  Walk with Amanda and friend.  Read re meditation.  Little bit preoccupied with work but pretty good day.
06-Sep-04 7 6 To Belgium to see VCM.  Great - they have bought in.  Photos of Grand Place.
07-Sep-04 6 6 Back to work, early get up.  Car in with JFL.  Hard work.  Walk Samkjung home.  Paths of Glory
08-Sep-04 6 6 Budget wranglings.  Hard work.  Good whitepaper on how ebusiness should be structured for Mats.  No rest but feeling in control
09-Sep-04 9 6 To Lisbon.  Great meeting with dealer - really coming on now!  Good photos of Lisbon, but get very stressed out running qround.
10-Sep-04 7 6 Trip back.  See Carat in London.  Home to blog.  Tired!   Spirited Away
11-Sep-04 7 6 Library.  To London for Proms in the Park.  Late night.  A bit on edge.
12-Sep-04 7 6 Work on stats for presentation - RFQ's and VDN logins etc.  Legends of the Fall.
13-Sep-04 8 7 Good constructivre day.  Survey initiated.  Exact Target outsourced.  Good meeting with Andreas re job descr.  Dealer sites etc  Mind maps and simlification
14-Sep-04 7 7 Good stats added to Europe presentation.  Admin.  Flight to Gothenberg.  Room upgrade!  RFQ thinking.  Trip to SA booked
15-Sep-04 8 6 Web council meeting.  Present web strategy.  Smaka after. Sore throat - sickening?
16-Sep-04 5 5 Meet with VTC, meet with Matthias.  Budget stressed, but do a good presentation.
17-Sep-04 7 5 Budget not as good as I'd like but Mats seems happy with it.  Tired, so tired.  Watch Apartment
18-Sep-04 7 7 Lots of sleep.  Dr Zhivago.  The Big Sleep
19-Sep-04 6 7 Sleep.  Open Water.  Great nookie.  Some good meditating
20-Sep-04 6 3 Shoulder sore all day.  Global budget under threat.  Donal speaks to Harry re my budget. Feel awful.  Metropolis.
21-Sep-04 6 6 Feeling better.  Build VCM site.  Job descriptions.  Watch rest of Metropolis.  Great nookie in middle of night.  Memories of a Geisha
22-Sep-04 6 5 OK but generally at very stressed level.  Global budget stress.  Problems getting Portugal up.  Prepare for trip to Kuiken.  Fly to Copenhagan.  Insights:  I am my own worst task master.  Shoulder ok.  
23-Sep-04 8 6 Copenhagen to see Microsoft.  Nice photos .  Fly to Amsterdam.  Feel like I have a cold - but does not materialise.  Run down.  Late night videos.
24-Sep-04 7 5 Get very wet on way to station.  What a day with Kuiken - slow network, active X not enabled.  Fight with CFO.  But I loved Sander - what a great, fun chap.  Fly home late.  Videos.  
25-Sep-04 7 6 Drive to go sailing with Gus on the Solent.  Rainy and freezing.  Nice meal out.
26-Sep-04 6 6 More relaxing day in warm weather.  Some good meditation releases.  Feeling shitty re Ally tho.  Blog and do site for Autosueco.
27-Sep-04 7 6 Busy day.  Watch Mr Smith Goes to Washington.  Shoulder good - it has become localised dusring stress, not last
28-Sep-04 7 6 E-business presentation cancelled.  Some RFQ interviews.  To Kill a Mockingbird.
29-Sep-04 6 6 My birthday.  Ally home late.  Queue movies for Love Film.  
30-Sep-04 6 6 Meeting with Steve Johnson.  Prepare for Chris presentation.
01-Oct-04 8 6 Presentation to Chris.  Excellent!  Lots of surfing and learning usability etc.  Feeling good and renewed.  Meitation is going good - big yawns and walk to station
02-Oct-04 7 7 Relaxing day.  Colleen visits.  Martin and Sunjung for dinner.  Hero.  Ran
03-Oct-04 7 7 Relax.  Walk in garden. Photos of us with nature.  Manchurian Candidate
04-Oct-04 7 7 Work on Treasure Trove.  Focus areas and actions.  Enhance "My Compass"  Paperback Hero.  Rashoman
05-Oct-04 7 6 Relaxed day at work.  Midnight Hero.  Team Meeting.  Start splash page implementation
06-Oct-04 9 6 Weekly focus areas & actions each week.  Models & E-commerce knowledge.  Link quotes to focus areas.  Shoulders a bit sore. Tax delays.  Creative thinking and seeding awakened focus.  Buy brainstorming software
07-Oct-04 7 7 Mantra becoming very strong at a moment's notice.  Splash page set up.  Touching the Void.  Dreaming of work
08-Oct-04 7 6 Used Equipment - approved Used.  Splash page admin.  Out for drinks with Martin and Matts.  Kerry staying over.
09-Oct-04 7 6 Help Kerry with her designs.  Rollerblading to music.  To Gus's party.  
10-Oct-04 8 7 Lots more helping Kerry.  Ally issue is very big - goes against affirming.  Not fair.  Affirming Susan.  Meditation becoming integrated.
11-Oct-04 7 6 Used equipment presentation.  Admin type stuff - especially Volvo Used Approved.  Cinema Paradisio.   Rollerblading
12-Oct-04 7 6 Used Equipment presentation.  City Lights.  Rollerblading with music.
13-Oct-04 7 7 Busy day.  Watch The Searchers.  Research movies
14-Oct-04 7 7 Volvo Approved Used.  Violin training.  Busy day.  Work more with intentions.  Reading Kehoe.  Tired - goto bed early.  Tax call with Nick
15-Oct-04 7 6 Start logging my activities at work.  Busy, varied day at work.  Annie Hall
16-Oct-04 7 6 Need to be more affirming with Ally.  Rollerblade.  Sleep galore.  Work on conference presentation.  Some Straight Story.  Spinal Tap.
17-Oct-04 6 5 Relax most of day.  Godfather.  Readinng Davinci Code.  Used equipment conference presentation - good.   Rollerblade.  Look at finances and find it's over valued
18-Oct-04 6 5 Finances fluttering.  Nervous at work.  Watch some Life of Mammals.  Big cost of tax advice.
19-Oct-04 7 6 To Belley with Ally.  Meeting with VTC - stuck on work group.  Nervous re presentation.  Good with Ally.
20-Oct-04 6 5 UE Presentation ok but not great (very self conscious of Donal & not involving audience enough).  Close to Nick.  Boat trip.  Casino.  Good with Ally
21-Oct-04 6 5 Trip back.  Work at 12:00.  Splash page HTML ready.  Nervous on trip - low confience and anxiety seeping through  Amanda and Johnathon for dinner.  
22-Oct-04 6 5 Obsession with Donal.  Sore shoulder.  Feeling unconfident.  Lots of admin type stuff.  Rebel without a Cause
23-Oct-04 7 6 Library. Sundance Kid.  Book of Calm.  80/20 principle.  Part of Modern Lives
24-Oct-04 7 6 Relaxing day.  Bad tempered with poor Ally.  Godfather 2.  Ebay purchase.  Manage to get rid of work streses.
25-Oct-04 7 6 Really anxious start to day -  no confidence.  Got into swing and it improved greatly.  Great e-business presentation.  Andreas handover.
26-Oct-04 6 6 Quicktrack,  Meetings with Andreas.  Consultant for contact management.  Sally to stay.  Crème Brule.  Dawn of the Dead.  Rollerblade with Sally
27-Oct-04 7 7 Good meditation in day.  Good planning for SA - lots emails sent.  GodFather 3.  Rollerblading fantastic!!
28-Oct-04 7 6 London for round table on content management.  Rollerblade backwards in rain.
29-Oct-04 6 5.5 No rest at work.  Can't get my thoughts off finances.  Good e-business vision.  Launch of violin.  Talk re Andreas replacement.
30-Oct-04 6 4.5 Financial stuff is stressing my brain.  On thoughts constantly.  Ally issue - not loving, lost intimacy.  Sleep.  Rollerblade and exercise.  Sanjay party.  Lose direction and temper. Two hours work
31-Oct-04 8 6 Fly to Amsterdam.  Whirlig mind but conscious.  Read Idiots Guide to Meditation.  Nice meal out.  Good nookie.  Walk in Amserdam at night.
01-Nov-04 8 6 IA conference.  Dinner and walk.  Introduce myself.  Fun with Ally.  Std issue.  
02-Nov-04 8 5 Very anxious generally - remnants of the old days!  Worried re SA, Ally, work.  Good lunch because I get talking with girl.  Conference pretty good.  Good meditation at end of day centres me.  Slow it right down!
03-Nov-04 7 4.5 Relaxing and meditative to begin.  Hell breaks lose when find the dollar is still falling due to Bush's win.  Awfulise all night.  Back sore.  Idea to scan models into powerpoint.
04-Nov-04 5 2 Email from John re fuckup.  K 750 less.  Xanor infested day - black and stressed. Hang in and work soothes a bit.  See statement later and not so bad.
05-Nov-04 5 6 Get ready for SA.  Issue of do we hire a consultant or not?  Nookie
06-Nov-04 6 5 Pack.  Rollerblade.  Flight to South Africa.  Feeling nervous but manage to meditate.  Nookie.  Phone Caroline.  Work on Treasure Trove.
07-Nov-04 7 6 Fly in.  Car will not work - I get very stressed.  Off to Hout Bay & Llandadno for sunset.
08-Nov-04 6 3 KPMG - not too bad.  R20 K for nought on CGT.  See dollar at new low (in Waterfront)  Stress!  See nice houses and pretty girls and want it.  Round and round!  Russel and Roger for swim.  Ally weight
09-Nov-04 7 6 Sleep in late.  BOE - not so bad but only Sharon Smith.  Jo and Ant for dinner.  
10-Nov-04 6 5 Investec - quite disconcerting.  Survive it.  Sleep a lot in pm.  Dinner with family - gorgeous kids.  Ally unconfident and scared re Australia - not affirming, lost intimacy
11-Nov-04 7 5 Sick - with cold.  Dr Olivier.  Up Table Mountain.  Hair cut and tan.  Out with Jo, Steve and Rusty to Noodle restaurant.
12-Nov-04 6 6 Finalise contact management consultants.  Bank to organise travel allowance.  Dentist and clean bill!  Juice from Steve.  Dinner at Brads with M&M
13-Nov-04 9 7 Party with friends at Jo's.  Volleyball.  Swimming.  Bliss!!  Feel good, looking good.  Cold breaks.
14-Nov-04 8 7 Glencairn hotel for breakfast with Russel.  St James with Jo & Ant and the kids.  Interrupted nookie.  Worried re st.  
15-Nov-04 6 5.5 Meditation has taken a knock!  Need to re-establish.  Work on presentation for bus focus meeting.  Early night
16-Nov-04 5 5 Presentation preparation.  Admin.  Contact management organising.  Fly to Munich.
17-Nov-04 7 6 Do my presentation - moderately well but anxious.  Imax.  Walk around Munich.  Tired!  Home very late.
18-Nov-04 7 5 Very anxious entire day - just hyper and unconfident.  Good CRM meeting with Harry and MD's
19-Nov-04 5 5 Day of anxiety re N.  Dinner.
20-Nov-04 6 6 National Gallery.  The Incredibles.  See Nicky
21-Nov-04 5 5 Learn to relax in b and marathon.  Goodbye to N.  Feel blue in evening.  French Connection.  Some Funny Face.
22-Nov-04 6 4 Super stressed at work with Gordon Savage.  Steering  Committee - Mats anti.  Meal at Browns
23-Nov-04 5 4 Gothenberg early.  Contact Management meeting.  Meet with Gordon. Help Caroline.  More dollar anxieties.  Meditation not going well.  Dinner with Mats
24-Nov-04 7 6 Web council meeting in Gothenberg at 5 star venue.  Nice surroundings in snow.  Best meal of my life.  Set meetings.  
25-Nov-04 6 5 Meeting with VTC & VCE in Gothenberg as mediator.  Smelly arm pits!!  To Caroline party - wear shoes.  Out of it and anxious.  Ally joins us
26-Nov-04 5 5 Work at VIT G.  Home to Ally at hotel. Dinner with Caroline and Niklas at hotel.  Liseberg in rain.  Anxious.
27-Nov-04 5 4.5 Shopping in Gothenberg.  Out to see Helen and Martin and Carla.  Fun with Carl.  Overnight at Caroline's
28-Nov-04 5 4.5 Out to Islands with C&N.  Fly back to London.  Fantastic nookie - brings close to Ally
29-Nov-04 6 6 Day with Gordon. Interviews. Gordon comes for dinner.  Ally excels herself as a hostess.  CGT tax.
30-Nov-04 6 5 Another day with Gordon.  Very, very busy.  Violin.  Meeting with Brian Smith ups the pressure.  Home and decide not to goto database training in Sheffield.
01-Dec-04 7 6 Relaxing day at home.  Nookie.  Watch Funny Girl, The General, The Wild Bunch.  Finish book Want to Play?  Good with Ally
02-Dec-04 6 5 Unmotivated and stressed.  Nothing to aspire to.  How can I lift my game and feel good again?  Alfie.  Ally cries.  
03-Dec-04 6 6 Good day.  Great Violin facilitated meeting with Katarina & Jacqueline.  Lots of interviews with Business Directors - and follow up with dealers.  70% is visibility, get up and out!!
04-Dec-04 6 6 Back to web.  Use Flickr.  Buy Xmas tree.
05-Dec-04 5.5 6 Watch Bridgette Jones - Edge of Reason.  Sleep and not much else.
06-Dec-04 6 5 Splash page in staging.  Go to visit  Gym.  Check out photoblogs.  
07-Dec-04 6 5 Approach dealers with mail forms.  Lots of contact.  URL issue with Kuiken.  Go to gym to preview it.
08-Dec-04 5 5 Busy day juggling lots of things.  Fly to Stockholm. Caroline confesses.  Economist article re dollar - can't hide head in sand.
09-Dec-04 7 5 Stockholm for contact management.  Traditional restaurant.  Pretty stressed.
10-Dec-04 6 5 Stressed at work.  Feel like my star is fading.   Australian dollar move .  Papillion
11-Dec-04 6 4.5 Financial stress delay.  Sign up for gym.  Feel on edge and bad tempered.  Glory
12-Dec-04 5 5 Not much - sleep and make love.  Read book. Sx thing
13-Dec-04 5 5 Night out at Nandos.   Budget crisis - sort it out
14-Dec-04 6 6 Marketing meeting.  Great acting exercises with Jim.  Presentation not great - feel like losing star status with Mats.
15-Dec-04 5 4 Stressful day - then to Stansted Airport to fly to Gothenberg.  Sleep patterns disrupted.  VCM to delay to June.
16-Dec-04 5 4 Gothenberg for contact management.  Financial worries on CNN.  OK day.  Send out email to Nick at used equipment.  Good connection and chats with Caroline who will leave her husband - Gordon.  Do survey with Survey Money
17-Dec-04 5 4 Ooops.  VDN login.  Low on confidence.  I'm really not at my best!  Watch Band of Brothers 2.  A lot of porn.  VCM not till June 2004.
18-Dec-04 5 5 24 - brilliant!  I have a cold
19-Dec-04 7 5 Read re warts  Very stressed now.  Yojimbo and A Fistfull of Dollars
20-Dec-04 5 3 Fuck!!!  Brian Smith now involved in splash page!  Worried re Ally pox.  Work from home.  24 grams  Very stressed
21-Dec-04 5 6 Work from home.  Read Dan Brown book on meteorite with life in it.  American Quilt.  Great loving nookie with Ally - she cries.
22-Dec-04 6 6 Ally clear.  Volmaquinaria site building.  Survey set up.  Login link on splash page is boldened.  More relaxed day in office.  KPMG - want to contact Investec.  The Station Agent
23-Dec-04 5 5 CD's - Monster.  Record some quotes. Al lot of porn stuff - addiction? 
24-Dec-04 6 4.5 Lots of 24 disk 2 and 3.  Ally over for Xmas eve dinner.  Short day at work.  Feeling a bit depressed - but hope. I need a project - work is worrying me a lot
25-Dec-04 5 5 Xmas day. Good meal.  Kerry to stay. Source pictures from web.
26-Dec-04 5 5 Visit cliffs in Nuffolk.  Band of Brothers 3
27-Dec-04 5 5.5 Reading Patricia Cornwall.  Stressed in morning when wake up - finances are milling, milling and I'm not enjoying.  Can't I use this for positive?  Tired
28-Dec-04 6 5.5 Goto Gym.  Return of the King.  Do some work (stats)  Stay up till very late, then keen to stay in bed all day.  Depressed?  Shattered Glass.  Tennis
29-Dec-04 5 5.5 Dogville.  Do some work (finish stats).  Library.  Gym.
30-Dec-04 5.5 4.5 Gym.  More splash page shanningans.  Flying Daggers.  Anxious.  Download e-business documents.
31-Dec-04 6 5 Making of Lord of Rings.  Gym - early. Rollerblading.  Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter.  I need to really get into meditation - it is my salvation.  Could turn it all around.  Night In
01-Jan-05 6 5 Thronbirds.  Read contact management.  View other sites
02-Jan-05 5 6 Thornbirds - cry.  Work.  Gym.  Sleep till very late (1 pm)  Do a good e-business update slides
03-Jan-05 6 5 Johnathon and Amanda round for a walk.  Making of Lord of Rings.  Some work
04-Jan-05 6 6 Work - goes ok.  Feel a bit better.  Watch Stalag.  Sleep disruptions.  Trying to focus my pain on renewed energy for meditation.  
05-Jan-05 7 5 Tennis lessons.  Look into Ally's eyes.  CT is no one property spot - get very down.  Terrible night.  Go see Dr and he prescribes pills.
06-Jan-05 5 3.5 Feel like I did in 98.  Hanging on by a thread.  Serotin very low in the morning.  Slowly pick up during the day but very vulnerable.  Cape Town property no 2 out of 20 - feel shit!!
07-Jan-05 6 5 Meeting re splash page - goes great and feel good re it.  Goto 
08-Jan-05 7 5 Tennis lesson.  Colleen and Mike over for lunch.  Fun.  Need people!  Feel shot re Cape Town - the place to be.  Go see Alexander - see Australia ad and see it as a sign
09-Jan-05 6 5 Make Ally a lovely card.  Watch The Aviator.  Goto gym
10-Jan-05 6 6 Help Mats do a job description and feel good re it.  Use mindmaps.  Decide to do a blog of pics.  Go to Seroc dancing with Savages
11-Jan-05 6 5 Set up funny pictures on blog
12-Jan-05 5 5 Work from home (very bad night)  Tennis with Ally - bad tempered.   
13-Jan-05 6 5 Lots of meetings - Katarina Violin and Martin Palmquist to visit.  Tax stuff wrong.  Goto supper with Martin , Richard and Carl
14-Jan-05 6 6 Launched survey.   Watch 24 episode 4
15-Jan-05 7 5 Work on images - improve funny pics site.  Stats now up.  Write lots of captions. Go to Nicola's 21st.  Buy Alpa cards.  See South American photo album
16-Jan-05 7 5 Drive home.  Tennis with Martin.  See Amanda and Johnathon.  Million Dollar Baby
17-Jan-05 5 5 Naughty nookie. 
18-Jan-05 5 5 Tax shit - very worried.   Work slow and boring.  
19-Jan-05 6 5 Tennis exercises going well. Gym.
20-Jan-05 5 5 Band of Brothers.  Work
21-Jan-05 6 4 Band of Brothers 4.  Awful, awful night before - cry in morning.
22-Jan-05 5 5 Expenses.  Ally away.  Contact Management.  Pics
23-Jan-05 7 6 Tennis.  Ray.  Sleep.  Meditation!  Thinking about god and what it means.  Nice exercise.  
24-Jan-05 5 5 Not sure
25-Jan-05 5 5 Fly to Gothenberg
26-Jan-05 6 2.5 Contact management in Gbg.  KPMG finds money crisis.  Dinner with Charlie, Sharon and Caroline
27-Jan-05 6 4.5 Web strategy meeting.  Home late.  Proud: web organisation workshop
28-Jan-05 6.5 5 Strategy interview.  Time with Mats.  Dinner with work colleagues
29-Jan-05 6 6 Lots of 24.  New Picasa v 2.
30-Jan-05 7 6 Lots of blogging and adding to site.  Flickr.  Jamon Jamon.  Complete 24.  Phone mum.
31-Jan-05 6 5 Cardio cycle at gym - cool.  
01-Feb-05 6 5 Movies I saw roundabout.  It happened one night.  Night of the Hunter
02-Feb-05 6 5 Doctor.  Gym for tennis lesson. Dry lips.
03-Feb-05 5 5 The Hustler
04-Feb-05 8 6 Tennis extravaganza - serving.  Blogging.  Flickr stream.  I love it!  Look at amazing blogs.
05-Feb-05 6 5 More webbing.  Dave and Susan birthday.  Tennis with Col and Steve
06-Feb-05 8 6 Delicious links.  RSS feeds.  More flickr.  Blogs.  Trends  life caching.  I love it!
07-Feb-05 6 5 Work hard to get into.  SPM.  Spinning class
08-Feb-05 4 2 Mind blank in meeting.  Ally heart to heart.  Oh, this feels too much!  
09-Feb-05 5 5 Improves a bit but feel strained.  Break news to Mats re Australia
10-Feb-05 5 5 Work on plan for SPM for Mats - he's impressed and I enjoy it
11-Feb-05 5 5 Lot of time witd My Delicious links
12-Feb-05 6 5 Waiting for interview. RSS feeds.  Dinner with work colleagues.  Strained with Ally.  You can see it in a couple of sentences
13-Feb-05 6 5 Amanda and Johnathon for lunch.  Lovely Geena.  Train to Sheffield
14-Feb-05 7 4 Sheffield training - another mind blank.  Meditation?
15-Feb-05 8 5 Sheffield training
16-Feb-05 5 4 Work and fly Brussels.  Anders makes me nervous.  Feel like a loser.  Lost confidence.  Japan yuk.  America yuk.  
17-Feb-05 6 4 In Brussels for SPM.  Frightened mouse.  Horrible all day.  uuuugh
18-Feb-05 5 5 Average day.  Work till late learning MySql.
19-Feb-05 6 6 Excited about Sql.  Shadow of a Doubt.  Good TV.   Ally sick
20-Feb-05 6 6 Anniversary.  Lunch.  Good nookie.  Shall We Dance.
21-Feb-05 5 5 Interviews this week.  SPM report for Denmark.  Cyber cycle.  Very sore neck - posture!!
22-Feb-05 5 5 Interviews.  E-Bay
23-Feb-05 5 5 Average day. Using mind maps for just about everything.  Map for Projects and To Do
24-Feb-05 5 5 Average day.
25-Feb-05 5 5 Watch Ed Wood.  Having trouble working.  Do map of search.
26-Feb-05 6 6 Gatwick to see Nick and Rosemarie.  Good Nookie.  Reading Taboo 
27-Feb-05 7 6 Duck Soup  RSS feeds - revive web blog  American Cemetary - love note on grave.  Planning Canada trip.  Canada book
28-Feb-05 6 6 Interviews.   
01-Mar-05 6 6 Interviews.  Goto London.  Jenny
02-Mar-05 6 6 Interviews.  Lots of RSS reading
03-Mar-05 7 6 average day
04-Mar-05 7 6 The Tipping Point   A Short History of Human Race  Good interviews with Tom and Nina
05-Mar-05 8 6 Try MySql and Dreamweaver  Ally lost inches - feeling a bit better
06-Mar-05 7 6 Treasure of Sierre Madre  Play tennis with Ally - unimpressed
07-Mar-05 8 6 Ammores Perros.  Sick at work.  Lots of e-business maps.
08-Mar-05 8 6 Take day off.  Mindmaps of e-business knowledge. 
09-Mar-05 8 6 Take day off.  Mindmaps of e-business knowledge.  Ally's interview goes well.  Tennis lesson - going well.  Great nookie.  Meditate - 1st time in a long while.  Great.
10-Mar-05 6 6 Average day.  Blogging till late.  Some more mapping.
11-Mar-05 6 6 Who Killed Holly Vallance
12-Mar-05 7 6 To Suffolk with Amanda and Johnathon.  Watch TV. 
13-Mar-05 7 6 Hotel Rwanda.  Birding at Fowlmere
14-Mar-05 6 6 Preparation for SPM.  Quite a lot done
15-Mar-05 5 4 SPM - need to present.  Oh shit. 
16-Mar-05 5 5 Budget review - stressful.  Budget down.  Exercise again.
17-Mar-05 6 5 Gothenberg for web council.  Confidence low.  Contact management regrets - kept simpler.  Out for dinner
18-Mar-05 5 5 Web council meeting in Gothenberg.  Travel home.  Tom O Brien accepts.  Ally job not come through.  
19-Mar-05 6 6 Wildlife park in UK (Tiger).  Lots of blogging.  Saturday night TV
20-Mar-05 6 5 Watch Brazil.  Tennis with JP
21-Mar-05 5 5 Average
22-Mar-05 5 5 Tax issue with KPMG
23-Mar-05 6 5 Festen
24-Mar-05 6 5 Battleshop Ptomkin
25-Mar-05 6 5 Tennis lessons.  Miller's Crossing
26-Mar-05 6 6 Thetford Forest.
27-Mar-05 6 6 Johnathon and Amanda for Easter dinner
28-Mar-05 6 6 Walk in the gardens. Some work.  Reviewing Intentions.  43 things.
29-Mar-05 6 6 Induction for Tom O Brien.  Receive "Getting Things Done"
30-Mar-05 6 6 Mindmapping to do.  Reading getting things done.  
31-Mar-05 7 6 Tax meeting.  It goes ok.
01-Apr-05 6 7 Good day inducting Tom.  Feeling more confident - feeling hopefull again!  Waste time in the evening with smut.  Focus everything in life on principles and life list.  Gym - not join tennis
02-Apr-05 6 5 Lambing at farm.  Blogging.  TV
03-Apr-05 6 5 Tennis game - beat Louis!
04-Apr-05 6 5 SPM.  Tom brainstorming. I love mindmapping - it is the business!
05-Apr-05 6 5 Lots of SPM preparation - using mindmap
06-Apr-05 8 6 SPM presentation.  Goes well.  Yahoo
07-Apr-05 Eskilstuna for SPM
08-Apr-05 Off to Jersey


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