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Saturday 29th February, 2020

Ran to the gym and back - first time running with a towel on my flip belt. Washed the car with AJ, he soaked himself - but enjoyed using the hose. Accidentally discovered "Drive to Survive Season 2" has been released.

Friday 28th February, 2020

Really tired after the week that was - completely missed a Hays call scheduled in the evening with Clem.

Thursday 27th February, 2020

Hungover after late drinks. First visit to the Melbourne office. Bumped into Geremy on the plane

Wednesday 26th February, 2020

Presented at the Revenue Forum - surprised by the rush on cross charging. Got to go on the slide in the SEEK office Learned to cook at Free To Feed in the evening. Late drinks with Bel and Tash - noticed a mouse that was running around the bar.

Tuesday 25th February, 2020

Half day - then drove home to work on my presentation, then drove to the airport for my flight to Melbourne and the Revenue Forum Talked to the cab driver - who's doing his master's in cyber security. Added him on LinkedIn after

Monday 24th February, 2020

Home from work - ate quiche as I help Kai after I found him screaming in the bedroom while Julie juggled AJ in the shower.

Sunday 23rd February, 2020

Finished my presentation for the Revenue Forum - then wrote my article on how Project Management is waste. Gave AJ his first proper steak tonight, a rump that he seemed to enjoy.

Saturday 22nd February, 2020

Spent most of the day working on my presentation for the Revenue Forum - went to the gym in the evening to unwind, but didn't realise how late it was and ended up being there at 10pm

Friday 21st February, 2020

Finally signed my work contract - agreed to it as-is. Went for a drive with Jack from work in his RS3, slower than I expected - certainly not Evo fast (not even 98 octane Evo fast) Got take away from the Chinese place between Carroway Pier and the Japanese Sushi train at Kelvin Grove. Parked underneath Woolworths, where a guy had the card machine apart doing some maintenance on it.

Thursday 20th February, 2020

Late to work for a meeting with Anthony - slept in and had to drop AJ off, but got caught in the Valley traffic. Finally had my job offer come through - but not the salary I expected.

Wednesday 19th February, 2020

First day dropped AJ off at daycare before work - he behaved himself, although I was a little late. Ran very late in the night - only intended to do a 5k but ran past the turn. Did a fast 5k, then a slower 7k loop back - before standing in the bedroom with the air-con while Julie breastfed Kai so I could cool down.

Tuesday 18th February, 2020

Finalized my new title and salary today - and interviewed two staff in the US, finding the person we wanted to move forward with for the Salesforce role. Quickly ate dinner (pork broken rice) sitting in our bed in air con trying to get AJ to rest, while Julie had a shower.

Monday 17th February, 2020

First day back to work - got brought into the Executive Strategy day which was interesting, but took a lot of my time and I fell further behind in my catch-up work. Went running after work - and Dennis called me. We talked about him being in Lisbon now, and his experiences in India, and how Nepal is his favourite place.

Sunday 16th February, 2020

Bought a battery from Supercheap for the 86 with AJ - picked up Gia coffee with him on the way home. Made curry for dinner, Ba Ngoi had some with us - but AJ refused and went to bed without dinner.

Saturday 15th February, 2020

Drove AJ to supercheap at Chermside to pickup the JVC Android Auto head unit I bought for the 86 - started installing it and decided to get a harness to make it simpler, so drove back to Repco at Kedron to get one. It didn't fit - so I had to solder the wires. Flattened the battery in the process.

Friday 14th February, 2020

Went to the office for a handover with Thomas before I start back at work on Monday - met Braden for the first time. Cleaned and started painting the blue cornices in the spare room at Thi's house.

Thursday 13th February, 2020

Kai's first trip to The Brickhouse - where Catherine had a hold while Julie and I had toasties and coffee. Went to get AJ from daycare but his bag was missing - had to let them know and ask that comms be sent out to see if we can locate it.

Wednesday 12th February, 2020

Went out and bought our new microwave - sitting in the carpark at JB Hifi Kedron to talk to Nathan. First sim race since Kai was born - raced an exhibition round of the 60's prototypes - managing a good result of 11th in the first race, and 4th in the second (7th if they didn't deliberately crash in front of me)

Tuesday 11th February, 2020

Noticed Kai had conjunctivitis today - was worried about him and considered the doctors. Took AJ to Officeworks to get a whiteboard, he was climbing on the boxes and using two rolls as makeshift binoculars.

Monday 10th February, 2020

Drove to Merlo for a coffee with AJ on the way to shopping - beeped at a ute who didn't indicate before the driveway. He came up to the car - but we somewhat calmly talked about him not indicating and it was diffused. Drove to Dave's in the evening to pick up my new server RAM and SSDs for my desktop, and Tim's laptop.

Sunday 9th February, 2020

Holly came around - brought us pastries and an olive sourdough loaf. We drove to Dads in the evening - I set up Plex for him, and he showed me his new office setup with the electronic desks.

Saturday 8th February, 2020

Christina came around to meet Kai for the first time - she brought a gift that we forgot to open while she was here. I went to the garage and battled to get the server running with the 750ti Dave gave me -* eventually got it working.

Friday 7th February, 2020

First trip outside of the house with Kai - we took him to a cafe at Paddington near the large antique store to see Julie's mums group friends. Drove to Dave Boyle's in the evening - he shared stories about his trip to Korea, including his food poisoning. I got an old 750ti graphics card for him to test with my server.

Thursday 6th February, 2020

Took Kai to get weighed at Alderly - his first outing since the hospital. He was up at 3.2kg, gaining on his discharge weight. Spent the day rebuilding the server to make space for a GPU - had issues with the umart 5.25 to 3.5 drive bays as my Seagate 8tb drive was missing the middle mounting holes required.

Wednesday 5th February, 2020

Went to the gym - during squats I pulled a wick off my little finger, and it bled profusely to the point where I had to stop lifting and just do a run to avoid getting blood on things. Came home to finish watching Terminator: Dark Fate over a glass of red wine.

Tuesday 4th February, 2020

Picked up Nathan from the hospital, took him to Alex's for a coffee with AJ. Called Mark from A.HQ to talk about the role, apologizing for my tardiness on replying - and to decline the role offer.

Monday 3rd February, 2020

Took AJ to Chermside, we had coffee, played in the playground, bought a new 3.5mm to RCA cable from JB, then went to the arcade to finish the credit on my card leftover from Dave's birthday. Started Terminator: Date Fate in the evening, but felt too unwell and stopped it mid-way through to go to bed.

Sunday 2nd February, 2020

First swimming lesson with two instructors for AJ - found it much better as the new girl was much more pushy with developing the kids. Found AJ broke the speaker tonight - snapped a prong off in the RCA jacks.

Saturday 1st February, 2020

Kai was discharged from hospital - then we went and picked up AJ from Jasmine's We all slept on the couch in the air conditioning, AJ held in my arms to try and get him to settle