I’m now a full week into my Easter break. It always surprises me how I can be when I have properly wound down from the exertions of commute and high octane programme work. Perhaps due to the continual motion of the day to day and high tempo transactional interactions, I find that my time away forms an orderly retreat to home and the slow paced and deeply warming company of my family. This week I have had the real pleasure of lengthy time with my kids, especially Erin and Cameron, with a brief visit from Connor.
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| My birthday meal with clowning younglings |
It is also true to say that I am, at least dominantly, an introvert (no, really), perhaps genetically primed to blog, which might be why I am here. This week has allowed me to spend many a happy solitary hour being creative and indulging my current Youtube habit of watching cricket highlights, John Oliver, and listening to New Retro music from Ogre, VHS Glitch and others.
Willingly enveloped in the powerful embrace of the Googlesphere, I am enjoying the interoperability of their cloud services and attached devices, especially my Toshiba Chromebook 2 and Nexus 5 phone. In fact I’ve just bought Carmel a copy of my Chromebook to give her a full 13″ IPS HD experience. She is weak at the knees in anticipation. We share our Google calendars to help coordinate our busy modern lives. Bless.
Easter has come early as my kids depart for mater later, so Morissons 3 for a tenner have been deployed. Cameron was persuaded into toast before the impious gorging commenced. I count that as expert parenting.
Time for some lunch, followed by a wary sojourn to B&Q, where insufficient sprays will be purchased to de-mould and protect house and wilderness for a further year.