Jorja is getting some of her molars. She had been complaining about sore teeth, but it ended up being her molars pushing through at the back.
Monday, May 30, 2011
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Topsy the terrorist #4
So Topsy decided the kids sandpit was not deep enough. So she started digging for China. Part of the sandpit wall collapsed, so I guess I have some work to do next week fixing the sandpit!
Saturday, May 28, 2011
All Stars Invitational 2011
The kids took part in the All Stars Invitational rhythmic gym competition. It was the Eastern Cape Junior competition.
Jorja got a second, but there were only 3 in her level 1 under 5 age group. There were about 40 kids in Kayra’s level 1 under 7 age group, she came 13th. Both girls did well considering they have only been in level 1 since the beginning of the year.
What a shambles of a competition! We had to be there at 7am for warm-up with a 8am start. It was a freezing morning and the kids were lined up for the start, and we waited, and we waited, and we waited…. Eventually Shirley got the girls back into track suits as they were frozen. Eventually about an hour late the competition got underway. By that stage some girls were already in tears.
The prize giving was supposed to be at 10:45 but because of the slow start and running behind schedule it only started at about 12:30 and we were eventually out of there by 1:30pm. A long hard day for the kids.
Had we known the competition would only get started at 9am we would never had got the kids up at 5:30am to just make it for the 7am start. I would hate to think what time the poor out of town competitors from Jeffrey’s Bay and further had to get up to be there at 7am.
Compared to last year’s Eastern Cape competition at Mentoor’s Kraal, where everything was well organised and on time, this was a big let down. I know its run by volunteers that are doing their best, but hopefully lessons were learnt and this doesn't happen again.
Friday, May 27, 2011
Topsy the terrorist #3
So Topsy has the nasty habit of inspecting our bins. The small one in the bathroom got the better of her! Hopefully she has learnt her lesson and leaves the bins alone
Week 4
This week flew by. I spent most of the week getting the last consignment of samples from the USA ready for Shirley to ID. That meant getting all the datasheets into the database, all the collection photos into that database and preparing the samples for dissection.
Wasn't inspiring work, but someone needs to do it!
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Topsy the terrorist
Over the weekend we made lovely bamboo fences to keep the dogs out of the garden.
Topsy decided that this was not a good idea, and they made a nice chewy toy and proceeded to demolish a few on them.
She also decided that she need to dig a hole to China in my grass. Not that I have much grass with the drought!
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Vegetable garden
In order to make us more self sufficient we have decided to convert a third of our garden to a vegetable garden. I started digging up the grass on one side of our back garden. Once all the grass is gone we will make some beds for our vegetable garden.
Guess what? Topsy thinks this new spot is a great place to dig. So we are going to have to make some fences to keep the dogs out!
Friday, May 20, 2011
Jorja no training wheels
Jorja actually started a few weeks back to ride her bike without training wheels. She is now competent on the bike.
Kayra, bangbroek that she is, has no training wheels, but wont ride!
3rd week
Most of this week was spent getting a funding proposal together so that Shirley could get some articles published. The deadline was Fri 20, so no pressure.
After many drafts we ended up with a reasonable proposal. The problem was that in effect it was 3 proposals in one. After much deliberation we decided not to submit the proposal.
We will be separating the 3 proposals and submitting each one to the appropriate funding bodies. Hopefully that will make each project more focused and ‘sellable’ to the funders.
Other than that, Nimbus Services was born. This should help protecting our Intellectual Property and separating the concerns, Nimbus Services as the software developers, and Just Blue as the software vendors. The universities are very greedy and want to get their hands onto any IP they can at very low cost. This will help to isolate our IP, in that we provide software systems that have licensed technology and IP from a 3rd party (Nimbus Services) to the universities.
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Nimbus Services born
So on the advice of the financial and tax gurus and to help protect our Intellectual Property (IP), Nimbus Services has been born. Just Blue will provide biodiversity systems with technology and IP licensed from Nimbus Services.
The world is moving to a cloud based software as a service architecture. Nimbus is the Latin for cloud, so we decided it was a good play on words for what we do, hence Nimbus Services.
Friday, May 13, 2011
2nd week
Still busy getting things setup. Shirley had the bright idea of re-organizing the lab so that we can use the space more effectively. Well what was supposed to be a 5 minute job ending up being a 2 day job! I must say the layout is much better and open, and hopefully much more conducive to work! And the kids have a great play area and work area for when they get homework or want to do art.
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Ready or not gym competition
The kids took part in the ‘Ready or not’ rhythmic gym competition. Its a warm-up for the upcoming Eastern Cape competition.
Jorja got a gold for her free dance and rope. Although she was luck in the free dance, she got stuck and was given a second chance with someone to follow. She was also the only under 5 free dance competitor hence the gold. Her rope routine was much better and she deserved the gold.
Kayra got a 1st in free dance and a 3rd in rope. She never battles with rope, but today she couldn't skip!
For their friends, it was their 1st competition, and they did well considering. So well done to Jodi, Britney and Kayla!
Topsy and the cushion
So when we got back from the gym competition Topsy had decided that she didn't like Amy’s cushion that she lies on and destroyed it. She also decided that Shirley’s fern did not need as much mulch as it had and redistributed it over the floor.
Friday, May 6, 2011
1st week
Well my 1st week working for myself went well. I spent most of the time doing the dull administrative stuff, like taking ownership of the justblue.co.za domain, setting up our own DNS and getting our own mail going.
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