Finding time to family time...

"Family Time"....well, the lines are sorta blurry! I work from home, I have an office that is right next to my 3yo son's bedroom, right beside the family room (you might call it a lounge?) and generally within ALL the noise in the house, which with Mr. 3 .6 is quite a lot... He wants to be a drummer, he loves trucks and is the most epic at Dinosaur noises of any kid I've ever had sit on my shoulders at a Justine Clark show.. ever..

And this is Seb watching Justine get her Dino on... A quiet moment from him.. next frame though... well...

Anyways, sidetracked, my point is I work from home and it is VERY noisy sometimes... Skype calls with overseas clients... forget it... I need to run a disclaimer that says "a child may burst in at any moment to see who you are" ..and before you all comment (like nobody does!) "why don't you lock the door?" Well... one day when Seb REALLY wanted to come in, after I had to turn him around and send him out, he slammed my old victorian door so hard that the lock broke proper like... Yeah...

Don't get me wrong, there are GREAT parts to working from home, too... I mean, sure, I need to stay up late if I want to concentrate on an article or statistics or Farmville**

The great things are this... If I want to, at any point during the day, I can walk out and give my little man a cuddle, I can chat to my missus, I can sit outside and watch master 3 go around and around on his bike... I've got to learn to put the iPhone down more often and spend more time listening to Seb though... it will come! at least I'm aware... Oh, and I can make my own coffee

Get my coffee table here..

I have started looking passively at collaborative work spaces around the area... Any thoughts on the collaborative work space?

**if I ever mention Farmville again, and I'm serious... slap me

Where did the years go...

press play on tape.

I know what a mid-life crisis is, I've seen friends have them. I felt like I was headed towards one this week. Suddenly I wanted a motorbike and to be playing in a band and to quit my job and move to a farm and have six sheep and some cows...

But I didn't...

We've got this thing going on called life - we make choices, they point us where we're going, they stop us in our tracks.

Sometimes these choices aren't the right ones and that's OK... Mistakes go hand in hand with choices.

Do your best, friends.

Today I went for a walk with my wife and my little boy, we wandered to the park, off the beaten track into the bushes as Sebastian calls it... Take a minute to stop - stop the noise and enjoy what you have. It's really hard.

Oh how they change...

It's pretty amazing to stop and think about where the time has gone since my little man was born... He's four this year - it feels like no time and a lifetime, all at the same time... I was looking for some images for a client from last year earlier, and came across the truck photo below, and thought it'd be interesting to do a comparison...

So that's Seb with his first Tonka, the one I stood on and near died / split it in half... He'd been two for about three months. Still has that concentrated 'tongue out of the mouth' running with trucks face on...

This one is from a few weeks ago, different park, different truck... Same manic run (he's on two wheels for this one!)

They grow up so quickly... Don't miss it... Buy Milkshakes...

Delete multiple Facebook messages at once 2013

I've searched around to find a solution for getting rid of a couple of years worth of junk / business page / spam messages on Facebook - there used to be a handy Chrome plugin, that's dead and gone. I found a nifty Javascript shortcut that will work. Here's a quick how-to and a link to the JS. 1. Add the "Delete all Facebook messages" link below to your Bookmarks bar so that you can see it, eg;

THIS IS THE LINK [click / drag / drop on bookmarks bar]

2. Go to Facebook and go into your messages view, either archived or main messages window or spam, and then click the bookmark you've created - your address bar may rapidly change a few times. You will most likely get a pop up that says "this will be deleted forever blah blah" and you will most likely have to click the shortcut a few times to get 'em all... better than opening each one and deleting manually.

If you're crap a following the instructions I've penned for you, here's a dude to talk you through it. [and the original link - it worked for me]

The neighbour in makeup...

Stop, wulf! 1. Go to Tumblr.com

2. Choose a name for your blog

3. Write awesome stuff

4. Email me the link [you don't need a stamp!]

5. Repeat step 3

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A review of the toast I just had.

...it was good!

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Here's a photo of a lady with many dogs, it has a cool vignette and a bit of a contrasty type treatment - art!