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Himself was giving me a hand reinstall a couple of my servers today. As you can see on the monitor behind I’m starting him off relatively lightly with Windows Server 2003. Early next week we will be moving on to the Sun Solaris boxes underneath the Dell Poweredges.

Lucas is two but some ground rules have been laid out already as to what I cannot buy him for Christmas this year:

A model Tie Fighter.
A model Millenium Falcon or indeed anything related to Star Wars.
Anything to do with Star Trek.
Anything to do with Stargate.
A new MacBook.
Anything to do with guns, weapons and the military [...]

It’s Lucas’s second birthday today but as it’s Monday we had a bit of a party for him yesterday instead. He’s a happy little man with his new tricycle!

Photo of Lucas in the garden yesterday. I asked him to smile but I think he overdid it a bit!

Edit – I’ve made a complete and utter balls up of this post. Lucas is on the bottom left of the photo. And the ship is the MS Julia not M.V.
Was up in the city today. While herself was off shopping, myself and Lucas were left to our own devices to wander about the place. [...]

Lucas has inherited both my brother’s and my dinky toys. Click for bigger.

Almost a year ago I brought Lucas down to a voluntary play group that was set up here in Youghal called the Tweenies. Everything is self-funded and the club relies completely on donations. They meet on Tuesdays and Fridays over the regular school term and it is a fantastic resource especially if you have a toddler [...]

On the top is Lucas in July 2008 when he was 8 months old. Underneath that is a photo of Lucas taken approximately in the same position today, April 20th 2009.
A big change in 9 months! Click for bigger!