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My boss’s boss’s boss is coming to Belfast and he’s set up a private meeting with me, and nobody knows why. Also, he’s set up a group meeting with him, myself and some other team members. I’ve never met the man before, but apparently he’s keen to talk to me about something. If only I knew what.

In other news, apparently the new UK budget will give me an extra £300 per year. Kate as well. So between us both, that’ll pay for one month’s child care, and a packet of crisps (chips for you Canadians). Woo!!

Not sold… But I do like their motto!

Also relevant, albeit one day late:

While it’s not strictly true for me for a number of reasons I won’t go into here, this graph is very funny.

So here’s an action shot of Ella getting her hair cut the other day.

She gets a lollipop from the lady when it’s all over, and they have a car thing for her to sit in, so she doesn’t really mind going for the most part. And while I know she has a basic understanding of money and monetary transactions, in my mind I like to think she believes this is some form of barter where the hairdresser is paying one lollipop for the pleasure of cutting Ella’s hair.

We also went to the children’s festival last weekend, where Ella was painted as a zebra (her choice, she loves the movie Racing Stripes).

Is that a hint of a Hitler mustache? What does the face painter know about the animal kingdom that we don’t? Are the zebras enforcing strict racial segregation? Would there be packs of elephants and giraffes gamboling across the savanna if it wasn’t for those zebras? Would there maybe be more Ligers?

Besides, I thought it was house cats who were the Nazis of the animal kingdom. Which gives me as good an excuse as any to once again bring out the best picture the internet has ever produced.

You don’t realize just how boring your life is until you set up a blog dedicated to talking about it. Last night I went to a pub to watch Liverpool vs Everton. Is that newsworthy? At work I’m doing some work around Dodd-Frank and it’s affects on derivative trades and different legal trading entities. I can’t see people banging down the door to hear about that. Also, what level of margin should be shown on reports when a client has fully funded their trading positions. Wooo!

On the other hand, I can always post funny pictures.

One interesting story. One of the guys who was in my MBA class is the general manager of the Belfast Giants. Another guy who was in my class is getting married in the near future, so on his stag we’ll be going to a Giants match, and will be seated in a corporate box. Apparently the guys organizing the stag asked the general manager if it would okay to have a stripper in the box, and the groom-to-be handcuffed to a midget. They were unfortunately told that would not be appropriate, but I’m guessing this still could be an interesting weekend.

Not quite finishing every line in full, but the I think the passion with which she performs makes the project a success.

Not relevant to this post, but awesome, are the following pictures:

The Cults! 800,000 hits, which probably makes them too mainstream to be cool. It’s weird, I get the music that I listen to from all sorts of places (though mostly MetaCritic) but not the radio or tv, which means I have very little idea of whether a band is popular or not, so sometimes a band like Bon Iver will pop up winning an award at the Grammys and I’ll be like, ‘whoa, good choice.’ Though he won for best new artist, even though I’ve got two of his albums. How does that work?

For reference: the Who is Bon Iver? Tumblr site.