1999

Records I bought included: Dots and Loops,
Number One hits in the UK: Steps - Tragedy/Heartbeat, Fatboy Slim - Praise You, 911 - A Little Bit More, Offspring - Pretty Fly (For A White Guy), Armand Van Helden feat Duane Harden - You Don't Know Me, Blondie - Maria, Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away, Britney Spears - Baby One More Time, Boyzone - When The Going Gets Tough, B*witched - Blame It On The Weatherman, Mr. Oizo - Flat Beat, Tiffany - Perfect Moment, Westlife - Swear it again, Backstreet Boys - I want it that way, Boyzone - You Needed Me, Shanks and Bigfoot - Sweet Like Chocolate, Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free, S Club 7 - Bring It All Back, Vengaboys - Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, ATB - 9pm (Till I Come), Ricky Martin - Livin' La Vida Loca, Ronan Keating - When You Say Nothing At All, Westlife - If I Let You Go, Geri Halliwell - Mi Chico Latino, Lou Bega - Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...), Vengaboys - We're Going To Ibiza!, Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee), Christina Aguilera - Genie In A Bottle, Westlife - Flying Without Wings, Five - Keep On Movin', Geri Halliwell - Lift Me Up, Robbie Williams - She's The One / It's Only Us, Wamdue Project - King Of My Castle, Cliff Richard - The Millennium Prayer, Westlife - I have a dream/Seasons in the sun

1/99: Huge spot under armpit. Mary Tamplin buying the flat, us buying Ripon Road. EPOC colour closing stages. Buying a car, "Little Voice", Scott Jenson starts at Symbian, Maggie thyroid problems, monitor exploded again, cheque from Sybil, check out car, Mag to late night vet in Wanstead, bought the Canon camcorder. monitor exploded again again, bought car 30/1/99, next day drove round Barnet.
2/99: Citrine/Crystal project, move Harcourt -> 191 Marylebone Rd, Mag stroke 16/2 and had her put down 6.30pm 17/2/99. Big network problems in the new building and crap phones. 19-20/2/99 fucking burgled!!! Shakespeare in Love, new monitor, This Year's Love.
3/99: Parent classes, replacement goods from insurance arriving, Leigh Banham starts at Symbian
22/3/99: Baby clothes and stuff from Andy, Sylvie and John Lewis
26/3/99: L's last day at Mind, meanwhile NATO bomb Kosova and I do a Chanter gig in Southgate.
3/4/99: Sorting out bedroom for baby, moving stuff
9/4/99: Nick Healey leaves Symbian
16/4/99: Laptop arrived
20/4/99: ER5 debrief & celebration at the Comedy Cafe
26/4/99: Jill Dando shot dead
27/4/99: Louise qualified with the Guild as a psychotherapist
30/4/99: Off to the Whittington to have a baby...
2/5/99: Baby boy born!!! Not Adam, though - ?

Part 11) With a son
5/5/99: Knackered... sold OM4Ti, bought OM2sp
6/5/99: Joseph Samuel Woodhead Browning and mother home from hospital. Bad guts for a fortnight or so, advent of the laa-beast.
23/5/99: To casualty cos of Joe's acne and sweating... next day me back to work (though from home on Wed 26th)
5/6/99: Bought a cot. Speccing EPOC Connect 6 with Leigh and AKO.
15/6/99: MOT £517, glasses £320, reel to reel £195... Kosovo crisis over.
30/6/99: Drove to Kent to see Phyllis and Norman. Headaches all last month....
7/99: Hassles all month re exchanging contracts - delays, bloody shit... Finally did it on the 29th.
3/7/99: Jean to stay for a week, also Caroline & girls.
19/7/99: Roger visited with William.
8/99: EPOC Connect 6 specs and reviews
9/8/99: Moved Kirkstall Ave -> Ripon Road
11/8/99: Total eclipse of the sun (nearly)
13/8/99: Crippling gutache
21/8/99: Bought desk from John Lewis, Brent Cross
23-26/8/99: EPOC Connect spec reviews in Tampere, Finland
28/8/99: Bought dresser and wardrobe
29/8-1/9/99: Interact '99 in Edinburgh
6-14/9/99: Ripon Road being rewired
17/9/99: Decided to hire Anna as childminder. Joe has teeth coming through! Bought curtains £400 from John Lewis.
18/9/99: To visit Norm & Phyl
24/9/99: L back to patients, me looking after Joe.
4/10/99: Blood pressure was 138/98 a month ago and now it's 130/90
5/10/99: Paddington rail disaster
9/10/99: Bought Joe a high chair and car seat then gig with BW in Rosie O'Grady's
12/10/99: Heaved out of ID and back into docs
29/10/99: Appraisal with Mat. Joe sitting up on his own! Boeing airliner fell out of the air - deliberate?
1/11/99: Joe starts 3 days a week with Anna, L back to work
3/11/99: Serious gutache again. Finally getting the hang of Cubase!
6/11/99: Joe to floaties
8/11/99: AD starts, final set of EC UI specs approved
13/11/99: Wardrobe finally arrived
19/11/99: Mame and Roger for dinner. Hassles from AD about working from home (or not)
2/12/99: Went to buy SBLive Platinum - car radiator exploded on the way. Bought it on the 3rd.
6/12/99: Symbian Xmas do at Commonwealth institute, a bit disappointing. L didn't come.
24/12/99: Thai chicken soup, smoked salmon, cold roast beef with the Zetters, sea bass with Mame and mum.
25/12/99: Turkey for Xmas, 3 days to open Joe's presents (a couple of CDs from me, a tractor from L, a teddy bear from both of us, an activity centre from Mame, a ride-along horse from granny Anne, loads of other stuff. A tower of pots from Mike and Sian), Dinnerladies on TV.
28/12/99: Andy, Sylvie, Juliana and Aimee for cold beef & smoked salmon sandwiches
30/12/99: Mike, Sian and Tomos
31/12/99: Ally pally, fireworks, champagne and roast beef, minnellium celebrations on telly.
Fri 31 Dec 1999 11:06:49: So: the last day of the year, the century, the millennium, and humanity if y2k turns out to be as big a problem as some would have us believe. Me, I suspect that we'll experience some disruption but nothing major - I hope! I've been saying for some time that I just don't know what will happen but the reality is that if no-one had done anything about fixing the bug there would be worldwide chaos, and so we have only the experts and governments to go by when they tell us that it's been dealt with. We'll see...