From Pictures of the Day 2012 Today was a family day, with lot’s of activities. First we had a mitten march with Violet’s preschool to the Lakeshore Santa Claus parade. We had Jacob’s hockey and we capped it off by Making cookies and getting our living room into the Christmas Spirit. Of course it was …
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Brought down by a Bug
It seems that after 27 day’s of posting twice a day a little strep throat has brought me down. I had all the intentions of writing up my Windows Wednesday post yesterday. I even took most of the screenshots, but when it came down to writing up my thoughts I just couldn’t focus. So I …
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POD: Putting Violet to work
From Pictures of the Day 2012 Sunday a lazy day, a day for house work and relaxing. Today I wouldn’t have stayed in my pj’s all day if I didn’t have to run out to pick up a few necessities. It may have been a pajama day, but I did manage to get some stuff …
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Is it time to begin winding down?
It’s hard to believe that November is almost over. The people I know trying to write a for a novel are getting close to there 50,000 word count. I’m not sure what my word count has been like this month. I know most of my written posts have been over 250 words, and quite a …
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Coding Block
Programming is something that I’ve done since I was 6 years old. I do it at my job and and do it at home. Or at least I used to do it at home. Recently I’ve been having trouble turning a vision I have for an application into reality. I’ve been working on a personal …
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Fatherhood Friday: Growing up
Today we take Violet to see her ENT doctor for the finial check up before her surgery next month. I have tried to write about the coming surgery on and off all day. I wanted to write about how we decided that this is the right choice for our little girl, about how the thought …
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The giving of thanks and the buying of stuff
Today the our neighbors to the south celebrate thanksgiving, a day of food, family and football. It’s also a time to look at what you have and be thankful. I was thinking a lot about that tonight. Thinking about how thankful I am to have my little family. Of course looking at the American thanksgiving …
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Windows Wednseday: Look and Feel
The Start Menu It’s funny for years I’ve tried to use the start menu as little as possible. When I use windows seven I only open it to search for apps that I haven’t pinned to the task-bar. I don’t search through the lists of all the programs, it just seems a wast. Even before …
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Getting excited for Baseball
This morning the Toronto Blue Jay’s capped off an eventful week of changes with a morning news conference. After a disappointing season where the teams pitching staff was decimated by injuries, the fans were watching Alex Anthopoulos to see if he could address the need for starting pitchers and some new bats. The off season had a ominous start for the Blue Jays …
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POD: Christmas Lights in Novemeber
From Pictures of the Day 2012 Today after a meeting at Violet’s preschool, I was walking home and I saw a few houses with Christmas Lights up. At first I was surprised that they were up so early, but then Sunday was the Santa Clause parade and this week is Thanks Giving south of the …
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