We made it. Lacking in sleep and only a little claustophobic after about 7hrs. of planes. And its snowed a little every day since we arrived. Oh joy :-P
And my in-laws are on dial-up. Oh the horror! (no options, they are way way rural. not even with direct-tv for some reason, though that is a crappy option anyway I am told)

eta: We arrived Monday. I ( Read more... )

We were looking at names...because that's what you do when you're pregnant right? Except we couldn't be serious, we had to try to saddle our child with the name from hell. Which aside from Diablo, Odin, and various other names for hell inhabitants we decided was (and this works for the many kids as well as a long name for a single kid) Harmony ( Read more... )

Robin and I went down to Victoria today to renew my passport. oh.my.f***ing.god. .
Note to self #1:When you know it is going to be busy and you think you have that covered, double it. We left home at 8am and drove past the passport office at @9:45 to see a line out the door and half-way down the block. Oh.Crap. Parked in a hurry and were in the ( Read more... )

So...everyone seems to have survived the holidays and except for some people with colds no major tragedies. Good, maybe this bodes well for 2007. I do hope everyone got something they needed and that those who do the resolution thing manage to succeed. Umm... and that they picked the right things to work on, nothing worse that fit , skinny people ( Read more... )

If furniture design or cool mechanical contraptions turn your crank check out this (its a quicktime file) or more of the same on a cool yacht here . I don't wanna know how much these cost, and the woodworking is so nice I'd be afraid to eat on one anyway, but that is one cool table.

The topics today are holidays, weather, money, babies, radio, procrastination and other topics that may appear without warning.
The weather: ( cut for your convenience )

Happy Birthday
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I type rather slowly so when I get a certain amount behind in brain spew it becomes hard to find enough time to beat it out of these keys. On the other hand it seems like the slower my life is the less time I spend doing updates, which seems wrong somehow. We always hope for more time to do certain things but when things slow down enough to write ( Read more... )

Ok, this isn't as fancy as some of the tests I've seen on lj, but I bet it's a better test.
So see how tone deaf you aren't... or are you? link here

I got 80.6% correct which apparently is pretty good, but not great

So... still no job. Ok that's a wrap for this update on my life ( Read more... )