This friday myself, my friend Ian, and 2 of his friends leave for Pennsylvannia to go to the Susquehannock Trail ProRally! We are camping quite close and are prepared to have a blast. I can hardly wait. And sunday night the WRC Acropolis Rally is on Speed! *head explodes*
A great rally web site covering all sorts rally news throughout the world is Rally Planet. There are some great videos and pictures to download that give you an idea of what we will be seeing.
I will be taking my digital camera as well as a friends video camera, so there will be lots of pics up after the event.
Woohoo!
Monday, May 31, 2004
Monday, May 24, 2004
This is my area of the basement, the pic doesn't do the mess justice. It's where I do my computer work for people as well as build news ones. Thus, there are a lot of boxes, wrapping, packing, old parts, broken parts, etc, etc. So my goal is to have it all cleaned up and organzied by the end of this week. I will post a new pick then. Wish me luck.
Saturday, May 22, 2004
We're Sick
We are both sick today. We were both kinda coming down with something yesterday but not bad enough that I could miss work. :( Today we both feel pretty lethargic and generally rotten. Its really hard to entertain a baby when what you both really want to do is sleep. We did manage to sleep in to 11:30 though (Anne was up at 7:30 to go garage sailing though but she cam back to bed at 9:30).
Wednesday, May 19, 2004
Living with Anne.
I love Anne. Why? Because she is so unique and outspoken sometimes it hurts. How about examples?
1) Anne is passionate about bike helmets. Maybe because she works in emerg? Anyway the other day we are driving to my parents or something and were are on one of the back streets heading out of town. Ahead of us on the side of the road (the wrong side I might add) is 2 kids and 1 adult all on bikes. The 2 kids have helmets and the man does not. Most people might wrinkle a brow at this or shake their head if they disagree with the adult man's decision. What does Anne do? She stops the car abruptly beside the man, rolls down my window and yells, "WHY AREN"T YOU WEARING A HELMET!!" Then continues driving. Granted this hasn't happened with every non-helmeted person we side riding a bike but it was definitely an Anne moment.
2) Anne asked me no less than 3 times if I had made a post about the court thing and had a mentioned her breast feeding in court. I am sorry Jenn, I'm getting brainwashed over here. I counldn't not mention it, I would feel way to guilty.
3) We were going for a walk and we were walking past a house with a baby sitting in a window, it was maybe 6-9 months old. As we were walking past an parent handed the baby a bottle. Anne says loudly ( at last loud enough the people in the house could hear it), "Awwwwww, that poor baby has to drink from a bottle, that's soooo sad." Its not even that I disagree with her, its just that I would never think of doing that. But its all a day in the life of Anne.
I just don't think the world, or at least Hanover, could do without Anne. :)
1) Anne is passionate about bike helmets. Maybe because she works in emerg? Anyway the other day we are driving to my parents or something and were are on one of the back streets heading out of town. Ahead of us on the side of the road (the wrong side I might add) is 2 kids and 1 adult all on bikes. The 2 kids have helmets and the man does not. Most people might wrinkle a brow at this or shake their head if they disagree with the adult man's decision. What does Anne do? She stops the car abruptly beside the man, rolls down my window and yells, "WHY AREN"T YOU WEARING A HELMET!!" Then continues driving. Granted this hasn't happened with every non-helmeted person we side riding a bike but it was definitely an Anne moment.
2) Anne asked me no less than 3 times if I had made a post about the court thing and had a mentioned her breast feeding in court. I am sorry Jenn, I'm getting brainwashed over here. I counldn't not mention it, I would feel way to guilty.
3) We were going for a walk and we were walking past a house with a baby sitting in a window, it was maybe 6-9 months old. As we were walking past an parent handed the baby a bottle. Anne says loudly ( at last loud enough the people in the house could hear it), "Awwwwww, that poor baby has to drink from a bottle, that's soooo sad." Its not even that I disagree with her, its just that I would never think of doing that. But its all a day in the life of Anne.
I just don't think the world, or at least Hanover, could do without Anne. :)
Tuesday, May 18, 2004
Today was my first time in traffic court. It was not really fun but was kind of interesting I guess.
I was there to finally clear up my traffic ticket that I had got last May which I had paid the local police station for but the province didn't think so and wanted me to play again. This is why I had my license suspended for a time in March.
Anyway, Anne and I got there on time at 9am and found the court. There were probably 30 or so people there to dispute various traffic offences.
So from 9 to 10, Anne and I (she breastfed Maya in the court room heehee) watched various people give their sob stories to the Justice and try and get the fines and/or demerit points reduced.
At 10:15 they declared that the office related to my ticket had not shown up and thus it was thrown out. I said thank you to the justice and left.
Luke 1 - Court 0
I was there to finally clear up my traffic ticket that I had got last May which I had paid the local police station for but the province didn't think so and wanted me to play again. This is why I had my license suspended for a time in March.
Anyway, Anne and I got there on time at 9am and found the court. There were probably 30 or so people there to dispute various traffic offences.
So from 9 to 10, Anne and I (she breastfed Maya in the court room heehee) watched various people give their sob stories to the Justice and try and get the fines and/or demerit points reduced.
At 10:15 they declared that the office related to my ticket had not shown up and thus it was thrown out. I said thank you to the justice and left.
Luke 1 - Court 0
Wednesday, May 12, 2004
Played Wednesday night soccer tonight. It was good as usual with about 7 guys per side. Good fun!
The interesting part was that tonight I hitched a ride on my buddy Darryl's sport bike! Its a pretty sweet bike (the exact model name escapes me sorry) with lots of power. I thought I would be a little more worried as a passenger on it but I actually felt quite safe and secure, which really surprised me. All in all a good experience.
On a completely unrelated note, I went the fastest I have gone in a land vehicle at 210 km/h today. The previous record was 205 in a 2003 Golf Turbo.
The interesting part was that tonight I hitched a ride on my buddy Darryl's sport bike! Its a pretty sweet bike (the exact model name escapes me sorry) with lots of power. I thought I would be a little more worried as a passenger on it but I actually felt quite safe and secure, which really surprised me. All in all a good experience.
On a completely unrelated note, I went the fastest I have gone in a land vehicle at 210 km/h today. The previous record was 205 in a 2003 Golf Turbo.
Friday, May 07, 2004
So the last 3 weeks have been very aggravating as well as a little humbling at work. Most of you probably won't understand a word of this next bit why.
I purchased Small Business Server 2003 for my network to have the updated Windows Server 2003 platform and its Exchange 2003 software. But it turns out that, I didn't' know the limitations of it and I couldn't actuatly add it to my network, that took about 3 days to figure out.
No big deal though, I had a copy of Windows 2000 Server for the machine I was installing it on and so I returned SBS 2003 and decided to by just the plane-jane Exchange 2003 Standard by itself and install it on the now reinstalled Win2K server. Since the copy would be a while in coming I downloaded the trial version and installed that. Everything SEEMED to go smoothly until I went to set up the Internet mail server portion of it. That's when the fun starts. I got an error, and not just any error. Oh no, its an error that no one on the interet seems to know how to fix and Microsoft doesn't know about yet. Also because I hadn't actually purchased Exchange yet, they refuse to help me. But I don't want to buy it if its not going to work, so its a catch 22.
So after 2 and half weeks of screwing around trying to get help from MS and looking in every nook and cranny of the web for answers I finally figured it out myself and and got it all installed and working today! HURRAY! It will probably take a month or so to get everyone in the hospital on it but at least I know the server is running now.
Anyway I had to get that off my chest. That was very frustrating.
I purchased Small Business Server 2003 for my network to have the updated Windows Server 2003 platform and its Exchange 2003 software. But it turns out that, I didn't' know the limitations of it and I couldn't actuatly add it to my network, that took about 3 days to figure out.
No big deal though, I had a copy of Windows 2000 Server for the machine I was installing it on and so I returned SBS 2003 and decided to by just the plane-jane Exchange 2003 Standard by itself and install it on the now reinstalled Win2K server. Since the copy would be a while in coming I downloaded the trial version and installed that. Everything SEEMED to go smoothly until I went to set up the Internet mail server portion of it. That's when the fun starts. I got an error, and not just any error. Oh no, its an error that no one on the interet seems to know how to fix and Microsoft doesn't know about yet. Also because I hadn't actually purchased Exchange yet, they refuse to help me. But I don't want to buy it if its not going to work, so its a catch 22.
So after 2 and half weeks of screwing around trying to get help from MS and looking in every nook and cranny of the web for answers I finally figured it out myself and and got it all installed and working today! HURRAY! It will probably take a month or so to get everyone in the hospital on it but at least I know the server is running now.
Anyway I had to get that off my chest. That was very frustrating.
Thursday, May 06, 2004
Sorry I haven't posted in a while. Work has been very busy and I have had problems in a number of the capital projects I am working on. The last 3 weeks have been a perfect example of a 1-step forward 2 steps back senario. Oh well, it looks like I will be getting all the stuff I have been working on going in the next week or so and thus I should have a bit more time to post. Basically any extra computer time I have had at home (not much lately as the playoffs are on) I have spent playing Colin MCrae 2004, which I must say is a superb rally racing game.
Wednesday, May 05, 2004
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Todays blog post is was done by Maya playing with the keyboard. I think she way trying to say hi or something... I had to add some "enters" but otherwise she is getting good! :)
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Todays blog post is was done by Maya playing with the keyboard. I think she way trying to say hi or something... I had to add some "enters" but otherwise she is getting good! :)
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