Ultra fast post!

Last Wednesday I got a call from Bell offering a deal where for 5$ more a month I can have 5Mbs internet and a Modem/router/wireless hub. 5Mbs is pretty darn good for a small rural town if you ask me, so I snatched that deal up. Goodbye 3Mbs
"slowness"!
So Monday morning the new hub is delivered and last night the High Speed Ultra speeds kicked it. In general surfing we won't probably notice a difference, but since we average about 28GB of data downloaded a month, I figure I will notice somewhere.
For reference, it now takes me 45 minutes to download this 1.4GB Dungeon Siege II demo. Not too shabby.

Poor Rav4

On the little sticker in the corner of the windshield it says the car is due for its next service at 128000 km. Well since we are now at 133000km made an effort and finally got around to making an appointment for it, which ended up being scheduled at 3pm this afternoon.
Not 5 minutes after that, Anne gets a call for an emergency transfer to Owen Sound and rushes off to work and won't be back in time. Foiled again!
So now its set for 9:30am on friday which should be doable since Anne should be home from her night shift by then (but will probably be late now).

Ninjas are everywhere!

Just look at this dop secret footage.

Rally Finland Highlights

Here is my Rally Finland Video (59 MB - It will play in Windows Media Player)

If you want to download one video of mine, this one is it. Lots of jumps, high speeds and crashes. Great music too. Just remember you have to create a free account at fileshack.com to download it.

Camping with Americans...

So it looks like we are camping in Meaford with Anne's sister Kathie and her family for the rest of the week. They are up from North Carolina visiting. So tomorrow we head off to the Keady Market and Sauble beach first and the rest of the week is unknown.
I hope to get some much needed mountain biking in.

Credit card fraud

This week I had a call from the bank right after a purchased a computer for someone off of NCIX. Apparently there was a fraud alert for my card # so the immediately canceled it and are sending us new ones. But now the person I am building a computer for has to wait another week :(. Plus they said they would overnight courier it, that was last Wednesday and I still haven't seen them. And now it doesn't look like we will be her all week, so I don't know what's going to happen.
Oh well, at least I will have a new expiry date, the old card expired in November anyway.

Canoeing

Today Anne, Maya and I went canoeing. We borrowed my parents very old and heavy canoe, tied it precariously to the top of the RAV and drove to Paisley. We dropped our bikes off at the north end of town and then drove to Dr. Milne park (where we were married) at the south end of town. Anne just about killed herself (more than once) helping get the canoe off the roof (and on and off again later) and went down the Saugeen.
Maya really needed a nap and thus was quite upset at finding herself sitting in the middle of a canoe in the middle of a river, and so for a little bit screamed and pointed at the shore. However, she then dosed off for a while and was content until she bonked her head and got cranky again as we approached the town hall (which is along the river in the centre of town). Fortunately a dock is there and so we stopped and Anne tried to breastfeed her to sleep which took about half and hour.
When she did finally fall asleep, I hop in the canoe Anne puts her in the bottom, but with her head under one of the railing thingies going across the canoe. Maya then starts to wake up and freak out a bit and Anne is now in the canoe and just pushed off. Maya is crawling on her belly towards me and I am trying to push her backwards so she will sit up in the centre. I am not sure what happened but the next thing we know the canoe tips and throws Anne and I in the water but Maya manages to somehow stay in (she was wearing a lifejacket though). The water is only about chest deep so we pull the waterlogged canoe back to the dock we just left and put Maya back on the dock. After a bit of hassle we get the water out of the canoe.
Anne finally put Maya back to sleep again and she stayed asleep for the rest of the ride once we got going again. We enjoyed rest of the trip from the dock to the north bridge and the bike back to the car was nice too.
The one thing we have decided is that next time we go canoeing it will be with a much lighter canoe, that crazy old Fiberglas thing of my parents is way to heavy.

Super Glue

Whenever I get around to purchasing super glue, which is usually long after the last tube has dried out, I find about 20 things to use it for. Shoes, sandels, computer parts, plastic things, pots, and so much more. Then the tube sits for another year and goes dry.
This time we are attemping to foil the plot and have purchaed two tubes of super glue. Luke and Anne win!