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Wednesday, February 17
Happy Birthday Mommy!
by
Jason
on Wed 17 Feb 2010 12:00 AM CST
Have a big piece of "Happy Cake" today (but don't forget to share!)
Tuesday, February 9
If I Knew Google Was Dropping By...
by
Jason
on Tue 09 Feb 2010 04:34 PM CST
...I would've cut the grass!
 View Larger Map And my workplace - Regina Public Library on the right and beautiful Victoria Park on the left... View Larger Map Oh, okay, one more. Here's our family farm overlooking the Qu'Appelle Valley. (It's not documented but someone said that a lot of small towns are in the database now too. Indian Head didn't work but the major highways running by it (including #56 which goes from IH to our farm and on to the Qu'Appelle Valley) are mapped. Pretty cool! View Larger Map Okay, I won't keep adding more maps in here but I just wanted to mention that I was wrong above - Indian Head is one of the small towns that's been mapped (I must've clicked wrong or something to miss it the first time) and I got to see a view of the house I grew up in. Then we flipped down to Shea's parents' house in Weyburn to see her parent's house and there's my brother-in-law in the garage, working on my father-in-law's truck! Thursday, October 22
Misadventures in iPhonery
by
Jason
on Thu 22 Oct 2009 08:28 PM CST
Shea, Pace and I
went for a bite to eat before a doctor's appointment late this
afternoon to check on the status of my leg (I'd gone to a clinic to get
it looked at originally so my family doctor hadn't seen it yet.)
Pace, not having had a nap today, was a bit restless so we gave him my iPhone to keep him occupied. (He sorta knows how to use it - he can swipe to get to different pages, click to open programs and knows which icons represent his favourites - a drawing program, a car racing game and a golf game - mainly for the animated sequence at the start of it.) A few minutes later, Shea looks over and goes "Why does this say 'Click here to return to call'?" Turns out Pace had somehow managed to click on the phone icon and dial one of the numbers in my Contact List - namely the switchboard at Regina Public Library! So for two or three minutes, a co-worker got to hear our pre-dinner conversation as we encouraged Pace in his car playing game, talked about my upcoming doctor's appointment and who knows what else! I called back as soon as I realised what had happened and had a good laugh with the co-worker. She said she heard us clear as day and would occasionally yell "Hang up, Jason" but of course I didn't hear her, not having the phone up to my ear. The funniest part of the whole story was the message the co-worker left on my answering machine at my home number (she didn't realise we were in a restaurant) saying she could hear me playing cars with my son and suggesting that I turn off my phone!  Wednesday, September 2
And Now I Shall Bore You With Some Family Photos...
by
Jason
on Wed 02 Sep 2009 09:58 PM CST
...although these are quite a bit better quality than usual since we got a real photographer to take them as opposed to me whipping out the iPhone and going "Hold it!" anytime Pace does something cute.
(Funny story - we were at Central last Saturday and one of the pages saw Pace run by. Then she looked up and saw me close behind and goes "Is that yours?" I say "yes" and she goes "But he's so cute!") NB: The preceding anecdote may have contained (very) slight paraphrasing for comedic effect.  Saturday, August 15
Crop Checkin'
by
Jason
on Sat 15 Aug 2009 11:55 PM CST
On the long weekend, we made a loop hitting Fort Qu'Appelle (a resort community an hour outside Regina), Katepwa Beach, our family cottage on the other side of the lake, our farm, Indian Head where I grew up then down to Weyburn to spend the night with Shea's folks at their camp site.
Here's one of my favourite photos from the day...  Not sure what it is about the long weekend but here's one we took at almost exactly the same time last year. Crops are late this year and man, it feels like our weather's been crappy since last winter. Freezing cold winter, ugly cool spring, a summer where I bet we haven't had three days over +30.  Sunday, July 26
An Unplanned (But Greatly Enjoyed) Blog Holiday
by
Jason
on Sun 26 Jul 2009 08:44 PM CST
As is probably quite obvious, I try to post to this blog on a daily basis at the minimum. I occasionally miss the odd day (and even then, I sometimes back date posts the next morning to keep up the daily post record - if you see a post dated anytime within ten minutes to midnight, that's a pretty good clue that it's a backdated post) but rarely more than that in a row. Even during holidays or when I'm mostly away from a computer for other reasons, I tend to find Internet access or pre-post a few entries in advance or whatever.
Shea had a family reunion this weekend and I wasn't sure whether I'd post or not but in the end, I decided to let it slide for the weekend. This is partly because my new iPhone only had spotty coverage at the regional park where we were camping (literally, I would get no service standing by the camper then walk back fifty feet to the firepit and get a bar and a half...sometimes.) That was enough to check e-mail and do a Facebook update here and there but that was about it. Add in the fact that I can post to my blog from the iPhone but that I can't access all of the blog's editing tools, only the very basic ones, made me say "Ah, we'll just let it slide for a couple days." For example, here's one of the photos I sent to Facebook of Pace "driving" his Grandpa's new 1970 dune buggy on the knee of his Uncle Marsh...  I have to admit that blogging's felt like a bit of a burden lately too - I think this is partly because I felt so inspired writing about Ryan Meili's campign for the leadership of the Sask NDP that the comedown afterwards was bigger than I expected. Writing about libraries, technology and other topics that catch my attention is still fun but maybe not as meaningful as my political blogging? I don't know - I'm sure I've gone through lulls before (hell, my third post ever on this blog is titled "Day Three and Already Nothing to Write About") and on that note, I'm heading for three and a half years as a blogger (hard to believe) so maybe that's part of the restlessness I feel? I have a couple ideas floating around - I've joked about adding more of those semi-easy recurring features like my "Friday Fun Link" and my "Music Monday" things - I was thinking of doing a "picture of the day" now that I've got the iPhone and have a camera with me pretty much 24/7. I've also been tossing around the idea of moving to a new server and converting to WordPress. Finally, I've also been thinking of changing the focus of my online energies to more life streaming (which is what a lot of us online are already doing to varying degrees with our Twitter tweets and our Flickr photos posts and our Last.fm music scrobbles and so on...) I don't know - maybe I'm just burned out from a weekend of fun in the sun and lots of visiting and lots of chasing kids around a campfire and lots of beer and so on. Hoepfully I'll recoup a bit in the next day or two and get the fire back (er, as much as anything about libraries can get you fired up. Well, actually maybe it can! Thanks to DJ for the link on Facebook!) Sunday, July 12
"Mommy, I'm Sharing!"
by
Jason
on Sun 12 Jul 2009 09:01 PM CST
This is one of my favourite iPhone photos so far. (I guess Pace is taking our lessons about sharing to heart!)
 Sunday, May 10
Happy Mother's Day! (to the three mothers in Pace's and my lives...)
by
Jason
on Sun 10 May 2009 10:15 PM CST
My mom...
 Shea's mom...  And our favourite mom of all...  Tuesday, February 17
Happy Birthday Shea!
by
Jason
on Tue 17 Feb 2009 09:51 PM CST
You don't
look a day over 29 (okay, maybe one day over 29!
 ) Sunday, February 15
Kiva Update
by
Jason
on Sun 15 Feb 2009 12:08 PM CST
Last May for Mother's Day I set up a Kiva account for Shea from Pace and put $100 in it. Now almost a year later, our initial loans were 75% repaid. After watching the following video we decided to immediately re-loan that money rather than waiting for it all to be paid back.
Here is a link to show the two people we loaned to originally and now, a female farmer in Cambodia we lent $70 to which finalized her total loan amount and will allow her to build a concrete floor to store her rice. (Click on Map View to see the locations in the world of the three people we've lent to - I can't wait to see what that looks like in five or ten years!) A Fistful Of Dollars: The Story of a Kiva.org Loan from Kieran Ball on Vimeo. |
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