One year in the making
Hello Gentle Readers,
It has been almost a year now since we started this little Blogging/communications experiment, and so far so good. We are way ahead of the once-every-six-months web update that we had before. There are lots of things going on here, so this will be a random sort of update post...
Christmas Concert: The boy partook of the concert at his school (two shows, both packed) and did quite well. It was very much a 'christmas' concert, with none of the religious imagery spared. This was all fine. the interesting sideline was that he picked up a very concise version of the Christmas Story (Mary, Joseph, no-room-at-the-inn etc..) which led to him asking me if I remembered it happening. I said it happened so long ago that no one remembers it happening. Once we got that concept figured out he asked me if it was true, or just a story (it is worth pointing out at this juncture that we spent a lot of time working that out in relationship to TV watching). I told him I did not know for sure, but that lots of people think it is true. He said he thought it was true, so we left it at that.
The Girl will be entering daycare for at least one day a week in January. This is a prelude to Suzy heading back to work sometime in the foreseeable future. If that happens sooner-rather-than-later we might very well get caught in a daycare squeeze, as spaces are scarce these days around here, but we will work that out when we have to.
Suzy has been working at Eddie Bauer Clothing for the Christmas rush season - mostly for the staff discount. So far so good, but she is realizing again that retail is pretty hard work, even at a pretty decent place like Eddie Bauer.
Working for the Canada Council is going pretty well. We had a December 1 deadline that had me snowed under about 200 phone messages in one week, and then the phone just stopped ringing entirely. Frankly it is nice to have some time to breathe, but at the same time that means that there will be many many applications forthcoming and lots of work to do between now and spring to get the money out the door.
The Mac is working very well. In the words of Ferris Bueller: "If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up." I have yet to feel like I need to use Windows at home, and in most things it actually functions better overall. We have started using Skype for Videoconferencing, it works well between Macs and PCs so if you are interested please email for our screen name and contact information. The only downside is that the keyboard that it ships with is very minimalist and not very good for the Carpals. I much prefer my profoundly ergonomic keyboard that I have at work.
That is all for now. All good wishes for safe holiday travels.
Best,
Steve
It has been almost a year now since we started this little Blogging/communications experiment, and so far so good. We are way ahead of the once-every-six-months web update that we had before. There are lots of things going on here, so this will be a random sort of update post...
Christmas Concert: The boy partook of the concert at his school (two shows, both packed) and did quite well. It was very much a 'christmas' concert, with none of the religious imagery spared. This was all fine. the interesting sideline was that he picked up a very concise version of the Christmas Story (Mary, Joseph, no-room-at-the-inn etc..) which led to him asking me if I remembered it happening. I said it happened so long ago that no one remembers it happening. Once we got that concept figured out he asked me if it was true, or just a story (it is worth pointing out at this juncture that we spent a lot of time working that out in relationship to TV watching). I told him I did not know for sure, but that lots of people think it is true. He said he thought it was true, so we left it at that.
The Girl will be entering daycare for at least one day a week in January. This is a prelude to Suzy heading back to work sometime in the foreseeable future. If that happens sooner-rather-than-later we might very well get caught in a daycare squeeze, as spaces are scarce these days around here, but we will work that out when we have to.
Suzy has been working at Eddie Bauer Clothing for the Christmas rush season - mostly for the staff discount. So far so good, but she is realizing again that retail is pretty hard work, even at a pretty decent place like Eddie Bauer.
Working for the Canada Council is going pretty well. We had a December 1 deadline that had me snowed under about 200 phone messages in one week, and then the phone just stopped ringing entirely. Frankly it is nice to have some time to breathe, but at the same time that means that there will be many many applications forthcoming and lots of work to do between now and spring to get the money out the door.
The Mac is working very well. In the words of Ferris Bueller: "If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up." I have yet to feel like I need to use Windows at home, and in most things it actually functions better overall. We have started using Skype for Videoconferencing, it works well between Macs and PCs so if you are interested please email for our screen name and contact information. The only downside is that the keyboard that it ships with is very minimalist and not very good for the Carpals. I much prefer my profoundly ergonomic keyboard that I have at work.
That is all for now. All good wishes for safe holiday travels.
Best,
Steve
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