Archive for July, 2009
Not doing anything special, just take it easy and spend time with the kids. Wonderland, maybe drive up to Wasaga Beach. One week of R&R. [ READ MORE ]
Jacob got an XBox 360 Elite last Christmas. Since then he’s been playing offline, and as far as I can tell, enjoying himself. Recently he’s been bugging me to get XBox Live. Did some research, and thought why would he need this, I’m not really interested in putting more money in Microsoft’s pockets. He eventually wore [ READ MORE ]
I’m taking a break from the gym. I’ve been going about 3 times a week, but the diet sucks. I’ll get back in there hardcore in September, 5 days a week including cardio, I haven’t been doing any cardio at all. I’ll admit I’ve gained about 10 pounds, and not the kind of weight I want [ READ MORE ]
I found this really interesting post from Stumptuous. It reminded me of a discussion I’ve had at least a dozen times. I have a few female friends, and I also observe this at the gym quite a bit. They weigh 100 pounds, yet they insist on spending hours doing cardio, the response is always. “I don’t [ READ MORE ]
This was Jacob’s – on the right – first adult roller coaster ride. We’ve been going to Wonderland all summer, and on our final visit for the year, he finally grew enough to make it on the adult coasters. The coaster is The Vortex. Watch his reaction from first drop (37 seconds in). Still makes [ READ MORE ]
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I’ve had to restart a whole blog. I previously was using WordPress with a hosting service. They went belly up and my whole database gone!! I should’ve known this would happen, for what I was paying and what they gave me. Yes I had a backup, but on their server. I was paying just over [ READ MORE ]