Another Choir Video

Just posted another video to my Youtube account

This was recorded off of my old TV with my new video camera...not bad, eh?

http://www.youtube.com/user/czarl

Hope you enjoy it

Christmas Music

I finally got a chance to post some of the videos we took last week at Victoria's Christmas Light Up ceremony at Centennial Square where the St. Patrick's Intermediate Choir was asked to perform.

Oh Come All Ye Faithful

Oh Holy Night

Rudolph the Red Noise Reindeer

Silent Night

New Wii "game"

We bought a new Wii 'game' yesterday called EA Sport Active. It is essentially a workout 'game' and Restita and I both started a 30 day program. I think the kids are going to like the exercises like boxing (with kicks and upper cuts etc), tennis, roller blading where you have to dodge bales of hay by lifting one leg)

Let's see how well it goes.

Also, I start 4 weeks of night shifts tonight, so hopefully I can do the workouts when I wake up.
(I wouldn't be going to gym, maybe I'll do this?)

Playing with my camera...

Checkout what I drew with a flashlight....

The key was long exposure and a bit of practice
(click on the link to see more)

Alisha's Christmas Wish list

To:Santa
This is my wish list for you.
I would like ...

Lego,A Fur Real Friend,Ds Games,

Love:Alisha

P.S. I was G-O-O-D! all year!

Halloween 2009

We went trick or treating with some of Alisha's classmates the other night.

Here are some photos

Youtube videos

I haven`t visited them in awhile and forgot what I had posted there, but you can always view old videos at http://www.youtube.com/czarl

I really liked the Goldilocks poem

I also liked Mari singing Karoake

Mari's Christmas List - Second take

I thought I'd clarify what Mari is requesting for Christmas

1. LPSO = Littlest Pet Shop Online - Every LPSO Pet you buy comes with a code that entitles you to special items and features in the all-new online world at www.lpso.com

2. LPS = Littlest Pet Shop VIP - Bring your cuddly Littlest Pet Shop Virtual Interactive Pet (VIP) to life in the virtual VIPs World!

3. Any Nintendo DS games

4. ``Hannah Montanna the Movie`` DVD

Mari's Christmas List

Hi, I'm Mari.

I want:

1. a LPSO or a LPS VIP.
2. DS Games and
3. Hannah Montana the movie.

Have a merry christmas,

Mari Natalie A.Chambers

Happy Thankgiving

I thought I'd share this photo with you guys.

We did our usual thing of going over to Lola's house and eat until we fell over. We then went back on Monday for lunch and supper leftovers.

How Many Solar Panels Would It Take to Power The Entire World?

Interesting article from Gizmodo, suprisingly not as many as you thought.
click me click me

Tiklos dance

The girls performed at the North Park Neighbourhood association's annual celebration and I recorded this video with my phone. (takes about 30 seconds to load)

Perla & Joe's Wedding

We attended a wedding this past weekend and thought you'd might like some of the photos we took. (some nice ones of the girls)

Forgot to include the link -

Cadet Reunion photo

I haven't posted in awhile, but I just thought you'd might enjoy this photo I came across tonight.

New photos online !!

I just posted 4 albums on my new dumping site for photos, my Mobileme account.

You can see all the albums at http://gallery.me.com/mobilecarl

Here are some of my favourites

Thursday - Zoo Day

The WHOLE gang met up on Thursday for a trip to the Calgary Zoo.

By whole gang I mean, William, Heather, Samara & Rachel, my Mom & Dad, Heather's Mom & Dad (Ron and Eleanor), cousin Jeanine, Mike and baby Casey, Restita, Mari, Alisha and myself !!!

And on the most part, we all stuck together.

Science Center

Wednesday was Science center day....William and the gang met with us there and everyone had lots of fun.

I think the girls favourite exhibit there was the Robert Munsch exhibit.

Tuesday = relaxing day

William decided to go up to Drumheller on Tuesday for the day, we are planning on going on Monday, so it was kind of a relaxing day for us. We got frustrated trying to find "Shakers" which is a big play center for the kids. The GPS and Google maps couldn't help us find this mysterious place. We ended up giving up and going to see "Night at the Museum : Battle of the Smithsonian". I actually ended up liking the movie, despite getting convince to go there.

After that, we went the the Apple store to see if they could replace my iPhone. I got the run around and they took it in the back to pretend to fix it. (they found a service bulletin that suggested some of the screen connectors could be reset). The Apple 'genius' was also trying to get me to go back to Rogers for a replacement phone.....even after I told him that an Apple rep told me to come to the store....arghhh

Calaway Park

What a busy week it has been since we left Banff. Banff is only about an hour drive from Calgary, so we decided to meet my brother at Calaway Park. We ended up spending the WHOLE day there and then headed to Cindy & Dave's place.

Banff !!

I was too tired to post last night, but we had another fun filled day yesterday.

We only drove about 4 hours to get to Banff Alberta and find a hotel. We took a bit to get settled and then we went up on the Gondola's to the top of a VERY high mountain (not high enough for snow, but you get the picture)

Mari Quote

Mari said something that made me laugh....we asked her if she wanted some parmesan cheese with her pizza (it was a bit spicy) and she said it didn't matter because her stuffies (Prince Froggy) doesn't mind her farts !!

haha

BTW, this hotel room in Revelstoke has two double beds and a twin bed....Mari has her own bed, Alisha and Restita in another and I can stretch out on the last twin.

ROADTRIP 2009 - BEST OF ALL TIME

That is Mari's tagline for our roadtrip this year.

We made it to Revelstoke. Not bad considering we didn't leave the island until 1200 !!

We met up with William in Revelstoke, but I couldn't make up the 4 hour headstart I gave him....we got here two hours after him...haha

We are staying in a hotel across the street from him, and met up for a few minutes this evening.

We plan on going to his hotel for continental breakfast and then he is coming to ours...haha

They are heading to Calgary tomorrow (5 hours?) and we are heading to Banff and staying overnight and heading to Calgary the next day.

Anywayz, I've been up since 5am, so I am heading to bed now.

wow...it has been a long time since I wrote something here

"too busy"?

Let's see, since the last post I've been to Thunder Bay and back, LOTS of photos taken, just checkout my Facebook Photos , my favourite is the one Shelley took at the Hoito.

Prior to going to Thunder Bay, I had worked five 10 hour shifts in a row...usually it is only 4, oh well.

Since coming back, we have been busy with school and life.
I have found some time to start a new hobby, photography.
I am still looking for a good place to store good sized photos, but for now, I am spread across Flickr and Facebook. I am slowly phasing out Fotki.com.
Links to my albums are in the previous post (look down).

Anywayz...gotta run, gottat be at work in 25 minutes.

New landing spot for photos

I found out how to use an interesting feature of Flickr.com, Geotag.

Now when I upload photos to My Flickr Account from my iPhone, GPS coordinates go with it.

For instance, have a look at my latest photo and click on MAP under "additional information"' and you will see where the photo took place.

A really cool feature of this, is that I can email the photos from my phone to the website and add a title with the subject line.

Kinda cool, eh?

Sometimes he cracks me up

Gonzales Hill

Test
Originally uploaded by czarl

We had a great time at an observatory in the Fairfield area (who knew).

Somewhere cool to take visitors.

Taiwanese Puppet Theatre

The girls photo was also taken at a puppet show
a couple weeks ago.

http://www.snapvictoria.com/display/88365/1776/

I am famous

Well, not that famous, but here is a little blurb in our company newsletter, Shawnews. (click for larger version)

USS Montana

I just emailed this out, but thought it would be nice to have on my blog also

Breaker One, Breaker One, I might be crazy, but I ain't dumb! Craaazy Cooter comin' at ya! Ya'll out there on the Hazzard net?

Did y'all miss this sale? All 7 seasons were on sale for $100 !!!

http://www.amazon.com/Dukes-Hazzard-Complete-Seasons-1-7/dp/B000HLDFA4/ref=pd_bbs_10?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1237787567&sr=8-10

Pink dolphin appears in US lake

The world's only pink Bottlenose dolphin which was discovered in an inland lake in Louisiana, USA, has become such an attraction that conservationists have warned tourists to leave it alone.

read more | digg story

Cool iPhone ideas

As you know, Apple is a very innovative company, and with that, it has some innovative fans that put together something like

"10 beautiful Apple iPhone concepts"

Wireless electricity

CHARGING YOUR CELL PHONE WITHOUT A CORD !!

MultiColor Monday !!

Today is Multicolored Monday at St. Patricks School. Today the whole school has to wear as many colors as possible.

This whole week has a theme for each day, stay tuned for tomorow.

Uh Oh

I wouldn't want to be HERE

Picasa Face detection

It has been awhile since I posted here (since the fender bender a month ago). The car should be in the shop on Tuesday and we get to drive in luxury for a few days (weeks?) while they fix her up.

I just tested a cool new feature of Picasa. As yoy may know, Google has an application called Picasa that organizes your photos and that works pretty well.

You can also post photos from Picasa to the internet. Once they are there, Google launched a new feature called "Face detection" that does a pretty good job of identifying similar faces so that you can tag them.

Visit My Web Albums and then click on Pictures to see who I have tagged. Click on the names to see all the photos of that person.

I am looking forward to iPhoto 09 (for the Mac) to offere a similar feature.