Crazy Carls Ramblings

Annual Christmas Wish list

2011-11-19T20:53:00.001-08:00

This is probably a bit late since we are going away soon, but here are the girls lists

Mari
1. Club Penguin Puffles

2. Webkinz Pets (you can find these "everywhere"

3. Angry Bird merchandise (I don't think I need a link here)

4. Club Penguin membership

5. Webkinz deluxe membership

6. Nintendo DS or Wii Games (ask Mom/Dad what we already have)

7. Pokemon Cards

Alisha
1. Littlest petshop playsets

2. Zhu Zhu Princess, car or driving track set

3. Barbie puppy swim school (or any Barbie pets)

4. Plastic Play food

5. Club Penguin membership

6. Club Penguin new books Card-Jitsu Handbook or Meet The Crew

7. Club Penguin action figure (the ones in the back please)

Mari's second promotion

2011-05-08T18:31:00.000-07:00

April 22, 2011 - Beacon Hill

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March 26, 2011- Butterfly Gardens

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March 22, 2011 - Vancouver Zoo

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March 20, 2011 - Vancouver

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March 5, 2001 - Parksville / Cathedral Grove & Port Alberni

2011-05-01T12:01:00.001-07:00

March 2, 2011 - Big Waves

2011-05-01T12:01:00.000-07:00

Some more Swan Lake photos

2011-05-01T11:54:00.000-07:00

Seems to be my favourite place as of late.

Swan Lake

2011-01-30T17:02:00.001-08:00

I like taking photos of nature and I figured a good group to hang out with would be local bird watching groups. I've only met up with one particular group that meets on Wed/Sundays @ 9am at Swan lake. Mom/Dad, maybe if we are quick one day, we can go there.

I've got a couple albums so far

[2011-01-11] Goldstream

2011-01-30T17:02:00.000-08:00

Found some snow out at Goldstream park on my way up to meet William for lunch in Duncan.

Look at how fat those squirrels are !!

[2011-01-04] esquimalt lagoon

2011-01-30T17:01:00.000-08:00

On one of my days off, I went to Esquimalt lagoon (through Colwood Mom and Dad).
I found out when I got there, there was a rare gull in the area. It is called a Iceland gull and I snapped a few photos.

What else was interesting is that the lagoon was frozen over, not bad considering it is part of the ocean.

As usual, click on the photo to get to the rest of the album

2010-12-22 - Navy Lights

2010-12-29T02:57:00.000-08:00

William and the kids hadn't seen the Navy light up tour so we went down there on December 22.

I put the best of the singing at the beginning of the movie for you Grandma and Grandpa :-)

Sorry the video is a bit dark. Next time I go, I'll sit on the RIGHT hand side of the bus...funny they don't tell you that when you get on the bus :-)

Mari - first promotion

2010-12-10T07:20:00.000-08:00

Mari got her first promotion the other night and of course, I had to record it :-)

She went from New Entry Chambers to ExtraOrdinary Cadet :-)

To get this rank, she needed to know all the cadet and officer ranks, the responsibility of cadet, the expectations of a cadet and basic drill movements.

Congratulations OC Chambers !!

Nov30, 2010 - HMCS Algonquin and report cards

2010-11-30T19:06:00.000-08:00

Good evening, earlier today I heard that the navy was out in the harbour playing around. The only problem was, I didn't know where they were playing, so I drove around a bit a finally found HMCS Algonquin as she was leaving the Esquimalt area.

We also have the first term reports cards online....Mari and Alisha

Incidently, Mari had an opportunity to tour HMCS Algonquin on Sunday with her cadet corp. Here are the photos of that field trip

Alisha extremely awesome wish list

2010-11-25T18:47:00.000-08:00

Welcome to the most awesome list EVER !!

Zhu Zhu pet accessories
LPSO (Littlest pet shop online) stuffies
LPS (littlest pet shop) toys
Playmobil toys
Wii games (check with my Mom/Dad)
SILLY BANDZ !!
(trendy little plastic shaped bracelets, Mari likes these also)
Club Penguin Membership for one year
A bow or mini-decoration
A chocolate Orange !!

If you get at least one of the item ,
YOU ROCK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mari wish list

2010-11-21T19:15:00.000-08:00

Sorry this is coming a bit late (Dad wanted me to send this a few weeks ago), but here is my wish list for my birthday and/or Christmas.

1. Club Penguin membership card or items.
2. Littlest Pet Shop Online membership card, or LPSO pet or LPSO Felina starter pack (pictured here)
3. Webkinz items (clothes or stuffies)
4. Books or giftcards to bookstores like Chapters or Bolen Books
5. Giftcard for EBGames
6. $$$$$
7. Clothes (no T-shirts, I have too many)

New Entry Chambers - Messenger

2010-11-05T10:30:00.000-07:00

We are not sure how it is selected, but New Entry Chambers was the Ship's Messenger on Wednesday.

Hope you enjoy it.

Ogden point and Oak Bay Marina - Oct 16, 2010

2010-10-16T18:19:00.000-07:00

Such a beautiful day today, we decided to meet up with Krisna and Boualay at Ogden Point (aka the breakwater).

After that, we went to feed the "starving" seals at Oak Bay Marina.

Thetis lake hike - Oct 12, 2010

2010-10-16T18:17:00.000-07:00

Got together with Boualay and his friend Adam and went for a walk around lower Thetis Lake.
Not sure how far the hike was, but it took us a good 2 hours.

Hope you enjoy some of the photos I took

Thanksgiving in Parksville - Oct 10, 2010

2010-10-16T18:12:00.000-07:00

[2010-09-28] Night photography

2010-09-28T23:24:00.000-07:00

Borrowed a tripod (thanks Gerry) and decided to take some nightime photography.

What do you think?

Royal Wax Museum closes its doors on Sep 19, 2010

2010-09-19T17:44:00.000-07:00

The building that the Wax museum is currently residing in, is going through siesmic upgrades soon and the museum has to move out for a few years.
Ideally, they would like to move back there, but who knows. Perhaps there is a better (bigger?) location for them
We got lured into attending the Wax museum because a couple news sources indicated that it was going to be free.....but when we got there, they were still charging admission. We decided to go through again 'for the last time'. Hope you enjoy the photos.

World Soccer Day - Sep 17, 2010

2010-09-19T17:41:00.000-07:00

World Cup Soccer is an fun event for the Grade 4's and 5's at St. Patrick's school.
It was raining for the Grade 4's in the morning, but Grade 5's had beautiful weather !!
Mari likes the idea of playing soccer, but she won't attack the ball because 'they are too rough'....poor Mari

ebru sanatı 1

2010-09-02T20:30:00.000-07:00

Finally a video not of the girls....this think rocks !!

I think this is called "Turkish water painting" or Ebru

Pacific Northwestern Raptors - Aug 26, 2010

2010-08-26T19:34:00.000-07:00

Had our last cousin meetup for the summer in Duncan at the Pacific Northwestern Raptor place. This is a re-hab center for injured birds of prey.

Part of their funding is from puttin on flying demostrations, as you can see from the photos in the album linked above.

Ceremon of the Flags 2010 - Drummers Call

2010-08-03T08:59:00.000-07:00

Ceremony of the Flags 2010

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Ceremony of the Flags marchpast

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[2010-07-31] Ceremony of the Flags

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Went and saw HMCS Quadra Ceremony of the Flags on Saturday....trying to relive my youth...haha

Click for more photos !!

July 17, 2010 - Fuller Lake

2010-07-17T22:31:00.000-07:00

Had a great day, meeting up with the North Island Chamberses
for lunch and a park.
Then we met with our Nanaimo friends (the Herera's)
at Fuller Lake, which is just a bit north of Duncan.
(click on Mari for more photos)

Whale Watching !!

2010-07-03T09:39:00.000-07:00

Leona is in town and we decided we wanted to go Whale Watching !!

We couldn't have picked a better day, not only was it a beautiful day, we saw lots of whales (30-40 sightings?).
I filtered through most of the photos (how exciting is a fin anyways) and posted the best ones.

Funny enough, Alisha slept on the way back....nothing like go 50 km/h in an open Zodiac to put you to sleep :-)

Enjoy the photos by click on the thumbnail of us.

Vancouver Zoo - Alisha and Dad mini-vacation day 2

2010-06-30T23:47:00.000-07:00

I thought we'd only be here for an hour or two, but we just kept going from one information session to the next and 5.5 hours later...

I really like a few of the parrot photos and pretty much all the owl photos.

Sorry these last two albums have not been filtered too much, I might pare them down when I get home..

Enroute to Vancouver

2010-06-30T23:42:00.000-07:00

We didn't do too much the first day as we go to the hotel around 4pm, but Alisha enjoyed swimming at the hotel (click the thumbnail for more photos)

Alisha and Daddy - Day 2

2010-06-28T18:40:00.000-07:00

Not much to report today. Alisha got to sleep in a bit because she gets ready than Mari :-)

I bought some new outlet and light switch plates. I originally thought brass, but it was $35 for the living room in the suite.
I went with the $3.33 chocolate brown set that look pretty good. (and $32 cheaper).

After buying those I headed to Esquimalt Lagoon Bird Sanctuary and took some photos. Click on the photo to see more.

Tomorrow's plan is to pickup Alisha from school at noon and head to the ferry...do not pass go, do not collect any speeding tickets.
Hopefully we can catch the 1pm ferry, if not, there is a 2pm one so it is not too bad.

Alisha and Daddy - Day 1

2010-06-27T21:04:00.000-07:00

Today Restita and Mari flew to Ottawa. They wanted us at the airport by 5:15 AAAA MMMMM !!
We would have probably been early, if I had set my alarm correctly.
I had it set for 4:15 PM....arghh. As it turns out, we got together with everyone at 5:17am, so not so bad.

After hanging out for a bit, I went home and slept a bit until it was time to pick up Alisha and drop off Lola at church.

I asked Aliaha what she wanted to do....SWIMMING !! Since I had an extra car seat, I asked if she wanted to bring a friend.
Sarah was available so we picked her up.

The weather was holding up, so I thought we'd head down to Beacon Hill Park first. That is where all the photos were taken, I hope you enjoy them.

AFAIK, Restita and Mari arrived safely. The group had some issues at the hotel, but it all got straightened away.
They are staying at the Travelodge in Ottawa and spent their evening in the water park !!

H2O: Dangerous Chemical!

2010-06-21T21:07:00.001-07:00

A student at Eagle Rock Junior High won first prize at the Greater Idaho Falls Science Fair, April 26. He was attempting to show how conditioned we have become to alarmists practicing junk science and spreading fear of everything in our environment. In his project he urged people to sign a petition demanding strict control or total elimination of the chemical "dihydrogen monoxide."

And for plenty of good reasons, since:

1. it can cause excessive sweating and vomiting
2. it is a major component in acid rain
3. it can cause severe burns in its gaseous state
4. accidental inhalation can kill you
5. it contributes to erosion
6. it decreases effectiveness of automobile brakes
7. it has been found in tumors of terminal cancer patients

He asked 50 people if they supported a ban of the chemical.

* Forty-three (43) said yes,
* six (6) were undecided,
* and only one (1) knew that the chemical was water.

The title of his prize winning project was, "How Gullible Are We?"

He feels the conclusion is obvious.

Grade 4 Celebration of Learning

2010-06-21T20:35:00.000-07:00

Mari's class had a year end "celebration of learning" today. Essentially it is the an annual event where the kids get to show us a few things they recently worked on, possibly put on a skit. This year, Mari's grade 4 class did a bit of reading for us, then we went to the computer lab so she could show us her powerpoint presentation. When we got back to the class, the principal (Mrs. Paulson) handed them their Grade 4 graduation certificates.

As you might know, this is Mari's last week of school as she heads to Ottawa on Sunday and by this time next week, they will have probably done a performance or two. Restita and Mari are going to try and keep us updated on their day to day stuff through Restita's facebook account an iPhone app called Gowalla.

Alisha has this week and 1.5 days next week, then her and I are going to take a short trip to Vancouver.

[2010-06-05] Oak Bay Tea Party parade

2010-06-05T15:26:00.000-07:00

Fun fun at the Oak Bay Tea Party parade and then some rides.

Alisha Confirmation

2010-06-01T18:19:00.000-07:00

Some photos of Alisha's confirmation on May 2/10

[2010-06-01] St. Patricks Track and Field

2010-06-01T18:14:00.000-07:00

St. Patrick's School participates at a Track and Field meet and the University of Victoria
(reposted with a better album cover)

Victoria Day parade

2010-05-24T18:54:00.001-07:00

Lots of fun in the sun today with a Victoria Day Parade !!

Checkout the photos on Facebook

The photos to the left are 3 years apart...one was today and one was in 2007

Posted some pics

2010-03-28T09:34:00.001-07:00

Just wanted to let everyone know that we posted some photos on our Picasa site.

Metchosin Parks (Witty's Lagoon / Devonian)

and

Butterfly Gardens

I think Picasa is where I am going to start storing most of my photos. If you are interested of knowing when I upload stuff there, you can subscribe to the feed by
1. Logging into Picasaweb (with a free Gmail account).
2. visiting my albums
3. Clicking on "add to favourites" under my name on the right-hand side
4. Then click on Settings | Email Notification | Daily digest.

This will send you 1 email a day with links to albums that have been updated.

If you don't check your free Gmail account, you can setup Gmail to forward its emails, to your regular email address. You do this by
1. login to Gmail.com
2. click on "settings" in the top right corner
3. click on the "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" tab
4. click on "Forward a copy of incoming mail to " and put your real email address in there

This will forward any email sent to mom_likes_butterflies@gmail.com to the email address that your regularly check.

Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic photos

2010-02-25T06:04:00.000-08:00

As most of you know, Gerry had bought some Olympic tickets for last weekend. Lola had some tickets for Ice Dancing on Friday night. Leah and Restita were supposed to go with her, but Restita stayed home because Alisha had been sick all week :-(

Gerry also had hockey tickets for two games and gave me a ticket for each!! On Saturday afternoon, we saw Team Slovakia cream Team Latvia 6-0 !! Sunday was a much better game, Team Russia beat Team Czech Republic 4-2.

I`ve posted a few photos for all to enjoy.

Haiti, are you ready for him?

2010-02-04T13:56:00.000-08:00

Local nurse pleased to be heading to Haiti

Brad Bird, Oceanside Star

Published: Thursday, February 04, 2010

A local Registered Nurse is heading to Haiti to help those hurt in the recent earthquake.

Will Chambers will be leaving Feb. 19 for a two-week effort with eight others from a group called Samaritan's Purse.

He expects to be doing what he normally does at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, working as a surgical nurse. But the conditions at Baptist Mission Haiti Hospital in Ferte will be a little different.

Chambers, 36, who attends Parksville Fellowship Baptist Church, said Friday he's preparing himself for what will come.

"I'm praying," he said. "This is something that I've never seen before; I've never seen disaster. This will be my first crack at it."

But don't expect it to be his last.

"I'm willing to go anywhere in the world to serve, to help where I can."

His wife, Heather, is 100% behind his quest to help. "I am so proud of him," she said. "You will never meet a guy with more passion for this mission."

They have two children, daughters Rachel, 5, and Samara, 7.

"That's why I chose to do short-term missions," he said. "My family's first."

He knows there are risks from looters and others, but says the Canadian military will provide security.

"There is some nervousness," he said.

With him will be three surgeons and five other nurses, all through Samaritan's Purse, a non-denominational Christian international relief agency with an office in Calgary.

His employer, Vancouver Island Health Authority, has been very supportive of this, he said, for which he's thankful.

"It's going to be awesome," Chambers said, "a great opportunity to serve others who are in great need right now."

© Oceanside Star 2010

Tag, your face is it

2010-02-02T14:44:00.000-08:00

haha..

I just wanted to write a quick post that Picasa now supports name tagging.
which makes it easier to find photos of your favorite people :-)

School choir at the Open house

2010-02-01T13:27:00.000-08:00

Here is a video of Mari andthe St. Patrick's Intermediate choir singing at the open house yesterday

She was also involved in a play she learned in French class

Another Choir Video

2009-12-12T05:29:00.002-08:00

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

2009-12-12T05:29:00.001-08:00

Christmas Music

2009-12-06T11:37:00.000-08:00

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"

2009-11-17T16:09:00.000-08:00

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...

2009-11-13T14:39:00.000-08:00

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

2009-11-06T17:11:00.000-08:00

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

2009-11-02T13:12:00.000-08:00

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

Here are some photos

Youtube videos

2009-10-30T09:37:00.000-07:00

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

2009-10-30T09:27:00.000-07:00

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

2009-10-23T08:20:00.000-07:00

Hi, I'm Mari.

I want:

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

Have a merry christmas,

Mari Natalie A.Chambers

Happy Thankgiving

2009-10-20T11:34:00.000-07:00

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?

2009-09-02T13:03:00.000-07:00

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

Tiklos dance

2009-08-30T21:33:00.000-07:00

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

2009-08-25T10:49:00.000-07:00

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

2009-08-23T20:48:00.000-07:00

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

New photos online !!

2009-07-12T20:17:00.000-07:00

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

2009-07-04T20:13:00.000-07:00

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

2009-07-04T20:00:00.000-07:00

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

2009-07-04T19:52:00.000-07:00

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

2009-07-04T19:33:00.000-07:00

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 !!

2009-06-29T08:18:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-27T21:53:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-27T21:46:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-03T08:59:00.000-07:00

"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

2009-04-26T14:05:00.000-07:00

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

2009-04-26T14:04:00.000-07:00

Gonzales Hill

2009-04-21T06:57:00.001-07:00

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

2009-04-06T19:35:00.000-07:00

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

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

I am famous

2009-04-06T19:32:00.001-07:00

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

USS Montana

2009-03-31T19:49:00.000-07:00

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?

2009-03-22T22:53:00.000-07:00

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

2009-03-02T23:49:00.001-08:00

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

2009-02-18T05:35:00.000-08:00

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

2009-01-27T07:59:00.000-08:00

CHARGING YOUR CELL PHONE WITHOUT A CORD !!

MultiColor Monday !!

2009-01-19T07:57:00.000-08:00

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

2009-01-17T12:59:00.000-08:00

I wouldn't want to be HERE

Picasa Face detection

2009-01-17T09:16:00.000-08:00

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.

Bender Fender

2008-12-16T07:39:00.000-08:00

We got into a bit of a bump on Sunday when we went to Mayfair mall.

We were entering the parking lot and noticed a vehicle backing out of a spot. It appeared they may not have seen us, so we slowed down and stopped and layed on the horn. Apparently they couldn't see or hear the horn and backed into us, hitting the passenger front corner.

The whole family was in the car and we seem to be ok. The car has minor damage with a few scrapes on the bumper, but the hood has a small indent in it (like it was curled back a bit).
We were a few minutes late for a Birthday party (at Build-a-Bear), so the girls all headed into the mall while I dealt with the insurance. The other party and I started to get insurance papers etc and she mentioned that we should move our vehicles to a safer place. They moved their vehicle and I then realized that in the excitement, I had locked my keys in the car. I tried calling Restita for 10 minutes with no answer !! I finally went inside to get her keys and found out that her phone was charging in the car.....arghhh. When I got back, the other vehicle had taken off....good thing I got their plate number before they left !!

So far both insurance companies (ICBC and ING Insurance) have been a pleasure working with, so hopefully that will continue.

I am working today and worked yesterday, so we will bring the car in to the shop tomorrow.
I guess the good news is that we are covered for a rental vehicle while it is in for repairs !!

Mari's Christmas List (continued) and others

2008-11-30T08:59:00.000-08:00

Hi, this is Mari again.

I forgot two things after I published my post.

8. Webkinz clothes(for Kate and Clara)
9. Build-a-Bear (for my account)

Now for a new subject... Reading/Phonics!
My favourite!

I was 3 years old (in preschool) when I first read my books.

I got so good, I started reading chapter books when I was in Gr.1!
Wow!
Now I'm really into challenging books!

Bye for now! P.S.( I am into novels now and in Gr.3!)

Apple Fan's....

2008-11-23T23:49:00.000-08:00

There sure are some Avid fans out there !!

I don't read much chinese, but visit this site for how they did it (I thought someone used photoshop until I saw the other photos)

Fun baking

2008-11-23T13:37:00.001-08:00

We decided to play around with our color cookie dough and the girls made some interesting (and almost tasty) cookies.

Mari 's Christmas List

2008-11-15T19:07:00.000-08:00

Hello, my name is Mari( Carl's eldest daughter).

These are the things I want for Christmas:

1. Nintendo DS
2. Hannah Montana Wii game
3. Nintendo DS game( to start off collection)
4. To be with my family
5. Alisha to stop bugging me
6. A tickle from my Daddy
7. MORE HOMEWORK!

Anyways, Have a Merry Christmas!

Social experiment by grade 8 girl

2008-11-14T05:55:00.000-08:00

This is an article about a girl that wore a pro-McCain shirt to school and recorded the comments. The next day, she wore a pro-Obama shirt and record comments also.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-kass-13-nov13,0,2881384.column

Considering Obama is a strong supporter of tolerance, it was interesting to read the comments when we wore the McCain shirt....needless to say, they were not very tolerant people.

Hope you enjoy this.

Macgyver creates some cool looking speakers

2008-11-13T23:52:00.000-08:00

Straight from the ghetto

http://www.yankodesign.com/2008/11/13/macgyver-tries-ipod-speakers/

Would you like a set for Christmas?

Just some photos from my phone

2008-11-08T15:31:00.001-08:00

halloween

my three princesses
fridge cleanup

we found this stapler frozen in a casserole dish while cleaning the fridge at work !!!
playing in the park

swing time
playing in the park

swing time
Posted via Pixelpipe.

50 Strange Buildings of the World

2008-11-08T03:50:00.000-08:00

These are some strange buildings

Hope you enjoy these strange links I am finding on my night shifts.

Funny Super Mario Bros video

2008-11-06T02:05:00.000-08:00

Stumbled across this video and thought Shelley and William might enjoy it.

http://www.pwnordie.com/videos/e6bedb7d13

Antipodes

2008-11-05T03:38:00.000-08:00

Things you learn while you are on the Internet. Did you know that if you dug through the earth, you would NOT end up in China? Sorry Mom :-)

Have a look at http://www.zefrank.com/sandwich/tool.html to find out where you would be.

Hi-speed fun

2008-11-04T19:05:00.000-08:00

I just love high-speed photo and videos !!

Checkout that link I just stumbled across
(from http://www.digg.com)

Halloween 2008

2008-10-31T15:09:00.001-07:00

Just posted some Halloween photos on Facebook.

The girls just left to go to Malloween at Mayfair mall and then they split up and go to their friends parties (they live nearby).

I am getting ready to go to work :-(

Saving paint

2008-10-30T00:19:00.000-07:00

I was just thinking of William and remembered this tip about saving paint.

It is from one of my new favourite websites called http://www.unclutterer.com.

The article suggests putting old paint into smaller containers that you were going to throw away anywayz, IE, water bottles....what a great idea.

Have a look at the article
http://unclutterer.com/2008/07/31/use-water-bottles-to-store-paint/

Kidzui

2008-10-29T16:20:00.000-07:00

This is a great program you can install on your computer.

It carries MANY kid-safe websites and my kids love it !!

"Over a million kid-friendly games, websites, pictures, and YouTube videos reviewed by parents like you"

check it out
http://www.kidzui.com/

test #2

2008-10-29T16:08:00.001-07:00

Just trying a different way to notify you if I post something.

Let me know if you get this also.