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Thomas at Our Playground
March 10, 2010 - 7:45 am
Tags: Family, playground, Thomas
Posted in Family, Video | No comments
Since starting my three month paternity leave, I’ve started to learn what it’s like to spend entire days with Thomas; and I’m still to learn what it’s like to do this for weeks on end, and looking forward to it! He’s a really fun age right now, and I feel like I have a new [...]
The American Economic Collapse in Brief
January 23, 2010 - 1:07 am
Tags: economy, Finances, obama, recession
Posted in Finances | No comments
The economy is not much better today than it was in 2007 when the recession began. There’s been many major events from the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, to the massive bailout efforts put forth by the US Government, to the seemingly stunning stock market recovery during 2009.
In the past week, we’ve seen [...]
Thomas Visits Santa – Year 2
e woke up early (which is always the case anyways with Thomas) to visit Santa and beat the crowds. Last year’s visit was a little anti-climactic considering T-Bone was only six months old and didn’t really know or care about Christmas. This year, however, was a little more exciting. We already put up the tree [...]
Christmas Tree…done.
This is a new personal best for our household: The Christmas tree was trimmed by November 29th. Mind you, it’s a fake one; but a damn good fake if I do say so. A few pine cone air freshners doubling as ornaments and it’s just like the real thing.
Thomas was ripping around the living room [...]
Goodbye Grandparents. Hello Cousin.
Today was a busy one.
Since I had the day off, (I’m working the coming Saturday), and Thomas’ fever was over and done with, we decided to see Grandma and Grandpa Cryer as they left town to start their new life in Kelowna, followed by a visit with Uncle Jeremy, Aunty Scarlett and baby Xavier [...]
Xavier Clifford Chen. Son, Nephew, Cousin.
t’s official: my little brother is now a Dad. Jeremy and Scarlett welcomed the X-Man into the world on November 19th, 2009 at 2:36pm, weighing in at 6lbs 3 oz and 19 inches long. It was strange to hold Xavier given his feather lite status vs. his older 27lb cousin known as the T-Bone! After [...]
Thomas at the Vancouver Aquarium
November 14, 2009 - 11:18 pm
Tags: aquarium, Thomas, vancouver
Posted in Family, Video | No comments
We decided to introduce Thomas to the Vancouver Aquarium last April. He was a little young to really appreciate it, but we kinda wanted to check it out for ourselves too. Neither Alex nor myself had visited the Aquarium since elementary school. And what can I say but: “Things done changed!”
Needless to say, Thomas loved [...]
Debt Sucks
November 12, 2009 - 9:31 pm
Tags: debt, Finances, saving
Posted in Finances | 2 comments
Working in banking, part of my job is to extend various credit products (i.e. loans, lines of credit, and credit cards) to my customers. I’m not against debt, but the problem I’m seeing with most people who come into my office for credit is that it’s for all the wrong reasons. These days, people have [...]
Remembrance Day at the Tot Lot
November 12, 2009 - 12:32 am
Tags: Family, Thomas
Posted in Family | No comments
Today was my second day off in a mid-week, weekend — if that makes sense? Of course, that means I’m working the coming Saturday
It’s been a rainy past few days as Vancouver’s fall weather has really set in. But, we got a sunny break in the clouds around noon so Alex and I [...]
TELUS ADSL2 Rocks My World
September 11, 2008 - 11:24 pm
Tags: fibre optic, internet, Technology
Posted in Technology | 8 comments
For those of you currently on Shaw’s High Speed Internet, I’m sorry to tell you that your Internet connection sucks. Why you ask? Because Telus is testing its ADSL2 service, and I’m one of the lucky few in British Columbia to have a trial fibre optic connection going straight into my house.
This fibre line offers [...]
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