Author: gfox (old content)

Discovered Twitter

Wow, read my post from one year ago and discovered that today is my Twitter anniversary.

That year sure went fast.

Do I get the point now? Not sure, but I use it as an extension to this blog.

I think the thing that is interesting about Twitter is that it is a platform that can be used by people in varying ways. Some use it for micro blogging, some for socializing, some for advertising (the good kind, not the spam kind), some for lurking and catching up on people.

I can only imagine what my tweet levels would be like if I had a texting plan on my cell phone.

Airport Agenda

This morning I drove Sox and Sprout to the airport. They are flying to Ottawa today, and will be gone for over a week. I miss them already.

Beet and I have a few plans for the upcoming week, and I am looking forward to this bonding time with her. I fully expect it to be a very busy week, but I know it will be fun.

On the agenda for this afternoon? Grocery shopping, then dinner at a friends house.

Donation Bleeding

Tonight was donation number 43. I can’t wait to hit number 50! 7 donations, 56 days between them, means I still have a year and a bit before I hit that mark.

There Ed Bain was there donating too. Nice to see some local celebs being involved in a cause like this.

Smooth process, but for some reason my arm didn’t want to stop donating. After the bag was full, I held the gauze on my arm for the 5 minutes, but even then the hole was still bleeding a little.

Mmm, cookies. I haven’t bought Oreo’s in a very long time, but every time I donate I make sure to eat a couple.

Miniature Problem

Last night when I was feeding the fish I discovered that I don’t have one baby crayfish, I actually have two baby crayfish’s. Each one is now about 1.5 inches long and look exactly like miniature versions of their parents minus the blue color. The babies are more of a brown color and still blend in with the surroundings quite well.

I will have to keep on top of the population. My co-worker who gave me the 4 crayfish still has too many of them and I don’t want a repeat of my snail problem.

Cellphone Charge

We did eventually figure out what to do with our dead cellphone. We couldn’t decide on sticking with one phone, or getting a second one. Further to that we were trying to decide if we should stick with Telus or not.

In then end we stuck with Telus and got a second phone. I looked at 18 months worth of previous bills and decided that changing plans would work out fine for us and we could safely give up per second billing (all Telus’ plans now are per minute billing).

The process itself at a Telus store was pretty simple. We ended up with and awesome service tech and he totally hoked us up. After a few stressful moments due to tired and unhappy kids we were out of the store new phones in hand.

I don’t even know what phone Sox chose, but I chose a Samsung Slyde m540. I’d read a few reviews of it, and I liked the feature list. The extra $30 cost was negligible to me. The address book is excellent, the call quality superb, the phone has a nice feel to it.

When I got the phone the tech set me up with a sweet phone number. When I got my first bill, I noticed a $25 customer number bill. The tech never mentioned this charge to me. I did know about all the other stupid, inane, grab as much money as they can fees, but this one was never mentioned to me. I called up Telus and thankfully the person I talked to reversed that charge.

So far I am very happy with the change. Sox and I can more easily coordinate picking each other up, and have less coordinating with our cellphone use. Plus, with the family plans, there is unlimited calling between our two phones anywhere. Finally, it’s nice to have a geek toy with me all the time again 🙂

Horrible Doozy

Last Thursday morning I woke up with the most horrible cold I have had in a long time. Turned out to be some form of flu. Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday I was flat out leveled by this.

I had no energy to do anything, I had a constant headache, I had a sore throat, no appetite, my ears were sore and my hearing extra sensitive, I had chills, but I didn’t have much of a fever.

As much as I wanted to help out around the house I physically was not able to. This meant my awesome wife did everything for the family. I cannot begin to tell her how much I appreciated everything she did.

When Monday morning rolled around and I still wasn’t feeling much better I made an appointment to see my doctor. After I described a couple of my symptoms he started to tell me that they don’t do testing for H1N1 anymore, which was something I was already aware of. He explained a couple things about H1N1 that I didn’t know, and suggested that I have a normal flu.

He checked me out and since my lungs were clear gave me the green light to go home and rest again. I mainly wanted to see him to make sure that what I had wasn’t something else. I also wanted to see if there were any precautions I didn’t know about to prevent spreading it within our family. The recommendations for home quarantine are pretty severe. I would have had to lock myself in the basement and not anyone in. If they had to come in I should have stayed more than 6 feet away.

Anyway, so far it seems like the precautions I have used have worked as noone else is sick yet. *knock on wood*

Today I feel like I am almost over with this sickness. I still feel sick, but there is a dramatic improvement from yesterday. Maybe tomorrow I can work a full day (from home).

Be careful out there, this one is a doozy.