The rest of the pics are here.
I was planning on leaving work at 4 and taking the long way home. As it was I got pretty involved at work, and wanted to finish a few more things so I never left until just after 5. I had things to do this evening so that meant the short, straight route home.
To liven up the ride a little I pushed myself pretty hard. At one point I glanced at the HRM which was flashing 177. I backed off a little when I saw that, but kept up a pretty brisk pace. Still, I felt a little gross for a while after getting home.
Today has been full of those feelings.
This morning was a milestone (in my mind) for me. Sprout has been experimenting with walking for a few days now. He has taken a few steps between furniture, and he walked to his mum yesterday. That is pretty cute and inspiring to see him learn so quickly.
Movies and TV portray kids learning to walk quite a bit, and the typical scene is the parent with the arms out, and the child hesitantly letting go of the furniture and taking their first steps to the outstretched arms of the parent.
Sprout did this with me this morning, and this is what is causing me to smile and get warm fuzzies. He was standing holding on to the crib in his room with his blanket hanging from his mouth, while I was sitting in the chair in his room. I held out my hands not really expecting much, but he let go of the crib, stretched out his arms towards me, and walked over to me. 🙂
I was pretty proud of him, and it was such an accomplishment in my mind. He was pleased with himself too. Those are the kinds of moments I live for, those are the kinds of moments I love, and those are the kinds of moments I cherish and want to remember forever.
Sunday was an odd day. I had to work, so I rode to work, did what I needed to, then went for a long ride as a workout. Then it was dinner with K and JJ.
Today is Monday again, and the week has begun anew. Except that I woke up with a sore throat and am feeling gross right now.
I completely forgot to post about the last Photoclub meet on Mar 18. I couldn’t think of anything more original, so we met at Beacon Hill Park. The weather was decent enough, and there were a lot of people out. The petting zoo was quite popular.
The cherry blossoms were still out, but not much else for flowers.
The ducks were having a great time though.
The rest of my pics are here.
I got to work in 20 minutes, and that was still the 7 km straight shot. The ride home was about 45 minutes, but a much harder ride. It was pretty breezy out today, so the gusts were blowing me around quite a bit. Also, it was mainly a headwind, but off of my centre a little.
It was tough, but rewarding
Today is the day. 32 now. Sox and Sprout and I have dinner plans tonight with my family, and that is the extent of the celebrations.
This gadget steps it up several notches. Offload the gadgets to a desktop accessory that can sit beneath or below your screen so everything is always in view? Awesome.
I wonder what the thing costs? Kind reminds me of the Optimus Mini 3
They have a self service website which allows me to see my bill.
Last week I wanted to add voicemail to my phone. I thought I remembered seeing something somewhere that said I could do that online. I fired up my browser and used my stored password to open my account. I couldn’t find this ability anywhere so I switched to IE to login and try with that browser.
IE doesn’t store my password so I typed it in. It was incorrect, and after trying a couple more times I locked my account.
Their site says to call them to unlock my account, and it also sends an email with the exact same information.
Eventually I get around to calling them and get put on hold for a very long time. I waited and waited and waited. At least 15 minutes later I got through to someone. I was able to get my transactions done, and then I asked the CSR to unlock my account.
She tells me she can’t tell my my password since they are stored in their DB in an encrypted form.
I didn’t ask about getting my password, I wanted them to unlock my account. She repeats her statements a couple times, but she just doesn’t get it.
Her suggested course of action is to create a new account. ?? WTF. That is a lame workaround. Why can’t the CSR uncheck the box on their screen that says this account is locked? That makes sense to me.
Finally she suggests to me to reset my password by clicking the “forgot your password?” link. I am not sure why I didn’t think of that, but when I tried it, I was prompted with my secret question. A couple clicks later and I was back into my account.
So, here is the procedure. If you lock your Telus Mobility web account, and want to unlock it, forget what their site tells you to do, and pretend you have forgotten your password. Hopefully you will be able to remember the answer to your secret question.
Instead I took it easy at home. The longer I was home the nicer the weather got, and the warmer it became. Damn.
As I was taking it easy I could hear some of the neighbours out mowing their lawns. I knew that our lawn needed to be done too since the dandelions were beginning to flower. I also knew that if I didn’t get out there and do it, that sox would when she got home and then I would just feel too guilty.
So I got out and mowed the lawn. It looked way better once I was finished, but this just pointed out to me how beaten up our yard has become over the last year of neglect. I can forsee many, many hours spent toiling to work back the weeds and repair the damage.
I also managed to get a little work done on our composter to (hopefully) stop the critters from invading it. I screened off one side of the composter where the critters had dug under the edge, and tunneled into the compost.
No progress on the deck this weekend either. What a waste of perfect work weather. I know the guy needs a weekend too, but our landlord has promised this deck will be done by the end of March. That is next weekend, and there is a bit more construction to do, then the entire deck needs to be stained. It is kind of out of my control, but that doesn’t mean I can’t hope it will be done. I just want my BBQ back up next to the kitchen and not in the carport any more.
Next weekend sox and I hope to tackle the dumping ground that our garage has become.