The Ambivalent One

Chicago was excellent!

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I'll let you know how it was later.

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We let the paint dry for a week and then today we painted the trim and applied the vinyl decals. We both LOVE how this turned out.

Below you see Leeloo meeting her new friend.

A composite of several shots taken over the period of half an hour.

Funny packaging for a mattress!

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Curtis and Lisa came by Saturday and helped us paint Mila's room. Curtis drew out some clouds and we made a stencil to create a border around the top of the wall... As you can see.

We have decals to put up of a giraffe and it's babies and a monkey. Sort of a jungle-ish theme. We finished putting the crib together at about two in the morning.

We're going to bed now...

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My training for the half marathon in september is set up to have three short runs during the week (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) and then a break Friday. Saturday is a short run and then Sunday is a long run. Monday is Monday so I don't run.

This is my run from tonight.


Over the weeks and months the short runs will get a bit longer and the long run will slowly increase up until I'm running twenty-one kilometers the Sunday before the race. The training is okay so far. I need new shoes. My knee has started hurting again. Although it's probably become wimpy again because of treadmill runs all winter.

We got a few good shots of her at our 3D Ultrasound on Saturday morning. Unfortunately the umbilical cord was over her mouth so it blurred out her mouth area a little. We weren’t offered a fourth free visit though. Stubborn girl.

Here she is!

Airlines. Most of you now provide broadband internet for your passengers. To me it seems that you should be streaming flight data to a central server in real time. Most of the data is text and it seems to me that with the same connection you use for internet you could have this information sent out and stored. You could also have flight controllers notified of problems with planes as they occur. You could have a rescue started as soon as the data shows the crash or failure occurred. Use military grade GPS instead of radar. You would know the exact position of the plane when it stopped transmitting. You could have a global awareness of all flights and where they are without radar being used at all. Even smaller craft would be able to integrate this type of system.

I know that there are huge amounts of energy involved but it seems to me that nano tech and composite materials could be made strong enough to keep the passenger compartment intact in the event that a water crash occurs. Is it actually impossible or is it just too expensive?

Lisa found a great cottage for rent on Calabogie. It cost about seventy five dollars per person but we will get some of that back once they refund our security deposit. It was an awesome cottage on a great lake. I was only in the lake once Saturday after Curtis and I did about six kilometers of trail running. I was quite hot and one of Leeloo’s toys lay at the bottom of the lake so I jumped in. It was shockingly cold. Very refreshing. My junk wouldn’t have been able to handle another dip in the ice water. Christine and I want to have a second child. I took a pile of photos. Here are the ones that turned out.