{"id":382,"date":"2005-12-06T13:22:26","date_gmt":"2005-12-06T17:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/blog\/?p=382"},"modified":"2005-12-06T13:22:26","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T17:22:26","slug":"update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2005\/12\/06\/update\/","title":{"rendered":"update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ya, so&#8230; I&#8217;ve been a slacker. Well, maybe not a slacker, just running around enough to make updating a chore more than anything else. I managed to make four trips to the left coast in the month of November, and have been feeling the effects. That&#8217;s my excuse, and I&#8217;m sticking to it.<\/p>\n<p>So, the point form update of the last couple weeks is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Finished deployment in Oakland (sorry yehyeh, all my time there was working \ud83d\ude41 ), which has some of the best Asian food in North America.<\/li>\n<li>Visited with my sis and her fam. Kieran is awesome, and is taking his first steps (although after 5 or 6 he gets so excited he falls down &#8211; it&#8217;s quite entertaining).<\/li>\n<li>Drove from Calgary through the Rockies mit <a href=\"http:\/\/pintday.org\/kjell\/\">kj<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/pintday.org\/little\/\">little<\/a>to Kelowna to see some parentals and wineries, and then on to Vancouver to kidnap <a href=\"http:\/\/shes.a.maniac.ca\/\">me<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Had excellent Thai food, and visited with <a href=\"http:\/\/axe.deadsquid.com\/\">axe<\/a>, Ryan, and the kids. Tempest was even nice to me.<\/li>\n<li>Cursed my new cel phone repeatedly for needing a driver to charge from my PC. Honestly. Plug in, suck power. That&#8217;s all I wanted to do.<\/li>\n<li>Found a very cool robot art shop on Main Street in Van. I wanna go back and buy something.<\/li>\n<li>Drove down with kj, little, and me to see Stevo, Terina, and the kids (all four of them)<\/li>\n<li>Had the best. yams. evur. as well as a kick-ass Thanksgiving dinner. Oh, and we killed a jug of Crown by 4:30am<\/li>\n<li>Lost my camera and all the pics taken (including some great ones of the rockies, and a really cool pic of a jet out our window on the way out to Calgary \ud83d\ude41 ) somewhere between Kelowna and Seattle.<\/li>\n<li>Made Gabby cry. I didn&#8217;t mean to. She started off smiling, then realised mom wasn&#8217;t around, so it was all over<\/li>\n<li>Stayed undefeated at NHL2k6 the entire weekend.<\/li>\n<li>Watched kj run his first marathon at the start, mid-point, and finish. I was only slightly jealous, and I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever seen anyone enjoy a pink coconut donut more.<\/li>\n<li>Drove back to Calgary via Spokane, stopping off at the uber-WalMart for Disney Princess cereal, Star Wars cereal (with marshmallow Yodas), and other junk food. It was a long time to be in the car.<\/li>\n<li>Hung with my sister and fam for another day and a half, and enjoyed my first -16C weather of the season.<\/li>\n<li>Flew back home to Ottawa. WestJet rocks. When it&#8217;s my money, I&#8217;ll fly WestJet pretty much any time I can.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So there ya have it, you&#8217;re caught up. Now I&#8217;m at home getting back into the work mode. I&#8217;ll be off to Philadelphia on Friday for a week, and am going to swing up to Cranford on Saturday to see les Trottas. Somewhere in there I&#8217;ll do Christmas shopping, as well.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and in case you didn&#8217;t notice, that&#8217;s two vacations I&#8217;ve taken in one calendar year. That&#8217;s some kind of record for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ya, so&#8230; I&#8217;ve been a slacker. Well, maybe not a slacker, just running around enough to make updating a chore more than anything else. I managed to make four trips to the left coast in the month of November, and have been feeling the effects. That&#8217;s my excuse, and I&#8217;m sticking to it. 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