Wed, 31 Dec 2003

Dec 31, 2003, 13:13 [home/journal]
Another Day Older

Well, midnight approaches, and with it a New Year for me and this earth.

It’s weird being born on New Years Day. I guess it’s a little better than Christmas though… it’s like a birthday isn’t so important when another holiday occurs at the same time. Most people are happy and busy with their own parties and forget about little ol’ me.

But the good way to look at it is, the whole WORLD celebrates my birthday!! haha, that’s pretty cool!

I’m looking forward to a quiet day actually. I think Joanne and I are going to see the Lord of the Rings, Return of the King, so that’s awesome! We’re talking about watching film one and two tonight, so we’ll be all up-to-date and ready to intake.

Happy Birthday World! ~Jason

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Tue, 30 Dec 2003

Dec 30, 2003, 23:24 [home/hobbies/pipes]
Cigars Versus Pipes

I was visiting sites about pipes today for fun and came upon this interesting comparison.
The sad thing to me is that I QUIT smoking my pipe because of health reasons, and I really miss it. It’s not that I feel some sort of addictive pull, I just like the romance that goes with a pipe. I like collecting pipes— which I suppose I can still do. I like the smell of pipe tobacco, and I like it that there are so few pipe smokers. It’s just fun, and I miss it.

Oh well, when I see family, like Jake and Melanie or mom and dad, we inevitably yank out our pipes and share tobacco, so that’s once a year anyway….

I’m gonna cry.

~Jason

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Dec 30, 2003, 23:15 [home/webdesign]
Blog Getting Attention

It’s been a few months since I gave my blog the attention it’s getting in a few days!

Thanks to Frederique, I felt prompted to once again journal and blog my thoughts, suprises, projects etc.

I’ve been enhancing the blog implementation too, installing a new version of Blosxom, (I know weird name), and a search feature, as well as a bunch of other overdue plugins.

Thanks to all you loyal readers who send me notes every day. I love hearing from you. Don’t be afraid to post.

~Jason

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Dec 30, 2003, 16:55 [home/movies]
rotk

don’t believe that site, Jason, the movie is great. There are a few little deviations but i think that when Sam and Frodo make the flying machine to drop ring into Mount Doom it was an interesting twist. And finding out the elves are really extraterrestrials is pure genious. tj
HAHAHAHAHA ~Jason

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Dec 30, 2003, 11:58 [home/journal]
Pure Soul, Eh?

Apparently, my soul is worth £93606. I was told that for my peace of mind, 4% of people have a purer soul than I do.

Cool! haha. Thanks to Frederique who directed me to this important information!! (Read with lots of sarcasm).

~Jason

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Dec 30, 2003, 10:09 [home/movies]
Return of the King

Hmmm. I haven’t seen the final movie in the Lord of the Rings trilogy but I happened along this blog today and am quite concerned: RoTK Sucks I hope it’s not as bad as he says, but he outlines some examples that really have me worried. I don’t know why it’s so difficult for movie producers and directors to stick to plots. It seems sort of bold and arrogant to think you can improve on a classic story millions have loved for generations. ~Jason

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Dec 30, 2003, 07:33 [home/journal]
House Full Of Kids

It’s pretty neat to have a house overrun with children. I’m at my parents house now with my sisters and their children. Stacy has three boys, Melanie has two girls and we have our two sons and Shin. It’s neat that from two can come thirteen! And more are on the way! I hope my house teems with children someday too!

It’s pretty overwhelming for my parents though, I think. I must admit it is kind of crazy. ~Jason


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Dec 30, 2003, 07:33 [home/journal]
Great Trip Today

Well, like always, there was great potential for disaster today on our drive from Hamilton through Toronto to Kingston. It’s not just that the trip is long, boring, with nary a turn or twist in the road for 400 kilometers. It’s not that we were crammed into the car like thirteen sardines in a twelve pack can. I nearly fell asleep twice on the way. Seth screamed for a good forty-five minutes either with frustration or glee— I’m not sure which. But it was screaming, so what does it matter?

It was a great trip because I was going home for the holidays. Home, to family and loved ones.

Getting there was no disappointment either. So far it’s been a great trip!


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Dec 30, 2003, 07:33 [home/journal]
Family Reunion

We got together tonight with many from the Silver Clan. My uncle Bill, his wife Ida, and their two girls, his oldest son, Miron, with his wife Marlita, and their kids, his oldest daughter Sue, with her husband Pete and their two girls, my uncle Walter and aunt Cheryl, (and her mom), with their son Kirk, and his wife Victoria, my dad and mum, with Melanie & Jake, and their Lydia & Sophia, Stacy & Mike with their Jadon, Keagan, and Harley, and the four of us. Uncle Earl with two of his daughters were there: Christie (who’s expecting) & Jason, and Korrie.

The food was very greasy, but not too much for me to eat a lot! (which, of course, I did!) ~Jason


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Dec 30, 2003, 07:33 [home/journal]
Blessing on Sunday

Today we attended an old stone church in Kingston; I believe it was called St. Paul’s Anglican.

From the outside it was grave and beautiful with a brightly painted door, ancient tomb stones all around.

Stepping inside the chilly foyer, we could hear carols seeping through the cracks. Another arched door revealed a ruddy warmth as happy faces greeted and directed us to our seats.

I was reminded how effective liturgy can be as a worship tool. Many times I was moved in worship. We participated in the responsive reading and hymn-singing and enjoyed the opportunity to receive communion.

The pastor there blessed our children and spoke over them. He said Lucas would have a gift of healing and should start as soon as he is allowed. He said Seth would be “foundational” somehow.

These sorts of prophetic announcements are new to me, and I’m reserving judgment on it, but it’s fascinating nonetheless. ~Jason


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Fri, 26 Dec 2003

Dec 26, 2003, 12:06 [home/webdesign]
Tombo Blogging

Ok, it’s working! the last two blogs were created on the pocket pc using Tombo. In fact, this blog, HTML and all is too! After a day of blogging, the freeware file syncing software uploads my posts.

Now if there was only an easy way to preserve Windows file stamps when uploading to UNIX.

~Jason


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Dec 26, 2003, 00:44 [home/journal]
Wonderful Christmas Morning

I thank God for a wonderful Christmas morning. It was so fun to see Lucas & Seth Excited about their presents. To see Seth looking into that barn. Then I told him to look at the spring horse… when he saw that, he just jumped up and started to rock back and forth on it. It was so CUTE!

Lucas bought me tiny little sheep, shepherd, and German Shepherd dog in perfect N-scale. I’ve already set them up on my train set and they look awesome!

I’m really excited about what Joanne got me: a book about my future model railway. It’s called, “The History of the K&P Railway.” The Kingston & Pembrooke Railway joined the territory north of Kingston toward Ottawa, with the Kingston harbour. It’s twisted route made way over the rocky shield and rolling hills of Eastern Ontario. It was fondly known as the Kick and Push. I’ve wanted to model it since hearing my grandpa reminisce its travel.

She also got me a new sound card, so I can finally resume recording on my PC.


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Dec 26, 2003, 00:44 [home/webdesign]
Pocket Posting

Posting from Tombo would be a cool way to blog. Syncronizing places a copy of the blog on the pc, then an application or Perl script could FTP data to a web server.

I think there must be a non-pocket PC program out the which syncronizes folders with web directories. That’s what I’ll look for.


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Dec 26, 2003, 00:05 [home/journal]
A Very Merry Christmas

Man, sometimes I can get myself in a lot of trouble.

I had the bright idea to find a web-syncronization program, and located a freebee, called vuBrief. It sounded like a great idea at the time: I could write blogs in my pocket pc, sync with my pc, then the pc would sync the blog with my Internet site via FTP. This program is capable of handling it, but the loser programmer, yours truly, wasn’t thinking when he configured it.

TO make a long story slightly shorter, about 10 of my blogs from the past suddenly get new dates, and appear at the top of my blog list! Ugh! I wrote a program tonight which changed the file’s date stamp so they appear in my blog software correctly.

Lesson learned? Again? Probably not. I’m always making dumb mistakes like this. But at least a new script was created to solve the problem, and I’m on the right track with blogging remotely. I should probably get off my lazy b*m and write that mail-to-blog script I’ve been promising my customers for months.

Merry Christmas!! (haha)
~Jason

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Mon, 01 Dec 2003

Dec 01, 2003, 13:20 [home/journal]
Moved My Office
I moved my office out of the dining room into my basement ‘studio’ today. This is an exciting first step in getting my basement to be everything I always wanted in a basement:
1. A recording studio
2. A vast model-railroad Empire
3. A get-away from noise and business, a place to get some privacy.

The network is all set up, and some furnishings. All that remains is to clear out the junk! haha
~Jason

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