I found a completely free web host today, and their package is amazing! I should transfer all my sites there!!! I cannot believe it.

UPDATE: a few restrictions do apply. For example, no media files such as mp3 or avi are allowed, and there is a restriction to the largest size a file can be. No compressed or executable files are allowed either. So I’ll have to keep looking.

But for the average person looking for free server space, this is truly amazing!

~Jason

This is a smart looking product that I’m proud of!! Now I hope it sells!

Take a look and let me know if you have any questions/problems/stuff, so I can tweak and improve! How does it look in different browsers?

~Jason

We live a kilometer or two from the area so it was well known to us… we parked, walked down into the falls, and then I turned on the GPS. It showed me the waypoint as being .4 klics from where we were.

I had little 2 year old Seth with me, so I was often concerned he was going to slip and bash his head in. It might have been smarter to leave him at home for this one.

We found our way to .04 klics from the cache quickly and easily. A bit of “jumping stones to cross the creek,” but water was unusually low, so it wasn’t a problem.

But then as I got closer, tree cover was dense— accuracy was dubious, and my GPS was pointing me up a steep path. I scurried up ahead of the boys trying to get a sense of the cache’s location by triangulating.

To make a too long story shorter, we made the mistake of scaling this cliff, when we should have stayed on the lower trail longer. At many points I had to throw Seth over my shoulder fireman-style, just to get up the steep trail!

When I realised my mistake, the boys didn’t want to climb back down. So I went after the cache myself, finding it easily.

I broke the rules slightly, and took two items to make it up to the little guys. I left a Volkswagen Beetle toy car, and took a fish keychain and a flashlight key chain. Signed the log too.

~Jason

“We may be neighbours and seem similar in our values and way of life, but in attitudes toward religion, Canada and the United States are worlds apart. And the gap is widening.

“In broad strokes, Canada is vastly more secular than the U.S. Canadians like religion and politics to keep a comfortable distance and if there are alignments, Canadians line up with Europeans rather than Americans in their views on faith in the public square.”

And this one:

“The United States and Canada are increasingly drifting apart in levels of religious commitment,” said Luis Lugo, director of the Pew forum.

Most of Africa, many countries in Asia — except Japan — the struggling countries of Latin America all report towering numbers when asked if religion is important. In Indonesia, 95 per cent say yes. In Senegal 97 per cent agree, in Pakistan, 91 per cent and in the United States, 59 per cent.

Canada at 30 per cent is similar to Great Britain and Italy. France and the Czech Republic are lowest at 11 per cent.

It’s a bit of a pet-project to me; the differences between the U.S. and Canada. I’ve lived in Jersey for 5 years, and so have a different perspective than many other Canadians, happy to disdain their older brother to the south. These statistics outlining our different values of religion were disheartening to me.

It seems so raucously arrogant to think the rest of the world is wrong. Other than a few self-absorbed European countries, 95% of the world’s population sees a desperate importance to have faith in a God, to embrace religion, to be spiritual.

~Jason

That’s right, my sinuses are solid. I had a moment last night where I could breathe through my right nostril. It’s such a great feeling, just to have a passage of air.

Blowing doesn’t do any good, though it seems quite productive. It’s like whatever is in there is in there good.

Baby Grace and Seth are also faucets lately, and we all know how gros it is for kids to be running off at the nose. Lately I fit in quite well.

My computer at the office is sick too. I don’t understand it. I had Windows2000 running like a brick— in a good sense. It was the most solid platform for Windows that I’d ever used. Nary a crash, hardly a need to restart. But come on, 2000!! That’s like, four and a half years ago. It was time to update.

So we got XP for all the machines at the church, and I started installing. But something went terribly wrong. I must have had a lemon XP CD. Since installing, it’s crashed and burped constantly and I’ve had like five trojan horse viruses. It runs like molasses in January. I think I’ve finally got all the security holes and patches in place now.

What I really don’t understand is why it’s so different from my version of XP here at home? XP is a tank here!

It’s all so confusing! Haha!

~Jason

After reading all those 19th and 18th century novels, I’m happy to read a page turner again. It’s amazing how badly written those old books are. Or maybe my post modern mind just wants action, I don’t know. We call them classics, but we should rename them something more telling, like drastics— or tragics, something that would warn people— read this at your own risk! Do not operate machinery while reading… that kind of thing.

Amazing, my pick for Last Comic Standing, my favourite from the start, WON last night! He’s the best hands down. So cool, so dismissing, disarming, like a little boy. I love his sense of humour.

Started reading the Bourne Supremecy last night as well. Gotta finish this one before the movie leaves theatres!! LOL

~Jason

We sat in luxiouriously comfortable chairs and chatted about nothing and everything for two hours. We just have to do this more. Going on little dates reminds me why I married her. She’s smart, and I love these conversations. She’s also gorgeous, but that’s just an added bonus tacked onto a great personality!

Love you sweetie! I’m glad we didn’t just veg in front of a movie screen.

~Jason

I also realised yesterday that I hadn’t put a couple of web sites I’m designing into my section on sites I’ve designed: www.crookedbush.com/websites/. That’s been fixed now.

~Jason