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Today Jacob had a visit to the allergists, the doctors wanted to see if his asthma was caused by an allergy. I’m glad to say that the tests came back negative, so even though both his parents and little sister have allergies of varying severity, Jacob has none. I’m not sure what that means for his asthma but at least we know he’ll be saved from the annoyance of seasonal allergies.
Today Jacob announced. To his substitute teach that he had Chicken Pox. This of course isn’t TRUE, if he had them we’d never have sent him to school. What he does have 2 spider bites (not the first time he’s had them, the first time was in the summer and we freaked out about them). Today before school Melissa was talking on the phone with a friend talking about the kids in Jacob’s school who does have Chicken Pox. I guess kit goes to show you that little ears are always listening.
What I don’t understand is that when Melissa picked him up the teacher pulled her inside and said, Jacob said he had chicken pox, and that he was sent to the office and they believed it to be Chicken pox. Melissa assured them they weren’t but if it were or if they thought they were shouldn’t they have sent him home?
Finding a good application for reading news hasn’t been easy. I have tried a few but none of them stuck. Usually after a couple of days I’d stop using them and go back to relying on Twitter to expose me to interesting things to read. Pulse has been different, with its pretty and intuitive interface I find my self using it during most of my morning commutes to read the latest news from the sites that I like. There is a limit of 20 feeds, but I didn’t hit it till I was adding feeds for this review.
The interface is simple, you have a list of your feeds with thumbnail images of the most recent posts. You can scroll through each feed with a swipe of your finger. Choosing an article opens up a full screen view based on either the RSS or the real website of the article. The rest of the feeds articles are accessible through a pop-up panel across the bottom of the screen. The transitions are smooth and fast making for a very pleasant reading experience.
I woke up this morning to find that tragedy bad struck, my coffee maker would not make coffee. It took my coffee deprived mind to process what to do. I considered a run out to get a new coffee maker but that’d just have been silly. I went old school on the problem and with boiling water and patience I made my pot. It was such a random moment I thought I’d take a break from the Christmas pictures and use it for my photo today.
Today was a day of shopping for Melissa and Me. Uncle Jimmy watched the kids and we braved the malls trying to wrap up the rest of this years gifts. We started early and managed to beat the crowds for most of the day, though by the end it caught up with us. The line at Mastermind Toys snaked through the store and only grew as we waited in it. Luckily for us it reached it’s peek after we were already in it. We had a very productive day and it was nice to be able to spend the day with just the 2 of us.
After the relative success we had at Halloween finding candies that were Peanut and Nut Free, I felt confident we wouldn’t have a problem during the Christmas season. Unfortunately that hasn’t been the case. It seems like it’s twice as hard to find. There are old stand buys like Hersey Kisses but the other day when going through some of the festive packs I saw that they may contain Shea, a nut. So now I find myself having to double-check everything. Luckily today we found something we’ve been looking for. We found a peanut free Gingerbread House Kit. Of course even it gave as a moment of pause, with the list of ingredients is a warning ‘Always Read Labels Carefully as not all Products are Made in a Peanut-Free Facility’. What does that mean? There is a big Peanut free label on the front and that warning on the back. What are we to do?
We think that the box has different packages of treats inside and that some of them are made in a facilities that also process nuts, but it’s damn confusing and though we are looking forward to having an afternoon building a Gingerbread House I’m also going to be going over everything that comes out of that box before I let Violet near it.
On Tuesday Google had event to update the world on there new OS. Google Chrome OS, a new way at looking at operating systems. I could go into all the geeky details, but it’s not the features of the OS that grabbed me about this promotional video, I just like watching the many different ways they destroy they destroy them.
Slowly our house is starting to look very festive. Our tree is up but we’re waiting till the weekend to decorate. So todays picture is of the wreath on our door, stay tune for picture of the rest of our decorations.
Tonight was the Christmas dinner for the board of directors. The dinner was at the Mandarin, an all you can eat Asian buffet. It’s hard to be in front of all that food and not eat way too much. In the end I think I did pretty good, limiting myself 3 plates of dinner and only 1 of dessert. Still to much food, but I it could have been worse.
Near my work is a fountain, its made it to the picture of the day before (link). When Christmas comes around they make it festive. As I was walking home today the lights were on and I thought I’d share it. It’s just one of many holiday pictures that will make my picture of the day in the coming weeks.