Author: MRJ

Last week I got my hair cut, I don’t know if the hair dresser I end to was having a bad day or If I just wasn’t clear with him, but it was a crappy . But it was better then I had so I lived with it. Fast forward to Friday we took Jacob to a kids hair cutting place and they did a horrible Job. It was officially the week of bad haircuts, I’m just glad Violet doesn’t have hair so she was spared having a bad haircut.

With Christmas photos coming up we could just live with the bad hair cuts, so Saturday morning we looked around our neighbourhood for a simple men’s barbershop. We found 1, Philip & Frank’s Barber Shop. It’s just a little shop with a few chairs, and a couple of barbers. From the moment Jacob climbed up on the board placed a cross the arms of the chair the place brought back memories of my childhood trips to the barbershop.

He cut Jacob’s hair great and so I figured I might as well climb into the chair and get my cut fixed as well. It was great. The cut is perfect and it’s the little things that just make it great. He used a straight razor for the edges. I think I’ve found my barber, no more booking appointments or hair salons for me.

A few months back someone twittered that they had been on Twitter for some amount of weeks. It was a high number I can’t remember who it was or how long they were on twitter, I just remember wondering how long I’d been on twitter. I looked it up on www.whendidyoujointwitter.com

At the time I thought wow, I’m only less then 100 days from being on twitter for 1000 days, that’d make a good blog post. I wonder if I could find my very first post. A quick google search later and I found www.shotbeak.com/oldtweets/index.php and with I found my first ever tweet sent 1000 days ago was:

Thinking about going to sleep… Wondering if this thing’s on!!!

Not a very inspirational first tweet. It didn’t get much better from there:

Here I sit again at the end of the day thinking that I really should be doing this earlier. Its been a long day, first with work, trying to wrap some important stuff up before the weekend. After work it was an evening out with the family and now it’s 11pm and I’m just sitting down in front of my computer to try and finish the switch of my other domains over to the new host. Plus I still have to finish getting all the plugins and widgets  I use on my blog up and running again.

All of that and even as I write this, in the back of my mind is the nagging feeling that I should be doing some other chores around the house. It seems there aren’t enough hours in the day to do all that I want to do. But I’m sure I’ll find the time. After all, I should be getting some time off around Christmas perhaps then I’ll be able to catch up.

Right now the hardest part is that about half my domains are on my old host the other on my new host. So I’m pulling email from 2 servers for the same accounts, and I’m still trying to figure out what email I want to migrate and what I want to just delete. And how I want it to work on the new server. The level of control I have is impressive, but I’m still not sure how to wheeled that control yet. So hang in there, this should be my last, I’m working on the domain move post, I’ll be back to my regular content by tomorrow.

Sorry for the late post tonight, I’ve been trying to get my posts up in the morning but today that wasn’t possible.  Today has been a day of electronic house cleaning. It started when I decided it was time to change my website host. Then expanded when I did a wipe of my cell phone, and should have continued tonight with reorganizing my programming projects to use Subversion.

I’ve changed hosts because as I’ve been using my blog more and more, I’ve been noticing a lot of issues with my existing host. The service would be down 2 or 3 times a day, and It got to be annoying. So I spent the last week reviewing my options and had settled on one, but when I went to pay there was a bit of a unexpected bump in the price after the first month. To be fair the service was worth the full price, it’s just my limit is less then or equal to what I’ was already paying. So I went on a hunt and came up with a new host webfaction.com. Now They have all the features that I was looking for and some I hadn’t considered. The big problem is that it’s raw power. The configuration is a lot more hands on, and a less polished then the services I’m used to. So far I’m impressed.

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Over the last little while we’ve been having some bedtime issues with Jacob. When he has his afternoon nap he doesn’t want to go to bed, sometimes it’s 10 or 11 before he finally goes down for the night. So you think get rid of his nap, but that’s easier said then done. Right now when Jacob doesn’t nap he becomes grumpy and acts out by 4, It’s even worse if you try to shorten his nap by waking him up.

If fact in the last six weeks I can trace all of Jacobs major melt downs, at home and in public to him being over tired. This isn’t a good thing. So the question is what is the solution? I’m thinking the only solution is taking the nap away and living through grumpy Jacob until he adjusts to a earlier bedtime and perhaps a slightly later wake up time. The question is when is best to deal with the Grumpy Jacob. I don’t think it’s fair to have Melissa dealing with it alone while I work and she is at home with the kids, but it will take longer then a weekend. So do we wait till I’m off around Christmas? But do we really want to have moody Jacob at all the different family occasions during that time? Any thoughts from the interweb?

I write this on the way home from trivia, its been a long day and I haven’t found the time to blog before now. To be fair I had a bit of time before trivia to write but nothing came. So now I punch this out while desperately hoping I’ll catch the 11:30 bus.

It was the final game of the season for my trivia team, we won but I didn’t catch the final score. I play in The Canadian Inquisition trivia leage. The league has 17 teams, 2 divisions Torquemada and Jaworski with 8 teams each, one team writing the question each season. The games themselves are 10 rounds of 10 question. Each team has 5 players and the questions alternate between teams. Each player gets a question and you get 2 chances to answer it. The first is just you, for 2 points. The second is with the help of your team for 1. Except in the challenge round where instead of your team its the opposing player that has a chance to ‘steal’ the one point.

Its a great way to relax with friends and a in my case family, my dad plays on my team, on a Monday night. It was actually my dad who recruited me around 10 years ago when I started playing. I started as a convenient sub, I had a cell phone, live 30 minutes from the pubs the league plays out of and was usually free on Mondays. Before long I was playing more then not, and after setting the questions with the team one season I became the regular 5th. I was so into trivia there was a time I was looking at starting my own team in the league. Of course that wasn’t to be. Now my Monday nights are filled with family responsibility and I only make it out to a handful of games each season. But that’s enough, I’m hoping to be able to write a few rounds the next time the team sets the questions, even if I wont be able to be a Question Master for many games.  

Today our little family headed out with extended family and friend to go for a ride on the Santa train. It was our first time and it was an enjoyable experience. We arrived early and the kids waited patiently for the train to arrive:

At last the Train arrive:

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As we move full swing into the holiday season I thought I’d share the spirit with a video . Enjoy: