May 30, 2004 by Gail
The twins both have chicken pox (hence the medicinal goop on Megan’s head), so they were a bit fussy. I managed to pick them both up, and they calmed down. But that’s more than 17lbs of baby! Oof! Megan (on the left) is around 10lbs, and Maribeth is around 7lbs.
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May 30, 2004 by Gail
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May 30, 2004 by Gail
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May 30, 2004 by Gail
Allan’s birthday is actually today, but we celebrated yesterday to accommodate scheduling. He’s 33 today, which — eek — means I turn 32 in less than three weeks! I think Allan’s trying to show the kiddies how old he is…
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May 28, 2004 by Gail
You’ll be able to tell when I’m busy, because this will turn into a Photoblog. Which is really not a bad way to show the photos from my trip, since there are enough of them to fill up the rest of the year on this blogspot (and more…). I do like the Photoblog feature a lot, though, it’s easy to post photos using the Hello software and it saves me a lot of time with photo editing, then FTP’ing the picture to my webspace, then linking it into my blog.
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May 27, 2004 by Gail
Who is Accordion Guy? A Filipino-Canadian! Yessiree, there’s a bunch of us here in the Great White North (ironically, Toronto is below the 49th parallel, in case you haven’t noticed). Thanks to my older bro, who will be 33 on Sunday, for sending the link.
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May 27, 2004 by Gail
I’ve been looking at the invitation for a while now, and I jumped in and joined. There are some excellent features, but we’ll see how it goes.
Go ahead and send me an e-mail: gailontheweb – at – gmail – dot – com
Nice for me that it would be called GMail. I was tempted to take the moniker gailmail@gmail.com, but I think that would just be plain confusing.
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May 26, 2004 by Gail
I was going to be an EARLY-early adopter, but I waited months before diving in. I have Telus Enhanced ADSL, so I thought I might as well get my money’s worth and ditch the Telus landline since I can’t claim it on my taxes. Also, Telus charges a small fortune for features such as Caller ID, voicemail, Call Forward, etc., that even though I pay for those features in a cheaper bundle, it adds quite a lot onto the total.
Advantages:
1) I can take the phone number with me, just by bringing the gateway router and plugging it into any broadband connection. Anyone who phones me can reach me at the same number, even if I’m overseas;
2) Calls are free between Primus Broadband customers (obviously would need more people on this system for this to be a usable feature);
3) More features available that Telus does not have;
4) Bigger voicemail capacity, messages held on system indefinitely;
5) Cheaper!
Disadvantages:
1) The word is out whether my broadband connection can handle this much traffic — I already use it all day for VPN with the office, in conjunction with PCAnywhere to remote control my office computer, plus the regular stuff like e-mail and surfing;
2) No Advanced Call Forwarding, which I use all the time to forward the home phone to my mobile… I often forget to forward the phone, so I usually end up doing it on mass transit or in the car. Now I have to do it from the phone itself using *72;
3) No 411 or 911, the former which I never use and the latter which I hope I’ll never use (I have one charger at home and one at the office, and keep the mobile phone on full charge all the time);
4) I’ll have to get a better cordless phone, because of all the equipment in this room affecting the line quality (Ross already complained about it today);
5) This is the only phone currently hooked up to the gateway, so it should be cordless, anyway; if I want to hook up another phone, I’ll have to use the splitter, which means even more cables/cords… right now I have three power bars full, running from two power points in this part of the room. It’s a cable/wire crazy mess.
Right now I’m in the middle of the process called porting, where Telus gives up the line to Primus. At the moment my incoming calls are ringing on the landline, but not on the broadband line. I can make outgoing calls on either the landline or the broadband phones. I thought my intercom wasn’t working, but it turns out I forgot I’d turned the ringer off while Matt was staying here. Feeling a bit sheepish about that, since I was totally convinced the intercom was hardwired into all the apartment phone jacks, not routing through the phone company (as it does with new buildings; yay for old buildings in the West End!), then convinced myself otherwise when the courier companies couldn’t reach me. When I asked the building manager about it today (before I checked to see if I’d turned off the ringer), she said half the tenants in my 32-storey building don’t even have landlines in their suite — they just use their mobile phones. So, for sure the intercom should work.
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May 26, 2004 by Gail
The twins last week, when their maternal grandparents and two aunties were in town. 
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May 25, 2004 by Gail
I’m not kidding! I actually hiked up to the office!
We were working on our big monthly report, so we’ll take a day off in the summer in lieu of today. I took public transit so I could avoid the long weekend ferry lineups and general busy-ness. Also, I wanted to time the walk up to the office, and see how easy it was to spot the head of this trail Carol says they made from the road up to the house. I set off around noon, off the ferry and up the lower road towards Gibsons (I think it might be Marine Drive already). It was a fine, warm day, and the views going up the hill were pretty distracting.
One of the views I get walking up the hill to the new office. Apparently there’s a proud Welsh person living on North Road.
Watch out for deer! They should make a deer crosswalk. There is no shoulder on North Road. A small section of the road has a tiny bit of shoulder where the houses are, on the ocean side, but other than that, it’s how you see here. The deer better watch out for me, though, they’re pretty plentiful around here.
The house/office (still under construction). That’s AJ in the playpen with the umbrella on top.
You can see there’s a lot of landscaping to do. The house section should be finished sometime in July, so I think we’ll have a summer of clearing brambles!
The office is the part of the building from the clocktower to the right, except for Allison’s office, which is the smaller window to the left of the clocktower.
The office is high up on the hill, so the trail up to it is steep. But, it’s a much faster way to get to the office when comparing it to the driveway and the road. I timed it on the way home, and using the driveway adds about five minutes to a journey that would otherwise take about 15 minutes, because the long way means you have to go up this hill of a driveway, then along the road, down to North Road, before heading towards the ferry.
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