Category: Life

So, I have been searching for a long time to re-discover the correct location of my children’s original orphanage in Carrefour, Haiti, “Heart of God Ministries, Haiti”. We have repeatedly found the nearby “Auberge du Quebec” Hotel, which is where we stayed on several trips to Haiti to see our future adoptees and “check things…

I experienced the onset of Bell’s Palsy over the past two days. I will blog this experience as time goes on. Here is the timeline of my onset, which as it happens is rather textbook. Tue. 4/8 Metra commuter service business blocked me from my daily bike-train ride to work, so I chose to ride…

Well, after a 20 year separation from teh Cult of Mac, I have finally returned. It is nice to see the tight tight integration of EVERYTHING on the Mac. While all things round and sweet are looking chipper, my former web hosting is dead and gone. I recovered a few posts, all others are basically…

Malcolm Gladwell at TED 2004 describes the research of Howard Moscowitz for Campbell’s Soup / Prego. The lessons learned from Howard beautifully correllate with Kathy Sierra’s Quantum Mechanics of Users The Nutshell If users are asked for their preference, they will likely tell you something very common and rather vanilla. When given the experience of…

Peter John Fitzgibbons (Gillies) My father is John Cecil Joseph Gillies (John Cecil Gillies) My grandparents : Robert Cecil Gillies and Millie(Mildred?) Gillies were separated in 1940s. Millie and Ted married in 1961. Both deceased in 1979. My aunts : Roberta, Virginia and Ivy are all living. Roberta is now in Windsor, NS, CA. Her…

So, I’m perusing my GMail Spam folder today just to see if any non-junk is in there… and what do I find on the quick-rss toolbar??? SPAM RECIPES!! Like so…

This is Poison Control Week, Mar 19-25, 2006. Since Mr. Yuk was conceived in 1971, this makes it Mr. Yuk’s Birthday! Poison Prevention.org

You Passed 8th Grade Math Congratulations, you got 10/10 correct! Could You Pass 8th Grade Math?

I just opened my “birthday present” to myself… a MobiBLU It’s so cool! And INCREDIBLY TINY!! 24mm ^ 3 Ok. Well now to a movie and off to bed… it has to charge for 3 hours before doing anything interesting with it (like um.. playing the music.)

We are waiting for Baby Fitz to be born. Her due date is today. The Dr. says Mamma will be induced next Wed. if nothing happens before then.