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Saturday, November 27, 2004
Everything is up and running well on Dianne's new machine. The building and installing went very well and Dianne is very pleased to have a machine that will respond to her in the same century.
Yesterday we went to Costco and picked up the new Christmas tree much to the dismay of the kids who seem to have become traditionalized with the real thing. However, I think that once it is up and decorated it will seem just like the real thing. At least it won't shed like the real thing and I won't have to clean it up, a tradition I'd like to let go of. Thursday, November 25, 2004
Yule Time Approacheth
I'm just in the process of loading and installing software on Dianne's new computer which I picked up yesterday. It's running on an AMD Sempron processor at about 2 mghz which is a far cry faster than the 90 mghz the old Pentium machine was. It was a long time coming but the ol' gal is finally being put out to pasture. So while I wait for software to load up I will make a few notes here.
Ralph Klein is back in his office at the Leg after a rather sweeping victory on Monday, although the city of Edmonton has turned mostly red which is something the premiere should note very carefully. There's not as many PC's in office any more. Still having great weather here. No snow yet and fairly decent temps. We may just get another brown Christmas. I took advantage of the great weather to do the annual hauling out of the Christmas lights yesterday. Everything looks good there. And in a surprise departure from tradition, we are planning to buy ourselves (wait for it)...a fake tree! this year. I finally got tired of having to haul a real one in and out of the house, dropping it's needles everywhere, wrestle to get it up and fill the base with water and all the rest of it. They've some nice artificial trees at Costco for $80 this year so I think we're going to get one. Then it's just a matter of getting the Christmas shopping done. Oh joy! Monday, November 22, 2004
Cuba Pages Up
As you can see the Cuba Tour pages are finally up after a couple of weeks delay. Click on the link at the left or click
here. There are a fair number of pictures so be patient in the downloading although Photoshop Album does a good job of paring down the images to bite sized chunks when it creates the pages. A bit of a snoozer was yesterday's Grey Cup game although I was already asleep after working all night. Nonetheless, with it not being Edmonton or even Saskatchewan playing, it was of little interest in this neck of the woods. (sorry tiger cat fans!) Today we have our big provincial elections which I think most Albertans will sleep through too. All the pundits are saying that Ralph is a shoe in for another term which may not be a bad thing. Friday, November 19, 2004
Plasma Goodness
I'm writing this entry while at work on a midnight shift as it seems like this is the only place I have time to think, never mind write. I have pretty much finished my little project for church which has to be set up this afternoon. So eventually I'll get the Cuba pics uploaded. Patience.
Meanwhile, we have been getting pretty stoaked here at Movie Central as we now have our High Definition channel up and running. The main feature of this is a great looking 42inch plasma flat panel HD monitor hanging in our master control room. The movies we have been running on it are upconverted from regular SD but still look great. And the special HD programs just about jump off the screen and bite you on the nose. We wants it, we does. Wednesday, November 17, 2004
Pictures Coming
I have been busy putting together an A/V presentation for a missions conference at the church this weekend so I haven't quite finished getting the Cuba pictures up on the site. Plus we were in Saskatchewan over the weekend so I was unable to do any work at all. In the meantime there are some pictures here at the IHS Orchestra site. Tuesday, November 09, 2004
Instruments Delivered
I just found out that the instruments we collected in Canada this summer finally made it into the hands of the students in Havana. We had hoped to see this happen while we were there and get some pictures, but because of the bureaucracy and other circumstances, the instruments sat in a warehouse for the duration of our tour. One of the members of the team, who stayed an extra week in Cuba, was able to see the boxes delivered and some of the instruments presented to the students who were reported to be "ecstatic". I would have loved to have been there but I am glad that the instruments at least got into the right hands finally. Sunday, November 07, 2004
Havana Memories
It's been almost a week already since I got back from Cuba and I'm finally adjusting back into the Canadian lifestyle. The cold weather and snow tends to help a bit, I guess. I am in the process of compiling a few pictures to post on this here web thingy along with what will be a bang up article about the intrepid travels of yours truly.
Seems we didn't get our audience with Fidel like we wanted, although I am thinking that even without the broken arm and leg he might have been a no show (probably). I like to tell people he broke his bones when he tripped dancing to the polka at one of our concerts. Doesn't usually impress, though. Saw a lot of motorcycles in Havana, almost as many as cars and some oldies too. There's no helmet law down there so it was a shock to see everyone tooling around with their hair flying in the breeze. We also saw lots of old cars from the fifties. Some in good shape and some not so great. Guess it depends on how good a driveway mechanic you are. Once the old Chevy short block gives out most guys will drop in an old Russian diesel. It's odd to see a 57 Chevy chugging along like a locomotive with black smoke pouring out the back. Thursday, November 04, 2004
Home At Last
After another week of traveling around and performing in Havana I am now back safe and sound in sunny if not chilly Edmonton. I had to curtail my postings somewhat during the last week as I ran into a bit of trouble with the internet service in the hotel and it started to get costly. However, I am in the process of downloading and compiling my 500 plus photographs and will be entering the journal in the next few days so there should be a new page available soon documenting all the exploits of our troupe in Cuba.
It was a bit of a shock to come home to snow on the ground and +8 degree weather after basking in the Caribbean sun. But now it's back to the old routine. Time to get ready for the pre-Christmes pandemonium.
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