Snowbirds

Snowbirds

Originally uploaded by johnpage

Went and seen the Snowbirds last night. The Snowbirds are Canada’s answer to America’s Blue Angels, It was a good show and the weather held off.

Shadows

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Originally uploaded by johnpage

Nice photo of the family walking a trail through the woods

One Lazy Bird

Went camping this weekend and a Heron landed on the dock where the kids were fishing. As the kids caught Sunfish the Heron would eat them. Talk about a lazy bird.

Homeowner Again

Our old outgrown house/time to move on?

We just moved in to our new home, and I don’t even know how we got here, it all happened so fast. It all started back in March, we were currently living in our old house, our first house, that we purchased 10 years ago just before we were married. Since then we have had two beautiful girls, a few jobs and lots of ups and downs.

Anyways, back to March, I started looking around the house and wondering what needed to be done over the usual week to week maintenance, and really noticed that it was a time for some renovations, we had just put a new roof on it and the previous summer I put up a new deck, but the “little things” seemed to be piling up. The big question which had been popping up more and more was should I dump 10-15 thousand into the place and stick around for another 5-10 years, or should we upgrade to something newer and bigger.

Just for the hell of it I took a look at what was on the market, and as usual started to get depressed at what the prices were. The problem with the current house was size, and that we were out growing it. 1050 sq feet with one bathroom and 3 women just was not going to cut it, as it was I was fighting for bathroom time and the girls are only 7 and 4, I just couldn’t imagine in another 6-7 years!, not only that but if I’m going to take another mortgage, it needed to be now if I want to retire someday. As I was looking at the market I saw one that might be affordable, newer (7yrs old), bigger (1700 sq feet), larger lot(1.5 acres), 2nd bathroom, and in the same area, which we liked.

We didn’t run right over and look at it or even set something up with the agent as we have “looked” at houses in the past, and “think” about moving. The next Sunday we were out doing errands and and thought we would do a drive by of the place, as we came up to it, it turns out there was an open house so we stopped and had a look, the funny thing is that the open house should have ended an hour earlier, but the agent got his time mixed up because of the Daylight Savings time change the night before. We liked the house a lot, but could we afford it? Would our house sell?

to be continued…

Propeller Scout Boss Ryan Budke Interview

Interview with Ryan Budke of Propeller, head of the Scouts team

from www.viddler.com posted with vodpod

Propeller and Twitter

One of our Propeller Scouts Jeff Hoard has posted an introduction to Twitter and Propeller, and how they can fit together. You can check it out here

http://www.internetresearchleague.com/?p=129

Twitter

For anyone using Twitter, here are a couple to follow. Mine is here http://twitter.com/pagey and a few Scouts, me included are updating this feed daily.
http://twitter.com/PropellerDotCom

Moving

I haven’t been updating much, (like I did anyway) I decided very quickly to put the house up for sale as we found a house we really liked in some what of an affordable price range, so within a couple of days the house was for sale and four days later we had an offer for asking price, two days after that we received a second offer. So it’s been a little insane as we try and get the offers closed so we can close ours. As it stands looks like will be moving June first, and the kicker is no DSL or cable internet where were going so I have to get wireless internet setup, this should be interesting.

Digg Popular

It’s crazy how long it takes to move down the list of popular Diggers. The last time I had a story on Digg hit the frontpage it was October 2006, and not long after I moved over to Propeller and started a submitting there. In October 2006 I was sitting around 60th for popularity since then I have only submitted a handful of stories and because I have been out of the “Digg Loop” friends are not looking for me and voting on my stuff. Now after a almost a year and a half I just dropped out of the top 100 and am currently at 104.

http://www.chrisfinke.com/digg/top1000users.html

Maybe I should try to climb back into the top 100 again.

Propeller Issues

I have been getting a lot of site mail regarding the performance of Propeller and wanted everyone to know that the team knows of the issues and is working on a solution, a very good solution I might add. So just hang in there, things will be much better soon.