I’m flying to Toronto this morning and twitter seems to be down so I thought a quick post via email would pass some time while waiting for takeoff.
Two things. I booked online a week ago and it showed the first 20 rows booked solid. However, ther are only about 30-40 people onboard the Airbus 319 and those rows are generally empty!
The other thing is a mainteance guy just came on board and looked at both wings and then talked to the flight crew. What’s up with that?
Here we go, later.
Category: Grab Bag
Stuff about stuff
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Flying
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Dollhouses at the Home Show
This weekend was the Home Show in Winnipeg ant I took it in this afternoon. Lots of stuff, and lots of people. I normally skip this show, but there was somebody I knew with a very unique product exhibiting this year. Henry Hiebert is a master builder and the father of our soon to be daughter in law, Mandi. I’d seen Scott & Mandi put together the Heirlooms by EMRL web site and design some brochures for the show, and I was really interested in seeing these dollhouse in person. Some additional photos.
They are incredible! And wow, do they interest women of all ages. His young lady was immediately drawn to the dollhouse and instantly started re-arranging the furniture. Hmmm, that sounds familiar… like “just a little to the left, no too much back just a 1/4 of an inch, actually I think it looked better against the other wall, can you move it over there?” She would have spent the rest of the day there but her mom, pulled her away.
The rest of the show was quite interesting and since were considering some home renovations, I picked up a couple of brochures and a few ideas. On the way out, I stopped by the Advanced Home Entertainment display area. Big mistake. Have you seen the 112″ plasma HDTV for a mere $75,000? Perhaps not just yet. As about the same size, and for my taste the Sony projection unit against a screen was even better. The quality was outstanding, the viewing angle amazing, and I didn’t even know it was projection until somebody walked in front of the projector and caused a shadow in the screen. Projection has come a long way.
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A little site maintenance
I’ve just upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.5 and all seems to have gone well, whic is a good thing since I’m going to bed now and really didn’t want to have to stay up to sort things out. I’ve had enough issues with upgrading PC software lately.
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Bears like going to church…
This Polar Bear caught my attention on the drive home from the new work site a couple of days ago. Today, when I was out walking at lunch, I snapped this shot. Who knew that Polar Bears had an interest in Church!
This guy is one of the bears form the Bears on Broadway exhibition that has 50-60 bear figures up and down Broadway Avenue for the summer. At the end of the exhibit, the bears were moved to various locations around the city. Do you know where this on is? It’s in front of a travel agency.
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Renovations
The renovations are on at Eric & Dez’s new home and I spent Saturday working with them. We’re having lots of fun and it’s great to be able to help out and do something creative and unrelated to the normal day to day activities.
The basement has been fully cleared to the outside walls and lots and lots of cool wallpaper has been peeled away already. Today’s focus was on this wall. or should I say “former” wall. One end of the wall has been removed and the other side has been opened up to create an interior window between the kitchen and living room. The electrical in the new wall has been installed and other older wiring removed. Eric had a little fun up in the attic as we strung new wiring to the kitchen lights. It’s quite dusty up there and he was wearing a dust mask that made him sound like Darth Vader.
