All this wonderfully warm weather makes for some impressive lightning and thunder shows. Last night was viewed in lightning strikes per second. Once the windows got too wet I had to pack it in, but there are still some great photos to be enjoyed. Click over here to see them.
The World just got a tiny bit smaller for Lola.
After much excitement watching Snickers chase his ball countless times - to the point that her arm waving practically has her hovering above the ground - Lola decides she wants the ball. Very badly. So badly that she willed herself in its general direction, gave a pull with her arms, then a push with her legs, and had traversed about a foot in order to connect one extended finger on one extended arm to a drool covered red ball.
Touch!
She even repeated her stunt for mommy after being whisked upstairs and placed on the floor with ball in sight.
The best way to make a lightning storm go away is to run out and attempt to photograph it. While I did watch a good light show from my living room, by the time I went outside, it was making its way out. I did manage to catch a few bolts though…
My car has rolled over another milestone in its lengthy history. This morning, the odometer rolled over 400,000 kilometers! Lucky for me I was able to hit some light traffic to watch the nine’s roll up in mesmerizing fashion. I can’t imagine that you’d get the same experience from a digital dashboard.
In honour of this event, I have assembled a collection of related milestones. With this information, it appears that I have had an average speed of 1.75 km/h all day every day over the last decade.
June 11, 2008 - 400,000 km - near Whitemud Amusement Park, Edmonton
August 21, 2001 - 300,000 km - near Didsbury, Alberta
October 7, 1998 - 250,000 km - Ardrossan, Alberta. Just as I rolled onto the cement pad at home. I do not have a photo from this, but I did manage to dig up an email I sent from my University account!
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 19:40:27 -0600 (MDT)
From: Christopher Christou <christou@ugrad.*****.ca>
Subject: Milestone!My car rolled over 250,000 as I got home from campus today!
WOOHOO!!! Time for another quarter-million! :)
Chris
Other Milestones — Heat
August 9, 2003 - 322,744 km — 37°C - Okanagan Region, B.C.
July 25, 2006 - 365,525 km — 53.5°C [WTF???] - Kelowna, B.C. This was what registered after being parked outside for an hour. It was actually in the high thirties out that day
Today’s lesson comes courtesy of a leaking garage roof: Always ensure your collectibles cannot get wet! Store them in plastic bins when possible, and always always place them on a shelf up off the floor.
While shuffling things around in the garage to start placing shelves and content in their new locations, I left some piles of boxes that had yet to be sorted. Unfortunately the bottom (cardboard) box of one of these piles was right in the middle of the drip puddle, and its contents were Tiffany’s beloved Disney Lithograph Prints from the last 15+ years. Thankfully, some of them remained dry, but the older ones are pretty difficult to replace.
Now I’m going to have to get new plastic boxes for my hockey cards, just to be safe!
After being away from work for a week plus a long weekend to get settled into the new home, I forgot my work password!
Un/packing tends to surface some interesting things. Some of our wedding gift thank you cards accidentally never got sent. Some of these cards were to important people. That’s really embarrassing — you can’t really save face on something like that. Sorry!
The current contents of my nightstand:
Note that because the books are sitting there, it does not mean that I am actively reading them.
We moved into our new house last weekend and have been busy unpacking ever since! Here are some early thoughts:
Lola cannot resist the allure of the keyboard. Having said that, here is her first post to the internet:
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