Unenventful Thursday

Or is it. I'm awaiting an important phone call, and I have a CA tonight. Suzanne is giving me a hand with the numbers. The weather is as gloomy as it's been for the past month now. I believe it is starting to affect our morale a bit. The picture of the day is Sabrina with her brother Matthew.

Sabrina made an airplane

Now you have to realize that she's only 26 months old. Yet she came to Suzanne and said, verbatim: "Look maman, I made an airplane". Sabrina is very intelligent, she knows her letters, she can count up to 18 (except that 14-18 all sounds the same and once in a while she recounts the same item once), she can tell us in the car how to get home, over 1 kilometer away from home ("This way papa, this way"). She reads a lot and can recognize certain words. She has a phenomenal memory. She draws some letters and is an expert at happy faces, whom she calls "bunhommes". She also starting to recognize objects in French.

She's my girl.

Pictures of Matthew

Here's our boy Matthew. He was born on October 12th. So far it's been going relatively well. We do have some bits of jealousy from Sabrina, especially when it comes to me and Matthew. But it's all manageable. And now that we've seen Oprah and the woman who understands baby language, everything is going well. We now understand when he wants to be burped, when he's hungry, when he's uncomfortable, when he's tired and when his stomach hurts. Because of this, he's hardly cried in the last few days.

Mathieu is here

Mathieu was born October 12th at 17:18. I know I'm long into posting this but we've been running around here. I've decided to take a <> job so I've been running around with that as well. I've had two job interviews last week, and I one on Tuesday (a 2nd interview). When I have a few minutes I'll empty the camera and post a picture.

Day 16 - Sunday's work

Today I worked on fixing some paint and adding some grout on our floor. As you can see I had a friend giving me a hand... by sitting on me while I worked.

Day 15 - Saturday's Sun

Uneventful day today. We were a bit tired so we didn't do much. After groceries I was supposed to work on the house, but I ended up spending time with Sabrina. Suzanne was tired and needed some well deserved rest. We are 2 weeks from Mathew's birth after all. Sabrina showed us her amazing talents (she's only 25 months old) by drawing a sun.

Day 12 - Wednesday

On this beautiful Wednesday, the girls get a visit from Sue's dad this morning. I'm working downstairs, trying to figure out how to mix object, items and user preferences. I'm working with my 19" flat screen monitor in portrait mode. I found out last night that it could do this. I have a really new computer today.

But the best news of the day is that Sabrina does a (caca, poupou, #2, choose your favorite) in the potty today. We are so proud of her.

Day 11 - Rainy Clean Day

Sabrina and Suzanne are at the Aquadome. The cleaning ladies just left and the house smells squicky clean. It's a rainy day today, and the mood is perfect to take the time to organize myself a little this morning.

At this point sw4p is now running on Apache, and object complexity has evolved to a point where we can use CSS.

Day 10 (Monday)

It's a relatively interesting day. For one thing we're all stuffed (allergies, cold, I don't know). Secondly I find that working on day 10 is not really productive, nothing is really working. Third and perhaps the most important is that Sabrina as decided to clean herself. We brought a little potty upstairs in the bathroom. Suzanne sat on the toilet, Sabrina did too. Suzanne went, so did Sabrina.

So far we're at 3 pipis and counting. I know it's stupid talk for people who don't have kids but for those who do, you understand.

Day 9

This is day 9th of my new life. Sue's been on maternity leave since Sept. 8th and all is going well. This week isw4p has become much more solid and can now pair objects with items to form a Web page. The prelims are done, now I just need to make it nicer, add features, others.

Next step will be to tag the whole to a DB, add some objects, setup a DB-Engine interface as well as a coding interface. All in all there are still a few things left to do but it's getting better.

Sue was supposed to come back around noon from her garage sale, but she's still at Mel's place (it's 16:30). Sabrina helped me clean the garage a bit but after a couple of hours outside, it became evident that she was tired and I wouldn't be able to continue. Grass still needs to be done, as is the pool, but It'll have to be for another day. As long as Suzanne is having a good time.

Tonight - APRIDS, Humeng and Winemaker.

Little steps ...

Today is an ugly day, weather wise... It's raining, we had freezing rain, it's just plain ugly. This house managed to make me love her a bit more by deciding to leak this morning.

Sigh.

On a great note, Sabrina said "caca" to me this morning, and proceeded to do the deed. It's an indication that she's understanding the process, the first step into becoming clean. She also realized that she can lick the apple sauce off her toast, but I'm sure that's only a passing thing.

Max was sick yesterday. He stayed at Paula's place. I heard him play the guitar the night before and he's pretty good.

Furthermore I've managed to retrieve the aprids.ca web site. It was a long process, maybe because of the holidays, but it was finally done. We're good for one year now.

That's it for now. I'm back to work I got loads to do.

Today it's like this

A good week as passed by. I've left the engine alone to do some work for hxxxxx with respect to the SCORM courses that were created. My interests are twofolds: I need the technology to work and so do they. While I don't believe they should put all their eggs in one basket (the online training market), they seem to be doing so. I don't see how a company can grow and build on that alone. I have my own idea on what they should do with these courses but I don't think they will listen to me.

On the APRIDS front I've been doing everything I can to retrieve the aprids web site but the company Canaca is less then cooperative. I don't understand, I've had stellar service from them before. I will try again. Meanwhile I have a meeting on Saturday I'd like this to be ready by then.

I have a project online which may start soon: formybirthday.idliketohave.com -- a gift registry for people to help others determine what they want for their birthday. All I need now is to check the texts, to add one more features and to add more directed advertising and it's done. Hopefully it should bring me a few $100s a month. I also have to make the emails more solid.

Our family is doing well. Suzanne is back at work and finds it daunting. I would prefer her to stay at home with Sabrina and I go to work. Well, I intend to work from home. At least that's the plan.

There's probably no one reading these right now, and it's ok. Maybe later.

We've had a few good weeks

The holidays were quite nice. With Suzanne home, Sabrina spent most of her time with her. We got to see family and friends, and mostly we got to relax. Sabrina is talking more and more, and she has put two words together for the first time on January 1st: "Come Maman." It was a command, of course. Now she points and says "Come" when she wants to go somewhere.

It went too quickly though. Suzanne went back to work. The beginning was a little tough on Sabrina she has been very clingy lately. And her sleeping habits are not getting better she still wakes up one or two times during the night. The difference now is that I go comfort her, then put her back to sleep. This way Sue gets to sleep and feels better when she goes to work.

My work is going well. The engine is starting to produce results (I see a page). I have to turn my attention towards the engine's traveling functions, the database connection and the login / security system before I continue with the page generator. These functions are very important and will take some time to implement, but once they are done the basic generator should be fast to build.

I'm also very close to releasing Valida out there, and it should start to generate some money through adsense. It's my goal to have it going before the end of January.