Wednesday 2011-10-19 -- Professional Pictures and One Happy Kid

Long Term Forecast Updated: Wednesday, October 19, 2011, 5:59 EDT

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	Thursday Oct 20	Friday Oct 21	Saturday Oct 22	Sunday Oct 23	Monday Oct 24	Tuesday Oct 25
Conditions  6am - 6pm
	Light rain	Cloudy with showers	Variable cloudiness	Cloudy with sunny breaks	Variable cloudiness	Isolated showers
P.O.P.	80%	60%	30%	30%	30%	40%
High	18°C	14°C	11°C	12°C	13°C	12°C
Low	9°C	9°C	6°C	3°C	4°C	7°C
Wind	NE 25 km/h	SW 15 km/h	W 20 km/h	SW 5 km/h	S 10 km/h	W 20 km/h
24-Hr Rain	5-10 mm	close to 1 mm	-	-	close to 5 mm	close to 1 mm

Wake up is hard for all this morning. In fact everyone is still in bed at 6:30. It's started badly. First I saw a cat get hit, next Kim got me convinced that the grade 3 teacher is horrible, finally I had an argument with Mathieu when we got home. Oh and a note to tell me I forgot to pay pre-K (which I just did).

And I still have to take care of Mathieu's party. So I've sent an email to Isabelle, Kim, Donna and Annick to invite them and their kids on Saturday November 29th to celebrate his birthday. Let's see how it goes.

I've done a small amount of work for OneHappyKid this morning, and it's already time to go get Mathieu. Time just flies. Afterwards we're going to get the McCall pictures.

The pictures are just amazing. I find though that they are a bit low resolution, but they do the job.

So far, Isabelle is out, Donna is in, and Annick verbally told me she would come. Now for our closest friends.

I've setup a blog, Longueuil St-Mary's 12D 2011 Homework, to help parents with our respective kids. I will make sure to publish it shortly.

Dinner is spaghetti. It's been a while since we had some. The kids got to play some Lego Indiana Jones 2 while I worked. I really enjoy the complicity they share when they try to figure out the puzzles in the game and they're quite good at it.

I got a two hours done for OneHappyKid this morning. Julie brought in the new Logo. It looks great:

Tuesday 2011-10-18 -- There's Nothing Like A Good Mexican Take Out

Short Term ForecastUpdated: Tues, Oct 18, 2011, 8:00 EDT

	Tuesday AfternoonAfternoon: 12:00 PM - 5:59 PM	Tuesday EveningEvening: 6:00 PM - 11:59 PM	Tuesday OvernightOvernight: 12:00 AM - 5:59 AM	Wednesday MorningMorning: 6:00 AM - 11:59 AM	Wednesday AfternoonAfternoon: 12:00 PM - 5:59 PM
	Variable cloudiness	Variable cloudiness	Variable cloudiness	Variable cloudiness	Variable cloudiness
Temp.	13°C	11°C	4°C	6°C	15°C
Wind	SW 20km/h	SW 15km/h	W 5km/h	NE 15km/h	NE 25km/h
Relative Humidity	67%	71%	87%	93%	67%
P.O.P.	30%	30%	20%	30%	20%

Up at 3:00am, worked for 3:00hrs on Sw4P, built the initial design plan. Mathieu woke up around 2:30am and took a while getting back to sleep. I was able to build the design in my head while waiting for him to fall asleep, and wrote it down afterwards. It's pretty complex, very high level, but will get better defined with time, when I start it next September.

Sabrina is in school, I will bring Emily and Mathieu in 5 mins.

I spent most of my free time writing the logic design for OneHappyKid. It's got to flow right and it currently doesn't.

Mathieu did not want to go to the Baobab after school today. Yet he made a beautiful necklace for Marie at school. She was quite touched.

We got the pictures from school today. We're ordering a set for Mathieu and one for Sabrina.

We had a good day. Kids had home tacos, parents, tacos from Tamales. Going to bed was a bit hard for Sabrina she had quite a cough. I had to install the vaporizer in her room to make her feel better.

A bit of Terra Nova completed the evening. I did not work at night.

Monday 2011-10-17 -- the great tuna

A simple day today, very windy, some rain. It was a bit hard to get up as Mathieu had a hard night. Sabrina went to school, got her test (92%, inattention errors).

Suzanne came home at a reasonable hours. I made an excellent, restaurant worthy (Sue's words) tuna cooked 3 minutes on each side, filled with lemon juice and Montreal steak spices. I made a very simple yet amazing sauce made of one half soya sauce, one half taco sauce, a few drops of lemon juice and a couple of jalapeño peppers to spice the deal up. I made sole fish sticks for the kids with a ketchup/mustard sauce. They hard raw broccoli. I also made a small portion of broccoli noodles to complete the plate. Very good.

Very tired, I went to bed around 21:00.

My first ever Rice Krispies squares

Sabrina and Mathieu helping me cleanup

Sabrina wins 1st in Dictee PGL 2011

Considering that half the kids in her class are French, and she didn't speak much French two years ago... Bravo!

March Break Skiing; Baobab

Mathieu is at the Baobab. It's Spring Break for Sabrina so we decide to hit the slopes at Mont St-Bruno. It's a beautiful day and the ski is great.

At one point, Sabrina is considering going over "the wall". The wall, as the kids call it, is a part of the mountain with a very strong inclination that can be frightening to anyone who doesn't have very good control of their skis. She looks at it, hesitates, then backs down. Next time we go up however, she decides to try it again. We go. She examines. It looks scary.

As we wait we are greeted by Isabelle and her son Alexandre who's in Sabrina's class. They're really cool and we'll end up skiing the rest of the day with them. As for Saby, she eventually decides to go down the wall. A great achievement for her. She's quite proud.

What a great day we had.

Search Results: March 1 , 2011Montreal Downtown

Max Temp: -2.8 °C

Min Temp: -9.2 °C

Mean Temp: -6 °C

Precip Accumulation: 0 mm 

A bit of winter with friends

Today we went out to Boucherville to go skating with Ben, Kate and Pascal. Sabrina was on skates, Mathieu and I were on boots. We had a great time playing hockey and throwing snow balls. I know someone created the biggest snowball of them all...

It was really nice out there and as a bonus there was almost no one on the ring. A lot of snow of the rink but we still had a great time.

Search Results: February 28 , 2011Montreal Downtown

Max Temp: 1.2 °C

Min Temp: -4.3 °C

Mean Temp: -1.6 °C

Precip Accumulation: 15.3 mm 

A slow day; Donkey Kong; Skating

Today was a slow day. Suzanne and Sabrina played some Donkey Kong on the WII.

Afterwards we went skating. A very slow day, but quite pleasant.

Donkey Kong is great. Sabrina is an expert at the game.

Search Results: February 27 , 2011Montreal Downtown

Max Temp: -3.6 °C

Min Temp: -11.7 °C

Mean Temp: -7.7 °C

Precip Accumulation: 2.2 mm 

Ski Day; St-Hubert Chicken

Today was an amazing ski day. The kids and I went to St-Bruno to do some very good skiing. They're becoming so good it's very pleasant to ski now.

At the chalet we got to meet their favourite mascot:

Now this is a big thing. The kids have always been terrified of clowns and mascots. Now every time they see a mascot it's got to be a big hug. We're still working on the clowns...

Lucky Mathieu manages to find a dime while skiing in the middle of the mountain. You got to see it to believe it.

You have to realize that he's skiing, in the middle of nowhere, and just finds a dime. He does this all the time.

Search Results: February 26 , 2011Montreal Downtown

Max Temp: -8.3 °C

Min Temp: -12.8 °C

Mean Temp: -10.6 °C

Precip Accumulation: 0 mm 

Not much snow for a ski day

The kids and I went skiing today. As you can see there was not much snow. Oh how I wish we had a chalet up North, in Tremblant...

We still had fun.

Search Results: February 25 , 2011Montreal Downtown

Max Temp: -1.7 °C

Min Temp: -8.3 °C

Mean Temp: -5 °C

Precip Accumulation: 3 mm 

Karate Demo

We got to see a Karaté demonstration at school today. I love watching the kids do karate. Sabrina may not be strong, but she has determination. Eventually, she'll become quite good.

Search Results: February 17 , 2011Montreal Downtown

Max Temp: 6.5 °C

Min Temp: -1.7 °C

Mean Temp: 2.4 °C

Precip Accumulation: 1.4 mm 

After School Special

We went skating in Boucherville with Ben, Kate and Pascal after school. A bit of hockey, a lot of skating and snow ball fights. All in all a great time was had by all.

Search Results: February 7 , 2011Montreal Downtown

Max Temp: 1.1 °C

Min Temp: -0.6 °C

Mean Temp: 0.3 °C

Precip Accumulation: 3.6 mm