By the beach in forestville

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My bride with our new nephew!

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Construction day 5

Tiling should be done tomorrow and grout on sunday

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Day 4 of the bathroom reno

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The tub is in!

After several months of sitting in our office, the tub is installed!

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The solution to my keyboard problem

So, another problem with hugo laying on my computer is that I can't use the computer while he is on it. Trying to push him off repeatedly proved futile, so I moved their heating pad up onto my desk, and this seems to be effective in luring them away from my computer...

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My computer is a really expensive heating pad

Hugo recently discovered that warm air shoots out the side of my laptop, and then if he lays on top of it then it just keeps getting warmer! I have a feeling that this could spell an early death for my Vaio....

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An amusing summary of French military history

So, while we were in class today we somehow diverged onto the topic of French military history (don’t ask how) and one of the guys quoted something from a site that he had seen that amounted to “France’s armies are victorious only when not led by a Frenchman” ... LOL ...  I don’t think that my bride will find it very amusing, but if you want a funny read:

 

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/jokes/bljokefrenchmilitaryhistory.htm

 

 

 

psychological operations course

Here is a poster for all those of you ending what PSYOPS is all about...

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Great army accommodations...

So, not only have we been placed in the same type of rooms thati stayed in on my basic officer training, and we have to share rooms, but there power and heat have been out for over an hour now...

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100 trillion dollar bill

Day 2 of the PSYOPS course and one of the guys pulled out this bill from Zimbabwe... And we get worried over 3-5% inflation!

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70.3 done!

So, we didn't get the bike split that we wanted, but we got a time of around 2:08 or so.

I am a little disappointed that I can't hang around for the dinner or hang around the expo... I had to grab my stuff right after the race and stay packing to leave tonight.

Off to kingston in just a couple hours for the residence portion of the PSYOPS officer course!

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70.3 preparations

Our prep for the 70.3 world championships on Saturday is going well so far.  We are in a hotel that is walking distance from the start line, we checked in and got our race packages today and took a walk through the expo.

 

Yesterday I marked up a map with the directions to ride the race course ahead of time so that we would know what to expect for turns, hills (not many at all) and condition of the roads.  Brian kept on joking that he thought that we must be on the wrong roads since we didn’t see a single other bike out on the course!  After speaking with one of the other guys that has done the course in the past, he said that nobody dares ride the course before the race since a lot of the course goes along major freeways with lots of traffic...  There were a couple of spots where we had to cross 2-3 lanes of traffic, but I have ridden in way worse traffic than that!

 

We went for a swim on the first day that we were here that worried us both a little.  There were waves swelling up over 3 feet at times where I felt a little like a surf board sometimes shooting up the front side of a wave and then crashing down on the other side.  Brian and I are both hoping that the waves are nothing like that on race day because we both drank a lot of ocean water and we weren’t moving very fast at all... The last couple of days have been quite calm and nice.

 

Nexus pass is amazing!

I just passed through the US customs line at the calgary airport where the line was out into the airline desks this morning and I got through in less than a minute with my nexus pass.

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The shower is complete!

At long last, the shower is ready and my dear bride will stop threatening to hire a contractor to do the work :p thanks for all the help Dad!

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KidSport board and staff

A nice group photo of the KidSport board members and staff in attendance at our first donor appreciation event.

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Day on the ranges

Today I was the range safety officer for our unit range exercise
Thankfully the weather was beautiful and nobody got shot. So far so good. I got a couple of pictures of some troops doing a jump after we closed down the ranges. Not sure how week the pictures turned out, but I attached them anyways.

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The power of ebay item titles...

so, I just sold two sales on ebay that are the same brand and close to the same model, but one retails for 2 times the price of the other because it is much lighter and mostly made of carbon. The cheaper one that I had put the msrp of 170 into the title for sold for 135 while the one that retails for around 350 sold for just 100... The only reason that I can think of to explain this would be the description that I listed... Go figure...

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Canadian military slang

So, while driving to Edmonton for ranges, one of the guys in the car said this his son came across this list of canadian army slang on wikipedia.  Quite amusuing, and quite accurate.: Appendix:Canadian English military slang - Wiktionary

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