So....
Wednesday, both my grandmother and sister were to arrive. So my mother picked us up and took us to Ottawa to hang at the Canada Science and Technology Museum. When I was a kid I thought it was a blast. Now I found it interesting. Thankfully Logan was with us and kept us laughing. Talk about an exhausting visit! We arrived at 11:00 am and left at 3:00 pm. We did have fun, Logan more than anyone else.
After that we headed to the Airport for our first pick up at 4:00 pm. Grandma arrived a little late but had a good flight home. Once the luggage was collected and put in the van we went back in for dinner and to wait for Paula to arrive at 6:00 pm. Other than a guy dressed like a chicken waiting for Paula to arrive was pretty quiet.
Yesterday the family went on a boat cruise of the 1000 Islands. The original plan was to visit Boldt Castle. But due to a misunderstanding we ended up just going on a 3 hour tour (begin singing Gilligan's theme). We did, however, end up circling the castle.
Below are the pics, or some of them. I don't think anyone would want to see all 180 pcs so I just picked a few.
Saturday, August 27, 2005
Deer Island
Deer Island, Owned by the Skull and Bones Society of Yale.
Deer Island is located just North of Alexandria Bay, New York. It is a fifty acre island containing diverse topography and a varied shoreline. The southern perimeter of Deer Island faces the American shipping channel while the northern perimeter faces the Canadian channel. It has several protected coves and a small bay and is currently mostly forested with White Pine, Black Oak, Hemlock, and Sugar Maple.taken from Deer Island--A Breif History
Deer Island was one of the first islands in what has become known as The Thousand Islands region to have been sold as a summer retreat. In September of 1856, Deer Island and a smaller 7 acre island nearest to it on the northeastern edge was sold to a Mr. Samuel Miller for a sum of $175.
Through the turn of the century, this region became a favored summer retreat for the American elite as many wealthy families purchased islands and constructed ever more elaborate and decorative cottages. Most of these homes were featured in tourist books of the time since the many hotels also attracted the less affluent vacationers and the homes of the millionaires were no less of interest to the tourist in 1800 than they are today. Yet, photographs of the Deer Island structures are not as easy to locate despite the fact that the Island and its accouterments were apparently no less elaborate and interesting as the many of the other cottages.
At some date prior to 1949, Samuel Miller's son, George Douglas Miller, gave a building on the island to the Yale University's Skull and Bones Society. This building was known as "The Outlook" and was built largely of stone with a wooden upper structure. It was reported to contain fifteen rooms and housed a valuable collection of antiques and books. The building and it's contents were destroyed by fire in 1949.
The Skull and Bones Society currently appears to own the entire island however, of the original larger cottages on the island, only one clearly remains. There are at least three obvious ruins on the island. The NewRuins Deer Island Project seeks to determine the history of these ruins and the factors that led to their demise.
Sunday, August 14, 2005
WOOT! WWE PICS!
If this pic wasn't first I'd never hear the end of it. Carrie got a kiss from the big Visera too.
Thursday, August 11, 2005
I think I pissed someone off......
It's come to my attention that certain individuals seem to have issues with my last update.
what follows are direct quotes form their forum about what I had to say. The member names are NOT included, colors are used to distinguish indivdual quotes:
To top it off some of the members there are still memebrs at Spec Ops, yet they call me a hypocrite? That's funny.
They seem to think that Spec Ops is quaking in their boots over them. Saddly, since I'm not an actual employee of Spec Ops I can't speak for them. But let's look at the logic here. Current specops members as of 1054 am EST: 6595 their members :67
My understanding is that the "leader" seems to have bailed out on them and there seems to be some dissension amongst the ranks as to who is now in charge. Yup. Spec ops should be cowering in fear.
Now for my own curiosity I decided to see how easy their forum was to find. Even using the forum name google can't seem to find it. Yet another reason to fear them.
Now before they go flying off the handle scream that I'm a fuck asshole and such I'm going to go against my better judgement and include a link to their forum. I invite ANYONE who reads this to view sign up and read Their Forum
Now on a side note, as I mentioned, some of their members are STILL on the Spec Ops forum. The ones that FOLLOW the rules, even though they are obviously two faced, haven't, I reapeat HAVEN'T been banned. I certainly have the power to ban them just becasue they are on the 1st Seperatist Army forum, but that WOULD be an abuse of powers.
Now since you've qouted my blog directly on your forum I know you read this. For some people that seem to hate me so much I can't figure out WHY you would.
what follows are direct quotes form their forum about what I had to say. The member names are NOT included, colors are used to distinguish indivdual quotes:
See what the fat a$$ canadian puzuma said about us. oh and i bet he "didnt" know that capt obvious made himself a mod here by hacking. and if any of you other mods are covering him you are dead. This proves that we need to step up our recruiting
yea man i hate the mods there. they banned me for no good fricken reason. bastards this puzuma guy banned me because he said i "flamed' yet i didn't do crap. total bull.
back on topic puzama is a fag realy he is not joking he has done some stuff that i am not going to say that could get him aressted
Those fucks. they hacked the forum??? Those goddamn lying hipocrite (sp) bastards.
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They managed to get a few people on their side to PM new members about joining them and their board saying Spec Ops sucks and the staff is oppressive. }
Im pretty sure I was the only one pming and I didnt say any of that.
I think that once a day, we should get members to spam their entire forum and om every member they can before they are banned.
Dont worry. Special ops' evil empire is like the soviet union in the early 80s. Many forum members are getting annoyed at them. There has been alot less posts on their site, and like 10 get locked every day, and alot of people are getting banned. Its just a matter of time before ther collapse.
To top it off some of the members there are still memebrs at Spec Ops, yet they call me a hypocrite? That's funny.
They seem to think that Spec Ops is quaking in their boots over them. Saddly, since I'm not an actual employee of Spec Ops I can't speak for them. But let's look at the logic here. Current specops members as of 1054 am EST: 6595 their members :67
My understanding is that the "leader" seems to have bailed out on them and there seems to be some dissension amongst the ranks as to who is now in charge. Yup. Spec ops should be cowering in fear.
Now for my own curiosity I decided to see how easy their forum was to find. Even using the forum name google can't seem to find it. Yet another reason to fear them.
Now before they go flying off the handle scream that I'm a fuck asshole and such I'm going to go against my better judgement and include a link to their forum. I invite ANYONE who reads this to view sign up and read Their Forum
Now on a side note, as I mentioned, some of their members are STILL on the Spec Ops forum. The ones that FOLLOW the rules, even though they are obviously two faced, haven't, I reapeat HAVEN'T been banned. I certainly have the power to ban them just becasue they are on the 1st Seperatist Army forum, but that WOULD be an abuse of powers.
Now since you've qouted my blog directly on your forum I know you read this. For some people that seem to hate me so much I can't figure out WHY you would.
Friday, August 05, 2005
Who opened the can of STUPID?
**Opens the vent**
Someone somewhere opened a big ass can of STUPID. That's all I can figure.
Over the last week on the Special Ops paintball forum we've had at least 3 morons start bitching and moaning how the admin staff handles things. This has resulted in these three topics :
What admin/ do you hate the most?
Spec Ops moderators, to strict,
and finally
Poll: Hierarchy or Democracy
All of this because these people couldn't get it through their heads that the threads were closed for a VALID reason. The cried and whined about unfair treatment that we, the admin staff, are too strict in the enforcement of the rules. I'm proud to say that the majority of the forum members feel that we are doing a good job and basically told the offends to take a flying fuck at a rolling donut. (And any forum members reading this, this is MY blog I can say whatever I want here. I remain professional at Spec Ops.)
This is on the heels of another incident where some forum members felt the need to "step up" the way the Spec Ops works. First of all Spec Ops IS NOT AN ARMY OF ANY KIND. Spec ops decided to us a ranking system similar to the military so that individual have milestones and targets to shoot for.
These other members felt that having a rigid command system would be a better idea. In other words if you sign up and are ranked as a Corporal and I'm a Master Sergeant I'm automatically your superior officer. They started their own forum, which was cool with us. But then they decided that they needed more members. They began multiposting on the Spec Ops forum asking/demanding people join them.
We asked them to stop, they didn't. Instead they complained we were being unfair. So we banned the worst offenders. Apparently that started a war. They managed to get a few people on their side to PM new members about joining them and their board saying Spec Ops sucks and the staff is oppressive. More bannings occurred. A little bit of time passed. I'd heard rumors that their members were rethinking the whole thing, and foolishly we let some of them back. It wasn't for very long, they did something stupid and got banned again.
Now, I'm not perfect. I've ignored rules, bent others, and if I get caught doing it, then I expect to pay the consequences. These icons of sheer stupidity seem to believe that they are above the rules.
IF YOU WERE ABOVE THE RULES THEN YOU WOULD BE A MOD/ADMIN. And even then there are rules that we have to follow.
If you're on a forum, ANY FORUM, and you have problems with the staff, PULL YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS and take a breath of fresh air. The shit you keep spewing is getting to you.
**closes vent**
On the flip side of the coin someone started this thread Who's your favorite Mod?. Last time I checked I was in the lead. I'm not sure which poll I take more offense too the one that says I'm the second most hated, or the one that says I'm the best.
In other news, Carrie's been in and out of the hospitall for the last week. She's late for her period (again) and was in pain so we went to see if there was a problem. Not pregnant, but she did have a bladder infection. We went home, she took her pills and was still in pain. Monday night it was back to the hospital. She spent the night since they wanted to do an ultra sound. Again, no major problems but they did find a gall stone. They put her on Percocets for the pain and sent her home. Wedensday she was still in lots of pain and the Percs weren't helping. Back to the Hospital. this time they did a catscan or sor somethinhg and found a hairline fracture in her left hip. the fracture looked like iwas healed or nearly healed but there was still some fluid in the area from the damage. As near as we can figure the fracture happened 6 or 7 weeks ago when she slipped on the stairs.
Someone somewhere opened a big ass can of STUPID. That's all I can figure.
Over the last week on the Special Ops paintball forum we've had at least 3 morons start bitching and moaning how the admin staff handles things. This has resulted in these three topics :
What admin/ do you hate the most?
Spec Ops moderators, to strict,
and finally
Poll: Hierarchy or Democracy
All of this because these people couldn't get it through their heads that the threads were closed for a VALID reason. The cried and whined about unfair treatment that we, the admin staff, are too strict in the enforcement of the rules. I'm proud to say that the majority of the forum members feel that we are doing a good job and basically told the offends to take a flying fuck at a rolling donut. (And any forum members reading this, this is MY blog I can say whatever I want here. I remain professional at Spec Ops.)
This is on the heels of another incident where some forum members felt the need to "step up" the way the Spec Ops works. First of all Spec Ops IS NOT AN ARMY OF ANY KIND. Spec ops decided to us a ranking system similar to the military so that individual have milestones and targets to shoot for.
These other members felt that having a rigid command system would be a better idea. In other words if you sign up and are ranked as a Corporal and I'm a Master Sergeant I'm automatically your superior officer. They started their own forum, which was cool with us. But then they decided that they needed more members. They began multiposting on the Spec Ops forum asking/demanding people join them.
We asked them to stop, they didn't. Instead they complained we were being unfair. So we banned the worst offenders. Apparently that started a war. They managed to get a few people on their side to PM new members about joining them and their board saying Spec Ops sucks and the staff is oppressive. More bannings occurred. A little bit of time passed. I'd heard rumors that their members were rethinking the whole thing, and foolishly we let some of them back. It wasn't for very long, they did something stupid and got banned again.
Now, I'm not perfect. I've ignored rules, bent others, and if I get caught doing it, then I expect to pay the consequences. These icons of sheer stupidity seem to believe that they are above the rules.
IF YOU WERE ABOVE THE RULES THEN YOU WOULD BE A MOD/ADMIN. And even then there are rules that we have to follow.
If you're on a forum, ANY FORUM, and you have problems with the staff, PULL YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS and take a breath of fresh air. The shit you keep spewing is getting to you.
**closes vent**
On the flip side of the coin someone started this thread Who's your favorite Mod?. Last time I checked I was in the lead. I'm not sure which poll I take more offense too the one that says I'm the second most hated, or the one that says I'm the best.
In other news, Carrie's been in and out of the hospitall for the last week. She's late for her period (again) and was in pain so we went to see if there was a problem. Not pregnant, but she did have a bladder infection. We went home, she took her pills and was still in pain. Monday night it was back to the hospital. She spent the night since they wanted to do an ultra sound. Again, no major problems but they did find a gall stone. They put her on Percocets for the pain and sent her home. Wedensday she was still in lots of pain and the Percs weren't helping. Back to the Hospital. this time they did a catscan or sor somethinhg and found a hairline fracture in her left hip. the fracture looked like iwas healed or nearly healed but there was still some fluid in the area from the damage. As near as we can figure the fracture happened 6 or 7 weeks ago when she slipped on the stairs.
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