Nicole got her braces today

Posted on July 5, 2005 | Filed Under Family

As if Michael’s teeth problems weren’t enough this past week, Nicole went in today to get braces on her teeth. She was actually looking forward to having braces — Monique and I both had them and neither of us looked forward to having them.


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The braces were planned for quite a while now, but it just adds to the drama as we prepare to take Michael in for the first of his five root canals on Thursday. I think they’ll take a week or so to complete them.

Nicole didn’t think the braces would hurt, but after only an hour or so she said the bottom teeth are starting to hurt. From experience I told her they will hurt a lot more in the next few days.

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Canada Day fireworks on July 4th

Posted on July 5, 2005 | Filed Under Family

Canada Day fireworks were a bit late this year, but last night the display went off without a hitch. It was pretty good for me — I got to celebrate July 4th and Canada Day all at once.

July 1 was cloudy and miserable, so they postponed the fireworks until yesterday. They shoot them from the harbor, which is at the bottom of the hill where we live. The picture is the view we have from our front lawn.


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All wasn’t rosey, however. One partier and his entourage in a $500,000 boat crashed in the harbor at high speed, killing one person who wasn’t wearing a life jacket. He’s being charged with a slew of violations — not manslaughter yet because they haven’t found the body.

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Signed up for a Flickr account

Posted on July 5, 2005 | Filed Under Apple, Internet, Technology

Everywhere I look these days, it’s Flickr, Flickr, Flickr. Like the saying goes, “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em,” so I did yesterday afternoon. I’m still not convinvced Flickr is any better for me than .Mac, but I’m sure there are a lot of people out there that can give me some opinions and examples on why it’s better.

I uploaded a couple of albums already to test out the interface. Overall, it’s pretty good — there are quite a few options and there is a whole community of people that you can make as contacts. I quickly found several people that I know to add as contacts.

I’m currently using a Flickr plugin for iPhoto, which seems to be the best upload/management interface I’ve found so far. The plugin doesn’t seem to be able to create an album for me, although it did upload pictures just fine if I didn’t choose to create a new album.

Shortly after signing up, a good friend got me upgraded to a Flickr Pro account (Thanks), which gives you a whole lot of extras — mostly lifting restrictions of the free account.

Like I said, I’m not totally convinced yet, but I’m going to give it a try and see what happens.

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