This is (more than) a note to inform all of you that I have posted more pictures on my Flickr (yes, even more since you last went Chels ). And of course the routine usual update on my life since I haven’t done one in awhile :

So… what’s happening with me? I’m inclined to say nothing… but something must be happening because I feel busy…. The BoxtheWeb project launched public the other day, which has kept me hopping with bugs et al and I’m not close to there yet… oh well, it works well enough for my brother, he keeps telling me not to change it, it’s just fine ;P Also the omnipresent schoolwork is around, trying to keep me busy… instead I usually get distracted cause I don’t want to do it so I fall behind 😛 Right now I am sitting on the computer (not literally ) waiting, hoping Chels will come on before I have to go… The PrintShop started printing the Agenda today (finally! whew!) so that is over.

Just a quick note to those of you who use multiple IM services or often wish you could connect from places where you cannot download IM clients… or both! Meebo is a nice service that will let you connect to all major IM clients at the same time from within your webbrowser! They do not store your data and all password transmissions are 1024-bit encrypted (which may cause some browsers to give a warning, because it is a CPU-hogging script to do that encryption , just click ‘cancel’ and let the script run if this happens…. it won’t unless you have an old computer).

So we just got back from a trip to N’Djamena, the capital of Chad. We went up on Monday and got back yesterday. I got a lot of schoolwork done on Tuesday and Wednesday, but none on the other days, so I’m going to have to catch up some again.

It was my Mom’s birthday while we were up there, so we went out to eat. I had the ‘sausage plate’, which was two sausages and loads of fries. The Symons were up there too and met us at the restaurant that reminded me of one of the best restaurants in Boston back in the day, kind of as a surprise. It was as fun as restaurants ever are… but they gave us menus and made us decide what we wanted to eat, and then we waited like half an hour for our food so ‘fun’ is a relative term .

I got to be secondary technical advisor to the Field Council, which was fun. What exactly does that mean? It means Dad thought they needed to upgrade their computer system and asked me for a second opinion, hehe.

We also were invited to the Hildebrand’s (don’t ask me how to spell that ), they’re a MAF couple and one of the few other Canadian families in the country. We had a mini-thanksgiving celebration since it was about that time and we were Canadians together.

My brother spent most of the trip playing pinball. I spent most of it wishing it were over (partly from missing Chels, partly from missing the Internet in general, and partly because I hate vacations). I went shopping on the last day, when Dad’s meetings were finally over, and that was the only enjoyable shopping trip I’ve ever been on! I think it’s because I was actually buying something…. Anyway, not much else to report except to except that I have some new stuff up on my Flickr.

Hey all! Back from the capital, long trip, much to say, I’ll post tomorrow because it’s late now, so stay tuned.

You know life is hectic when you feel like you’ve done gobs of stuff, but have nothing to report. This isn’t quite true of me, but mostly, little has changed in my life. October break for Palmview is coming soon and that means getting dragged off for a ‘vacation’ .

Besides this and school I’ve been doing a few projects. I need to get back to work on Amateur Writerz, since I have some unposted works and some features I want to implement. I have also been working on BoxtheWeb, which is now far beyond it’s original implementation and is probably almost ready for the non-geek market. I have also started work on publishing my introduction to computers textbook. I have even given it a title Basic Computing Using Windows. All the text is up, but the images still need to be uploaded. It probably needs to be revised, but that’ll happen anyway, such is the power of wikibooks!

I found a cool website today that lets you create your own search engines that search only the pages you want. Cool, but based on Yahoo!Search (yuk). I have created one to search the english wikimedia sites.

I was watching a TV show about animals yesterday (okay, okay, it was recorded and ancient). Very full of Evolution, but i noticed something interesting. Three times in the show someone mentioned how something was ‘desgined’. Bird’s beaks are all ‘specially designed’ for the kind of food they eat, and their bodies are ‘specially designed’ for flying, whereas humans just aren’t ‘designed’ for flying. Amazing… even the Evolutionists trip over their own logic.