Capping off soccer season

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Catching up on Jacob's soccer vid's.

WCVL 10-04-2009

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Hmmm ... some things to work out with a slightly new lineup.

WMVL 09-29-2009

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Second exhibition match to get the season started.

The birthday girl

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... and her ever present sidekick.

Thanks for all the birthday calls and wishes - she had an excellent day!

Diamond Extreme PVR600 with Win7 - sweet!

Thanks to TechyTurnedLawyer for the tips on getting this to work! Here's his blog. You need to find his May 26, 2007 post.

http://techyturnedlawyer.blogspot.com/

Some things to note ...

- (Step 1) The Diamond Vista drivers for the PVR660 seem to work. That's what I'm using. I found them here under the "Support" tab of this page ...
http://www.diamondmm.com/PVR600RCUSB.php

- (Step 2) I had a hard time finding the download he mentions. I found it here ...
http://www.hauppauge.com/site/support/support_pvrusb2.html

- (Step 3) He directs you to run the downloads. Some of these are just compressed folders so you can move/copy them from Explorer to put them in the directories he mentions.

- (Step 7) He refers to the "p2usbdw.sys" file. For me, it was actually the "p2usbwdm.sys" file (ie. with an extra "m").

Other than that. It works fine. Started Media Center in Windows 7 and it found the TV tuner and based on my postal code, found the right cable provider. Now I'm watching and recording TV in Windows 7 with this old usb TV tuner.

May 14/09 The Boy's Soccer

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After four games, he's got 5 goals and about a dozen break-aways.

About two degrees outside today - perfect for Canadian soccer.

Parental Guidance Suggested

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No, I am not going to take you to see Wolverine.

Girl Interrupted

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It must be getting nice outside, because the girl just developed a bubble fracture, which I'm told was not the subject of a Seinfeld episode, effectively bursting my bubble.

So for at least the next 10 days, no community soccer, soccer camp, or soccer tournament. No swimming, biking or general outdoor frivolity of any kind. I guess she'll be kicking my bubble at Mario Karts for a while.

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This is a cool web app to throw your photo collection at.

7 Degrees of Separation

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What happened to 21 degrees I was promised for tomorrow?

I know railing about the temperature is somewhat akin to ... well, talking about the weather, but c'mon! It's not like we're currently subject to precipitous environmental anomalies, that excuses these wide variations in weather predictions. This smacks of a basic math error. This is like forgetting to carry the one, or converting between units. This is what makes 747's land in Gimli, or Chris Webber call an extra time-out.

Methinks, someone at environment Canada needs to pay closer attention to their spreadsheet, and a little less time following Miley on twitter.

Thanks Mom/Dad,

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Have fun on your trip next year. Meet you back at the pool in 2010.

Sister Act

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I know the girls had fun. Pretty cool how they just start up again like they were best friends from "the block".

Hey Boy

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Good to catch up with Linger too! The boy can hold his own playing the dozens - even if all his material is sourced from one set of books. Still, "Why don't you go home and make some cookies!" is pretty effective.

Please to meetcha!

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Met the new nephew while visiting/vacationing with family in Mexico - what a happy kid!