River of Light - an art installation on the Bow



Mom and I hung out at the lagoon at Prince's Island on a Monday night waiting to see the orbs light up. I put the photos and video together in a video - it was great to see an art installation like this in the city!

Shrove Tuesday in Sweden

Semla, originally uploaded by Frugan.

With all the family history work I've been doing, I've been avoiding the Swedish line. Maybe eating one of these delicious looking buns for Shrove Tuesday would give me some courage to try....

From the Flickr site: "Around the world today people are marking Shrove Tuesday in various ways – in Sweden, the day (“fettisdagen” – Fat Tuesday) is marked by eating a traditional pastry, called semla or fastlagsbulle, a sweet bun stuffed with almond paste and whipped cream."

Jan 22 2010 - VID00006

Jan 22 2010 - VID00006, originally uploaded by Amanda *Bake It Pretty*.

A Hedgehog goes for a walk... He meets his mom, and an octopus and finally finds a slide "Whee". So fun!

365 2010: #5

365 2010: #5, originally uploaded by whistlepunch.

Second morning back to work and the sun didn't make an appearance all day. The snow was beautiful though and it wasn't too cold (-14 degrees) as there was no wind.

365 2010: #4

365 2010: #4, originally uploaded by whistlepunch.

Celebrating Ingrid's birthday - Jill made the cake - very yummy and we enjoyed the sparkling pear drink from Ikea. A fun night with good friends.

365 2010: #3

365 2010: #3, originally uploaded by whistlepunch.

"If You Could Hie to Kolob"... we just don't get to sing this hymn enough...

365 2010: #2

365 2010: #2, originally uploaded by whistlepunch.

End of the day and we thought the wiring was all done but when my lights didn't work, we realized we had used a plug that broke the circuit in the spare room. So one more job by lamplight.

365 2010: #1, originally uploaded by whistlepunch.

Not an "artistic" photo but one to represent a small portion of how I spent my day, reading The Fire by Katherine Neville. I finished this book and plan to keep track of my reading list for 2010. Not a recommendation however, but this is a sequel to "The Eight" which is a great story if you enjoyed the puzzle/code aspect of the DaVinci Code and want a strong female heroine to read about.

85 hours to go before I'm in the air and on my way to London. Put that way - it is clearly impossible for me to be "ready" by then. Sure, I can throw clothes in a bag, rip pages out of the guidebooks, and grab my camera and passport (no comments please, family) - but I may leave a few loose ends back this way. So I'm making the list - and doing what I can... Blogging about this is NOT on the list so that's it for now.

Flashback - I remember playing with my Spirograph - drawing out kaleidescopes with different sized rings. Here's a fun website to revisit the experience!

A fun word game using dropping scrabble tiles - Deep Leap. The letters drop down into a row. You create words to use up the letters and see the number of tiles counting down. If you can't find a word before the row fills, you may have a letter shift off the screen to allow a new letter to drop and you will no longer be able to use it. Tricky but fun... just make sure you don't end up with a line of vowels like I did!!

Fun with time lapse photography in different locations - drag the triangle around the circle to view "Their Circular Life".

Check out artPad - Paint, splatter and add text to your masterpiece.

Fun games that challenge you. Games for the Brain.

Long time between posts but the new position at work and a miserable home computer have kept me away. I'm back now!

The latest site I've been playing with is 43 things, a social network to inspire productivity. I love the feature of having emails from my past self sent to remind me of the goals I'm working on. I'm going to spend some time moving my GTD (more on this later) "Someday/Maybe" list onto this tool. More fun tools at the related allconsuming site. Keep your list of DVDs to rent, books to read and more at this site.

http://www.instructables.com/

There is even a printable scrabble game!

From our office PD.

http://www.mrpicassohead.com/

Be artistic.

Found this one on a site for developing ESL teachers. I'm no game player, so I can't do this at all but maybe you can keep this guy on the tightrope and if you are really good, try to actually get some points!

Here's one from Sam...The Adventures of Seinfeld & Superman.

Attended an ATC workshop and trade at the SAAG in Lethbridge. The guru in residence was none other than Chuck Stake,gallery, aka Don Mabie.