This Is Bob

 

We met a great cat while touring Chapman Museum near Rivers Manitoba. This is one cool cat.

Harold & Les Getting Air

 

 

 

Holidays are a coming

I'm off work the first two weeks of August.... Ya.....

Getting High

Flying has been good the last few days. Topping out over 8000 ft. But still not going XC.

El Nido Del Condor

 

We gathered for the second annual Fly in at Willie & Sigrig's in Clearwater B.C. during the last week-end of June and had fun. Here is photo from launch with Sigrid in the forground and brother Derek in the air

Time Flies

Wow July arrives already. This Spring/summer has been a busy/rainy one. It's Sunday morning and I am looking at the overcast skies and not feeling like doing too much. Listening to a little Among Thorns It's nice to be home with Jackie and not have much to do. But I understand that time has a way of filling it self. And so here we go...

Found on the black board where I work

If I could see me through your eyes..
I could see me without my lies.

Author Unknown

Great Quote

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Word Smith

A veteran is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'Canada' for an amount of 'up to and including my life.'

Author Unknown

Isadora Is Awesome

Mint Linux 9 has arrived. Code named Isadora. This is a very nice desktop Linux. A couple tweaks and wow!

Things that make me think

”Christianity started in Palestine as a fellowship; it moved to Greece and became a philosophy; it moved to Italy and became an institution; it moved to Europe and became a culture; it came to America and became an enterprise.”

Author unknown to me

Eloquently Put

In these bodies we will live, in these bodies we will die
Where you invest your love, you invest your life'

Taken from "Awake My Soul" by Mumford and Sons

Isadora Has Arrived

I have had a couple of days to check out the newest Linux Mint code name "Isadora" and while this is a RC and not final it is good. The only thing I have done is add the Awn dock and a few bits of software. It is very fast and very clean.

Laminin

This a picture of the protien that holds us together. It is called a Laminin. This is one more wonderful way that my God speaks to me on my journey of discovery. Check this post out to really understand where I am going here.

Funny Stuff

Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.
- Barbara Tober

Flying The Dump

Changes

Well our Executive Director is stepping down after 10 years. The board has been looking for his replacement and soon enough we will be under new leadership. I cannot even begin to say how much I have leaned and grown under the leadership Tim Larose has provided. He has been a great mentor and a unique example of God's Grace in motion. Bless you Tim where ever you go and what ever you do. You are and will always be my friend! I treasure the past and look forward to what comes next.

It's Official

It would seem that both my parents are now online. How cool is that.

I Don't Get It

I have tried now several times to watch a Quentin Tarantino movie..... I don't get it. They are really bad films. I have never watched a complete movie as I just get repulsed and bored.

Winter Flying

This winter has been mild and short. We have been able to drive up to Little Dome all winter and yesterday was the first time I flew in lift. What a great feeling.

Sweet Sundays

Well I thought I was going flying today but the inversion holding akk this fog and cloud will not give up. The Olympics are in full swing and all is quiet in the house. I am planning to visit my old friend Lyle Peel tonight. He has started a new gathering place for the faithful and I am looking forward to some time of worship with him.

Granville Island Market

Oh my there was such an array of amazing food

Downtown Vancouver

We took a little trip to Vancouver and saw the sights. I caught this shot somewhere downtown

Valentines Day

Wow here we are. A quiet day. Yesterday was my sisters Bday and today my grandson. Jackie and I are going to dinner. I'm blessed beyond measure.

An Interesting Thought

“Humility is the God-given self-assurance that eliminates the need to prove to others the worth of who you are, and the rightness of what you do.”

New Years Eve

Here we are Jackie and I. It's 9:30 and I am hoping to make midnight but I doubt it. Good night 2009, Good morning 2010.

Christmas

It's here again and I have decided to do it different. No crazy shopping, no work till I drop. I pray this season will find many in a place of deep gratitude and profound calm knowing that the One who made them is passionately loving them in ways that we cannot even explain.

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among them.

One of Many

John Gibbons passed away of the week-end. He had not reached his 40th birthday. John struggled to find peace in this world and now that struggle is over. God bless you John. Your home now in the arms of your Savior.

Helena Has Arrived

The first RC of Mint * has arrived and It is very nice. A few tweaks and here is a screen shot. I downloaded Gnome Do with a few docklets and set it to Docky mode and replaced Rhythmbox with Banshee. This is such a nice operating system with very nice software choices. Open Source community is truly amazing. Webcam, wireless, printers/scanners all worked out of the box. Even the soft keys for volume and wireless and touchpad lock all work. Very Groovy

Xavier & Ayden

Dominic Douglas Shpak

We have a new arrival he is the Bees Knees

Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook Remix

A friend of mine asked me to fix her Asus eeePC 900. It had a 4gig and 8gig SSD drive and with XP installed it was giving her disk full with nothing on it. So a quick download of the ISO and Unetbootin I created a bootable USB drive. A quick reboot to the USB stick and 12 minutes later I was looking at a very good looking and functional desktop. A few more minutes to update the install and to add codecs for the usual proprietary file formats and everything was working. Wireless Webcam everything. Nice job Ubuntu!

Windows 7

In my previous post I mentioned I ordered the 69 dollar upgrade disk. I wanted to mention that I expected to get a 32bit disk as my HP was shipped with 32bit Vista on a 64 bit system. I was pleasantly surprised to find two disks inside the package one 32bit and one 64 bit. Nice....
Even better when I did a clean install with the 64 bit disk and simply wiped the previous install and did a quick painless clean install and it found everything minus the video card and the scanner software for my HP All in One. There might be hope in Redmond yet......

Winows 7 and Karmic Koala

Wow Microsoft finaly delivers a good OS. I signed up for the 69 dollar upgrade in the spring and also held off purchasing a new laptop until the release date. I have only been using it for a few days but I must say I like it. I never hated Vista but it was a resource hog and it was bugger early in it's release with tons of issues. 7 has been quite the opposite. I think MS was a lot smarter this time with lots of beta testing and allowing folks to run the RC with a key. This allowed lots of in the field testing. And users saw quick responses to the issues that presented. I really like a lot of the new features very intuitive.

But with that said Karmic Koala was also released this week and It is a force to be reckoned with. Each release has brought new polish and innovation. This release has produced a stable, polished and integrated OS that is very frugal with resources (340 meg vs 750 meg for Windows). In a few days we should see the release of Linux Mint (a spin off distro of Ubuntu that I prefer. I run dual boot on all my hardware. This affords me the best of both worlds and the opportunity to learn each new Windows OS. I make a small income off Windows in regard to fixing bloated damaged and otherwise compromised Windows computers. So long live the King he keeps me in cash...

Stacy & Lise-Anne

Two marvelous people got married today. I was there to witness the union and snap this pic.

October has arrived

Well it has cooled off quite a bit lately. Fall is here and time to get the house winterized. But for now I sit typing this while gazing outside. It is a sunny and windy morning. The weatherman says the wind is to slow and turn west. Perhaps we can fly today..... perhaps.

Puppy 4.3

I have been using Puppy Linux for older computers for a long while but I must say this is the cleanest looking version I have ever seen. Very nice work.

Back to Work

After a uneasy summer it's time to get back to work. I have just finished my holidays. The rest was good.

Birthday Trip

My brother Derek offered the use of his KLR 650 for a trip north to see my daughter and grand kids in Quesnel. I could not refuse. Here is the bike. I dubed her "Big Red" and some of the senery on Hwy. 24

Speargrass

The view from Speargrass launch.

Fire Season

We have had a crazy fire season. This was not one of the worst days but it was quite smokey. This the view from Aberdeen.

Back To Work

Well I just finished 7 days off and man I could use 7 more but as they say "suck it up buttercup" so off to work I go.

Snow Leopard Has Arrived

It's here; lets see if the upgrade can match the hype

One Of Many

Here is a shot of the spotter aircraft getting back in the air.

At The Airport

I took the dog for a walk down near the airport along the river. I watched the many aircraft coming and going to fight fires. And then a huge flock of gulls passed over.

Fires Everywhere

This is the view from Aberdeen while we where car hunting. A local fire combined with many others in the region have made life here very difficult for those with breathing issues

Cinnamon Ridge

Our local composting site is aptly named.

Speargrass Launch

I drove up to Speargrass to retrive Dave's van after a early morning flight. By this time the wind had really picked up. The view however was as sweet as ever.

Changes, Changes

The Mission where I work is going through some huge changes. We lost one of our funding contracts a few months back. Several staff where laid off at the time and the ED looked for new streams of income, but to no avail. So we have had to lay off several more workers and really pair down to bare bones while we struggle to stay afloat. I have been chosen to stay on but I will be back in the position of Chaplain as well as my other duties. So I will a very busy boy until we get this ship back on track.

Where He leads me I will follow.

Amazing Grace

Wow it's been a long time. So much going on.

Recently a good friend lost his wife to cancer. She fought a courageous battle with her husband by her side every step of the way. While I did not know her well I know her husband. And I hope that if any thing like this ever befell myself or family. That I would be able to walk through it with the grace and endurance these two have displayed though out a long and difficult journey.

Things

Things must be as I want them to be. Otherwise I would change them.

G. Rothstien

"Do you want to be well?"

Jesus Christ