Last night I tested a cool gadget on my blog called Tokbox it's a totally geeky video conferencing solution that does not require you to install any special software at all and works right in your browser or right from your web page. So I sat here with a few people and made an ass of myself until about 3am.. The software works fairly well but I was not able to get rid of the echo I could hear myself, no one else seemed to hear me echoing...
Ahhh well today is a new day and I've removed the gadget until I can further refine it... I'll be working in what will be my new office today. Actually it's the NW corner of my basement where the furnace lives. It's not an ideal location but since we need my current office space to accomodate my mother's new bedroom... Ahhhh let me just back up for a moment...
Originally several years back we wanted my mom to come live with us, this was before grandma was out of her mind with dementia... My mother refused to leave her, said she felt that granma was not going to do well on her own, and with good reason. Soon enough my nanna started to show signs of dementia. So we asked them both to move to Ontario to live with us. Well trouble with all this was two fold... My mother on oxygen could not navigate stairs, and my nanna who was miserable about the move insisted that with we haul every ounce of her stuff from Calgary to Ontario. Ultimately I had to make a choice and sell my beloved travel trailer and purchase a new utility trailer to haul it all back from Calgary, those were some of the most difficult weeks of my life. The stuff we couldn't fit on the trailer my brother graciously sent after we had arrived home, I think it cost him nearly a thousand bucks to send and pretty much all of it was junk but you know what? It was her junk so we all sacrificed... Anyhow the bottom line in all this is that my mother ended up sleeping in our partitioned dining room area and granny got the run of the basement. Now with my mother having had transplant we want to reclaim our dining room area so mum's the word... She'll be in the basement suite where my office was...
My grandmother's death and it's circumstances I have avoided blogging about because along with it came some hurtful emotions from her side of the family out west in Calgary. I figured if I didin't have anything to say about it I would just not blog about it. Some day though I will release the ugly details. I'm sure you as the blog reader are every bit as familiar as I am about how family can be your worst source of pain sometimes... All that for another day...
So today is St Pattys day eh? Well my wife has some Irish background... And some Native, and Some English etc... So at least for today she's 100% irish and is wearing green and all that... For me, I'll just "STICK" to my green underwear to show my support... I will say this though, I am not particularily fond of snakes, so any guy who has the balls to chase them all out of Ireland has my vote :)
Well, Off I go, putty knife in hand and a nice bright light to install ... Have a great St Pattys day everyone!
Cheers!
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