Another Week

It was a busy week with for me with the Nerds. We had the SOHO small business show on Wednesday. Everyone helped out and our registration database and badge printing went quite well. No problems.

I also toured around to some clients who were being assigned a New Nerd, every client we went to wanted more work done, and we got a referral for a new client who is quite large. Busy.


The baby guppies are getting quite big now, about a half inch long. And none of the other fish have died! I think it has been a couple of weeks since one died, this is a very good thing.

Nothing else to exciting lately. Out for now.

Bought the kids a Condo

We got a new small tank for the little guppies... all 2 of them :D

Mummy is good, she has a new guy and there already going at it. We think she is pregnant again/still and so Sharon is ready to separate her as soon as it looks like she's pumping them out again.

Went to costco tonight, as usual that was an expensive trip, but hey, who does not need 30 bake and serve bread sticks, and 24 flat breads, and 4 KG of chicken breast and two bags of chicken wings and 12 bagles and... Oh, I did get a great deal on some USB cables, and found a salt and pepper grinder with sea salt that came with olive oil and vinegar... mmm sea salt.

We also looked for new glasses, Sharon has an amazing ability to walk towards the giant wall of glasses and immediately pick out the most asian looking glasses there, and then wear them while we are there.

Best part of costco was that 15 minutes before close on a wednesday there was no line up at all.

Today one of the Nerds told me he is taking a job with Boeing as a systems analyst, really good opportunity. I'm happy for him but will miss having him on the team, great guy and a great nerd. Means a couple of the newer Nerds and some of the potential nerds may get some new clients soon which is good.

The nerds will be at the 8th annual SOHO small business show on the 20th, www.soho.ca. We are providing registration services on site, as well as some other things.

Sharon put an offer on a place for mum today, hopefully mum will get it, looks like a good condo with some income opportunity.

All for now! Off to watch CSI re runs.

Adam and Sharon.

late Night

Just spent 5.5 hours building a website for a client... actually rebuilding, we did it once, but the designer sent us the wrong size images so we had to redo it...

We had some babby guppies appear this evening! Very exciting, Sharon will probably write some more about this as she was looking it up on the web. We lost the daddy guppy the other day, dead when we got back from Victoria.

Fin looks like he may not make it much longer, he has the red butt like some of the guppies got before they died, i think it is some sort of bladder thing...

Off to bed.

Victoria

Just recovering from Matt and Alisha's wedding last night. Nice wedding, open bar :D, they looked VERY happy and we all had a good time. We even got a bunch of candles and two center peices which are quite nice.

Thanks Karen for correcting my spelling :D


We're going to the Royal BC Museum today to try and see if we can get into the Egypt exhibit. It has about 200 of the best exhibits from the British Royal Museum's egyptian exhibit.

There is also a Marathon right now and the finish line is in front of the Museum, also we don't have tickets so we'll see what happens.

Hope the fish are ok when we get home tonight, the last male guppy's tail was starting to disapear and the ram had a red butt, every fish we have had that got a red butt has died :(

Off to the races :D

Piiiiigggggsss iiiiinnnn spaaaacccceeeeee!

Cool. Space ship one successfully made it to space and came back safely for their second flight yesterday. This is very exiting I think, I may be able to go to space in my lifetime!

I watched the video of this flight a few times, very cool looking craft, very exiting feeling.

Virgin has already licensed the technology and started a company called "Virgin Galactic". For a large large fee, you too can go to space very soon.

Also reloaded my laptop today, not quite as exiting :D

One day maybe Adam in space?

Sunday ramblings

As usual on Sunday I'm home surfing the net, with the TV on. Sharon is working and tonight were going to Mom's for dinner.

I decided to click on the "next blog" link at the top of our blog page ( go ahead and try it). I was quickly browsing through and read the odd one that caught my eye and was not in some foreign language. I was wondering what people write about on these blogs, we had plenty of people with poems, art and the likes. We had happy people writing about their new boyfriends / girlfiriends and sad people writing about the opposite. Plenty of students complaining about homework/hangovers and life in general. One poor women with a blog called "my eggs are cooked" who's husband won't let her try invetro fertalization so that they can have kids... Plenty of people posting about the good old conversation taboos; religion and politcs and much much more.

Well this passed some time for me anyway.

I'm going to test some software today for managing a website that I had an idea for. I think it could be a good idea in the long run and worst case it will at least be interesting and fun.

I'm seem to be constantly looking around and seeing businesses that people started that are so simple, yet so effective. I'm still and always looking for some idea, some business to start. If I had the money or could get my hands on the money I would probably buy a proven franchise that works; the problem is most of these franchises require a networth of over $300,000 plus startup etc.

Anyone want to invest?

Yesterday the Nerds held a food drive for the Greater Vancouver Foodbank Society. We got a couple of hundred pounds of food and a couple of hundred dollars! We were at 3 locations - 2 IGAs and Metrotown Superstore. You would think with the 10 thousand people that walked by us at Metrowtown we would be able to get more, but people constantly ask us "what is the foodbank"... sad.

Out east when they hold these events they get 1,2,3 nerdmobiles full of food, thousands of pounds... different out here...

Had fun none the less.

Oh, and my taco stand idea, it won't fly currently in Vancouver. The bylaws state that no one shall sell food from mobile food vending units unless they are selling pre-cooked frankfurters, nuts in the shell, or prepackaged food.

Kinda hard to fit a fresh cooked taco in there somewhere. Silly considering in most major cities taco carts and other types of carts are quite popular. Also found out you are not allowed to have mobile ice cream vending in the downtown core.... strange.

All for now.