Comment Moderation: ON

Due to the increase of worthless slimy dirty rotten scum trying to sell their wares or get link to their sites on this blog, I've opted to turn ON comment moderation. I hope this doesn't come as too much of a headache for you all, and I will try to respond very quickly to the comments left. When a comment is posted, I get an email, and I can approve the comment from that email. Since I carry mobile computing devices, I'm able to post a legitimate comment within a few hours at the most, usually within minutes. I've had to do the same to my personal blog, and nothing gets under my skin like some dirtbag trying to cash in on the effort that I as blogger put into each post, to drum up their stupid business. To me, it's borderline minor theft.

Personally I love comments on my blog. I love to hear what others think about the content that I put forward. But don't try and use the efforts that we put out blogging, creating interesting content and generating traffic, to sell your crap. Spam commenters, you disgust me and you are so done leaving your smelly crap on this here blog! Eat that!

We now return to regular scheduled programming.

12 Hours in Duluth, MN 1/5/10

8 AM: Nice cold drink of water

9 AM: Check the voice mail

10 AM: My tie

11 AM: Quick check of the weather...

12 PM: Enjoying the view

1 PM: My ship just came in

2 PM: Hi

3 PM: Self-explanatory

4 PM: Self-explanatory 2

5 PM: Yea, sure... I guess...

6 PM: Daddy...

7 PM: Downtime

8 PM: The last remains of Christmas...

12 Hours Calgary Jan 5 2010

8 am: Making lunch



9 am: Looking at the snow falling



10 am: Tea Time



noon: Walk in Eau Claire Park



1 pm: Chocolate Break - Dove Fortune 'Go on a road trip'



2 pm: Research



3 pm: Mail run



4 pm: A view of 8th Ave & 7th St SW



5 pm: Walking home, so happy I don't have to drive



6 pm: Supper time - Home made borscht style cabbage soup & cheese



7 pm: Game time



8 pm: The view from our living room balcony window

12 Hours in (and around) Strathmore Alberta Canada

8am - first look out the bedroom window 9am - left over kid's breakfast. Homemade jelly. yum.
10am - a game of peek-a-boo

11am - I was doing a family portrait session today. We were supposed to drive to a location down this road. No problem, we improvised.

12pm - just wrapping up the shoot. Saw lots of these, and many more downed trees.

1pm - 2 hockey bags, 1 Xtracycle, and off to skating practice we go. 1 less minivan......

2pm - was a good practice.

3pm - late lunch. Homemade tomato soup, homemade garlic croutons. Incredible.

4pm - all 3 kids in the cart at the grocery store.

5pm - placed an order for a particular wine. Realized I've never tried Bourbon. I'll need a few more "samples" to make up my mind.

6pm - driving to some friends for dinner. Road side stop, contrast caught my eye.

7pm - after dinner, playing with the kids on the floor.

8pm - kids in bed, Heineken on tap, in the garage, surrounded by my bikes. Ah, the un-wind.

Skybub, Wiesbaden, Germany.

Brian emailed these to me to post for him. Thanks Brian!

0800 My morning ritual ...coffee and the internet. 0900 Breakfast.

1000 Reading the Washington Post.

1100 Folding the Laundry. Hooray, clean knickers!

1200 Good dental hygiene.

1300 The Saturday Market.

1400 Arriving at Mainz train station.

1500 Heineken Cup Rugby at the Porterhouse Irish Pub in Mainz. Munster (Ireland) vs Treviso (Italy)

1600 French Marc and Irish Brian.

1700 Guinness is good for you.

1800 The next one is even better for you.

1900 More rugby. Brive (France) vs Leinster (Ireland)

2000 On the train back to Wiesbaden