Hope Your Weekend was Fun and Productive Too

Went to the movies, saw Mission Impossible.  I’d have edited 45 minutes out of it.

The best part was the trailer for the new Batman, have you seen it come ON.  Where the SF guys take over the plane mid air gaaah.  That’ll be the next time I go to the theatre.

Did a lot of packing and purging, moved stuff to my storage unit.

Here’s a trunk update.

If you’re just meeting me… I gave away all my belongings three months ago, everything I own now fits into that trunk, that’s what’s happening here.

1 – USB collection and little glass friends

2 – from my first away-from-home home.  I’ve hung it up in every home, ever since.

3 – office supply box, after purging

1 – putting away my fur collection, one of the only things I’ll miss about winter.

2 – a skirt from when I was 16; I keep it to keep track

3 – sadly sent to storage

Me writing this blog post.

Night! Have a good start to your week, TTYT.

 

 

The Last Business Friday of 2011

My entire amount of Christmas encapsulated here:

The blue sticky on the wall lists the last 3 items to pick up.

Two colours of tissue paper from the dollar store wraps everything.  I set it up like an assembly line.

Christmas conquered.

I quit Christmas in 2005.  

I’m not being dramatic.  I’ll show up empty handed to your Christmas party and not feel bad about it.

But I can’t escape it completely. Family only.  If we’re not direct blood, like if you’re not my brother, you’re out; nothing personal.

I add up the receipts every year and compare my total against the mean average.

I still spent $313 this year on 4 people.

Average Amount Spent / Person on Christmas

Canada – $1 137
USA – $646*
Australia – $1055
England – $900

 

* I had trouble finding this stat; if you have a better source leave it in the comments, seems way too low

Cool graph of how much countries spend on average here.

When that was done, I sat down to unbox this crazy nice new gear come ON.

When I relented 2 years ago and acknowledged I needed a real camera, not just blog with my phone, I bought an Olympus Tough: waterproof, smash proof, you can stand on it it won’t break, Keri-proof.

Olympus then heard about my trip and kitted me OUT, upgraded my Tough camera and added their new PEN, sweet eh, and it’s RED, check out all the possible accessories here.

I’ve never had a lens before… my first lens!

Took this during purging, this is my toolbox. There’s practically nothing you can’t do with needle nose pliers.

Here’s the video I’m referring to in the above video, it’s one from my ‘Just a Minute’ series.

How a Year Really Is:

 

Night, ttyt.

 

 

 

Welcome to My Newly Built Home Online

The design started in my head Spring 2010.

It started out like this:

Then I went on a couple URL buying sprees (click here and here).

The core and guts were built over a long weekend, and while it looks simple, it was not. I changed hosting providers at the same time, too. There was a lot happening, and this was a few weeks into having just moved, and living out of my trunk.

Various stages of development.

Before being ported over to KeriBlog.com, the new site was built under this URL, HAHA:

The Canadian Explorer was migrated over and converted from SquareSpace to WordPress, something I always wanted but didn’t think I’d ever get… for those of you not living full time in nerd world, that is a really big deal. Thanks Vito!  If you’re lucky, he’ll help you too.

It’s the most beautful thing I’ve practically ever seen, do you even know HOW long I’ve been looking at this in my head.

So I documented its creation.

It’s really coming along, click to see :) —–> KeriBlog.com

I'm Leaving Canada!!!

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I’VE DECIDED AND I’M SO EXCITED!

I don’t like winter, so I’m not going to see it this year; I’m off to the South-Eastern United States.

The timing is correct, and if not now, when?

I’m no longer ‘The Canadian Explorer’ so no such blog obligations, I gave away all my possessions two months ago, my car is fixed and I’m mobile again, so my trunk and I are outta here. And you’re coming along!

Details to come… but wanted to declare and make it official on this very sunny Sunday, which I hope is a good one for you.

TTYS!

I’ve Been a Geek a Long Time

Specifically since 1985 when I got my first Mac – the Apple Macintosh.

It had 128k of RAM, the computer you’re reading this on probably has 2-4GBs of RAM.  People built drafting programs, flight simulators, graphic programs with such little memory, think about that.

My favourite Mac of all time was the LC 575, that’s my only photo of it, yes those are lipstick kisses, and that’s its system software install disc.

A close second would be my Powerbook 170.

My worst computer by far was my Umax.  Remember that brief time when Apple allowed other companies to make the hardware and clones for their OS?  I despised mine, spent more time fixing it than I did using it.

Then when the iMac came out, and Apple gave out watches to test one at at their store. I wore that watch out.

SCSI!

Remember when crazy computer language started infiltrating our everyday conversations… BubbleJet, DotMatrix, Midi, WYSIWYG….

I kept that connector, might turn it into a piece of jewellery.

 

Dark Castle, 1986.

The world’s biggest floppy.

I originally had four, which I framed and displayed like art, then over the years I gave away three.

I have no idea what’s on the discs, they’re from a military base in the 90s. I should just say it holds a copy of the world’s first computer virus haha.