February 28, 2010

Day 59

Well.... you might think it's shawkin, but it's a sin and true... Bessie and Edward start their trip home today with a few days in Toronto then back to 'The Rock'. Safe journeys!

February 27, 2010

Day 58

Went to my parents place for dinner in Cochrane and snapped this HDR shot of the house.

February 26, 2010

Day 57

Fresh pickerel tonight for dinner... well, not really but close. Tried it tonight in a light Panko bread crumb coating with garlic powder, a great coating for chicken fingers next.

February 25, 2010

Day 56

Jumping on the Windows 7 bandwagon, officially with a licensed copy thanks to Cameron ;) Unfortunately only x86 for now...

February 24, 2010

Day 55


The Cochrane mess up... I wish I knew what or who to blame, but a long story short. Don't turn off a Solo! For some reason it didn't turn back on and the culprit was a VME Power Board and VERY glad Englehart still had their Solo. Parts stolen, unit working.

Solo - 1
Randy - 0

February 23, 2010

Day 54

Playing around the house once again with HDR and Photoshop... This is where most of the work gets done!

February 22, 2010

Day 53

Almost 2 years on a waiting list and we have a family doctor all to say... eat healthy, lose weight and watch the BP. Well DUH!

February 21, 2010

Day 52

The kitchen in afternoon sun, HDR, converted to B&W in Photoshop. Playing around with a newly formatted computer.

February 20, 2010

Day 51

Jason & Chrystal's Wedding Day. I left my camera at home so I substituted for one of Jason during our first Agfa road trip. All the best today, tomorrow and years ahead.

February 19, 2010

Day 50

Working at home today and all is quite on the Eastern Front.. so far. It's Friday after all...

February 18, 2010

Day 49

Had to travel out to Hornepayne today to replace a scanner and do the semi-annual PM's.

February 17, 2010

Day 48

Trying a new bedtime tea, apparently to help you sleeeeeee......zzzzzzz.

February 16, 2010

Day 47

I was cursing the snow blower didn't get much use... well two tanks of gas in the last two days sure changed my mind.

February 15, 2010

Day 46

Trying to work on the laptop and someone always has to be in the middle... Wonder what goes through their mind?

February 14, 2010

Day 45

Playing around in Photoshop again... the result a modified version of Tanner's school picture.

February 13, 2010

Day 44

A day early but Happy Valentines none the less.

February 12, 2010

Day 43

Out on a service call to Englehart and a quick pit stop on Silver Tire road, just past the OPP that was stopping every snowmobile!

February 11, 2010

Day 42

Sara... trying to watch TV on the couch with her........ BLANKIE!!!

February 10, 2010

Day 41

Heading back to Timmins after a long two days in Sault Ste. Marie. Somewhere on the side of the road on 129...

February 9, 2010

Day 40

Some people stop and smell the roses, I stop and snap the shutter. The court yard from my window in Sault Ste Marie.

February 8, 2010

Day 39

Had to travel last minute to Sault Ste Marie to assist with some virus problems. Late night cleaning / scanning fest at the Water Tower Inn.

February 7, 2010

Day 38

I was not too sure if I was going to post this picture for today as I wasn't 100% happy with it. I wish it would have turned out a bit better. It's post processed in Photoshop with the midnight filter to make it look a little darker.

February 6, 2010

Day 37

Out shopping today and ended up just outside of Timmins to capture this HDR.

February 5, 2010

Day 36

Banana's and cereal for breakfast, yummmmmm...

February 4, 2010

Day 35

More tape goodness today. Hopefully the offline jobs will be a thing of the past and in 4 more months the library will to!

February 3, 2010

Day 34

Working in the server room, more DLT migration goodness. Taking tapes out, putting tapes in...

February 2, 2010

Day 33


Playing around after dinner with the camera and some more of the 50mm 1.8 lens and Tanner's Star War's Lego was close at hand!

February 1, 2010

Day 32

Working on a old E4500 Solaris server after it being powered off for almost a year. Turn the key, init 0, boot cdrom and 3+ hours later; Solaris 10 core installed. It's also a gratuitous shot of my new service laptop.