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{ Monthly Archives } September 2006

Baby Passports

I had to take the kids in to get pass­port pho­tos done today, since we’ll be trav­el­ling with them out­side of Canada. I found a local place with exper­i­ence in tak­ing pho­tos for dif­fer­ent coun­tries (Canada and New Zea­l­and); the require­ments are dif­fer­ent. For example, Canada wants a white back­ground for the pho­tos, while New […]

2006 09 27 General Comments (2)

Autumn

The weather has changed here at 49 ° lat­it­ude north, the days still warm and sunny, but the nights are cool. The memor­ies of nights when we slept with the fan run­ning and the win­dows open are reced­ing fast, soon to be filed with memor­ies of pre­vi­ous sum­mers. The win­dows in the house that were […]

2006 09 16 General Comments (0)

Northern Voice Questions

North­ern Voice is a small Van­couver con­fer­ence on blog­ging, and I’m on the organ­iz­ing com­mit­tee. We’re gear­ing up for the 2007 con­fer­ence, which we were plan­ning on hold­ing in Feb­ru­ary, but we’ve run into some issues with the venue. So we’ve come up with a sur­vey to ask people who were think­ing of attend­ing NV […]

2006 09 06 Conference Comments (0)

Coping with Pregnancy

I found a couple of things very use­ful for my second preg­nancy that I didn’t dis­cover for my first — and thought I should blog them in case they’re use­ful to any­body else. I’m sure any read­ers with other ideas will add them — I’ll do another post in a bit about some early babyhood […]

2006 09 06 Family Comments (10)