Long time coming

So it seems this post has been a long time comming since I seemed to have forgotten about my blog for quite some time according to my last post time. It seems like I slip into this much too often where I do a bunch of web posts and than forget to do a post. So here is goes for my first post in 6 months.

Paige was born at 4:29pm on September 15, 2011 weighing in at 10lbs 10oz, below is a timeline view of the last 6 months in picture format:

 

Arriving home for the first time. September 18, 2011

Her Christening. October 1, 2011

Heading to Edmonton for her first ride on a plane. November 4, 2011

2 Month Needles. November 28, 2011

Close to the first Christmas relaxing with Mommy. December 18, 2011

Its the new year. January 4, 2012

Mommy reading a book. February 2012

At Nanny and Poppy's house in Florida. February 15, 2012

Sporting her Google hat. March 2012

Sporting her flower. 

 So has you can see she has grown up quite a bit over the last 6 months. Since that time she is now rolling, crawling and has two teeth coming out. Also got a little bit of ink done on my right forearm to remind me of her all of the time.

So hopefully I will continue to keep this blog updated in the future now that I have started again.

Just over a week to go

Well we have just over one week, give or take a few days, before our lives are going to change for the better for many years to come. To say I am excited is a understatement but you can say I am terrified. I mean I got some one to take care of now. This past weekend a bunch of friends threw me a diaper party. If you don't know what a diaper party is; its an excuse for the men to have a party and drink, and they all have to bring a package of diapers to the father to be. So I ended up with close to 1000 diapers, so we should be a good for a while. A big thanks to Geoff for organizing  the party and to all of the guys showed up.

Up to this point I think we have everything ready for the lil bundle when she arrives, and by god I know Jodi has the clothes situation taken care of, the kid has more clothes than me all ready and she is not even born. Although  while I was in San Jose, CA visiting Google for a week in March for work, I made it to the Google store and did make some clothes purchases. I got to turn her into a Google fan right away. :-) And again just yesterday I was on thinkgeek.com browsing around and did end up buying a few more things for her that I though was cute, see images below.

So there you have it, our lives will soon change, Jodi  has been eating spicy food and pineapple all week to hopefully induce labor and make our bundle show up sooner.

Bio Hazard

Rock, Paper, Scissors, Spock, Lizard (From the Big Bang Theory) 

Sock Monkey

I TCP/IP but mostly IP

Another weekend is gone....

Not sure how or where the weekends go to so quick, but it seems like the same story each weekend. Sitting on the couch on Sunday night with the Monday work day only a few hours away wondering where the weekend went.

This weekend though was a little more entertaining and relaxing. Friday night was a bit quiet, a few friends dropped by and we had some drinks outside listing to some music.

#47 Chicken Curry

Saturday started early, Jodi had a appointment booked to have maternity photos taken at Baby and Belly. So we arrived at about 10am for an hour and half photo shoot. She took about 100 pictures and we should get some of them by Thursday this week. Next up was Shaan Curry House for a great lunch together at the best curry spot in the city. Make sure you take a visit here if you like curry. :-) I get the #47 which includes chicken curry with rice, naan bread, salad and a drink for $10.50. Saturday night we headed downtown and picked up a friend who is here for the month of August for work and met some other friends at the Irish Village for some supper and some ice cold drinks.

Sunday was a day to relax and to get some house work done and groceries picked up.

Google+ is now offering invites for users to sign-up. I received 150 invites, visit the invite page to use an invite and sign-up on Google+.

With S&P downgrading the U.S. credit rating to AA+ from AAA, some Americans may have to look at reducing  their house size to something smaller.... check out the video below:

New Site and summer news

Its been quite awhile since I have done a update, so I thought it might be about time for one, but this time I am going to use Blogger. Up until now I have always designed, developed, and hosted all of my sites over the years since about 1995, now since I use Google for most everything, I figured now its time to try blogger.

The summer has been going quick, and it does not seem like we have done much but wait for the little one to arrive. If you are unaware, Jodi and I are expecting our first baby in the next month or so. Its been a bit busy prepping for the arrival of a new heart beat at the Sooley house. Our little bundle of joy will be a girl and she is due on September 8 but I think Jodi at this point is hoping for her to come a bit earlier.

Mr. Nice Cream is now in its second season of providing ice cold treats delivered in Riverside South on those old time Ice Cream Bikes. This year we have three students working and providing service on three different routes in the neighborhood. Only one of the students from this year is a return worker and he also provided us with a great reference for his friend who is also working for us. Make sure you check out MrNiceCream.ca and keep an eye out for us in the neighborhood. We recently had the bikes at the Riverside South Canada Day festivities and donated a portion of our sales to the Riverside South Community Association.

Now on to Google. Over the past few months I have had the chance not only to visit the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA for some training for work, but I have also been using the Google Music service and got an account on Google+.

First the Googleplex; I was at the Googleplex for a total of a week and it was an eye opening experience. Google really knows how to treat its employees if it not their multitude of restaurants and cafeterias providing FREE food all day long, or their FREE laundry service, or their FREE cars and bus service to San Fran to the ability to bring your dog to work with you. It was an awesome experience that everyone should experience, but unforgivably most will not.

Now on to Google+. Google+ is a product that has launch with much fan fare. It is a social network much like Facebook right now you can sign up to get access. Google+ will over time become a a threat to Facebook. It has enhanced on some Facebook's features and has some nice new ones that Facebook does not have. One of these is the use of "Circles", Circles allow you to place your friends in a group so you can share information with only certain or all circles, like "Work", "Friends" and "Family" this way you co-workers do not need to know about family related things. Another great feature is Hangouts; Hangouts allow you to do a video chat with up to 10 people at the same time. Now you might be saying, hold on here, Skype can do this. It certainly can but in order to do it with Skype, someone must have a paid account. These are just two of the new features of Google+, with more available and many more to come. Make sure you visit http://plus.google.com to sign up for an account and visit and add me at: http://gplus.to/acsooley

Late last year I was going on in a few blog posts about have good my Thrive Chequing account was working for me from INGDieect. Well now the Thrive Chequing accounts are available to all Canadians. It offers FREE checques, with NO FEES and a high interest rate. They also give you $25 for signing up for an account if you use my Orange Key 14477247S1 and you visit http://www.ingdirect.ca/referafriend. Plus if you have you direct deposit payroll moved to ING, they will give you an additional $100. What other bank does that? NONE.


Let me know what you think of the use of blogger instead of my regular site for my blog, at some point I think I will move the AdamSooley.ca domain name to point to here but I still have a lot of information I want to port and move over to here.