I finally settled on a new online broker, E-Trade. I decided to go with E-Trade because they allowed me to trade Canadian stocks without any hidden fees, even though the per-trade rate was a little higher than the competition. In stark comparison to FirstTrade, I was able to open an E-Trade account and enable bank account access in...
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I set up a YouTube account this weekend. It occurred to me that we have all these photos of Aiden up on our web site, but have no way to post the movies that we take with our Canon S3 IS. Sure, we could put a link on our site to the movie file, but wouldn’t it be cool if we could stream the movies on the site itself? Enter...
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Chrissy has returned from her scrapbooking retreat, marking the end of the Daddy and Son Weekend. In retrospect, I think that I worried too much over the three days alone with Aiden. Aiden followed his regular schedule, was very obliging at feeding time and didn’t complain much when I put him down for naps or bedtime. I had...
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Chrissy is out of town on a scrapbooking retreat with friends this weekend. That leaves me alone with Aiden. I wasn’t entirely certain that I would be capable of taking on the parenting duties all by myself. I’ve done pretty well in the last five months in a supporting role, but I’ve never had the boy by myself for...
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Netflix is the best gift that one can give to someone who loves anime. I’ve been ordering sets of anime, some good ones and some bad ones. One of my new favorites is Gunslinger Girl. By way of explanation, I thought I’d try to embed some YouTube clips to my blog, since I’ve never done that before. That is the...
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We loved tearing the house apart so much last time that we just had to do it again. Chrissy ordered new kitchen cabinets yesterday from Omega Cabinets, which Consumers Reports ranked as the best. However, we may not actually get the cabinets for another ten weeks because Omega custom builds all of their orders. So that makes today...
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I might play Neverwinter Nights 2 a second time as a Warlock. I’d like to put some points into Diplomacy and a bunch into Crafting this time. Towards the end of the last game, I was wishing that I could create a bunch of super-weapons and super-armor, since I was beginning to be disappointed with the stuff that I was seeing in...
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I’ve been playing Neverwinter Nights 2 for the last several months. It’s been slow-going, since I only get to play when I’m not working, sleeping, spending time with Chrissy or watching Aiden. So not very often. But I loved the game, so I stuck it out to the end. Well, I just finished the game, and was treated to...
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