Thinking

I am still trying to process what this mornings news means. It changes a lot of the plans I had and I guess I should have been more prepared for it but it really has caught me a bit off guard. My most immediate problem is what am I going to do with the kids over the long Christmas break. Here I have loaded up with clients so that I had something close to full time work but over Christmas I will have no kid free time, I'm thinking it isn't going to work out that well. Mind you one of my larger clients seems to be imploding so that one is a question mark.

Anyway, I am thinking of sending a letter to the the Canadian Embassy in Beijing and seeing if grovelling and begging has any effect on the process. I just haven't decided yet if its the best plan of attack or even if I want to attack.

To make myself feel better I went out and bought my new monitor that will go with my new computer. I found a good deal on a nice monitor in a flyer from the store that starts with an F and in ends in the word shop. Anyway, you will be SHOCKED to find out that although they had one on display they didn't have any in stock nor did they have any on order so I couldn't buy that one. The next one I chose was a comparable one for a bit more money but that one was also NOT in stock. At this point I should have walked out but I didn't of course, probably because I was expecting this to happen. I even told Alan before we went that this was going to happen. Anyway, I ended up buying one for 100 dollars more than I had planned on when I went in. It is bigger and has better quality so I guess that is worth something and has a good warranty BUT I still hate it when they do that.

I even learned a new trick today on the internet. If you hold down the ctrl key on your keyboard and roll the little wheel on your mouse you will zoom in and out of whatever page you are on. That might come in handy once in awhile!