Here is the video that I did in the beginning of November 2011 to sum up my year to date. It’s missing about 3000 photos I took but you get the idea. Since I cut this together numbed on pain killers, due to a herniated disc, I had a fantastic birthday, one MRI and two epidurals that have [...]

It’s been a long while since I took to the Jaypiddy blog and now it’s time to make a return. I started the year with my mum in late stage cancer, over extended at my agency and teaching at BCIT. Then came the passing of my Mum in May and the morning that went with it, and [...]

Yesterday’s memorial for my mum was truely amazing. It was a powerful confirmation of how deeply my Jacqueline touched the people in her life. I was also so grateful to the friends that came to the memorial that had never met my mum. They came to support the family in this tough time and we [...]

Surrounded by the love of her family in a quiet room high above the city, Jacqueline Irene Gore’s spirit moved from this realm into the next in the early morning hours of Wednesday, May 11th. Jackie was born near London, England on April 24th, 1944. As a young child she spent time in both England [...]

Well, it is that time again. I took our son to his first skating lesson today. At 7 and being Canadian I’ll admit he’s a little behind the curve but he will catch up just like he did with swimming this summer. I love the way the HDR brought out the cuts in the ice. [...]

So I had an “ah uh” moment last month when our copywriter at work reminded me of a little secret most folks don’t know. Macs can talk, or rather read typed text. I asked him to proofread some material that I had written and he asked me “Did you get your Mac to read it [...]

This is the third time that I have paid for parking via the telephone pay parking system run by Verrus and have been handed a ticket for what was called a “parking violation”. In the past I had called and tried to get the violations cancelled. This has been futile on both attempts due to [...]

Well, our family has just acquired a piece of Vancouver hockey history. Yes, that’s right that is the letter “N” from former General Motors Place neon sign that was on the east side of the arena for so many years. I am going to clean it up a little, not too much, and mount it [...]

I have been wanting to do a picture wall for a while now but was a little worried about committing pictures to wall for fear that I might mess up the geometry and be stuck with a less than fab picture wall. Trust me  I have seen this many times in other peoples homes. I [...]

Well, it’s not easy to change the early morning behaviour of my six year old, Olympics or not. Trying to get the young fella to “get cracking” so we could make it out to see the torch be run down Denman street was no easy task. I awoke to the sound of helicopters that were [...]