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No sir, I’m just a very big Apple fan. This is my Graceland.

I think a trip to Edmonton is in order. Apparently there’s a new, official, Apple store opening up there this weekend.
Bonus points to whomever can tell me where the title of this post is borrowed from?


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Quick Life Update

First off, yes - I’ve changed the design of the blog again. I keep finding little things to be annoyed with in each design and ultimately I won’t really be happy until I do it myself but for now, you get to witness musical templates on my blog. Hopefully it’s not too upsetting. [...]


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We’re On Our Way Home

Or about to be.

After being gone for a month, our time of travel, relaxing, adventure and fun is about to come to an end.
We fly out from Auckland Thursday night at 9:30pm (NZ time), fly to LA, then Calgary, sleep overnight in Calgary and then home Friday afternoon (Saskatoon time). Sounds [...]


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1 Week Gone

Well we’ve been gone from home for a week and we’re finally starting to feel recovered from the jet lag/tiredness and adjusting to life doing nothing. It takes awhile to decompress and come down from work/life/etc but it definitely feels good now that we have.
Our days have thus far consisted of sleeping, eating [...]


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We’ve Arrived…

35+ hours of travel later and we’re finally here in Byron Bay, Australia. Everyone’s doing ok - just need some sleep and adjustment to the new time zone. But it’s beautiful and great to be back in Australia. Pictures/etc coming later.


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4 Days to Australia

I don’t think I’ve mentioned it here yet, but we’re headed to Australia for 3 weeks and New Zealand for a week and we leave on Thursday. There’s this weird thing that happens when you have a kid where time just seems to stop and you lose track of it - so it still [...]


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Rule 240 of Flying

There’s an interesting article up on MSNBC’s travel site - link here - regarding an old rule for passengers flying that an airline has to transfer your ticket to the next available flight, regardless of airline, if your original flight is delayed for any reason other than weather.
I went back out to the United gates [...]


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