Grace in Small Things: Day 6

1. Snow Leopard arrived in the mail today!


2. vegetarian Mucho Burrito (the only Mucho Burrito in the province is right by house and for this I am truly thankful).


3. a safe trip home from the farm (there was a near mishap)


4. my parents were able to come with me on my trip (on Thursday it looked like I might have been going on my own)


5. crisis averted: I do not have a cold

Grace in Small Things: Day 5

1. little girls who hold hands when they sleep


2. church service with many talented singers. It is nice to blend in rather than stand out.


3. Grandma's Saskatoon Berry Pie


4. being barefoot in the sand


5. knowing all the good jokes kids like


6. conversations with teenage girls about hockey

Grace in Small Things: Day 4

1. chocolate cookie dough


2. weeding barefoot


3. my dad covered in pets: two dogs and a cat


4. large dust clouds created by brushing off dirt from children


5. a giggling small child putting her toes under running water


6. children so well behaved that you can nap while babysitting


7. picking up where you left off with friends you don't see often

Grace in Small Things: Day 3

Apparently my bedroom at my grandparents' house is close enough to my uncle's house to connect to the Internet. Who knew? It is slow but better than nothing. So.....

No interruptions in the thankfulness! I had a fair good day and I'm excited for the weekend so this will be fairly easy:

1. Grandma's Shepherd's Pie


2. Finally having the time to read the special Mythbusters Edition of Popular Mechanics


3. Making a powerful ally and the potential for more


4. A job with flexible hours


5. Company for long trip (especially when I'm so tired).


6. Internet access when I thought there would be none!


7. People who help even when it is not in their job description


8. Access to a computer program that lets me finish tasks in hours rather than days. O brave new world!

Enough for now, lots more to be thankful for tomorrow...

Grace in Small Things: News

I'm away this weekend at my grandparents' farm so I will not be posting for GiST until Monday due to lack of Internet access. I plan to keep track of it everyday and posting them when I get back.

Who knew?

You can reset an IPod by holding down the menu and select button for 6-8 seconds.

I connected my IPod to my computer last night to charge it. This morning I discovered that the computer had not recognized the connection because the IPod was stuck on the menu screen. I only knew how to reset through ITunes so I did a little digging.

In other Apple news, I pre-ordered Snow Leopard and it should be arriving early next week. It only costs $30 for those who are running Leopard and there are some improvements that I am seriously interested in. Some Adobe CS 3 users are upset right now that Adobe tested compatibility with CS 4 and not CS 3. Some software magazines are testing it and so far there are no problems. I'm going to wait to install it until after the first OS fixes and I've heard more about compatibility with the programs I use.

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Grace in Small Things: Day 3

Even more reason to concentrate on thankfulness: I'm cleaning up a bureaucratic mess at school and a friend of the family passed away.

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.
Philippians 4:8-9 (New International Version)

1. Chili cheese fries


2. The bus running later than I am


3. Dad waiting for me so I can have a ride to work


4. Teen-aged boys helping a blind man onto the bus. There is hope for the future!


5. Meetings that run on time and go better than planned

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Worst.Introduction.Ever

Ask an average person whether he can draw an Indian tipi [or teepee] and he will say "Why! Of course!" There is no "of course!" about an Indian tipi unless you are an Indian learned in the old ways or, like the anthropologists Reginald and Gladys Aubin you have spent years studying tipis all over North America.
- THE INDIAN TIPI- Dorthea Calverley

Grace in Small Things: Day 2

I almost forgot! I had the list created but almost forgot to post it:

1. flip flops (something I am thankful for about 6 months of the year)


2. the smell of the farmers' market


3. catching up with friends who live far away


4. finding my bus pass


5. 20+ minutes to wander around Victoria Park on a beautiful day while I wait for my bus. One of the few moments in the day I had a chance for any semblance of serenity.

Don't Copy that Floppy

I found a software piracy PSA from 1992 called Don't Copy that Floppy.

What you can look forward to

• M.C. Hart kickin' it to you public service style


• Possibly the longest rap song of all time.


• Sweet computer graphics


• Reminiscing about when a computer game was less than 1.44 MB


• Hot computer nerds ("You had me at Dungeons and Dragons!")

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Tough and Rumble

As I eluded to earlier, I had a rough day. To be more specific, a brief klutzy moment caused a rough day.

I had my first chiropractor appointment in 5 weeks this morning and on my way back to work I decided to pick up a sandwich from Italian Star Deli. On the sidewalk right outside the store, I tripped on the uneven sidewalk and fell hard. I scrapped both hands and knees. The welts on my knees were so big, I had a hard time driving home to clean up. Still determined to go inside, I entered the store bleeding, barely able to walk and growing increasingly nauseated from the pain. I quickly grabbed a sandwich and a ginger ale for the nausea (which the owner was kind enough to open for me). This year has been a rough for Janny:
A Little Banged and Bruised - January 12, 2009
My life as a character in a silent film - January 16, 2009
Ok, Maybe I Should Have Stayed in Bed - July 2, 2009

Grace in Small Things: Day 1

I've taken up Schmutzie's call to arms and am starting Grace in Small Things. You'll notice the new badge on the right. I was planning to wait until the new school year and my blogiversary to start but I've had a bad day (more on that later).

1. Band Aids with duct tape technology


2. An opportunity to see good friends (even if they call me Lettuce)


3. Italian Star Deli sandwich for lunch


4. Chubby cheeked baby on the bus


5. A beautiful, sunny day that looks like will turn into a beautiful, sunny week


6. My chiropractor is back from vacation

Classic Janny: The Falconer

So you want to delve into the mind of Janny? I have no idea where I come up with some of this stuff, you've been officially warned:

Very late at night, back in January 2006 I wrote some bad but in a good way, beatnik poetry.

Knowing what I know now

I posted A Gentle Reminder: Narnia is Not a Real Country on January 4, 2006

A financial new agency reported that Narnia representative Susan Aslan walked out of World Trade Organization talks. The story was picked up by several other news agencies.

The Lion, The Witch and The World Trade talks (from The Age)

A couple weeks ago I watched a documentary about The Yes Men who

are a group of culture jamming activists who practice what they call "identity correction" by pretending to be powerful people and spokespersons for prominent organizations. They create and maintain fake websites similar to ones they want to spoof, and then they accept invitations received on their websites to appear at conferences, symposia, and TV shows. - Wikipedia

The documentary focuses on them poses as the World Trade Organization. I wonder if they were the ones behind the Narnia "talks"?

The virtual end of online anonymity

Schmutzie was interviewed for The virtual end of online anonymity - The Globe and Mail, topic near and dear to many of us. Earlier this week I came across Do You Pass the Social Media Recruitment Test? and what should come up when your name is googled:

1. Does not lead to something controversial like arrests
2. Leads to profession-related discussions and commentary on other social media sites
3. Leads me to their online blog, webpage or social media profiles
4. Doesn’t come up blank

The gist of the over 1400 results of an internet search of my name:

• math education website I work for


• math conference papers and proceedings


• my conics webquest


• a petition to keep Arrested Development on the air

My reason for blog anonymity? Like most, keeping my personal and professional lives separate.



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Classic Janny: Memories from My Sister's Wedding

My sister had a horrible cold in the days leading up to her wedding. She was so ill she couldn't drive herself anywhere or finish any of her errands on her own so I was her helper. I had a little notebook with our list of errands so I started to record the pleasant things we saw to help put her in a better mood. I finally posted these notes about 5 months later.

Classic Janny: Lego Janny on the Beach

My sister wrote me a story about me being a character on CSI:Miami. She was inspired by my Lego effigy.