Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-03-12
- It's @yoyomamadotca talking about child swapping on @CBCEarlyEdition. It's not quite what you might expect. #bcedstrike #
- .@LeftCoastBlog Strange. Teachers are prohibited by the LRB from picketing… #bced #
- .@IanAMartin My point was that if the BCTF is going to play the "not-a-picket-line" game, it's clear that those involved see it differently. #
- RT @kitsilano: Making the call: Bike bell vs. bike horn http://t.co/pvaPN6Lj #bikeyvr #
- I don't have a problem if the BCTF pickets. But playing games by calling it "not a picket"? Silliness. #bced #
- .@LeftCoastBlog I didn't mean to pick on you Stacey, but in all the rhetoric flying around, I wanted to highlight the confusion. #bced #
- PSA: Uptalk while trying to prove a point rather diminishes the effectiveness of your point? #
- Bike horns: Love them or leave them? http://t.co/9soJwqv9 #bikeyvr #
- Yay! The wind is blowing stuff fr the construction site behind us. I wonder which lucky resident will end up w/ construction debris tonight? #
- Why yes, I did just follow @alan_thicke. #
- "The Power of Love" by Celine Dion? Somewhere, a vein is popping in Jennifer Rush's head. #thevoice #
- A gorgeous ride into work today. The sun had the snow-topped mountains all lit up. #bikeyvr #
- Of *course* the BCTF says they may strike illegally on Thursday. Forces the gov't's hand. It's *all* about the politics. #bced #
- And, screw the parents. Why let them know in advance if they need to plan for childcare on Thursday (and Friday?) #bced #
- *This* is a great way to get parental support for your strike. #
- #truth RT @wilw: Never, ever, pick up a duck in a dungeon. #
- Carefully crafting emails sucks, but gets me into less trouble. #lessonslearned #
- They were two close friends sitting alone together. #lastlinebeforebed #
- Weird. Had two tweets get lost in the ether. #blackhole #
- I loathe iTunes even more than IE. Worst software ever. Ever. #
- Kobo eReader completely unresponsive. Plugged in overnight, no change. She's dead, Jim. My dead tree books don't die. Well, again at least. #
- Ditto RT @penguinstorm: I see this EVERYDAY on my bike. RT @CBCEarlyEdition: RCMP handed out 4500 tickets for distracted driving last month. #
- That is, I see motorists (and cyclists!) on handheld cell phones while driving, multiple times, daily. @penguinstorm @CBCEarlyEdition #
- The oldest kid has another loose tooth. Teeth falling out, naturally or not, wigs me out. #
- Argh. Just extracted 10 cheezie penguins from a toy car. It was like crispy orange clowns stuffed into a VW bug. #
- Best Buy's web site says "The new Apple iPad 2 is here". Really? Is that the "new iPad" or the *old* iPad 2? #youdontreallycare #
- Oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oooh Barbra Streisand #DamnYouR3 #earworm #
- Just dropped @gwenfloyd off at the airport. 5 days of solo-parenting begins … now! #dadcamp #
- So, who's getting rid of their 1st gen iPad? #
- We've found a 3 hour documentary on steam trains in PBS. Brought the boys to an abrupt and fixated halt. #dadcamp #
- MT @alexishinde: My commute is mostly off- street, except for 8 blocks. In 8 blocks, SIX of you were texting. #bikeyvr cc: @CBCEarlyEdition #
- MT @alexishinde: One of you blew a stop sign. You never looked up at all. If you did, you'd've seen you were about to hit me. #bikeyvr #
- Abandoned kids at their respective school-like appointments roughly at their scheduled times. Now to remember when to get them back #dadcamp #
- Every teacher I've seen today at A's school is wearing a T-Shirt with a BCTF slogan. Way to keep it out of the classroom. Grrrr, argh. #
- Wow. The number of BCTF "defenders" that have brought up Hitler in responding to me is staggering. I've blocked every single one. #
- Yes, I know, Godwin's Law but seriously? Seriously!? #
- Rewarding toilet training with chocolate sure comes back to bite you in the ass when bed time rolls around #dadcamp #
- We meet again, my nemesis. And … yup, it crashes on the very first. So. Many. Crashes. #avidstudio #
- And that would be crash number 2. #
- Seriously @Twitter? A http://t.co/1IOeocg5 link turned into a twitter:// link on my phone. 3rd party app went "Huh?" #
- Vancouver Playhouse Theatre shutting down after current production. I wonder what will happen to @fredpenner's The Cat Came Back? #
- Kids' request for supper tonight: Apple-cinnamon Cheerios with sliced banana. I'm inclined to allow this. #dadcamp #
- Probably deemed inappropriate, but instead of "You Really Got Me" how great would have been "Hot For Teacher"? @CBCStephenQuinn #otc #
- Q decided he wanted to wait for A's piano lesson on a mat in the dance studio. @ Dunbar Community Centre http://t.co/d4mposFC #
- Apparently unsatisfied with Cheerios and bananas 2 hrs ago, the children are now demanding "real" supper. WHERE DOES IT ALL GO!? #dadcamp #
- Daisy, the harbour porpoise is *extremely* social and interactive! * @ Vancouver Aquarium http://t.co/OAqwWqvZ #
- Apparently Q's idea of sleeping in is getting up at 5:40. His brother "slept in" until 6:30. Can't wait for the time change tonight. #
- Today's forecast: "Rain ending early this morning then cloudy. Rain beginning this afternoon." Uh, so … "Rain" then. #yvrwx #
- From A's otherwise-glowing piano report card: "His interest in words + stories has the potential to take over sometimes…" Yup, that's him. #
- In other news, at least he's getting a piano report card. I wonder what his Grade 1 teacher thinks. #noidea #teachersstrike #
- .@_Cuddlefish_ Did you get a 6-page union "info" pkg from Jr Fish's teacher on Friday? We did. Yay. Good supplement to Thur's 3 pages. #
- Transit adventure this morning to try to lift the overtired boys' moods. Lonsdale Quay look out! #
- On the ferry to North Van. Q shrieked as we walked by someone who looks suspiciously like @julesjulesjules #
- So the ball pit is turning moods around but I fear I'll never get them decontaminated. #dadcamp http://t.co/wPfBfsDq #
- There is ANOTHER kid named Quinlan in this ball pit. Seriously!? cc: @GwenFloyd #
- Typical West-Coast kids: demanded maki, spring rolls, + edemame for lunch. My 6 yr old self didn't know the meaning of those words. #dadcamp #
- And the best part of transit adventures to Lonsdale Quay? Beavertails. #nomnomnom #
- Friendly deranged/scuffy guy tried to engage my kids in conversation heading to Seabus. He slinked away after A yammered at him for 5 mins. #
- Out-talking the mentally disturbed: Another Vancouver skill my 6 yr old has that I've yet to develop. #
- Hard to believe, but this is straight out of the camera #nofilter #grey #vancouver @ Lonsdale Quay http://t.co/4a9rAb4k #
- Love is … using a hex editor to edit a running process's memory space to give your kid unlimited funds in SimCity. #dadcamp #
- Apparently a 3 hr nap didn't chase away the crankiness. Growth spurt? Seasonal affective disorder? Just Being Three? Who knows? #dadcamp #
- Score! "A Gift of Munsch" on Netflix. #LittleThingsCount #
- Turned on the Brier since it seemed to be a good game, but just watched Manitoba give up 4. Oy-vey #
- I hope that's not a police car John Mann is standing on RT @jcritty: Save This House http://t.co/Q3HPpMVk #ilovetheplayhouse #
- Huzzah! The time change worked! The kids got up at 7am instead of 6am. _yawn_ #
- Sunday morning routine @ Granville Island Public Market http://t.co/N9dnJzwU #
- This is the stupidest playground water feature, ever. Dump it into sand!? @ False Creek Community Centre http://t.co/Wv6OLme7 #
- Watching Phantom of the Opera (Royal Albert Hall production) with the boys. A new generation of #PTO geeks? #
- Just sat the kids down for a review of the Childhood Agreement. There have been numerous violations today. #dadcamp #
- .@gwenfloyd says that in trying to live in two time zones, she's successfully living in neither. Will check for second heart on return. #dw #
- Sometime in the last hour, the hold-out clocks finally switched to DST. Thanks, Shaw #betterlatethannever #
- The big, bright, busy, quiet city. #lastlinebeforebed #
- I gave @604Heather +K about Artichoke on @klout http://t.co/6b84bAy7 #
- Oh, Klout is silly sometimes. One of my "influential topics" is, apparently, Conservative Politics. Tee-hee. #
- DST, you can #suckit I hope the kids' epic struggle to get to sleep pays off with sleeping in tomorrow morning. #asif #gtfts #
- Omg the kids did not handle transition to DST well at all. On my way to bed, checked boys. 6yr old still awake. #gtfts #