Mud, mud, everywhere mud., originally uploaded by AnthonyFloyd.

Today, as part of a local Dad’s support group — DadCamp — we took a trip to the Richmond Country Farms Pumpkin Patch. Aidan was actually there yesterday with his preschool class, and it poured rain the whole time they were there. He went back today with me and it poured rain the whole time we were there. Still, he thoroughly enjoyed himself.

I’m testing posting photos to the blog from Flickr. You can see more photos from the trip (just a few, didn’t take many) here.

• .@iheartthatdance Ah, now, see you should have purchased the Tylenol Extra Zero Strength. Seriously. http://bit.ly/2OWufM #
• Wow, rabid iPhone fanbois drooling on Canadian GSM network competition — based on one article citing anonymous sources. #DrunkOnKoolAid #
• Does anyone have any experience with Trail-A-Bikes? Any thoughts about them? #
• 1st day of the riding season w/ gloves. I'm so adapted to the West Coast climate I've lost the right to ref that winter spent in Sudbury :( #
• Dear dumbass pedestrian: PLEASE look LEFT before you step off the curb. I'm doing 50 kph there, and I don't know who wins but it'll be messy #
• Dear dumbass truck driver: PLEASE look LEFT before running that stop sign. At least you'll know my last words because I KNOW who wins that 1 #
• Dear dumbass fixie-driving-hipster: Going the wrong way thru traffic circle is STUPID. Stupidity + hubris gave you the win in even match #
• Dear other drivers, pedestrians, cyclists: Thank you for not trying to kill me tonight. The 5%'ers are giving you a bad name, btw. #
• Interesting: Google Street View is live in Vancouver … but they didn't include UBC. I wonder why!? #
• This sure sets the bar high for expectations when visiting Australian research orgs in the future: http://bit.ly/32eYP (music vid runs 4:20) #
• The inability to block specific phone numbers on my cell is frustrating. 778-785-4596 "You've won $2600" I'm looking at you #PhoneScamsSuck #
• My 4 yr old just sat and watched the @rickmercer Report w/ me with rapt attention. I'm not sure what that says about me, him, or @rickmercer #
• Test-riding some bikes after work today. Stoked. #
• RT @dadcamp: How do you achieve Work Life Balance? post from @anthonyfloyd this am on DadCAMP http://retwt.me/HR2r #
• Twitter is being clever. I'm trying to RT an update from this am just before the Twitpocalypse and since it's a dupe Twitter won't post it! #
• RT @dadcamp: How do you achieve Work Life Balance? post from @anthonyfloyd this am on DadCAMP http://retwt.me/HR2r #
• RT @eastcoastgranpa: @AnthonyFloyd How about this trailer?? http://bit.ly/2ji008 [Wow, *that* is cool!] #
• Oh look, Canadian politicos, it's Justin Trudeau (@justinpjt) #cdnpoli #
• .@TassimoCanada *I* live in Canada. I have >500 followers. I'm a Dad! Why the hate? #
• OK I have to give @TassimoCanada credit, it seems they're not abandoning Dads after all … #
• I haz Google Wave. Being at the top of my local social tech food chain means that it's a pretty lonely wave to ride…. #
• RT @mugpie_guy: simply for ~not~ being George W Bush, Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize! http://is.gd/46kMp #
• RT @andreareimer: Just drank some juice..out of the carton…and noticed it has a "best before" date of 2017. WTH? [Was it Happy Planet? :)] #
• RT @smithcd05: Obama won the peace prize? Did a wire agency take an Onion article seriously? #
• Rather than "creating a new int'l climate" (2 years in a row now) how about somebody actually tries to advance peace!? #nobel #
• Uh … "AIRCRAFT" … !? RT @BreakingNews: BULLETIN — SECOND NASA AIRCRAFT CRASHES INTO THE MOON. #
• Want to get GPS mount for my bike. GPSCentral wants $10 to ship it (<100 g) from Calgary to VanCity. It's a $9.99 part. Grrr. #
• Reading "Two stupid things ppl say about Welsh" http://bit.ly/KnilR reminded of @julesjulesjules and trying to figure out how to say cwtch #
• RT @limelitePR: My take on the @tassimocanada contest. How does a free proposition translate into brand value & sales? http://bit.ly/FGRkG #
• SO, @Cheaty , my son would be all over a pink pull up. I get the BARBIE objection, though :) #
• Awesome! I think it was my cousin in Calgary who just helped me add a 1 TB drive to our Shaw PVR. Thrilled with Shaw Customer Service! #
• Just left a comment on @limelitePR's analysis (http://bit.ly/FGRkG ) of the @TassimoCanada promotion http://bit.ly/1a8h69 . Chime in! #
• Cleaning up and unabashedly using Treehouse to distract kids. They're watching the Chinese equiv of Dora: Ni Hao, Kai-lan. Just as annoying. #
• In retrospect, though, the Mandarin exposure is much more appropriate than the Spanish exposure. #NewWorldReality #
• http://twitpic.com/l17m1 – Our fancy new ride: A Gary Fisher and a Trail-A-Bike. At the inevit pgnd #
• This is quite a bike ride, now at playground at David Lam Park #
• http://twitpic.com/l1f34 – Toddler euphoria, fire truck shows up to deal with false alarm. #
• I missed this on Friday, but maybe @Translink could learn something from the Swedes http://bit.ly/15ll4A Piano stairs! (via @dbarefoot) #
• Ad in today's @vancouversun for California with boffo shot of Yosemite with sun peaking from behind Half Dome. Must. Resist. Pull. #
• .@buzzbishop Like @RebeccaColeman I strongly recommend using a removable for an infant. Easier to just unplug & go when they fall asleep #
• RT @604homesguy: I just verified that I AM an organ donor. Are you? Sign up today: http://bit.ly/14FCqJ [Me too!] #
• Trimmed my face down from Grizzly Adams to Dr. Andy Brown (google it). Should last for the week. #beardcore #
• http://twitpic.com/l53pf – I wonder how many followers I'll lose b/c of this pic? #
• Reality of not owning a minivan: 2 car seats in back preclude anyone else. Wife, kids + wife's sis heading to Burnaby mini trains, me @ home #
• Turkey dinner's done, pies are eaten. Lost one game of Wizards in the last hand, won one game of Wizards in the last hand. Good times! #

• Not quite an optical illusion, but this will make your vision swim for a while: http://bit.ly/Nwkri #
• Aidan woke screaming from nightmare, cascade effect wakes Quinlan. And almost an hour later we've got everyone back to bed. Send vodka. #
• And so, the 6 months of the Rainy Season begins in Vancouver. Bike traffic reduced to "negligible" today. Lotsa room in the bike locker tho' #
• Another walk home tonight! Broken spoke this time. #
• Awesome! Redirected the cat to have her hairball on the kitchen tiles rather than the carpet! I'll take all the small victories I can get :| #
• "Dude, her head's bigger than her pelvis" http://bit.ly/1Kh2jT #
• Some how the 3 minute freq of the 99 on B-Way has stretched to 10 mins + counting #
• GM to end Saturn. It'll be wound down and dealerships will close (via @News1130radio) A different type of company, a different type of car #
• No wonder the rest of Canada makes fun of Lotus Land. Crossing guards in the DTES!? :eyeroll: #
• .@Nicole013 @tjrossignol The first car company that makes online purchasing feasible will have instant appeal. #NewBusinessModels #
• Got the spoke on my bike fixed just in time … for the rain. Slick wet leaves on the road are the reality for the next 3 months. #
• RT @LeftCoastMama @anndouglas Just read your article on #Nestlefamily debate/pr nightmare. If only all were so reasoned http://bit.ly/5RSUG #
• All these "I've got Google Wave invites! Follow me and RT!" tweets. I wonder how many of them are scams? I only trust ppl I'm already f'wing #
• RT @AvWeekBenet: Surprise! Capt. Sully takes to the skies earlier than expected: http://tinyurl.com/y8abz6a [America's only celeb pilot?] #
• #cpc candidate Landon quits, stands by pork-barrel charge/PMO muzzle http://bit.ly/TqC5m #cdnpoli (via @davidakin) [if only all so honest] #
• When the #NDP and #BQ wanted to bring down the gov't, the #LPC wouldn't. Now that the LPC wants to the NDP won't. Payback or karma? #cdnpoli #
• Follow Charles Darwin as he sails to the Galapagos. Seriously. Seriously AWESOME, that is: http://www.thebeaglevoyage.com/ #
• Huh. Just happened across Letterman, telling about attempted blackmail attempt and confessing to sex w/ Late Show employees. Huh. #
• Argh. .docx, .pptx, .xlsx should be pushed back through the Hellgate from which they emerged. #
• Holy crap. Completely unbelievable, but very intense: http://bit.ly/xrX3i (Youtube link to scene from 2012, runs 5:28) #
• http://twitpic.com/k4j0s – That's a BIG flag! #
• Complete and utter preschooler meltdown in progress. Somehow less frustrating at this point than the build-up. Go figure. #
• I'm mean it's kinda like arguing with the ump. Complaining that you don't want to go to bed when you're already there will go nowhere. #
• http://twitpic.com/kaykl – At our local playground, Granville Loop #
• Dear snooty smoker: Going to a playground to smoke is selfish and thoughtless. Moving 6" when we ask you not to smoke near our kids? Asshat! #
• Battle of the Blades is like DWTS but with a very real risk of a sliced artery and local cable production quality. Very Canadian, eh? #