My wife and I have been buying our son some Five Alive drinking boxes for his lunch. We noticed the contents on the package the other day and we found them quite amusing. On the cover of the box, you have the label:

Five Alive Citus: No Artificial Colours and Flavours Added

OK, cool. Uranium is all natural too but hey it sounds good.

Then on the back of the box you have the following under the nutrition laber:

Not a significant source of saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol, fibre, vitamin A, vitamin C, calcium or iron

It seems that the only real source of anything these drinking boxes have is sugar and carbs.

And all this time I thought I was giving him something half decent.

So, it’s that time of year again. After next week, we will be bombarded with the same old crappy Xmas songs that we have had to endure for the last 50 years or so I don’t care what anyone says, Elvis was drunk when he sang “Blue Christmas”

With the shopping season, I often make a list in my head of things I would like to have. The list is usually modest and I try not to go over $100 or so. My wife always says it the time of year that you should go overboard. I don’t mind going overboard, for my family, I just don’t feel it’s necessary for me. So this year, I am planning on getting a Video Camera. My old video camera doesn’t work right anymore, although, I have noticed a place that fixes them on my way to work. There seems to be all kinds of technologies for storing the media. In the next couple of weeks, I am going to have to do some research on what is the best bang for my buck.

Other than the video camera, the only thing I can think of is Star Wars III DVD to complete the collection. Besides, my son is getting at the age where he is getting some cool toys I don’t have to buy them for myself anymore, I just buy them for him

I think I am going to add some more features to this blog. I have already added a forum and statistics stuff. The stats no one really cares about except for me. I have also added some Flickr feeds, that I should update more frequently. That is why I am starting to bring my camera to work. I don’t want any razzle dazzle, ’cause lets face it, if you are coming to a blog, you are coming to read something. You are not coming here to see pretty Flash animation.

In my boredom, I have downloaded the following movies “The Excorsist”, “War of the World”, and “Madacascar.” But I am not sharing them, because that would be wrong.

This is what I see from my work every day. Nothing pretty just a semi-busy street. The only amusement I get is when drivers don’t notice the flashing yellow pedestrian crossing light and they come to a screeching halt. I have seen about 6 accidents in the 3 years that I have been in this building.

The most amusing site though is an older woman that takes 15 minutes to park her white Toyota Echo. She backs up slowly into a parking spot. Stops and gets out of her car to see if she is aligned properly. She gets back into the car and adjusts the cars position by an inch, gets out and checks the parking again. She repeats this about 5 or 6 times and then she is ready to do whatever meaningless thing it is she needs to get done. Unfortunately, I don’t have that view anymore or else I would take a video of her doing it. She’s nuts!

I was looking through my pictures and being Octobter, I stumbled across these Jack-O-Lanterns.

I have always wonder why you only get 9 minutes and not 10 to snooze. I mean 10 is a more powerful number. It is the number of the Ten Commandments, Top Ten List, 10 best dressed and so on. Pele, Maradonna, and Lafleur wore 10. So why 9?

I found a decent answer here.

Now, I never need to ask the question again!

Here is a website that lists the cheapest (Huh!) gas prices in New Brunswick.

www.newbrunswickgasprices.com

What’s the point of getting snipped and tied?

Oh boy, a perfect 10
Michelle Pountney

THE arrival of little Kenneth made a perfect 10 for the Wallace family of Corio.

Kenneth Laurence Maxwell Wallace was the baby Leilani and Gordon Wallace thought they could never have.

Mrs Wallace, 37, had her tubes tied after the birth of her third daughter 11 years ago, and Mr Wallace, 48, had a vasectomy about 14 years ago.

Mr Wallace had six children from an earlier marriage ranging in age from 15 to 28 as well as an 18-month-old granddaughter and more grandchildren on the way. Mrs Wallace had three daughters aged 11 to 16.

But after the couple married 18 months ago, they decided to see if they could have a child.

“When I had my vasectomy the surgeon said there would be no more kids because after 12 months the testicles don’t produce sperm any more,” Mr Wallace said.

“But it turns out that’s not the case.”

Mr Wallace’s sperm were retrieved through a testicular biopsy and individual sperm were injected into Mrs Wallace’s eggs.

The third embryo implantation resulted in Kenneth being born at 8.16pm on July 21.

“He’s our little miracle child because we never thought we would be able to have a baby at all. We are just so grateful,” Mrs Wallace said.