Weblog and Playground of Gord Fynes

Congratulations Gillian, Robert and big sister Zoe on the new addition to the family! Welcome aboard, Jonathan!

Busy weekend ahead. The bro is in town from the UK this weekend and the Mom arrives tomorrow from Shanghai. Dad the following week. We haven’t seen the folks since September, so they’ll be excited to see the boy and how much he’s grown.

Since I got the Canon Powershot S230 back in December, I’ve been wanting to get into doing Quicktime panoramas, but didn’t have the bucks to drop on the authoring software. Much to my surprise this past week, I’ve discovered that I’m able save panoramas as Quicktime VRs, especially in the 360 degree format! See for yourself (Quicktime plug-in required). I’m glad I made this discovery at 7am rather than at 11pm as I would have been up all night in the monitor’s blue glow with my new found powers!

Happy belated birthday, Myke.

Since the boy was so brave during his trip to the hospital this week, I had to take him on a trip to Toys R Us to let him pick out an addition to the growing fleet of construction vehicles. I also picked us (me) up a Bob the Builder kite to try out. I hadn’t flown a kite in over twenty years. Having done so this evening, I’d like to get back into it, only with something a little better than a three dollar plastic bag.

Man, what a day.

Over a short period of time, the boy’s front teeth had shown signs of rapid decay as a result of what’s known as “bottle mouth.” This is when some kids who are given a bottle at bedtime fall asleep holding hold milk and/or juice with their tongue in the top of their mouth, allowing sugar and bacteria to eat away at the weak enamel on their teeth. While we never gave our little one a bottle of juice at bedtime as he was a nursed baby, it really makes no difference in this situation.

As a result, the boy had to have his top four front teeth extracted today to ensure that things would be okay when his adult teeth grow in. With no front teeth, he’s now going to be looking like 1970s former Philadelphia Flyers captain Bobby Clarke. For such a little guy, that should look pretty cute.

I haven’t asked him to say “horses” or “snakes” yet. That would be just plain mean.

Maybe next week.

Happy first birthday Nico! Sorry we couldn’t be there to help your Dad with the BBQ. Maybe we’ll make it next year.

Oh, and of course, Happy Fourth of July to our friends to the south.

Congratulations to Elaine and Greg on the new addition to the family! Welcome to the world, Luke. I hope y’all enjoy late night television. There’ll be plenty of it!