I was doing my ….err… Internet lurking and found out that I’m actually a professional photographer. I knew I had a hidden talent.
Check it out www.kylethomas.ca
Yesterday had its excitment while I slept
Yesterday was full of 2 interesting findings, even though I slept all day.
The one thing I go excited about was some national recognition YkOnline received. Here is what happened. At about 6pm I got up and opened up my MacBook as I always do and checked my stats for both websites. When I saw that YkOnline had almost tripled the amount of hits it was normally gets I couldn’t believe it. I thought it was weird as the only post I had published in 5 days was about Yellowknife’s Twitter community and didn’t think it would get very much recognition and well I was right. As I scrolled down to see where the hits were being referred from I saw that most of them were coming from Miss604.com. If you don’t know about Miss604, you should check it out. Rebecca Bollwitt blogs about Vancouver and has become very famous do it, needless to say she is an idol of mine. So when I saw all these hits coming from her site, I quickly scrambled over there. I was delightfully surprised to read in one of her latest posts she linked back to YkOnline. Not only that she explained that we (as in Yellowknifers) have TweetUps and have a directory of all the Tweeps. I was so happy to see that not only YkOnline was getting recognized but also our Twitter community.
The other interesting thing about yesterday was what I found on my truck tires. Orange lines, could they be markings done by By-Law Officers. Read my post of YkOnline about what I think.
There you have it.
Lots to do, half asleep
I’m going back to work tonight which means I will be very tired as I will only be running on 3 hours worth of sleep that I tried to get this past pm. I look forward to going back to work as it means I can focus and doing some things online I generally forget to do while I am off due to being outside and about town.
Some of the things I want to get done, if I don’t fall asleep, are:
- Write a post for this blog
- Write a couple posts I have in mind for YkOnline
- Set up a Links page for YkOnline. Links from Blogs to community links to Blogger Profiles.
- And of course watch some of the season finales that have aired over the last couple days.
We will see how I make out.
Quickly Now, Quickly
Quick post I want to do before I head out to the Yellowknife/NWT Bloggers BBQ happing tonight.
Just some personal things I have been up to lately. So for those of you who couldn’t bare watching my video because of that stupid noise (I don’t blame you, hell I have only seen it once through) I will fill you in on what I said on it. I am no longer going to Fort St. John for college in the fall. I quit, gave up, will peruse begging. No Kidding. I’m actually going to a different campus, the one in Dawson Creek. Dawson Creek is about a hour south of Fort St. John and about 8000 people smaller making it only about 10,00 people. The reason I switched is because when I first started coming to the area it was to Dawson, so I am much more familiar with the town and would have preferred to go there all along but they didn’t offer my program there. They didn’t offer it there until 2 weeks ago when I was checking the schools website before officially registering for my courses, so when I saw they offered it now I was e-mailing and calling the school frantically to see if I could transfer. Finally I got through and did. Oddly enough about the time I found this all out I also found out that my friends that live about 45 minutes out of the town would now be working in town as well. Which is a wonderful surprise. I can now say I truly am looking forward to going to school, I just need a place to live…….
All of that was finalized yesterday right before I went out to Yellowknife’s “in town” campground for the night. For the last ten years I have always gone camping on May long weekend at least one night of the weekend. I wasn’t going to break that cycle. This year I had my little 12ft camper out there and even though it doesn’t have heat either it was much nicer than sleeping in a tent in the -10 weather we have been having. I try and recall when it has even been this cold on May long weekend but I simply can’t. We have fun sitting around the fire talking, but I think it was clear that we would be happier when it is warmer.
The reason I’m not going back out there tonight is because of the Bloggers BBQ that will be happening shortly, so I must go get ready.
See you all on the flip side.
An Update and Things to do.
Well it is Monday and I go back to work tonight but I need to get somethings done before hand.
- Figure out what classes I’m going to take at school.
- Call school register for those classes.
- Go to NNSL get my %50 off web subscription.
- Write a YkClassifieds review on YkOnline.
- Write up a CanLiving post on my Bike.
- Continue work on the layout of YkOnline.
- Update clients sites The Rock and SideDoor.
- Measure and cut foam for seats in my camper.
- I’m sure I have forgotten something
Over the weekend the Trade Show was on and I was there taking some pictures and meeting new people. It was a really good time and it was good to see so many people coming out. I wrote about it on YkOnline.ca as well as posted some of my pictures.
On Sunday after the trade show, Mothers day lunch, and when the sun finally come back I went out to the Camp Ground and got some spring photos. You can find them all [HERE] and some below.
