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Monday, December 31, 2007

Christmas Morning



Christmas was fun this year. The kids were so excited to get different things, Paige kept on repeating "presents, presents". She loved all her dress up things, Tanner loved his new Optimus Prime (mom and dad don't love it as much-it is hard to transform!!!) and Jazz jersey. Kate didn't know what was going on but loved it all the same. Hope everyone else had a Merry Christmas.

Sunday, December 30, 2007

More Photos




Perth Day 1 & 2






Kids arrived safely with little jet lag. Have only threatened to send Caitlin home once so far. She asked to buy a mood ring, told her not needed as she only has one mood, though we are working on that. Here are photos from the hotel and aquarium. Caitlin has promised to model her new bikini later.

Friday, December 28, 2007

Loaded January

Are we ready to rumble? Things are really starting to heat up as the last 8 days are left before super tuesday and the front loaded primaries. Who is going to come out on top for the republicans? If all goes to the polling both Romney and Guilaini will be the top two front runners. Huckabee will honestly probably only win one state. Iowa. The biggest upset could come from the democrats. Obama is now even with Clinton in the lastest polls and Edwards is a close third. This is going to be very interesting to say the least.
By the way John, you could probably sell the first valentine dog on ebay for big bucks. Just tell Ahsa that it was lost one day and then buy a new one when they officially come out. J/K. Chris if you spend that much on a house then you have too much. We all should be like Buffet and live modestly while making billions.

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

suprises suprises

suprise #1 i got an ipod touch for christmas.... itunes wont work. figures
suprise #2 haley mccarrell walks through my door saying she'll stay at my house for like a week (YESSSSS!!)
suprise #3 its like gusting 50 mph here...
suprise #4 im bored

Build A Bear



Asha went to Build a Bear in Singapore. After viewing all the choices for dog/bear she decided she wanted the one that was on display. Which happened to be the new Valentine dog that wasn't released yet. But the nice lady at Build a Bear got one out of the warehouse for her, so Asha now has the first and only Valentine Dog in Asia (the world?) Talk about spoiled kids....

Monday, December 24, 2007

Excitement

Well, I don't pontificate on this blog as I am sooo much wiser and smarter than all of you that I would make you feel insignificant if I added my 2 cents. So...here's some excitement. I threw a shoe at Kyrie and missed, but managed to break a window instead. How's that? The kids thought it was really funny. Wade brought home a flyer for a home for sale in Winter Haven, FL It is only 1.7 million. 5500 square feet, over an acre of land, pool, 6 bedrooms, 6 1/2 bathrooms, and lake front property with a dock and lift. Oh, and an in-law apartment so you can all come visit us whenever you want to. I would hope we could keep the cost under 1 million, but who knows.

'Twas the night before Christmas...

and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, except for this rabid fruit bat that keeps slamming into my patio window and landing on the balcony....the paper today said Santa doesnt come to Bangalore because of bad traffic, poor infrastructure and high import/excise tax. What a Christmas to remember...

Boring

this is by far one of the most boring blogs I have ever read (or created). No controversy (e.g. who's having an affair?), no intellectual thought (other then Q) , everyone just leads boring lives.

Pris and I took a pre vacation vaction to Singapore over the weekend. We think we've found a nice apartment to buy if we can get the deal to go through. I'm in the market looking for another job as have decided 1) we hate India and 2) there is more to life than working 20 hours a day and making lots of money. Pris summed it up best by saying "we have everything, yet we have nothing" No this does not mean I'm giving up my wine collection, but we are looking to move presuming the house goes through. Have a couple of good job leads in Singapore, though will most likely stay here until something firms up.

That's all from us. We're looking forward to spending time with the kids in Australia and have lots of activities planned, as well as lots of down time by the beach. Yes Dad, there are sharks in Australia (great whites) though will try to keep the kids from getting eaten. Though they could trim a bit from my stomach, i wouldn't mind....

It's now 7:00pm on Christmas Eve and it dawned on us today that we have no tree and no gifts. Just not the same not being in Idaho or Park City for Christmas, is going to take some getting used to.

Have a Merry Christmas and Happy Channukha. And make sure my kids get on those flights on time. If there are any delays call and let me know. Mobile is +91 9980 666477. I will be on a flight late evening the 26th (1030am to 3pm Idaho time) which is when the kids are meant to be flying to LA. I don't have voice mail on the mobile, but will have my blackberry so you can email as well.

Friday, December 21, 2007

Setup for your very own voip extension.

Go here and download xlite. http://storage.counterpath.com/downloads/X-Lite_Win32_1011s_41150.exe

Install it. You may need to reboot. Start xlite. If the sip accounts window is not shown open it by clicking the down triangle at the top of the softphone.




Push the add button. Open the Account tab.



In the "Display Name" put what you want on the phone display. "User name" is your provided user name. "Password" is your provided password. "Authorization user name" is your username. "Domain" is sfmidaho.com. Leave Register with domain and receive incoming calls checked. Select target domain.



Hit the apply button, hit the close button. If you have problems with registering to the server you may have network issues. The can be solved by installing openvpn, which is another topic that will have to be covered later if necessary.

You need a microphone to talk to others and speakers to hear them.
To make calls to Idaho just dial the Idaho phone number. If you know the extension of another user on the system you can just dial the extension. Another way to call people is to call the Security First Mortgage main number 2084787587 and dial the extension.

The extension for the mission setup phone is 401 and the phone number is 2082397798.
Another cool feature that is setup is that voice mails will be sent to your email.

Dan's exten is 402.
Chet's work exten in 101.
My work exten is 102.

If you have questions let me know and I will try and address them.