Happy Holidays and Beyond!!!

Hello All my readers!!!(That seems poetic…)

My apologies for not keeping you up to date, as of late, I thought I could get away with it, But no, blogging prevails. I will be posting a lot of blog posts. Hmm, what should I write this one about? Ahh yes, the bathroom we re-did. My next post will be about my Birthday and cake I did up for that once in a year time occasion.

Oh side not, I have a picture of the cake that I did all finished, and I can’t wait to eat it!!!! Come Sunday though :’( it will be all gone.

Currently I’m waiting for all of the pictures to vacate the camera/memory (2GB to be exact) card, and let me tell you, there are lots of pictures on there. Do you ever look at a camera and say “That poor camera, people are always pushing its buttons” We can actually learn a lot from a camera, the camera puts up with us, even though we are pushing his buttons. Us as humans tend to react when people push our buttons (Our buttons don’t take pictures) if someone pushes our buttons, we should react in love as “A soft answer turns away wrath.”

So as I’m waiting the camera to unload the pictures that I need for the post, and thinking deeply about buttons I have decided to just let my fingers type just for the sake that this post can be a few characters longer, but please bear with me as I bear with the camera whilst it is “TAKING AN AWFULLY LONG TIME” to unload those pictures, it seems to be going from a USB 1.0 to an IDE Hard Drive. I will stop writing now and start twiddling my thumbs.

To be continued…

As I wrote that “To be continued…”(I copied and pasted it, just to let you know) I came to the realization that something isn’t write with this blog post, so you will have to wait a tad longer whilst I fix this discrepancy in the post. (comical tune playing)

And we are back, it is night time here, I’m not sure if I’ll have this entirely finished by tonight, I can’t find the before pictures, so that means I’ll have to revert the bathroom to its original state, (slight pause) which was ugly. Just kidding, I’ll go look for those pictures some more, but I’d best be quick as time is short and another minute will pass before you know it!

PICTURE IMPORT TIME!!!!!

Now that they are imported you will find the titles below the pictures, please enjoy them.
Obviously the pictures are of our bathroom that we re-did, over the course of a period of time.

Toilet:

Here is a before of the toilet and surrounding area.

And here is the toilet and surrounding area after we were through with it.

Shower:

It would be quite apparent that there is only one before of the shower stall.
Here is the before, umm it did have walls before, I guess the flash knocked them over…

Here is an after of the shower stall and surround.

Another

And another!!

And a duplicate!!!! Don’t worry, I deleted the duppie

The Sink, Have you ever noticed that despite the name “Sink” you never see the sink, sink!!

Here is the sink and cupboard thing it is on

And another one, my I love the artistic work on the wall!!!! Unfortunately, I’m not allowed to take the credit for that

Here be just the sink.

Here be sink, you may have noticed but it is now a shade bluer.

Wow!!! nice and blue!!!

‘t reminds me o’ da ocean!!

A side shot!!!

He didn’t help at all!!!

So yea, that is my finger as you may not have guessed.

It isn’t burnt per se. I won’t say how I got it black.
Candles are way cool!!!!

Well now, this concludes the picture part of my blog.

It has been really fun pushing the keys on the keyboard to write this post.

A thought just struck me, you know the saying “A Pen is sharper than a sword”? Does that mean a Keyboard is sharper than a pen? I mean think about it, people can write way faster with a keyboard, so it makes sense logically that a keyboard is sharper!
Hmm quite interesting.

I came up with an amazing quote the other day, but I can’t seem to recall it, so I will end this blog post right here as I try to remember what it was.

My next post will be closely followed, hopefully.

Adios lectores!!!

Dios bendiga y ir bendiga!!!

Year in review!

Hello Everyone!!

God is so good!!! This has been quite a year! The Lord has blessed me so much! So much has happened this year I can hardly remember what happened at the beginning of this year. But I will start with:

We were able to host the Josts (yes, I can rhyme) for 2 weeks, we had a wonderful time of fellowship and building each other up. We went to a Jay's game again, and this time we got on the Jumbotron twice! :)

It was quite exciting. But then they had to leave.

Our family business this year has been doing very well, we are growing and expanding. I use those two words because growing means we are gaining ground in the market, and expanding means we are adding new services.

We went out West this year to visit friends; we stayed at the Josts, and helped pick up about 2500 bales!

We always went out in the morning and did a few loads and came back for breakfast, which was really awesome, apparently I ate lots. Hahaha. What can I say? It was really good! :)

Some of the things we did was tube down the Milk River, Went to Writing on Stone, ate at a Thai Restaurant (I think it was Thai, maybe it was Vietnamese?), played Wii and more. :)

We also visited my older brother Ryan and his wife Gillian along with their son Rhys. It was really awesome to see them again! :D Rhys really hit it off with Josiah.

Travelling out to Alberta wasn't fun and coming back to Ontario even more so, as we were leaving friends. The day before we left for Alberta I didn't go to sleep at night, well I went to sleep around 1:30AM and got up at like 3:30 to 4:00AM drove up to Toronto Airport, Zack and Zoe took a different plane than I, They went directly to Calgary. I went from Toronto to Edmonton and then to Calgary, I didn't get to sleep on the flight to Edmonton, on the way to Calgary the plane was like a massage chair and I fell asleep instantly. :) Although when I got to Calgary my eyes were really red from not enough sleep. Calgary Airport we took the Taxi to the Greyhound station, and can you guess what happened? Our bus got delayed! So we sat that for 2 more hours than we expected, I don't know how we whiled away the time, but the bus did come. We entered the bus for the drive to... A city that the name of escapes me, Close to Lethbridge, and from there Josiah, Joel and Emily Jost picked us up.

That concludes the travel to Alberta. The Travel back was tiring, I went directly to Toronto, and Zack and Zoe went to Edmonton first and then to Toronto.

The Business I've been starting has really been being blessed by God! He is so amazing and good to me. It is almost like he loves to do things that he knows we won't be able to repay him for.

A few years back I had been creating a program, but when it didn't take off I decided to start a few other ventures and come back to it later.

I recently got admitted to a Microsoft program called BizSpark, and what that does is gives you an MSDN visual Studio Team Suite Premium Subscription (which is premium access to lots of their software.), It also gives you access to their Windows Azure Service and they are adding more stuff to it all the time.

I got into it for free, which was amazing, as a few months ago I only dreamed of having something like this. The Requirements to get in were simple except I couldn't be a strictly service based business, The Lord used the product I had been making a few years before to allow me to qualify which was really amazing, I looked back over the last few years, and I must say it is amazing how the Lord pulled it all together. It is much easier to tell it in person. :D

With this subscription I downloaded Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate Edition and that is what I'm using to write this letter.

I also downloaded Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate x64, to take advantage of the x64 technology in my computer.

I'm planning on setting up a server, so that I can host my own sites. The subscription I got covers lots of the start up costs. 

I'm hoping to be able to get a cell phone for my business soon, and I'll be able to get new cards! 

This year I've been studying Spanish, and I'm picking it up quite fast too! I'm thinking of going on a mission trip to Columbia, South America, which would be really awesome!

I've wanted to go to South America, Columbia in particular. This BizSpark program I got into will really help with me being able to go, Praise the Lord! :D God is so good! I'm not sure when I will go, I'm still praying, and the Lord is still revealing. :)

The Lord has been teaching me patience this year. I think I'm doing a good job. Haha

One trick to being patient I found is being optimistic about the situation. I do know that there is still a lot more levels of patience for me to be taught.

Another thing I've been learning is putting faith and trust in the Lord, which can be difficult sometimes, as we tend to try and solve the problem our self instead of letting the Lord take care of it. 

This year we went to Hatteras again! We had a blast! Swimming in the ocean, watching dolphins jump, and sitting under the sun on the beach. So fun!

The weather was really crazy the first few days there; I could feel the cottage almost rippling underneath us. There were some days that the waves were really powerful, it was really crazy. You can read about our "Adventures in the OBX" on my blog at http://beeboent.blogspot.com. It is really fun keeping a blog. I enjoy it, but I haven't written a post in awhile. I do know what my next post will be about though, and I'll tell you. My next post is going to be about our downstairs bathroom believe it or not. We have been redoing it and it isn't quite done, but I must say it is looking fantastic! I won't give you all the details, but I will in the post about it, and I will have some before or after pictures, so keep checking my blog for that post.

We also refinished our deck this year, and I must say it actually does look quite nice. Again you are able to see pictures of it at my blog.

I'm trying to think of anything else I may have forgotten to mention, ah yes I age another year on the 21st of this month, I'll be 19. Oh my! I'm getting to be quite ancient.

One of my favourite jokes to do with my age (it works before December 21st) is I'll say to someone for this year "I'm 18 and I'm turning 20 next year" I said that to some bankers and they all stopped and said "that doesn't make sense" so I explained that I hadn't my birthday yet. 

So I'm not really sure what else to say, so I will say, what was I going to say? Ah yes please follow me on my blog, I will try to keep it up to date with all that the Lord is doing for  me, which is really exciting, or at least I think so. If you think I'm neglecting to update my blog and I should do a post please tell me and I'll write one. :)

If I can think of anything else to add, I'll add it at a later date as I'm not going to send this quite yet!

At this point though it is over, 1,300 words. :)

May God Bless all of you and your family and give you a blessed new year and a Merry christmas with your families!!

Pass it on to anyone you would like to. :)

Adios amigo!

Regards,

Gabriel Hounsome (It says I spelt Hounsome wrong so I looked at a list of suggestions and one of them was "Handsome" haha)

Take a Hike!

Hello Readers!

Sorry for leaving for awhile but I have been busy with other things, this will be a long blog post, it will not be long in words but in pictures. I will write another post soon about the technology sector and what I’ve been learning.

On Thursday we went to the Bruce Trail and it was really amazing as you will see from the pictures! We went hiking and I had the camera!
Photos courtesy of: Gabriel Hounsome

This is a Waterfall. Notice how the water falls, thus the name “Waterfall”.

 
An amazing overhead shot of the bottom of the waterfall.

 
Now here is a picture of the top of the waterfall through some brush.

another brushy picture. :)

Now these next two pictures(in my opinion) are really awesome! :D

Again. Is it not just amazing?

 
The Great wall of Chi- err I mean Canada.

This is a faraway shot of the waterfall I previously had pics of on here.

Here is another picture of the waterfall.

A Fence of trees.

 
This part of the Tree fence decided to lie down on the job. No Really!!

Some Canadese(New word) walking along The Great Wall of Canada

And here is another view of the waterfall. It was too amazing not to take so many pictures.

Ok this is probably the last picture of the Fall, But I’m not promising.

This is Zoe, She is my sister. And I took this picture cause I thought maybe it would look cool with the light shining on her face.

I don’t know what this is. Ah yes trees and shrubbery and the waterfall through it all. Good thing I didn’t promise. Eh?

This is where I pressed the delete key as I decided not to put this picture in.

 

A little mini waterfall.

And again, I took a video of it and it turned out really cool! :D

Trees on a hill. With leaves on the ground.

Raging rapids!! only 1” high.

So I was taking a few pictures but they weren’t turning out correctly, till I turned off the flash. This is a flashless(Ok for all the new words I will go (NW). NW)  picture of the tree in the reflection of the water.

Bonna in the elven(Apparently a NW) woods with the light creeping in. Was that poetic?

A picture upstream. This was kind of hard to take cause the camera kept wanting to go down stream. ‘Tis hard to be a photographer. :(

A Picture of the stream with a waterfall.

This was a cool little puddle, it was sort of a murky red, as you can see in the shadow, so I snapped another flashless(Still a NW) picture of it with the tree reflecting in the blueish(NW) looking part.

Ben in the woods. Look at those trees, they look hungry.

Another interesting picture of the trees in the stream.

Honestly, I did not take this picture. I was like oh my goodness, the paparazzi has caught up to me again, my cover is blown.

Here is a cool picture of Mom and Adam.

PJ. He is kinda short against the railings. Eh?

That was not me. That was an impersonator.

Another photo I decided to delete.

FIRE ROUTE!! GET OUT OF THE WAY!!! Oh that is the fire truck. JK. :)

Zoe walking up to the camera mischievously.

So I’m glad – I mean sad to say that that is the end of the images. I hope that you thoroughly enjoyed them and that you will post comments about the pictures and please do tell which is your favorite picture! :)

I would like to ask all of you to keep the Crisp family in your prayers as they found there teenage son Brandon dead in Oro-Medonte township. I’m sure it must be really hard for the family. I’m sure they would appreciate prayer through this tough time.

I have some other work to do before the day is out so, as always, if you liked this blog post please vote for it by clicking on the vote link below my profile link. And please visit my website at www.beeboent.com

Adios Mes Compañeros de los Lectores.
Regards,
Gabriel Hounsome

10 programs to boost computer Performance, Maintenance and Productivity

Here is a little list of programs that I hand picked that are really good for computer maintenance, performance and productivity. I hope you find them useful.
Products are listed in alphabetical order.

Ad-Aware
By Lavasoft. This program is excellent for removing Ad-Aware and Spyware. I'm actually running it right now. 4 Versions of this program, Free, Plus, Pro and Enterprise.

Automatic Updates/Windows Update
This is where you go to download all the updates, patches and other things to secure your computre and keep up to date.

Avast
This Anti-Virus program I use a lot. It is by Alwil. On clients computer they had an Anti-Virus software that comes pre-installed on computers, I removed it and installed Avast, got rid of close to one hundred viruses. You can get a free Home version or a paid Professional version.

AVG
AVG is another Anti-Virus program worth mentioning, I haven't used it in awhile, but am planning on using it in the next month. This one comes packed with Anti-Spyware. Just like Avast you can get this in a Paid Version or Free. Here is the link for the Free Version.

Remember, if you get the paid version, you may not be fully protected.

CCleaner
This program is a really good program by Piriform I use it a lot, and install it on all my computer clients computers.
Really boosts performance and even start-up time. I had a computer that took five minutes to start-up after using this start-up time was about one minute.
It Cleans the Registry, Temporary Files, Memory Dumps, Logs, and more!

ChkDsk
This is a command prompt utility, I use it a lot for fixing computers that don't want to boot.
There are a few command line options for this. “Chdsk /f /x” is one of the main ones I use, it asks if you want to schedule on the next boot.

JKDefrag
By Kessels. This utility is really good for optimizing your dirty, cluttered hard drive. I ran this on a hard drive that was extremely dirty, it took a few good hours to do, but after that, I noticed an incredible increase in speed.

Recuva
Also by Piriform. Thankfully I haven't needed to use this program very much, but when I do it is there. I once deleted a lot of my files and folders on accident. I wish I had this program when that happened.

Revo Uninstaller
Now this program is by VS Revo Group. I went looking for a program to uninstall my files to see if I can find one that does a better job than Windows, And it looks very promising I must say. It even has this cool little hunter mode! :D

WinRar
By Rarlab. This utility is great for zipping and unzipping files/folders. I use this a lot. It is installed on all my computers.

Well There you have it, 10 pieces of software that will help you with your computer. I hope you will enjoy them, and tell other people about them.

Remember, if you like my blog you can rate it at the side underneath my profile information. Visit my website, for Web Design and more!

TTYL!
Gabriel Hounsome

The Deck Part Two

We finished our deck yesterday, and I must say it looks really good. This post will mainly be pictures for all those picture lovers out there this is the post for you!!!!
here we go….

 
We are Working…

Stilll Working, I had the Hardest Job… Taking Pictures.

 
Another hard Job by Beebo…. taping.

Mortified by the fact that I put the tape on backwards.

  
Me and My Sis and a Turkey……. pie

Zachary, working hard? Or Hardly working.

A pic of the messy Deck.

 
Yea, I’m on the Other Side of the Glass… In Case You Didn’t Notice.

Zoe looking…. (I Before E except after C) Weirdly(except in some weird cases) at me.

The Deck.

 
Zachary painting our deck, and Me behind the Camera.

Dad Watching Zack.

Zack Still Spraying the Deck.

My Goodness, Making Excellent Progress!

This Portion is Done!

And this part too!!

Done!

 
Looks Amazing does it not?

Wow!! Amazing!!

Yup! Still done!!

An Overhead shot of the Deck.

A Shot from the Roof.

This is the Last one.

Zoe would have helped, but she was cafe latteing all day for us. Not all day just one little 10 minutes of it. :) but still.

I must say, the deck looks excellent(did I say that already?) And it is ready for Sunday, we are having Fellowship here. Actually it is Sunday already, so I will post this and go to bed!!

Remember, if you like my blog please vote for it whenever you come to the site, the link to vote is on the right-hand side under my profile link. :)

And Please check out my site at www.beeboent.com

Adios compañeros de los lectores!!!