Postcards from the Highways

We’re often asked by our American friends how life is different in Canada — and almost as frequently asked by our Canadian friends how life is different in the States. The truth is, aside from health care and politics, there’s not much difference at all — at least in our daily lives. There are a [...]

Posted on December 31st, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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Happy Birthday, buddy!

Although I’ve managed to find WiFi almost everywhere we’ve been, my Craptop has not been behaving, so getting online hasn’t been a frequent occurrence. The iPhone manages to keep me from withdrawal symptoms, though, and things are usually pretty quiet around the Internets this time of year. I had to come out of my blogcation [...]

Posted on December 28th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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Sign when I got on the highway after work this afternoon: LONG DELAYS EXITS 1-7. SEEK ALT. ROUTE

Translation: The whole way home is a parking lot. Get comfortable, because there’s no escaping the holiday traffic! 
Gotta love Christmas, hunh? Such a wonderful, peaceful, joyous time of year. Where everyone is happy relaxing with their loved ones…
We’re off tomorrow to visit our loved ones in Canada, and for a change, we have 9 whole [...]

Posted on December 20th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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Working from home

So for the last couple days, they’ve been warning about the “severe weather” that was coming. Churches shut down, people (us included) scrambled to the malls to do their shopping, and we all prepared for the worst. We rented some more episodes of 24, and even bought a snow shovel. Earlier in the week, we [...]

Posted on December 17th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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Thank You!

Thank you to everyone who was a part of Benjamin’s birthday party tonite — and especially to the Matula’s for throwing it. It was wonderful to see you all! We’ve missed everyone, and it was great to have friends surrounding our little guy with love for his birthday.

Posted on December 14th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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World Missions

Something that I’ve noted of late, in most of the churches we’ve seen over the past few years, is a reduced focus on global missions. Our current church is something of an exception, but in general I think its fair to say that missionaries over-seas get a lot less air time than they used to.
When [...]

Posted on December 13th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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Morgan Stanley issues full US recession alert

Think of Nicole and I like the canaries that miners used to bring into mines. When the canaries started to have problems, the miners knew something was wrong.
We feel the hurt of the US economy’s problems first through our exchange on the dollar, but that doesn’t mean everyone else won’t be feeling it soon after.
According [...]

Posted on December 12th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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The Wise Boys Need Hair Cuts

Posted on December 10th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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13434 Lines of Code

I’ve been a little stressed lately. I get home from work late and my back is like steel coils wrapped up in knots. I haven’t been terribly social. And I’m not good for much more than coding and sleeping…
Two brand new displays, designed and engineered from scratch. 13434 lines of code. Two grid developers on [...]

Posted on December 6th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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Mission Accomplished

Today was our annual border run, where we update our Visa’s and get approval to re-enter the country. Aside from one cranky border guard (although we couldn’t blame him, cause it was freezing cold) everything went smooth, and we’re allowed to stay here for another year.
However, as of now we don’t have valid New York [...]

Posted on December 1st, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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