april 08, 2009 12:43am
August 20, 2008 Chronicle Story
Wednesday August 20, 2008
Chronicle Story.
The day started with a trip to a copping place to laminate the Chronicle Herald Newspaper clipping from yesterday's paper. The article was pretty good. The picture was of me and my camera siting on my bike. The article explained about the tour so far and I got a number of e-mails following the story.
After getting back from the copy store I received a call from Liz from Live at five. We made arrangements to met at the Vimy Legion in Halifax to tape our segment. She wanted to film a veteran being interviewed for the library. I had an appointment with a navy vet named John Cortes set up for Thursday,. so I called him to see if he would mind being on the news, he said that he didn't see a problem with that.
After I had the next day set up I turned my attention to my computer problem. In my life I seem to meet the right people at the right time. Down the street from the Vimy legion there is a book shop, I thought that the owner my know of a computer repair shop close by that I could take my New lap top to because it fell onto the floor and the screen doesn't work any more. He said that just around the corner there was a place that did repairs. I got on the bike and went to the place and went in. If first impressions were the end all and be all the ordinary customer may have turned around and left. But from my experience seeing as cluttered shop doesn't necessarily mean that the owner is a bad person it just means that he is to busy to clean up. There was a man in the back with a large red beard. I told him of my problem and he had a couple of suggestions and we talked about the tour. He seemed impressed so he was trying to help. I then found out that he was not the owner and that the owner was still not in. So I asked if I could use his Internet connection and he said, sure. As I was checking out Kijiji the owner walked in he looked a little puzzled about who this big dude was sitting at his computer. I introduced myself. You know how sometimes you know right away if you are going to get alone with someone right off the bat, well this was one of those moments. His name is Ken Porter of K-PC Ltee, a very talkative man with many good idea's, but it was red beard that came up with the idea to plug in a exterior monitor to my Lap top. Ken unplugged one of his monitors and plugged it into my lap top and low and behold it worked. Boy was I relieved. If you recall I had been given the lap top to replace my original one that I had brought from home. I have not been having the best of luck with electronics lately. Anyway red beard said that they didn't sell used monitor but there was a charity place around the corner called The Parker Street Furniture Bank. So after giving the guy's a free t-shirt I went looking for the place. When I got to the Parker Street Bank they were having a yard sale. I bought a couple of things and the owner came up to me and asked what I was up to and I filled him in and he offered me a free monitor, I dropped five bucks in the donation bin. I went upstairs to the electronics section and the young man up there showed me a monitor, we checked to see if it worked, it did and I was on my way.
When I got back to the Blue Bomber I started in, to catch up on my log book and my email's. When the hard drive ceased on my original computer I lost all my entries up to that ceased that I had not sent into our web master. I lost about ten days of entries and all my email contacts. I should have known better and back up all of my stuff but it was one of those things where I said that I would do it tomorrow and tomorrow never came. I learned my lesson, I am know learning to “back it up”
I got an email off to the rally at months end called the “Worf Rats Rally in Didby NS. I talked with Peter down there and got a spot for the weekend for the “Friends Of Veterans. We will be there with our t-shirts trying to raise donations, so come down and see us.
At ten O'clock PM, I received a email from The producer of Canada AM. He expressed an interest in The Friend of Veteran Awareness Tor and wanted to know if we would be interested in doing a segment on our cross country tour. I said yes. This national broadcast will help us spread the word on our “National Video-A-Veteran Contest. We are asking teachers and students to video tape the veterans that will be speaking at their schools during remembrance week. There will be a number of veterans with stories to tell. We feel that this is a great opportunity to to gather Veterans testimonials for the :”Online Veterans Video Library”.
After a day of catch up, I turned in
