Jims Travel and Life or Lifeless Blog: 2000 January 1st - December 31st Toronto and environs

Dateline: 2000 December 31st Toronto, Ontario

This trips travelling map

Just another year, Family, friends etc. NOT in Southern Africa

January - December 2000

The theory was that come January 1st, 2000, everything programming would have either exploded, or imploded meaning I had nothing better to do than hang out with the family, and maybe, head off somewhere for 6 months

It didn't work out quite like that, I was so busy, even to the point of having to find a stand in to go to a friends wedding as I schlepped away coding before we left on July 3rd, heading for Johannesburg, South Africa

Downhill retreat at the Clays Cottage in Midland

The Koplimaes and the Clays hard at it

Aiden in his dressed to impress stage
March, 2000

I tried to help with one of his school projects

I seem to remember it worked

Everyone having a fun time, again

A Nissan SUV, it just guzzled fuel

Aiden pursues his career

Niagara Falls, NY.

Probably my birthday

Massey Hall, before the refit (very uncomfortable)
to see (one of?) the kids perform

I've created a web site for Kingsway

And I start collecting pix

Of some of my clients

To impress potential future customers

And, of course, the show must go on
Her first "show" I think she got a blue one

I leave the debating club in capable hands (I wish)

Somehow, in all the chaos and schlep

I prep the cruiser with most of the basics, which includes an bed for the kids

With Tom to assist.
I really needed all the help I could get

Aiden has discovered Taco's
They were pretty good

And then we are as set as we will ever be

Jimmy giving a final check out

The team prior to shipping, then, Durban

And a thank you to all those wonderful folks
her ewho has made it all possible

Richard appears, maybe just to say goodbye

Here begins our first totally outrageous family adventures

We arrived back in Toronto in the middle of a blizzard

The woman who looked after the place had gone and we didn't have a key

I guess we got in

It was a real blizzard, complete with all our gear
and no way to get in. Somehow, we did...

I'm up and out next day

To indulge my Canadian. December 21st

Somehow, we still threw our Christmas Eve get together together, with tree

Here's my note to my many and varied mates:

Subject: We are too lazy to write up our years fun activities

Greetings all.....

We are all back safe sound and heavier in body mass, and much lighter in assets after our excessive trek.

Due to the current lack of pressure of work, the Koplimae/ Smith family have
not prepared our usual (and usually ignored) Christmas encyclical.

This is totally within our expectations.

In general, the first half of 2000 was cold, then hot.

The rest of the time we spent following our mad and quixotic quest into Africa
(long since gone) and Europe.

Today being Christmas Eve, we notice that it will probably be very difficult to
write anything to get to youse folks by Christmas. So everyone can relax and
enjoy themselves without any guilt about reading the details this year.

To all the people we have met, new friends, old friends, people we would gladly
avoid if we had a second chance, all others who we have ignored or pretended to
like, plus that small remainder of people not in the above, we wish you a fun
filled holiday season, and we all look forward to talking, drinking, and
generally embarrassing ourselves in the coming season and next year.

The Smiths, Koplimaes and Koplimae-Smiths

PS, it's a lot easier e-mailing from Canada than on the road - expect more if I
get bored next year.

Jim Smith and the Koplimae Family
 South Kingsway, Toronto, Ontario, M6S 3T3 Canada.
 (416) 766-2499.
 jim@kingsway.com www.kingsway.com/family

Here's my note to my many and varied clients:

Greetings from Toronto. Kingsway Computing is back in action, just in time for Christmas emergencies. KCS and staff have had a gruelling sales trip to many destinations, and have made contact with several undiscovered data processing civilisation during our travels. We wish to advise all our clients and friends that our service is now even better and improved than ever before. Please give us a call for any issues relating to Progress, systems or data processing issues. We wish you all a happy season, and look forward to seeing you all in the new year. Jim /********************************************************************/ {disclaimer.i}

INPUT THROUGH cyber-dude.

IF cyber-dude THEN

ASSIGN domain = "jim@kingsway.com" website= "www.kingsway.com". ELSE IF phone-dude

THEN domain = "(416) 766-2820" website= "".

ELSE ASSIGN domain = "Jim Smith, Kingsway Computing Solutions Inc. 54 South Kingsway, Toronto, Ontario, M6S 3T3 Canada." website= "". /********************************************************************/ With careful thought, all things PROGRESS.

Editors Note:

And......... many, MANY years later, when I have nothing better to do than revisit these 25 year old blogs, this time to finally add many more pix from the video camera, for all you folks totally devoid of a realistic view of entertainment.

Here they are: