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Some moms lie!, for money

Monday, January 18th, 2010

And waste a week of my time argg!!!!

I bought the Graco ‘imonitor vibe’ this week. Tax included it was $100.00. No tissue’s included for the nose bleed.

What made it stand out was the 2000 feet range. “Wow!” I thought, “I can go to the storage room/car/gym without packing for a pilgrimage.”

On the package is a peaceful pink and rosy child having beautiful dreams. Across her head it in capitals screams DIGITAL. It must me the one for me.

When I get it home after a day of charging both appliances monitor and walking parental unit, I couldn’t make it down the hallway of my apartment building without the sound cutting out. If you have an apartment built in the last 200 years this piece of plastic is a true waste of money.

My sister says she bought the ‘Safety first’ brand baby monitor.She also lives in an apartment block with the usual interferences of non Amish proportions i.e TV, phone, concrete (to think how far we have come) and her packaging read monitor has a rage of 300 feet…


So I thought I would warn you all.

Oh and just to mention what pushed me toward buying this particular brand, on the monitor itself there is a sticker that proudly announces it is ‘mom tested’ this is a review from Parenting magazine. Well la-di DA! I guess those moms have some morning cocktails rice paper houses.

P.S I wasn’t paid to say this. Although I wouldn’t mind.



Peter Kimber

Sunday, December 21st, 2008

Today I talked with Peter Kimber an intelligent, witty man who has been through hell and back-literally.

His stories of Mexican jail are vivid and ultimately heart.  As so little it seems can be done about the amount of corruption that goes on.

I feel quite fortunate to have met a person that has survived this ordeal not for the token friendship but for the genuine sense of humanity that radiates from him. There is no other way to put it.

Here is one of the first articles on him that he showed me. He said he borrowed he clothes he was wearing in it.It was the first thing he was given in Canada after losing everything but his life and family there.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070329/Peter_kimber_070329/20070329?hub=TopStories

I won’t repeat some of the stories he told me,however, in the self published book he has he has written some down.