Well with a little patience from Ed Jr. I think I am finally able to get a few pics of our apartment up on the blog. “my own space” is a phrase that doesn’t exist in my or Georgie’s vocabulary. here you see in the first pic the bedroom, living room, computer room and dining room. the second pic is the kiitchen. Two people cannot work in here at the same time. However, its quite nice despite its size and is in a really nice area of the city.
It would be a good idea to first read the note on parking in the Tidbits column below, then read this.
Well parking with a handicap permit certainly has its advantages. The first day we tried it we parked free of charge in front of the hospital and were even late getting back to our vehicle. No problem. The next day same thing, a few minutes late getting back to the vehicle. Only this time there is a ticket on the windshield. (more…)
From the first of January to the 9th of February the Toronto General has performed 17 lung transplants. That is the most ever done for the same period in any other year. I don’t know whether that translates into a shorter waiting time for me but you have to think it can’t hurt.
The problem is there are still not enough donors. And, contrary to what I believed, signing a donor card is not enough. (more…)
I occasionally look at the statistics for the site and find it interesting to see where the visitors are coming from. January saw visitors from Stockholm, Sweden and seven towns in the UK (probably that MacLean boy haunting the pubs with free wireless internet). In Canada we had visitors from as far east as Burlinton, NF (Deer Lake was a close second) and as far west as Prince George, BC. Prince George played double-duty edging out Edmonton for the title of most northerly visitor. In the USA, visitors from Dallas, TX and Alamogordo, NM tied for the most southerly. We also had a visitor from L.A. (I smell a “made for TV movie” in the works). But the all-time most distant visitor dropped in back in October all the way from Korea.
The busiest days of the week for the site are Mondays and Tuesdays which have more than twice as much traffic as most other days. There are two distinct peaks in a typical day; in the morning at about 9AM and in the afternoon at 5PM Atlantic time. It’s pretty dead from about 1AM to 5AM.
Most visitors already know about the site, but when someone finds it through a search engine, I can see what they searched for that brought them here. Here are a few examples: “brian michaels transplant”, “valcyte blog”, “rudderhams source for sports”, and perhaps most interestingly is “kevin surette”. Kevin Surette is the Executive Assistant to the Minister of Health and I mentioned him in my post back in December when Mike and I met with them.
Another interesting little tidbit is that when someone clicks a link from another web site to get here, I can see where they came from. For the most part these “referers” are web based email sites like Hotmail, Gmail, etc. But one very interesting link came from a site called Relevant Noise. Relevent noise is a “business intelligence” service that gathers information from thousands of blog sites and will tell you if anyone is talking about you on the internet.