As many of you know I have not written on my personal blog in a while. I continue to post pictures of sports events which I have the fortune of attending. As always I have a lot going on but that is nothing normal in my life.

Lacrosse season for the Markham Minor Lacrosse Association started this past week. The kids are on the floor and having a great time. All divisions have started with the exception of Midget/Intermediate which starts a week Monday. Everything is going well the first week and that is great news.

Speaking of Lacrosse, the Toronto Rock have their home play off game a week Saturday at 7:30pm at the ACC in Canada. Come and see the fastest game on two feet and support the Toronto Rock as they drive for their 6 NLL championship. Go Rock Go!!!!!

The Montreal Canadien’s are still in the NHL playoffs down 3 games to 2. They play Washington at home Monday night hoping to survive another one.

This week I was off on vacation I had a productive week around home and ready to go back on Monday. All is good for now.

That is about it for now. I hope everyone is well.

A year ago I was rushed into Centenary hospital in Toronto. I was extremely not well and had a diabetic crash. It turns out I had blood sugar levels of 96.5 . This is past high considering normal level are 4 to 7. If my blood sugar level had been any higher I would have been in a Diabetic coma and could have died.

Experiences like this have a way of changing your life. They make you think but they also make you appreciate who you are and how precious life is every day.

It is funny when I used to watch my Grandfather Cairns give himself diabetic needles I used to cringe at the site of it. I swore I would never give myself needles. Guess what – I give myself needles 4 times a day now without even an afterthought. It’s funny you learn to do what you need to do to survive.

Before I got sick I used to work major hours at my full time job. I worked hard and figured I would be better off for it. When I look back on it did working hard at my full time job get me further ahead in life – not really actually. If it got me further ahead at work that is questionable as well. What it made me realize more then ever their are other parts to life then just hard work. The word Balance is important and so is enjoying life.

I am somewhat better now but not prefect. I have worked at watching my health but I am sure we all could do better in the long run. I have given up a lot of sugar based substances but these do not seem to be a big loss. I have switched to diet pop and have taken juice out of my diet. Regular pop and juice have high sugar content. I have also made the switch to whole grain brain from my staple of white bread.

For years I never ate a regular breakfast. Today I do and never skip a meal.

I spend my time besides working doing the things that are important to me. That is spending time with family, growing my en devours outside of work, my passion for the Markham Minor Lacrosse Association, the blogging and sharing of information I do on the Internet and the constant learning I like to do.

It’s funny you do not realize how precious life is till you almost lose and then you treasure it more and more every day.

A special thanks go out to Kelli for getting me to the hospital, my parents for caring and helping, my son for giving me a lot to look forward to and most of all all the friends and family who have called , been concerned and stopped it. Thank you for making a difference in my life because that has made such difference. It is so great that you might never realize the impact it has made.

Love

Rob

It been a couple of weeks since I posted anything. Lacrosse House League is now entering Week 6. We are past the half way point for the 2009 season. The off season will be busy since we need to work on building our association back up.

In terms of Web Pages Changes I have been hard at work. I have moved this blog and my consulting page to new domains as well as added major information to my technology blog. I am also current redesigning our family tree site and this should be well underway sometime tonight. My web sites are as follows:

1. Cairns-clan.com – Our family tree site currently being redesigned.

2. My technology blog. Visit here for the latest in technology as well as tips and tricks

3. My Consulting/Professional Site *** new location

4. My personal blog *** new location

Yesterday I took a day for myself to visit the Henry’s digital photo show. The show was great. I picked some some information I wanted about digital video cameras.

The last month has been nuts. We are now in week 3 of the 10 week lacrosse season. Its normally really busy but this year has been nuts.

I have some pictures from the last Toronto Rock game two weeks ago to post but these should be up in the next week or so.

Home is busy. Kelli and I have been trying real hard to get our house back in order. It has just been nuts and is taking way more work then I would like. We will get their it is just a matter of time.

I have switched gyms from Premer Fitness to the Y. More on this switch and why it happened in a future post.

Work has been nuts. Due to ungoing network and virus issues I have worked way too much lately. I am really past tired.

That is about it for now. I hope everyone is well…

This week has been a typical busy week. I have not had much spare time and have lots on the go.

We had our Executive meeting for Markham Lacrosse this week and everything is moving ahead. Our numbers are down this year but it will take some time for things to shake out.

I am still hard at work on one of my consulting contracts. I have a major report which I am working on for the end of the week.

My website design projects have hit a standstill since I have had a busy week. I am only 3 months behind on these. It is not that I do not know what I want to do it is called time. My Technology blog is started and should be almost done by the end of the weekend. The rest will come over time since I have the designs done but now I need to do that work.

I still have 4 blog posts to write for my technology blog and one tutorial. I am still looking at doing a weekly 15 minute podcast but I have put this off till I get some other projects done and off my plate! Their is only so much that one person can do.

A lot of my life right now is Time Management 101. I have had to shift things around and it it all have made time for myself.

This week is a bit of a busy week. I have 2 gym appointments, one fixed cardio work out morning, a lacrosse game to go to and to add to it all a meeting with the Town of Markham concerning lacrosse arena scheduling. It’s very busy but this is all ok since things are getting done:)

I am still busy reworking my web sites but I have managed to keep my blogs up to date in all the crazyness. That is just the way it goes. I will get their it all just takes a bit of time to do and to manage.

Home is busy since Kelli and I are back putting our place back into order.  We have work to do in all rooms and over time we will get their. A day at a time is all it takes.

Work has been really busy this week. I seem to have lots on my plate and lots to do.

I managed to work with my friend Steve and get the dresser which I purchased from Ikea up. It is in our bedroom and looks really good.

Today I will be working on cleaning my home office/spare bedroom then it is off to get new eye glasses. A busy day.

I have had a really rough last couple of weeks and it seems to just be going on. It is a good thing I have the gym to be able to go hide at because I really need it these days. It is only an hour and a half a day(5 days a week) but this time really makes all the difference in the world.

Last night I was out at the Toronto airport meeting one of my best friends. Her mom is not doing well in her fight against cancer and they have not given her much time to live. I really feel for her Mom, her and her entire family. They have been on my mind and in my prayers a lot recently.

Work has been nuts. You can blame the Antivirus 2009 piece of spyware for these issues. It has been nuts and insane due to it.

My personal projects have all gone on hold with the exception of trying to re-arrange our apartment. I hope to start working on personal projects again sometime this week. The new target date to re-release all my web sites is January 1, 2009. I figure why not start the new year off on the correct foot.

I have done almost half my Christmas Shopping. I still have some gifts to buy. Not really in the Christmas spirit but I am trying to do it for everyone else around me. Maybe I can make them a little happier:)

Tonight it’s home and do to more laundry and keep working on the apartment. It will get done it’s just a matter of time.

Well the last while has been busy. Lot’s going on here. I am getting a new freezer tomorrow so we have space to put the overflow from fridge freezer. This Saturday is the Scarborough Rib Fest and Tuesday is the NIN concert. I am not much a fan of alternative music but Kelli is so I am going.

Speak of NIN their album The Slip is available as a free download from their web site.

NIN Web Site

We also got a new surround sound system which sounds amazing when playing music and watching videos.

Thats about it for now…..

Things lately have been a little busy. Work has been outright crazy. To add to it Lacrosse Season is in full tilt. 4 weeks to go so we are past the half way point.

Speaking of lacrosse – as many of you know I agreed to run the Markham House League this season. It has been a very rewarding experience. 95% of the kids/famillies have been wonderful. It is the old story 5% keep you busy enough to last a lifetime.

Stephen is doing good these days. He is at lacrosse 3 nights a week between coaching and playing. Wednesday’s overlap and he does both on this day.

Things outside of all this are good. Just been a little busy that’s all.