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Well first of all- OBAMA!!! OBAMA!! We can finally not be embarrassed to live next to the American people and the world seems like a less scary place to bring my son into. But enough about the election. Let's move on to the real story.

Yea... I am not so smart. This will come as a huge surprise to most of you but it is true. Take this week for example...

I decided that instead of painting the nursery, I would have photos of stuffed animals blown up to huge proportions and mounted on pieces of wood. This would cost a fortune in Canada but it is quite cheap to do in Taiwan. So after scouring the internet for hours looking for suitable pictures, I realized that the only images big enough to do this with- cost a fortune to download. So I asked my mother the photographer to take some photos of stuffed animals she had lying around the house. She came through, put them on a CD, mailed them to Taiwan and we chose three to use. I carefully measured the size of the walls that I wanted to cover and upon writing down my desired dimensions, we hopped on my scooter and drove around to several print shops before finally finding one that could do what I wanted. Which was to have the photos blown up to 60 by 40 sized prints and mounted on boards which we could then cover the walls with. I was a little worried that the photos taken; even with a professional quality camera may not have a high enough megapixel resolution for what I wanted to do. We gave them the CD with the images on them and they assured us that it would be no problem to do so without losing picture quality. Things were coming along nicely. As ol' Hannibal from the A-Team used to say, "I love it when a plan comes together." They then offered us an astoundingly cheap price to do so. I was shocked, excited and a little bewildered at how much lower the price was in Taiwan compared to Canada.

A day later they called to say my wall hangings were ready; which impressed me even more. I asked Jenny to ask them if they could deliver them because I didn’t want to try and drive with these massive pictures on a scooter in Taiwan traffic. She didn’t have their number to do so as neither of us had picked up their business card. So I decided to double her there and then have her take a taxi back with the pictures. We were both concerned that they might have been too big to even fit into a taxi as they would not be bendable.

Upon arriving we were shocked as the clerk presented our purchase to us. Have you figured out where this is going?
They are metric in Taiwan! We are metric in Canada. I have been using the metric system since grade 3. Why the hell would I measure the wall in inches? Now then... if you will excuse me, I am off to go get a 3 dollar haircut.