I enjoy fonts. I’m not obsessed and I don’t go hunting for new ones on the web, but I enjoy fonts. I hate to admit it, but my favorite font for the last 15 years has been the clean Helvetica Sans Serif (not available in blogger). I don’t know why it gets bashed so much. … [Read more…]
. . .when they are texting and walking on the side of the road with the sun behind them and I’m riding the opposite direction on my bike. Fortunately, I swerved in time, let out a nervous laugh.
Dream I just woke up from: Julius recruits me into a Big Brother type organization sponsored by the police where parents just drop off their kids for us to play with. Basically a thankless daycare. Anyway, Microsoft donates a bunch of calculators to us for the kids but they are impossible to figure out because … [Read more…]
you come back from the bathroom and Hitler has taken your seat?
I’m up with the kids this morning at my sister’s place in So. Cooking Lake. We slept in their camper and I have the kids in the car to get their sandals on when a military armoured vehicle drives by and stops at the stop sign (the house is on the corner). Behind the armoured … [Read more…]
This will likely become a yearly event – Garage Sale Day in Tuscany, Calgary, Alberta, which is the Prime Minister’s neighbourhood and just a couple subdivisions over from where we live. Everything but the girl for $95. The best deal (and the bulk of the cost) were crosscountry skis w/boots and a near new set … [Read more…]
We’ve had a leak from our bathtub tap since we moved here. I don’t use the bathtub (I bathe, just not there) so it has never been on my radar for repairs until one morning when I wake up and it’s all I can here. I spend the next 2 hours taking it apart, seeing … [Read more…]
The past 20 months have felt like a century. The past 100 postings have covered topics from Hide-n-Seek to 4-year-old logicRio Dulce to Prince Edward Island to VancouverBarack Obama to Ed Stelmach to nearly a Coalition GovernmentAudi A4 to Greyhound to Bike DayCommuting to school to a 3800 km trek to back country driving in … [Read more…]
As I mentioned in an earlier post, we’ve had occupants in our basement since October, so I was compelled to move my office to my bedroom. What is great is that I prefer my office in my bedroom – it’s warmer, it has more light, and I can watch movies/TV shows in bed with my … [Read more…]
Yesterday, I purchased an upper-end used vacuum cleaner at a local independent vacuum cleaner store and repair shop. Michael the Romanian made me a pitch I couldn’t refuse since my wife was expecting something because we have guests coming today and our old cheapo piece of junk Bissell conked out a week and a half … [Read more…]