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…]
Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach just hired a new director of communications for the Alberta government. When asked about how it would be different, he replied: “Umm, it’ll be better. Uh, better. It’ll be better.” Well said, sir.
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…]
A week and a half ago, I pulled into a gas station to fill up and discovered that the little door that covers the gas cap was locked and I had no way of opening it. It is supposed to unlock with the doors and if the key is out of the ignition. I was … [Read more…]
Last Saturday night, I went to Teofista Boxing Club to watch some boxing matches. In particular, I went to see Kyle fight his second fight. Kyle is my sister-in-law’s boyfriend and they, along with their baby, have been wintering with us since October. Kyle’s first match was earlier this winter and he won in the … [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…]
Considering I only saw 16 movies that were released in 2009, my pool of top movies is smaller than I wish – especially concerning foreign language films (which are often released later locally). Anyway, here is my list: 7. Fantastic Mr. Fox : both classic Roald Dahl and Wes Anderson 6. 500 Days of Summer … [Read more…]
Over the past six months I’ve been sampling and even obsessing over a couple recent albums. Last year I listened to Jon Foreman, The Weepies, and Kings of Leon nearly exclusively. Over the summer I could only listen to Neko Case’s Fox Confessor Brings the Flood. Recently, we’ve been listening to a fair bit of … [Read more…]
We planned to leave my sister’s house west of Edmonton at 11:00 am on Dec 13 in order to make it to a birthday party in Calgary. Instead, our car wouldn’t start. By brother-in-law gave it a boost with his truck. Nothing. We tried charging the battery. Nothing. Canadian Tire tried charging it. Nothing. So, … [Read more…]
Dec 2, 2009 over Calgary. That was a big moon.