Today we took the students to the CN Tower, a place I had never really been (apart from the old Tour of the Universe moving theatre ride they had back in the early 90s). It is pretty tall from the ground but once one actually ascends, it doesn’t seem all that high up. I certainly [...]
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Yesterday was our “house-aversary” wherein we achieved one year of living in our new place. I have gathered many pieces of wisdom, knowledge and information in this 365 day period that I should like to share with you now.
1. Assume the Worst
I wish it weren’t so but it must be, based on all my experience [...]
The high school I went to was one of those that insisted on the graduating students actually having achieved the full requirements of the Ontario Secondary School Diploma prior to the graduation ceremony. They were picky that way and there were about 500 of us to be graduated when I came through so as a [...]
Last year at this time we were making ready to move from our tumbledown shack on the campus of Amy’s school and were in no mind to prepare festivities of an All Hallows’ Eve nature. Nearly all of our belongings had been packed away into boxes and we were well into the phase of pre-moving [...]
I tried to do something fancy with the theme and appearance here and everything went pear-shaped on me. I’m working on a fix as fast as my legs can carry me and I hope to have something worth looking at here by tomorrow evening. The comic has been drawn, inked and photographed but cannot yet [...]
It was brought to my attention today that Canada has some kind of cheese importation quota. I’ll give it a moment for that to sink in. There is a limit (according to my sources) to the amount of cheese that may be brought into our country from outside. I am of the firm opinion that [...]
Woooo ten of these! Woo, I say.
Amy is doing school related things at the school where she works and I am preparing dinner. I am preparing quiche which is probably the most complicated single dish that I personally can prepare with any degree of success. Here, let me share with you my recipe in the [...]
This Penny Arcade Comic (warning, it has a cuss in it) filled in a hole in my vocabulary of which I was completely unaware. It brought me the delicious phrase ‘register biscuit’ to exactly and perfectly describe the minimum wage earning, incompetent teens who populate the behind-the-counter areas of the local electronics stores. Let me [...]
As many of you are already aware and several of you are just about to find out, I work for an architect who designs church buildings. This probably comes as no particular shock to anybody who’s ever seen me play with LEGO (though to be fair, I really expected to be designing space craft and [...]
Living as I do in more or less the shadow of the CN Tower (it has to be a pretty sunny day and the planet has to be tilted pretty badly for the sun to be shining from that angle [basically due north] but the shadow nevertheless), it is easy to forget that the rest [...]