I was just thinking that the cube van with the scrolling advertisement panels, the one that drives up and down the highway and around major city streets giving exposure to paying customers in what amounts to an ever-changing mobile billboard, would do much better were it driven by someone who had some driving skill. [...]

It’s been a month worth of upgrading. Upgrades are cool. Usually, it just means taking something you already have and improving, replacing, or appending it to make it better. My highlights of this pleasant process include:

:: I put my snow tires on the car yesterday and just this morning had the two-year old beast [...]

A fine welcome back to work…
I climbed into my car this morning, laptop in hand, and ready to pace myself back into the rat race after a two week babysitting sabbatical. I turned the key. And nothing. Somehow my battery had died in the few days I’ve been parked. I spent fifteen [...]

… or at least I was.
Sparkle and I loaded up the car and drove three hours south-west of Edmonton for a three night camping trip with my parents and the sibs. The weather could be categorized as variable: the first night was pouring rain and hail, the second windy, the third pleasant.
I caught a [...]

Having just last week finished listening to The Diamond Age in audio format, and then having downloaded a promotional copy of the (abridged) The Areas of My Expertise from iTunes as read by the author (otherwise known as John Hodgman, aka. “PC” from the popular Mac and PC commercials) in a way only the author [...]

December 4
We spent Saturday night in Red Deer this past weekend, driving down for some pre-Christmas family fun and visiting. It was intended to be a quick trip.
For those who stumble across this rant who may be unfamiliar with the geography of Central Alberta, Red Deer is located roughly one hundred and fifty kilometers [...]

a :: In uber-wonderful news, that latest Southwest stretch of commuter freeway otherwise known as Anthony Henday Drive opened yesterday, shaving five whole minutes off my commute. Each way. That would be ten minutes per day of regained life, that much less driving, and about five fewer traffic lights to wait at, [...]

Back two years ago when owning an MP3 player was something unqiue and a little geeky, things were great! I had no need to worry when I was wearing earphones, and very little need to bother resetting the station on the little iTrip, that FM transmitter that broadcasts the iPod to my car stereo.
Ah, but [...]

One part of “installing” sod in one’s yard is the watering. Needless to say, less than 72 hours since this whole episode with the grass began (and yes, photos soon!) is that we need to stay relatively close to home to keep the water flowing. (Mind, that didn’t stop us from taking an [...]

Life is odd, I suppose. And it’s very difficult to not sound too cliché whilst still being honest and reflective on the interesting time in which we live. Case in point: Saturday morning I woke up around 6 AM to a beeping alarm and the faintest glimmer of sunlight through the attic [...]

IMPORTED FROM OUR TRAVEL BLOG: Brad, Karin (and Ryan) Do Europe ‘06
Oh….. my…. yikes!
We’ve been quiet for a few days due to lack of Internet — and also the fact we’ve been gogogogogogoooooooing steady.
We left Berlin on Friday, driving. Karin navigated us onto the Autobahn, and after 6 hours in heavy traffic at about [...]

(a) what I feel like after a tossing-and-turing night near a conehead of a dog who, not that I can blame her, had a sleepless time in her bed, a big plastic sheath wrapped cumbersome around her neck. She whined for a long while, unsettled, before dozing long enough for us to do the [...]