Double Jeopardy: Karin, away for a couple days of work retreat in Canmore, switched me flex days so my “Wednesday Daddy Day” promptly morphed into “Friday (Plus) Daddy Weekend.” Yes, a long weekend. But, a long weekend as a single parent. Claire’s first night away from her mom — and she get’s two [...]

Just out of interest, if you check out the “Scrapbook” page of this year’s (2008) fringe festival, one of my pics of Claire and Lola made it into the website.
http://www.fringetheatreadventures.ca/index.php/festival/scrapbook/P60/
I have some other photos there as well, but you can view those as you see fit.

We’re all on the mend here after a few days of moderate (though merely annoying) head-colds, one of the souvenirs we brought back from Portland. (Alice will likely feel guilty ’cause I wrote that, but after her generous hospitality the least we could do is take some germs off her hands.) As far as [...]

If the only way you keep track of us is through this blog, you would have had no way to know we were going on vacation. I try to keep my travel plans fairly hush-hush when it comes to the blog as far as pre-trip hype at least. Upon our return, then I [...]

You know you’ve been writing a blog for a long time when you can go back and reference the post you wrote last February twenty-ninth. Speaking of free days, last February twenty-ninth (one thousand, four hundred and sixty one days ago) I was in Banff, in the mountains, at a neuromuscular science conference representing my [...]

December 29
Thanks to an invite from Nina, Claire and her family spent a few hours this afternoon wandering around the ‘Telus World of Science’ — formerly known as the Odysseum — which was formerly known, back in my day (harrumph!) as the Edmonton Space and Science Center.

Day 29: Oh, how true it is…

Yes, [...]

December 27
I was really trying to be proactive this year and not leave any posts until the last minute. But the company just left and it dawned on me I hadn’t posted yet…

Day 27: The girl’s new favorite sleeping position…

Chris sent around an email this morning and turned a guys’ games night into a [...]

December 3
I’d hate for anyone to think that we’re so wrapped up in our own little lives as not to notice the ever-increasing birth-rate of those around us. If anything we’re a bit more tuned into the weather: it’s not a baby shower, it’s a storm. Thus, just for the record, today was [...]

What did we do? Hmmm. We…
… dog-sat for one of Karin’s dance friends from Vancouver. She was in town for a wedding, brought her dog and “Tinsel” needed somewhere to crash for the night. We’re still not quite sure what Sparkle made of the company.
… went to Nina’s birthday party. I don’t [...]

The last couple days have been ones of encounters with an odd collection of familiar faces.
Saturday night we went to the Lion King (as I mentioned we had tix) and wound up sitting in the box seats. To start the second act we had a member of the cast in the box with us, [...]

I was a little hesitant (not exactly the right word — more as, I wasn’t sure as the quasi-official photographer that it was my place) to post a selection of photos from Jessica and Martin’s wedding. Having turned the pictures over to the newlyweds a little more than a week ago, Martin has shared [...]

December 28
Thanks to some advance planning, we managed to get five (plus a few spouses) of my fellow high school graduates into a room together this evening. I’ll spare the details — the rehashing of “old times”, the ponderings of “where are they now” and the “so how have you beens” — and just [...]