Where were you? I was sitting in a hotel in Canmore listening to a presentation on macro-economics and pulling the stats off the net and onto my Blackberry. I pried myself from the room a few minutes before 9 o’clock, quick enough to flip on the television and see that the results had [...]

Oddly enough, nearly three years after I launched it, the Buggyland project I created on a whim and a lark has come back to visit. (And by visit I simply mean that someone found it and contacted me for clarification on something I wrote — even though it was satirical.) For those who’s never [...]

Yesterday was the anniversary. Precisely, it has been a total of three full years since we took possession of our humble little house and began the tedious process of filling it with depreciable consumer products. Yes, the effort continues. This has definitely been the longest we’ve been anywhere since escaping the nest. [...]

As the minutes close on chilly, snow-blanketed Sunday PM, I decide to reflect on seven years filling the web with mindless drivel.
Sigh.
I apologize. But, c’mon no one makes you read this crap.
That’s all.

five… (the countdown to seven years!)
I thought I’d celebrate the seventh anniversary of a driving trek through the mountains to the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, and make a pilgrimage back. I caught a late flight to Abbotsford last night and spent the evening in the local Ramada pondering the significance and coincidence of [...]

six… (the countdown to seven years!)
In just less than a week, on April 20th, this blog will mark seven years since my “first post.” That first post was nothing much more than a summary of my first official week “lost in Vancouver” after having shipped out from a hovel of an apartment in Edmonton, [...]

A year ago today the folks drove up from Red Deer to help with the frantic fencing bee. We spent a chilly morning and afternoon slathering green paint across a few hundred fence boards promptly followed by a lot of pounding nails that eventually led to the the bulk of the back and side [...]

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 [...]

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 31
Well, this is it. The last day in December, and with thirty successful entries behind me it’s time to look way back. This is New Years Eve, and one of the things about running a blog for over half a decade is that eventually things become habitual — repeatable — traditional, even. [...]

December 9
Every year about this time I start to think about New Years Resolutions. Why, you may ask, considering I am actually fairly lousy at keeping them? I think the answer is simply this: optimism. One day something — anything — is going to stick, and my good intentions will pay off. [...]

If you are us, today is mostly notable as the anniversary of moving into our house. It’s two years today. I’m going to celebrate by splashing a big bucket of primer on the walls of the soon-to-be nursery later on this afternoon. And tradition (if you can call it that) dictates we [...]