Call it retroactive boredom. One day — I don’t remember when — a couple years back I was bored. Does that set the stage? I must have been typing odd conversions into Google, calculating the number of hours in a year, or the number of minutes in a decade. It was that [...]

1) May is the month when most (if not all) traces of snow are gone for the season. This year it has been a little tricky to tell for certain, but in all likelihood by mid-month we will be planting our garden. Mmm…. fresh garden produce. The rhubarb is already emerging.
2) May, as [...]

Arc the third story in my “year of the short-story” project. I was aiming for four. I’ve progressed on two. The year is nearly half through. The clock is ticking.
Basement purge, to make way for an impending arrival of construction supplies that will turn a hollow cave of steel, wood, and concrete [...]

Besides working from home yesterday (because the office shut down due to the snow) being shut in with the family enabled a few extra-curricular activities in and around the house. Yes, I put in my time for the man, but being locked away left plenty of moments here and there for other stuff, such [...]

December 23
It snowed again last night. I went for a walk amongst those sort of flakes that fall like bits of cotton candy, and in the cone of light dropping out of each lamppost seem to drift and swirl in a surreal four-dimensional ballet of brownian physics.

Day 23: Careful, or you [...]

December 8
Just one of those got-stuff-done, but didn’t do much sort of days. This included:

Day 8: That Christmas tree looks so good, I could eat it!

Slept in a little bit.
Made a pot of really good coffee.
Picked up a tree at Ikea after scarfing down a one dollar breakfast.
Vacuumed the living room twice, once before we [...]

Karin and I found ourselves childless last night as the mother-in-law parachuted in to babysit. We opted to keep our season’s tickets for the theater this year despite the (at the time) looming time-sap of parenthood.
The first show was about a month and a half ago, just days after our early arrival, and weeks [...]

I’ve been conducting a little experiment for the last few-plus weeks. I’ve gone cold turkey on flavoured sugar water and have been drinking more water. In fact, I’ve trimmed my liquids down to the following:
- water
- milk (1%)
- tea (unsweetened)
- coffee (black)
- wine (though my drinking buddy is dry right now)
- beer (on [...]

One might think that two people (soon to be three, thanks to the upcoming addition of a new baby) can celebrate four years of wedded bliss in peace and quiet. And maybe we will. I figure that it’s anniversary number five (coming this day next year) when we might want to gather more people around [...]

… meanwhile, back in Edmonton:
It’s hot. Very hot. I suppose for anyone reading this from a faraway land where mid-30 Celsius temperatures are the norm, I’m just a bit of a whiner. But keep in mind that this is as warm as it gets here. Record highs.
Blah.
We retreated to [...]

My priority for fashion has always been bent towards function. I’m not sure if I should brag that up, or not. Fortunately I have a wife who is much more inclined towards form on that front. The end result is that my wardrobe of late has been shifting up an steady slope: [...]

I honestly doubt we can hide this forever. Karin is a little reluctant for me to engage the Intarweb with anything too personal, but I anticipate that such a life-altering event will NOT go unnoticed for any length of time as the months pass and excitement builds, as I post photos from our upcoming [...]