As of yesterday I opted to try a little mobile blogging experiment. The whole typing little mobile blog posts got old after one or two entries and I was left feeling underwhelmed by the desire to patter out micro-statements for that instant-post gratification. In fact it seemed I was posting for the sake [...]

With only a couple weeks to go before I settle into my new flexi-schedule at work and drop down to a four-day-per-week long-hours plan so Claire and I get a day together without Karin, I was thinking I should add a new series to the blog chronicling those sure-to-be fleeting days spent with the girl. [...]

In follow up to the Short Story Roundup from late last week… As FRINGE WEEK approaches and I split my time between a waft of insane volunteering and a smattering of R&R, I thought I’d toss out another self-mutilating challenge towards my novella project, particularly considering I’ve been lax the last couple weeks with [...]

Didn’t I tell you what this whole sporadic writing thing would be about? Oh, well then…
Here’s the thing. Every time I get a few days off — as is the case in the coming week — I like to set some goals for myself. I know I have been quite random in [...]

I was thinking of writing an entry explaining two things: (1) my motivation for writing and posting as much as I do and (2) the apparent arrogance and self-importance that tends to come across in this blog. First, I write because I am as compelled to write as I am to breathe. And [...]

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.

three… (the countdown to seven years!)
Edward Lorenz is famous for having introduced the world to chaos theory, which holds that small differences in the initial conditions of a system can have outsized impacts on its functioning, a phenomenon sometimes called the “butterfly effect.” He died yesterday and thus my own chaos follows:
posts in this blog: [...]

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, [...]

For those sipping on the few and far between bits of information that leak from random sources regarding the post-sixth month development of our daughter, there is likely to be some disappointment. Admittedly, I’ve been somewhat weak in blogging the mundane, and my presence on the usual social networks over the past month has [...]

9. My pirate coffee mug was broken upon arrival, but rather than shipping it back I glued it together and filled it with dirt and seeds, and set it in my window at work.  This morning there is definite sprouting going on. Yarr!
8. Claire has a new repertoire of tricks since I last wrote.  These [...]

One week into 2008 and this is only my second post. Were you one of those who was checking every day to see if I’d resumed the daily posts? Do you miss me yet?
Alas, all is not lost. I’ve been writing — as always — just not here, very much. In fact [...]