I hear now is the time to invest in American real-estate. Not only is the exchange rate great, but the property market is in something of a slump. If anyone wants to go halves on a bit of land in Washington, there is a pretty sweet deal on eBay right now. Click here.
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Get this. Strange coincidence, or what? This morning the US dollar and the Canadian dollar were equal for the first time in nearly thirty-one years. The last time that happened (again, about thirty-one years ago) was November 1976. I’m nearly thirty-one years old. In fact, I was born in November 1976. [...]

I was thinking about how I could put together some kind of download-ready minatures game.
Chris introduced me to Warmachine a couple years ago. You go to the store. You spend ten bucks on a little metal figurine. You bring it home, paint it to look all mean and evil. [...]

I’ve been active in this little negotiation game for the last week or so. No, there’s no link. It’s a new game I’ve discovered wherein you blindly spend small bits of real money — $6 here, $10 there — to lease real domain names — .coms, .nets — and then sit around and wait. [...]

My baby sister is taking my place as volunteer extraordinaire and is basically Queen Organizer for the Relay For Life in Red Deer this year. How can you not respect that? I put my money where my my mouth is and gave her fifty bucks. It’s for a good cause, after all. [...]

I guess we must be hard to buy for. For Christmas, Karin’s folks bought us a Tagine. Now, don’t get me wrong. It’s very… uh… eclectic and cool. But we’ve been encountering some issues with finding an opportunity to make use of it.
Problem One: How to Preserve Lemons.
So, the Tagine came with [...]

December 19
[Climbing up on soapbox.] Ahem. Excuse me, dear readers, but I just need to say something.
I hate feeling like the Grinch this time of year when I refuse to participate in more than a couple random gift-buys. You know the kind: everyone sits in a circle begging, bartering, and stealing twenty-dollar [...]

Also known as the entry I was going to write before my puppy was maimed by a two-by-four…
We went to Totem (the hardware store) last night, and (not knowing I’d be spending a few hundred dollars in emergency vet bills the next morning) laid out a decent chunk of change for a build-it-yourself deck package. [...]

I was pretending to be a construction dude this weekend. The joys of home ownership are that: when the mood strikes, there is always something to be done.
The mood struck, and I got out the tools and did some work on my stairwell. Good work? That’s debatable. No judgements until the project [...]

Awaiting me at work yesterday, an email from my boss: “Educated as a political scientist and, until now, proud of that fact, I’m currently reflecting on some of my major life choices and contemplating retirement as a pundit, to avoid further embarrassment. So, let’s all give appropriate and due honours to Brad, the mighty oracle, [...]

Since the last car-post (as in entry about cars, not like the Impala we saw wrapped around a post the other day) prompted so much discussion, I thought I would update the world (ie. you) on that situation.
We’ve taken a much more focused look (as in narrowed and concentrated attention, not Ford-like glances) at a [...]

I (though my mother-in-law may have a different opinion) don’t expect people to feel in any way obligated to do so, but I also know that some people appreciate the opportunity to garner yet another tax reciept for their tax enjoyment. Like I said, absolutely no obligation, whatsoever, but if you feel like you’d [...]