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 [...]

December 14
Today was my last day of work before the holidays. As I told everyone at the office, I may not deserve it, but I’ve earned it and I’m taking it. I’ll be back sometime in January. And, if nothing else, call it round-two of the paternity leave.

Day 14: Hanging with Grandpa [...]

December 13
I spent the day dealing with Audacity because a few months ago I threw the idea onto the table at work that we should make a podcast for the website. Someone liked it. Now I’m in the final stages of editing — mostly delayed as I try to figure out the nuances for [...]

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 [...]

I’m not writing. After years of guilty Novembers, pursuing the banality and pure quantity of NaNoWriMo, I declined to participate this month on a mere handful of excuses. They are…
1) I should really be working on my other writing project. That particular effort is not forgotten. Really. Admittedly, it is not [...]

A fine welcome back to work…
I climbed into my car this morning, laptop in hand, and ready to pace myself back into the rat race after a two week babysitting sabbatical. I turned the key. And nothing. Somehow my battery had died in the few days I’ve been parked. I spent fifteen [...]

Today is our staff retreat.
Normally I make it a point not to talk about work, but one of those exceptions comes on a day like this. Capping off the summer, we have a planning meeting this morning, free lunch, golf this afternoon, a barbecue at the boss’s house tonight — and then [...]

Lately, I’ve been into the whole “sitting on an exercise ball as a chair” thing at work. Apparently it’s supposed to help improve posture, balance, and circulation. More likely it probably just makes me look like a bit of a tool who sits on a giant, inflatable, purple ball instead of the two-hundred dollar [...]

Phase three of the Wandering Week began yesterday as I found myself adding another three hundred clicks onto the odometer and heading South East towards the lower corner of the province. (Did I mention it took us nine more hours over seven hundred kilometers to get from Penticton to Calgary on Sunday? Oh, it did.) [...]

As June comes to a close and summer is now a full week on, photos…
Work brought me down to Lethbridge for a couple nights, and I took advantage of the free time (and the fact the Lethbridge Lodge is virtually hanging from the edge of the valley overlooking the train bridge) to go for a [...]

And the audience replies: “How cold is it?”
It’s so damn cold I get to write a blog post about how damn cold it is and not feel like I’m complaining about the weather. And I’m not going to complain. How about that?
Despite the brisk drive down the short stretch of highway that leads to [...]

Happy new year. Two thousand and seven. Who put it on a Sunday night by the way? One day off following the big roll-over and then back to work today. I could use a couple more weeks of holiday. I’m sure the dog wouldn’t mind either.
Too bad.