About four years ago, back in early 2007, when Karin (four months preggers) and I spent ten days on holiday in and around London, we saw some shows… but, of course. Busy touring about as we were, my blog posts were quick, to-the-point updates regarding our overseas activities, glimpses intended to do not much more than tease others and (later) remind myself of the things that we’d done that had sparked my imagination and piqued my interests. As such, it was no real surprise that I would, all these years later, find posts such as the one titled: A quick note from Oxford, hastily written from a public library computer sometime back in early May 2007, glimpsing with barely a passing comment the details of [...]
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Posted on Friday, June 26, 02009 under
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I’ve had a busy couple of weeks. Between running, working, and those other little things that come up… well, y’know… This quasi-drought it killing my garden. It sucks. Sure, I can pump water on it all day long, but the moisture bakes out of the soil in less than a day anyways. Some of the plants are doing okay — after they get established, they flourish because they can get their roots down deep enough — but the seedlings are slow and suffering. If I get even a dozen carrots out of the patch this year, I’ll be surprised. I spent a couple hours building Claire a sandbox the other day. We had looked at a couple of the plastic doo-dahs, but I figured it [...]
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I could write a full blog entry, but it’s Sunday morning and I don’t feel like it. Instead, some updates to touch upon the various tidbits of excitement1 here. :: on writing :: Progressing at a different pace than I expected. I crossed the twenty-thousand word mark this morning with a burst of inspiration. If you have indeed been following along you are probably as confused as hell, and that’s a good thing. So am I.2 :: on coding :: I’ve spent some quality time on the MealPlanIt this weekend. Karin was out and I was tired, so I hunkered down with some movies I needed to watch (and send back3) whilst coding up some new-version stuff. Really, I’ve taken the back-end code, amended as [...]
One part of “installing” sod in one’s yard is the watering. Needless to say, less than 72 hours since this whole episode with the grass began (and yes, photos soon!) is that we need to stay relatively close to home to keep the water flowing. (Mind, that didn’t stop us from taking an afternoon drive to Camrose yesterday to visit the crew camping nearby.) Mostly this means short trips out and about. Or, more often it seems, time to sit; Sit, not quite idle, of course, but sit long enough to do neat things such as finishing the massive sort of my Europe photos, uploading and sending for printing the approximately 40% of the 1300 images I took. Thus, while I still have yet to [...]
For those stilllllll playing along… I just uploaded another sixteen house photos, highlighting (yes, you heard it here first) cabinetry and countertops! Some of the pics are from the weekend when, accompanied by Derek and Shannon, we discovered not only boxes of cabinetry in our kitchen, but also the newly openned Mac’s slurpee store no more than a few blocks walk from our house. I think a round of “woot” is appropriate at this juncture.
Posted on Friday, February 13, 02004 under
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My one-and-only sister-by-blood is arriving in Vancouver sometime tomorrow afternoon via Westjet. It’s reading break from college (apparently — I haven’t had one of those in a long time) and she has chosen to spend it touring this little burb and the surrounding area with her brother and his wife. She’s been half-anticipating, half-lamenting the trip on her website for the past couple weeks, but I think she is pretty excited about coming. Now just gets to see first-hand just how mundane our lives really are.
