I wonder, he said, after spending a day in his hometown, where hasn’t lived for over 15 years now, what is more depressing: returning to your a place you once knew well after 15 years and seeing all the ways it has changed, or how little it actually has? This place hasn’t been home for well over a decade, but… Read more →
Category: Storytime
Fall notes
I have travelled over 2000km so far this week. The vast majority of this has been on more or less empty highways, driving through absolutely resplendent fall colours, mostly on routes that parallel rivers. To put this in the simplest possible terms, this has been one hell of a powerful nature toke. I know I resisted Apple for the longest… Read more →
Holy Crap
My daughter read me a book today. She’s been “reading” me stories for months now, but until today that meant her telling me stories of her own invention about the characters in the book. These stories usually lacked a narrative throughline and some thematic consistency, but they made up for that with mad innovation and exciting events. Tonight though, the… Read more →
A little more on my little brother
One thing that the article about Steve didn’t go into was how he was spending his “summer off” after ending his hockey career. I think I can explain that in pictorial form. Here’s a picture from late summer: and here’s a picture from early fall: Steve’s quote: “42.5 inches, 16.5 lbs. I still want the big one.” I wonder if… Read more →
Steve In The Hometown Paper
I just had a Thanksgiving conversation with my littleMy “little” brother. Heh. That always makes me smile–sure I’ve got some size on him, but he’s not exactly what you imagine when you hear “little brother”. brother, who is five days into his new career today. That reminds me that I need to post something about the big story that ran… Read more →
Today I Find I Have Nothing To Say
I think I’d rather be outside the tent pissing in…
This just makes me laugh. I think that means a good portion of my friends are banned, some of them several times. In fact, I can think of at least one of my friends who is banned four times by that sign. Because of the somewhat scattershot way my brain works, this makes me think of my long-time favourite passage… Read more →
I May Have To Write A Children’s Book
I’m just going to take the snippets of story that Sarah throws out pretty much all the time and stitch them together into a narrative. “A monster ate my imagination.” “I don’t have any energy because a dragon ripped up my electricity and threw it into the stinky garbage pile. If I had my saw and my hammer we could… Read more →
Like A Flash
Somehow three years have gone by in a flash. Sarah Kathleen McLaren is three years old today, and what a day it was. Someday I’ll find some free time and update her photo blog, so that far away family and friends can see some of the festivities, but right now I am totally and completely exhausted. And old. She’s pretty… Read more →
Small Victories
Remember this post? Well, I think this speaks for itself: Oh, the fact that you can see this means that I cleaned up enough of my desk to hook the scanner back up–while this doesn’t mean anything to you, it’s significant to me, at least archaeologically. We won’t speak about the other piece of government paper that I got this… Read more →
I am an information junkie
I just read through the 600+ posts that my RSS Reader had stored up for me in the “High Interest” category while I was working too hard over the last several weeks. I had occasionally popped into the reader and read some of what might be called the informal “Very High Interest” subset (I really should formalize that), but still… Read more →
I think the madness is over…
…or at least I am past the peak of it. The last three weeks of insanely intense work, with days getting longer as the week progressed–in the last 10 days I have been working almost all of my waking hours, including weekends, and I have seen the sunrise from my desk on three different occasions–were frankly brutal. I think I’ve… Read more →
Also…
…work is kicking my ass. Yes. I expect that if I make it through this coming week, I may survive the rest of the year. Read more →
Mixing It Up 0: The Introduction
Since I’ve been insanely busy with work the last couple of weeks, and I don’t see it clearing up in the immediate future, I’m going to resort to a little easy posting. Let me explain… Two of the girls (do I have to call them women now?) who work at my excellent local comic shop are members of an all-girl… Read more →
An Interesting Meme
I mostly avoid these, but I seem to have a weakness for the questions Jonathan Carroll asks, as with at least one lengthy previous post, and these ones that got to me today. 1. Describe three meals from your past (preferably breakfast, lunch and dinner) that you would like to have again and why. For me this has to be… Read more →
