Shortly after the clock ticked over into Canada Day last night, I was the proud recipient of this: In addition to that lovely chunk of acrylicCourtesy of the new laser engraver at R & M Rubber Stamp, a.k.a “the business Tiger owns”. and the first place finish prizeWhich, were we playing for cash would have been 50% of the tournament… Read more →
Category: Storytime
Hanging Around The House: Latest Updates
I spent a fair bit of time last year trying to document the kinds of stuff I have hanging up around the house. I’ve made a couple of changes recently and I figured I might as well log the update here as well. The first set of updates is the addition of my recent set of Michel Gagné prints. I… Read more →
Dadhood
This is the first Father’s Day when my (2-year old) daughter understood the concept of the day. She gave me a present she made herself. I try to keep most of my “I am the sappy Dad” stuff off this blog, but I’ve got to tell you that having Sarah so excited to give me a Father’s Day present was… Read more →
Six Years!
Well, that’s six years married, and I’m still pretty much completely over-the-moon happy about it. Of course this is because my wife gets better looking, smarter, funnier, and more dangerous every year, but she still seems to love me, even as I get slower, lazier, balder, and more domesticated each year. I appear to be a very lucky man. Read more →
Work
Ladies and gentlemen, I present for your amusement, two quotations which I find myself thinking of entirely too often during the course of my daily employment. The first is from Mr. Charles Babbage, whom I have ultimately to thank for both my lucrative employment, and also for much of the pain of my existence. On two occasions I have been… Read more →
Minor Local Mysteries
I’ve lived in Halifax for a pretty long time now, but there are still lots of things that I just don’t know about the place. There are several things that I used to wonder about, but over time I’ve just stopped noticing them or being curious about them, unless something specifically draws my attention back to them. I’m not talking… Read more →
On Speeding Tickets
Did I mention that I got a pretty big speeding ticket in the backwoods of Maine (on the “Airline”) while on my way to that session in Boston last month? Some facts and observations: This is my first speeding ticket in more than seven years. Hell, I haven’t even been pulled over in more than seven years, except on the… Read more →
A Bit Of Context
Right, so let me explain. I’ve been down in Boston since Tuesday, for work. Yes, I have been travelling a lot for work lately. Yes, I am not best pleased about this. On this particular trip my preferred hotel was full, so I once again had to stay across the street in the castle. Normally, this doesn’t really mean much… Read more →
Feeling Contrary
The church ladies are getting to me. I’m going to have to do some reading about the devil. Read more →
An unexpected gift
Yes, what you are looking at there is my new Voco Clock, as previously discussed here. Sunday after the tournament, I stopped in at my local comic shop, and was given that item as a “thanks for hosting the tournament” gift. Damn. While I didn’t wake up Sunday until 2:30PM (and, wow, was that a nice change), and thus was… Read more →
Tournament Results
Well, Saturday’s tournament was pretty much an unqualified success–the house is still standing, with no capital expenditures required to put it into wife-ready order before Trish gets back, I think everyone had fun, and I certainly enjoyed myself. And, I got a lot of great stuff from the lads–giant cards, mathematically useful cards, poker signage, classy religious beer, fine whisky,… Read more →
A Clash Of The Titans
This Saturday night my home will be host, for the first time, to a Halifax Gentlemen’s Poker Association No Limit Texas Hold ‘Em invitational tournament. I’m quite excited–the logistics of getting the various and sundry reprobates required for such an event out to my secret base in the woods are not trivial, and attempts to have an event here in… Read more →
This one’s for Mike Drake
A Man Turns 34
Note: I will deny the entire contents of this post if my daughter ever finds it later in her life and confronts me with it. I expect you all to back me up in those denials. So, how did I welcome in 34th birthday? Recall that I was spending it in Australia. Before I get into the details, I want… Read more →
Maroondah Reservoir
After seeing the animals yesterday, I spent some time at the Maroondah Reservoir park. It’s a lovely area, and you can climb up to the top of the dam to look out over the Maroondah Reservoir, which provides a lot of the water for Melbourne. It’s very apparent looking at the state of the reservoid, from atop the dam, that… Read more →
