Category: Storytime

My daughter is sleeping in a bed. A real bed, not a crib. Wow. She’s getting old. That means I’m getting old. Wow. Read more →

Just an FYI that there will be a definite lull this week. We found out on the weekend that my wife’s mother had passed away–it was not a surprise–and this week is pretty much going to be dedicated to dealing with that, so no time for hobbies like blogging, etc. I’ll catch back up with all you people on the… Read more →

This weekend my local comic shop had local Renaissance manWhat else do you call someone who is a sketch comic, a puppeteer, a cartoonist, a bon vivant, and a comic book artist, among other things? Mike Holmes in the store doing Simpsons-style caricatures of people who came by. While I passed on the chance, for fear of looking a little… Read more →

My lovely little “first snow of the year” turned into 15cm (six inches) of heavy fluffy blizzard. I may not have mentioned, but my wife is out of town this week, back in Ontario for a family emergency. This means it’s just Sarah and I here, and that means that Sarah is already spending longer at the day care than… Read more →

Yes, the first snow of 2007 is finally falling. You might not be able to tell from that photo, but it’s really coming down in the big wet flakes. If I have to shovel later, it’s going to be one of those really heavy loads. This is the view from our rarely-used sitting room, which clearly shows that I have… Read more →

I was out for a drive with my daughter on Saturday, enjoying the ridiculously beautiful (and unseasonable) day. We decided to drive down the South Shore, along the coast. As we passed one of the beaches, there was a lot of cars there, and a lot of people out on the beach. Now, it was unseasonable warm for early December,… Read more →

For those of you wondering about the cast of reprobates that might have shown up for Drakemas last week, I have some mug shots after the jump. While I survived the night without significant hangover, despite some truly heroic interactions with the Master Of The Hunt, not everyone was so lucky: Birthday Boy appears to have lost several hours of… Read more →

From PopBitch, quite a while back: Vidmantas Sungalai. Sungalai, a 41-year-old Lithuanian truck driver, was pulled over by police while driving his truck down the centre of a highway near Vilnius. He had 7.27 grams per litre of alcohol in his body – 18 times the legal driving limit. (3.5g/l is usually lethal). The police said Vidmantas “was of high… Read more →

My pal Ralph is now part of the Coast Guard’s volunteer Search and Rescue team. If I were in a boating incident in his territory, he might have to find and rescue me. However, since the only reason I would be on a boat in his territory is if I were on his boat, the chances of that don’t seem… Read more →

Since moving to the woods five years ago, my social schedule is a pale shadow of what it once was. However, the next couple of weeks will have me back to the level I used to be at, and I’m not sure if I can handle it anymore, when combined with fatherhood and additional work responsibilities. However, I’ll give it… Read more →

Veisalgia: The sober medical term for a hangover. “There is no consensus definition of veisalgia (‘alcohol hangover’….)” (Ann Int Med, 2000) From the Norwegian kveis (uneasiness following debauchery) + the Greek algia (pain). Yes, it has been a very long time now since I’ve experienced the pain from uneasieness following debauchery. The last time I actually drank enough to put… Read more →

In a folder in my office are a bunch of pieces of paper, each of which has a nicely formatted poem or quotation. At some point they were either posted in my cubicle, back in the days when I worked outside the house, or else they were framed and displayed in my house during the days before I had art.… Read more →