Continuing the series of posts that try to capture the various pieces of art I have hanging around the house. Remember that these posts are made up of quick snapshots–these are hardly professional images, and the upstairs images are worse than the downstairs ones since the angles I could use to take the snapshots are much more highly constrained. The… Read more →
Category: Storytime
My job is getting me down.
Blogging is suffering due to overwork. My day today felt exactly like this. Of course, even when my job is painfully tedious, there are some levels even I won’t sink to to provide myself with distraction. Read more →
Sleep is awesome
My wonderful wife and child let me sleep in until 11:15 this morning. (Note for non-Canadians: today is the observed holiday of Canada Day, July 1, and is thus a non-work day for me–hence I had an excuse to stay up last night fiddling with wireless card firmware, etc.) While 11:15 would have been “early” for getting up on a… Read more →
Hanging Around The House 8: The Upstairs Halls
Continuing the series of posts that try to capture the various pieces of art I have hanging around the house. Remember that these posts are made up of quick snapshots–these are hardly professional images, and the upstairs images are worse than the downstairs ones since the angles I could use to take the snapshots are much more highly constrained. The… Read more →
Butter Sculpture as Novel Inspiration?
For many years now I’ve been polishing my story about driving across America to take a friend’s car to San Francisco. The story has everything: Monet in Chicago, parties at the Renn Fest outside Minneapolis and a day at the Minnesota State Fair, the Shetterly tour of Weird America (Corn Palace, Wall Drug, Crazy Horse Mountain, Carhenge, etc.), a spooky… Read more →
B’n’E Cleaner
Look what happens when English majors go unemployed in the age of desktop video… (Speedbag is a member of the HGPA. He doesn’t know that I know his door code. However, I certainly didn’t put his dishes away–hell, it’s a constant battle in my own house to get me to put away the dishes.) Read more →
Hanging Around The House 7: Family Room
Continuing the series of posts that try to capture the various pieces of art I have hanging around the house. Remember that these posts are made up of quick snapshots–these are hardly professional images, and the upstairs images are worse than the downstairs ones since the angles I could use to take the snapshots are much more highly constrained. The… Read more →
Father’s Day
Well, my second Father’s Day was pretty great. Sarah was, obviously, much more interactive this year; she actually said “Happy Father’s Day” to me. It was so cute it nearly broke my heart. And then she gave me a present: Space Frogs in the hizouse! Yes, that is a giant bibb. One reading of this gift would be that Sarah… Read more →
Two pointless anecdotes, with pictures…
First, can I just say that I have a vague memory of what the sun looked like. What is this, the nineteenth consecutive day of rain? Madness. It has rained so much that the grass seed Sarah spilled on the driveway ages ago has been able to germinate, sprout, and grow to over an inch in length. Yes, seeds sitting… Read more →
“I gave and gave till I gave up…”
I have had the kind of day where… well… hm. Let me put it this way: if you are in a number of really frustrating conference calls over the day, and you find yourself putting your phone on mute so that you can take a hammer and smash it into your desk over and over while screaming “MISTER SMASHY! MISTER… Read more →
06-6-6 Poker Variant
Here’s what I came up with for a “crazy game” on tonight’s theme for the poker game. You can download a one-page PDF of these rules as well. The Omen This game is played as 7-card stud, with the following variations: An extra hand is dealt, in addition to all player hands. This is referred to as “Damien’s hand”. (This… Read more →
Poker Of The Beast vs Mysterious Readings
vs. So, you all realize tomorrow is 06-6-6, right? Hence, my normal Tuesday night poker game shall be transformed into the Poker Of The Beast. I’ll have to come up with a new game for the “crazy games” time at the end of the nightWe normally enforce a strict “no goofy games” rule for the first several hours: we normally… Read more →
Five Years!
Sometimes it seems like that was just a minute ago, sometimes I can’t remember a time before then. Trish tells me that we’re through the easy part, and the next two years are the hard ones. I’m not too worried. For the record the people in the image, left-to-right are: My “little” brother Chef Paul, a.k.a. “Chia The Cat” Me… Read more →
Hanging Around The House 6: Sitting Room
Continuing the series of posts that try to capture the various pieces of art I have hanging around the house. Remember that these posts are made up of quick snapshots–these are hardly professional images, and the upstairs images are worse than the downstairs ones since the angles I could use to take the snapshots are much more highly constrained. The… Read more →
The Best Dad
On Monday, I was (at least temporarily) The Best Dad In The World. It was a nice day out, so I decided to take the family down to the boardwalk on the harbourfront. Sarah was very excited by the water, the seabirds, and then finally by the boats. Her sheer glee as she literally jumped up and down while pointing… Read more →
