A while back Paul Myers made a list of books for evolutionists. The list included a number of items “for the kids”. I really liked the idea of starting Sarah’s science education early–why not learn about science along with math and vocabulary, etc–so I decided to order some of these books “sometime”. (I figured the odds of them being in… Read more →
Category: Storytime
Hanging Around The House 5: Dining 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 →
I am an uncle!
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Ryan James Turnbull, Day One: (Have I mentioned how much I love living in the future? He’s around 2000km from here, but we can see him immediately. Awesome.) Read more →
Hanging Around The House 4: Upstairs Foyer
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 →
Well…
…I guess you can see how that went. I made two big discoveries during this past week: 1) Full time parenting of a 20-month old is a lot more tiring than full-time parenting of a 6-month old. Sarah’s been in day care since she was six months old, and this is the first time she’s been with us for 10… Read more →
On Vacation
I am off work all week, to spend Trish’s last week before the PhD crunch begins hanging out with her and Sarah. This will either mean lots of blogging (if I get to sleep in) or no blogging (if Sarah wears me out.) Read more →
The Junos exposed
Last weekend Halifax was overrun with the entertainment industry, in a build-up to the Juno Awards. (If you aren’t familiar with the awards, or this year’s specifics, there is lots more information available.) For me, this mostly meant that downtown was worth avoiding on Saturday because between Juno tourists and closed off streets for the red carpet shenanigans it wouldn’t… Read more →
Bachelor Weekend Over: Final beers
Family is home. All is well. Apparently they are keeping me as husband and father, at least for a while longer. As for the beer sampling: Flying Dog Road Dog Porter turned out to be really rather good, and I’ll probably pick up a case for the poker tournament this weekend. Flying Dog Tire Bite Golden Ale was OK, but… Read more →
What’s the worst that could happen?
Want to know how far I’ll go for a cheap joke? One of the boards I hang out on has a game each week where you get to write up a little something in response to the topic of the week. Last week the “assignment” was to come up with a “what’s the worst that could happen” for a specified… Read more →
Bachelor Weekend continues
Bachelor Saturday kind of disappeared: I stretched out Saturday afternoon for a short nap, and then woke up at 2AM. Apparently I needed an 11 hour nap. I rattled around the house for a bit, watching a couple of decent flicks (The Big Empty which was weird but fun, and Layer Cake which I quite enjoyed) and then went back… Read more →
Bachelor Weekend
Tomorrow at 7AM Trish and Sarah are headed off to Ontario to visit Sarah’s grandparents until Tuesday. That means I’ll be bachelor-man for four days. It is a sign of my advanced adulthood that what I am most excited about is not the potential for sloppy drunkeness, or rowdy behaviour, but rather the notion that I will be able to… Read more →
I am not making this up
I had no idea what was happening. I had come home from poker Tuesday night around half an hour after midnight, and had puttered around for a while, finally going to sleep around 1:30, and the next thing I knew Trish was screaming at me. I kind of expected Trish to wake me up on Wednesday, as she does each… Read more →
No Virus Keeps Me Down.
Instead of resting and recovering tonight, I opted to instead go into town and be a part of the Halifax comic scene. At one point, if I had been carrying a video camera, I could have shot a 15 minute short feature, in one take, that would have won awards. Awards, I say. I would have titled this feature “The… Read more →
I need to write something SERIOUS with that…
The good news Friday, which was somewhat overshadowed temporarily by my illness, is that my birthday gift from Ralph arrived. This year, he made me a gorgeous fountain pen, turning some box elder (a.k.a. “Manitoba Maple“) to produce a really wonderful item. The pen’s cap is threaded, so you can screw it on to the pen (I assume this is… Read more →
Yes, that is my wife. Yes, that is my daughter.
(Note: This is pretending to be about politics, but is really about MY WIFE and MY DAUGHTER being in the newspaper. So, if you don’t care about the political stuff, keep reading until you get to that part!) I know I go off a lot on American politics here, way more than I do about the homegrown kind, and there’s… Read more →
