Why do I alway leave my packing until the last minute? Is it just that I enjoy the stress? Airport, here I come. Read more →
Category: Storytime
Here We Go Again
Yup. It’s around the world again. Same route, same distance, slightly longer stay this time. I checked it out this time, the straight-line distances between the airports are (I put the imperial numbers in for the Yanks, in the parentheses): Outbound Halifax – London (Heathrow) : 4589km (2852) London (Heathrow) – Hong Kong : 9653km (5998) Hong Kong – Melbourne:… Read more →
Climbing The Walls
I am completely climbing the walls tonight. I’ll explain why, but it will take a second, so either throw a pizza in the oven (hi Neil!) and settle down, or else skip along to the next entry. Read more →
She’s blowing my secret identity
Apparently this conversation (I’m reporting it second-hand, so the quotes might not be exact) occurred on my daughter’s drive in to the day care this morning. Sarah: I don’t want to go to day care today. Trish: It’s just for today and tomorrow and then you get to spend four more days at home. Think of it as a chance… Read more →
Things I Did Not Know
The expression “the worm turns”, commonly used (at least by me) to mean “the situation has changed and the previously disadvantaged party now holds the advantage”, is apparently an evolution of the old proverb, “Tread on a worm and it will turn.” The proverb was likely intended to say “even the lowliest creature will strike back when threatened/attacked/mistreated”. This is… Read more →
It wasn’t me.
Observed in the wild today, on a display table at Scholar’s Choice (yes, I was shopping for Christmas presents for my daughter): I didn’t do it. Although it is exactly the sort of thing I would have done. Read more →
Nasty
It should not be possible for a child that small to produce so much vomit. Apparently my hard-earned parenting experience has made me blase about all other possible organic messes, but has not really protected me from child vomit. I mean, I can do what needs to be done, but that stuff is nasty. Back in the diaper days there… Read more →
Halifax Harbour
I’ve been messing around with some software to do image stitching, for the purposes of creating panoramic images from a series of simple digital snaps. I’ve been meaning to do this for a while, but tonight was the first time I’ve had a moment in several weeks. So, here’s my first test image: a view of the south east end… Read more →
I Am Not Making This Up
When I first checked into the hotel on Sunday, I noticed that across the hall from my suite was a door marked “Maintenance Office”. I had an offhand thought about it being odd to find that on the 3rd floor–you’d think it would be on the first floor, or possibly in the basement–and thought no more about it. This morning… Read more →
Update
We did in fact lose power at around 3AM (or 2AM, depending when I was supposed to set my clock back, I guess.) It was still off when I woke up, which made packing for Boston a pain in the ass. The power company was claiming that it would be back by 6PM on Monday, and the news that it… Read more →
“The illest weatherman in the biz”
Well, we did the whole checklist of simple preparations today, so hopefully the Umbrella Theory will kick in and the storm won’t cause any serious effects. Although I will honestly be severely shocked if we don’t lose power–even though the storm appears to have shifted slightly westward, meaning we might only get 100km/h winds (what the locals would refer to… Read more →
Bah. The Last Thing I Need.
I have been in a very black mood since midday Friday, and this is the last thing I need: Since Nova Scotia Power is so incompetentThis is the short version of “behaves as a economically rational actor in a profit-based system which does not assign any intrinsic value to providing an essential public service, where a monopoly is held”. Essential… Read more →
Achilles’ Heel
Apparently my wife is well aware of exactly what my emotional Achilles’ Heel is, since she sent me this story: 3-year-old found alive after plane crash kills two For five hours in the freezing mountains, a little girl hung from a car seat in the twisted wreckage of a crashed Cessna. When rescue workers finally reached her, her first request… Read more →
Yes, I Am A Manly Man
Today I picked up a poppy at the grocery store, and probably severely over-donated as part of that interaction. I can’t help myself–one of the things that completely crack through my stern and manlyYes, I am totally serious. I am a manly man. If something can even manage to cut my steel-hard skin, I bleed 100% pure testosterone. exterior is… Read more →
Books, Cheese, and Beer
As you can probably tell, my access to the Internet has been spotty this week (and will continue so for a few more days). However, I’ve stolen a minute now to mention that yesterday was the day of Books, Cheese, and Beer. Details to follow when things return to normal, probably along with some commentary on a couple of tourist… Read more →
