Relaxed day. Did a sniper-like run into CostCo today to pick up a thing. It’s alarming how big those places are. Can’t buy less than $8 of anything. TicTacs? Only if you buy a dozen boxes. Don’t think I wasn’t tempted. I love me some tacs, I tell you what. Oh man, we did some…
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NaBloPoMo: Day 11
Today was 11/11/11 11:11 and we watched the Rememberance Day stuff on CBC, like good little Canadians. It was nicely done, gotta say. I don’t know much about my grandparents’ involvement in WWII. Not that they weren’t involved, and not that my mom hasn’t researched this down to the minute, but mostly that I don’t…
NaBloPomo: Day 10
Today happened, and I’m trying to solve a technical issue at work that’s going to prove to be an issue because someone once made a decision that didn’t include the previous incarnation of the service. Which would be all fine and good BUT there’s backup tapes involved. Backup wouldn’t matter any more after a couple…
NaBloPoMo: Day 8
Half-day at work today. Good meeting with a guy I helped place. I think there’s a bit of a shift happening, and it’s good. I think he’ll get a chance to do what he does best: balance people skills against technical skills. That’s when good stuff happens. Like they say: Properly executed technology is indistinguishable…
NaBloPoMo: Day 7
I should really learn to play Rainbow Connection on my flying-V ukulele. I can’t generally sing, but I’m told I can imitate Kermit the Frog quite well, and can sorta-kinda remember how to play uke. I played the uke when I was in elementary school, thanks to a truly gifted, talented, and passionate teacher. I…
NaBloPoMo: Day 6
Played with my turntables today, and that was pretty good, but what was more fun was when the kids got home, and I got to listen to a six year old scratching with Fluke’s Tosh and something by Edit (Laundry, I think it was.) Good times. As the afternoon moved on, the kids and I…
NaBloPoMo: Day 5
S’getting cold out there already. Really starting to feel like Winter, which is weird, ’cause Vancouver doesn’t really do Winter. We get maybe two or three days of snow a year, and it usually melts into slush the same day. Smells like it, though. Arwen was working today in Point Roberts, and I gotta say…
NaBloPoMo Day 4
(In which our hero enjoys a duty-free finger of scotch while watching a scary movie, so SPOILER ALERT) Okay, so maybe I forgot what I was writing about back in May. Been a long time. Oh wait, was that May of last year, or this year? Maybe it’s been longer than I thought. I’m watching…
NaBloPoMo: Day 1
It’s harder to find the middle of the road when the cat’s eyes are being actively jammed. Scrambling them is trivial, and helps keep the disco lights out of your mirrors, but it means you have to actually watch the road, and that your car constantly thinks you’re off-roading, so every time you skip a…