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…
Category: Grumpy Old Man
NaBloPoMovember: Day 5
Today was also a long day, but it ended on a happy note. After many many hours of backing up data just in case the Isilon cluster decided to asplode when we upgraded the operating system, I finally shooed everyone out of the office and “pulled the trigger” on the upgrade process. Uploaded the upgrade…
Big talk, for a guy who’s never been in a fight.
Arwen’s been pointing something out to me over the last few months (maybe longer, and it’s only sinking in now) and it’s about violence. In specific, it’s about me having violence as the go-to when it comes to why certain things just shouldn’t be done. I was talking about something I saw on the Skytrain…
Making A Mountain Out of a Hell Hole
I didn’t go to last night’s AGM at Mole Hill. Not only did I not run for re-election, but I didn’t even go to vote. Show’s how little faith I have left in whether or not the board is still a functioning part of the Society. I don’t feel like I’ve given everything I can,…
Monday, where’d ya go?
Wake. Work. Food. Clean. CDW5. Kids to bed. TV. Tea. Here. Hi. Remember when Avril Lavigne was a singer? At least, that was her listed profession? When will she get back to that, instead of doing dippy digital camera ads. While we’re at it, can all the comedians who are still doing the “I hate…
COFEE – Really? That’s it?
Latest Movember photos are on the Mo’09 photos (there’s a link to the page at the top of this page.) So, a while ago (really? April of last year?) I wrote about Microsoft’s new toolkit for police to quickly gather everything they’d need from a Windows-based workstation, called COFEE. I had a bunch of questions…
NobemverPoMoustyclonobo
Long post warning: You has it. November 2nd. No point in posting the picture of my alleged moustache, ’cause there’s hardly anything there unless I have *just* finished shaving with a Bic, and I don’t have a camera or the patience to even bother getting anything approaching a macro setting for some hairs on my…
Happy Screaming Birthday, Tate
We had 8 kids here today. Two of them were ours, and while there were a few tears, and lots of screaming, I think most of it was happy screaming. I may have to steal the Nerf gun Tate got, though, or at least modify it so he can pull the pump on it. The…
“Aggressive Panhandling” or Failed Mugging?
Triggered by something over at MonkeyPants, and realized her comment system would probably explode if I wrote my diatribe into there, so I put it here, instead. Working in the business district downtown, you get a lot of the guys who’re “from outta town who just need enough to get to SomewhereElse for a job…
30: Byevember.
Today started out really nice, and then kinda got bent outta shape. By the time dinner rolled around, I was a basket case. I’m good now. Laundry folded, kids long-since asleep, icecream has been nommed. We watched Pineapple Express and I either wasn’t stoned, or wasn’t 18 enough to enjoy it. Seriously, what was the…