Category: awesomeness
Along the Coquihalla highway, there are a series of signs with the names of Shakespearean characters on them. On the way up to Kelowna, I was all “I’m *totally* going to take photos of those on the way back and post them on my blog because they are awesome!” As it turns out, this was much […]
Hey, remember how I spent weeks tweeting and Facebooking that you should vote for my friend Rick to win a trip to hike in Banff and get a bunch of money from a charity of his choosing? As it turns out, he won that ((Officially, he came in second, but the first place guy turned […]
So, we are back from our whirlwind trip to Portland ((Well, technically to Onalaska, WA, Portland, and various other places in Oregon state.)) and are now hanging out on Vancouver Island ((After a very poorly planned attempt to take the ferry from Ancortes to Vancouver Island.)), ((Instead, we had to drive through the Peace Arch […]
Yesterday, I faced hordes of zombies and… I came out a zombie myself! I had such high hopes that I could run through the 5 km zombie obstacle course race, otherwise known as Run for Your Lives (in Washington State) and not be eaten, but it turns out that the undead got the better of me. […]
Well, they will be on August 4. After much talking about it, I have finally got around to officially registering for the Run for Your Lives zombie obstacle course race, being held about halfway between Seattle & Portland on the August long weekend. Special props go out to Dr. Erika, who brought this race to […]
Today is my sister’s birthday. And what can I say about my sister that I haven’t already said? If you’ve been a reader here for any length of time, you know that my sister is a made of kickass, wrapped in awesomeness, dipped in brilliance, and deep-fried in best-sister-ever-ness. My sister is my go-to person […]
I’m doing a presentation at an All Staff meeting at work next week on “A Day in the Life of the Evaluation Specialist”. I figure since most people have no idea what I do and about half the time I get introduced as an epidemiologist, this might be a neat opportunity to spread the word […]
So, remember how I mentioned that Devon has some mad bartending skills? Well, he picked up those skills when he lived in the UK, where he just so happened to be a bartender. And while being a bartender in the UK, he also picked up a love of Blavod, a jet black vodka that is […]
Because I was having a grumpy day not too long ago, my sister drew me these pictures of robots. With flames. Because who wouldn’t be cheered up by robots and flames? No one, that’s who! And who doesn’t need such pictures adorning their work computer to make them all happy, all the time? No one, […]
In my ongoing birthday series of Things That Important People in My Life Have Taught Me, it’s time for a birthday shout out to my brother-in-common-law ((i.e., my sister’s partner)), Jeff. What Absolute Niceness Looks Like The very first time I met Jeff was on a trip back to Toronto for Christmas. I arrived during the day when […]