Category: NaBloPoMo
As I type this, the Navigon GPS iPhone app is installing onto Bellatrix! As anyone who has ever met me knows, I suck at directions. Unlike my iPhone, I have no built-in compass. I’ve heard that most people can just feel which way is east and which way is west, but I totally cannot. When […]
..but there was a cat on my computer!
Did you ever have a friend ask you to make her toes famous on your fancy interwebs blogging site and you said you would and then you totally didn’t post the pictures? I know, it’s a tale as old as time, right? Anyway, the story went like this: I was at my friend Kim’s place […]
One of the fancy pants things that my new car came with was a “Tire Pressure Monitoring System” – that is, an indicator light on the dashboard when the pressure in one of your tires is low ((someone, I believe it may have been Kalev, said that if my car was so “smart,” why doesn’t […]
So, my landlords sold the house I live in. When they first told me they were going to sell the house a few weeks ago, it sort of freaked me out as I have a pretty sweet deal on my basement suite and with new owners, anything could happen. In BC, if you live in […]
You may remember Shalu from such blog postings as her wedding two years ago. So why is she having a bachelorette party TWO YEARS after her wedding, I hear you ask? Well, Shalu never got a bachelorette because she had to go to India for a family emergency before her wedding, and her friend Andrea […]
My office is in a different building than the Director to whom I report. A little while ago he was in my office building for a meeting and dropped into say hello. Jokingly, he said that he was going to put on my performance report that I need more artwork on my walls – my […]
Yesterday was “phase 3” of Vancouver 2010 Olympic ticket sales ((Phase 3 was supposed to happen the previous Saturday, but there computer system was b0rked, so they made it yesterday instead.)). I hadn’t tried to buy tickets in phases 1 or 2 ((although my friend Rachel got a bunch of tickets in phase 2, so […]
Since getting my iPhone, I’ve become somewhat addicted to Scramble ((it’s Tod’s fault. He got me hooked on this game!)). It’s basically just a jumbled bunch of letters and you have to find as many words as possible in the jumble in 3 minutes. But I’ve noticed that a lot of the words it accepts […]
A few people brought this to my attention the other day: Apparently, in honour of the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street, Google made a bunch of Sesame Street Google logos. And since today is a numerically significant day – i.e., Friday the 13th (*thirteen!* *thirteen days in November!* ah ah ah ah ah!) and Google […]