Category: rampant narcissism
We are more than 5/12 of the way through 2017 and first of all, how is that even possible? It feels like it was just New Year’s! But secondly, it seems like a good time to check in on my goals to see if I’m even remotely on track before the year completely gets away […]
In not so serious but absolutely important news, Dr. Dan, Rick, and I have spent the last several months painstakingly exploring our respective genealogies to uncover a really random piece of shared ancestry. And for all it’s click-bait worthiness, you’ll be surprised to learn what that is. Apparently, way back in the old-time-y days of […]
Way back in the old time-y days of 2016, the mailbox in my building got broken. Apparently it was quite old and it had been repaired several times, but this time it was no longer repairable. So we had to order a new one. But it was December and the mailbox making place was on […]
So I finished reading The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing – a book by Marie Kondo, a Japanese tidying consultant. Because apparently that’s a job. Her basis premises for tidying is that: you should start by discarding a bunch of stuff before you even think about storing stuff you […]
Two words for you: laser tag. Anyone who didn’t celebrate their milestone-birthday-whose-number-shall-not-be-named by playing laser tag really missed out. You will not find a finer group of laser taggers than this crew. I knew I wanted to do something different for my birthday this year and after much deliberation, I settled on laser tag. I […]
As we all know, Bething Day is the Bethmas equivalent of Boxing Day, so I naturally had to go out and buy myself something. Or I happened to go out to do a bunch of errands and happened to buy myself something while I was out doing said errands and then I happened to retroactively called […]
So today I turned 40 ((For my American friends, the legal drinking age here in BC is 19, so my math in the title is actually correct. In two years, my 21st birthday could go down to Seattle to go drinking.)). It seems pretty hard to believe because I don’t feel a day over 26 […]
I’ve been hemming and hawing about what to do about my goals for 2017. I typically do a lot of the same things – earn a certain number of race medals, knock a certain number of items off my 101 list, and perennial favourite goal that I never manage to achieve (run a sub 2-hr […]
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. It was mostly the worst of times, but there was some good stuff in there too. The worst of times ((OK, it wasn’t actually the “worst” of times. That was hands down 2006.)) On a global scale, the US election makes 2016 the […]
The following was written on a plane earlier today. I’m on my way home from my whirlwind Christmas holidays and realized that I have to do 9 blog postings in the next 2.5 days to achieve my goal of publishing 116 blog postings in 2016. So I figure I better get writing! I have a few […]