Category: travel
So I went skiing up at Whistler on Saturday. It’s pretty freaking awesome to live somewhere where you can get up in the morning and in less than 2 hours be on the slopes of some of the best skiing in the world. You can spend the entire day skiing and still get home in […]
The long weekend festivities started on Thursday with the world’s easiest Easter egg hunt at my office: The office Easter bunnies left lots of treats for everyone and they certainly didn’t make them hard to find! Then on Friday I headed over to Salt Spring Island. It was my first time going to any of […]
Spent the day driving to Ottawa with my family, as we are going to a friend’s wedding tomorrow night. The invitation says it’s a fancy-schmancy attire sort of occasion, so I’ve got a fancy dress, impractically tall shoes, and even some full length gloves for the occasion. My friends Sarah and Dave and their crew will […]
When I was in Ireland, I bought myself a Connemara marble ring, which I love and wear most days. One day back in August ((Holy cow, I can’t believe that was all the way back in August!)), I looked down at my ring and noticed that a chunk of the marble was missing: I knew I’d […]
So here I am at YVR, waiting for my flight to Toronto. It isn’t what I was expecting to be doing this Christmas, but, to use a phrase that I hate, it is what it is ((I mean, seriously, that phrase annoys the hell out of me. Of course it is what it is… it […]
So I’ve had a bit of a change of plans for my holidays and I’m going to be going to Toronto to spend it with my family ((Lest any burglar types be reading this, a friend will be staying in my apartment and my vicious attack cats and attack frogs will bite your face if […]
Translation of the title (assuming that Google Translate translated it correctly): My 13th half marathon: not the result I was hoping for, but I figure if I write this title in French it will sound more impressive. I was hoping to have called this blog posting “Lucky #13” and to be writing about how I’d finally run the […]
It has been 14 weeks since I started training for the Montreal demi-marathon. This training has been quite a bit different than my previous training sessions. Differences include: Over those 14 weeks, I’ve run all my runs straight through – no more 10-and-1s for me. I’ve run the majority of my runs in my zone […]
I wrote the following on the plane flying from Halifax to Montreal on Tuesday, which, as it turns out, was an unnecessary place for me to go. On a plane, somewhere between Halifax and Montreal. My flight was delayed, so I’m going to miss my connection to Toronto City Centre – though when I got […]
Item #46 (Go to Nova Scotia) has officially been knocked off my list of 101 things to do, as I am currently sitting in a hotel in Halifax writing this posting. I am here for a two day conference, during which I will be presenting some of my research. But since I left last night […]