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WordPress just ate the posting I spent the last 40 minutes carefully crafting. It was to be the next installment of my Prime Minister series. And Sir Charles Tupper is goddamn boring and I’m too damn tired to start it over now, so you will have to wait until tomorrow for it. In the meantime, […]
March 16 was my grandpa’s 85th birthday and I neglected to blog it! Just think about celebrating an 85th birthday- 85 years is a long, long time! Born in 1923, he’s seen 14 of the 22 Canadian Prime Ministers¹ in his lifetime. He’s had 6 kids, 9 grandkids, 10 great grandkids and 1 great, great […]
Happy St. Patrick’s Day. I’m 1/2 Irish, so Erin Go Bragh! Happy byelection day, if you live in Vancouver Quadra or any of the other ridings holding byelections. I cast my vote early this morning, and as of the time of my writing this blog posting (10:15 p.m.) Liberal candidate Joyce Murray is in the […]
Tonight, we won the championship game! Some photos from the post-game celebration in the dressing room: Next stop: Vegas tournament. And then it’s on to provincials in Kelowna in May!
A groin injury. Yup, I’m sitting here icing my groin. Hot, eh? Technically a strain of the adductor muscles of the inner, I think this injury is fairly common in hockey, what with all the quick starts and stops and suchlike. But I’ve never had one before and I have to say it’s not very […]
Man, two days of no blogging! I blame The Man. And fiscal year end¹. Anyhoo, since I’m sure that you are all dying to hear the random thoughts in my brain², here they are: I taught my last lesson to the grade 3-5 students that I was teaching Human Anatomy too. They are sooo damn […]
One year and one week and one day ago, I was unemployed and seriously wondering how I was going to continue to pay my rent, buy groceries, and basically, well, live. I was filling out the necessary paperwork to postponing the onset of my massive student loan payments on the basis of abject poverty. I […]
Sometimes, it feels like all I ever do is sort through email. I have my Gmail account, and my work email account and yet another email account at UBC, since I’m teaching there this term. I also have a variety of other emails (hotmail, yahoo, another Gmail account) that I almost never check and you […]
Today’s installment of “who wants to be bored by a vain 90+ year old” brings us the 5th Canadian Prime Minister, Sir Mackenzie Bowell. Name Sir Mackenzie Bowell Born: 23-12-27)December 27, 1823 in Rickinghall, England Died: December 10, 1917 Party: Conservative Held Office: December 21, 1894 – April 27, 1896 Best known for: -was a […]
What do you do if you live in Ottawa and are snowed under by 360 cm of snow? If you are Dave of Touch You Last, you hold your annual 24 hour movie marathon! That’s right, they are watching movies for 24 hours straight. They just reached the hour 7 mark and are watching Holes. […]