My sister and I inherited a love of cooking and baking from our mom. I have very fond memories of baking things as a kid and, as I’ve mentioned before, baking is how I learned fractions! Since we often share recipes, my sister decided to start us up a joint account over at All Recipes.com […] →Read more
So, the car that we rented at the Calgary airport had a GPS in it. The hilariously named “Hertz Never Lost” system. Which got us lost both on the way to and the way back Kananaskis. Several times it told us to “stay left at the fork” when the was no fork,told us to take […] →Read more
So, I decided to go out for a little run today. This was the path I decided to run along: Not too bad of scenery to have as the backdrop to my run, eh? And as I was lost in thoughts such as “I wonder what world leaders have gone for a run along this […] →Read more
I’m writing this from a hotel in Kananaskis – a nice little weekend getaway at the start of what is going to be an insanely busy month at work ((why did ALL of my big projects decide to have major things happen in June? And then data collection that wasn’t supposed to be done until […] →Read more
For the couple of weeks, I’ve been in the mood to try out some new recipes. And, you know, every time I cook something new, I’m reminded how much I love cooking! It can be so easy just to cook up something from my usual repertoire ((my current staples are Spinach/Tofu/Chickpea Curry, wraps with refried […] →Read more
Here’s a bunch of random stuff that each aren’t long enough to make a blog posting on their own, but collectively make up a bunch of random stuff. Some very cool people are getting honourary doctorates at UBC ((I hope to get an HonDoc some day. Because I have a fascination with collecting letters to […] →Read more
So, yeah, remember like a million years ago when I was writing a series of postings on BC Premiers – one posting every Sunday – as an excuse to learn a bit about BC history? And then I kind of just didn’t do it for the last eight months? Well, I’ve decided to start doing […] →Read more
I received this text message yesterday: First of all, my birthday is not on May 30. Second, May 30 is a Sunday and my cell phone plan comes with unlimited evenings and weekends. So yeah, thanks for nothing, Telus! →Read more
OK, so I’m actually slight more than halfway to the 1001 days alluded to in the blog posting “101 in 1001 for my 1000th post.” Halfway was actually a day and half ago – it’s been 502 days since I published my list of 101 things I intended to do in the subsequent 1001 days. […] →Read more