Today is the day 2 of the Canadian Evaluation Society conference in Victoria. And, as I did yesterday, I’m using my blog as a dumping ground for my conference notes. For my regular blog readers, again please feel free to ignore these postings and I promise to blog about zombie uprisings again soon. Jennifer Walinga […] →Read more
Today is the first full day of the Canadian Evaluation Society conference in Victoria. And, has become my custom, I’m using my blog as a dumping ground for my conference notes. Because that way I’m pretty sure I’ll be able to find them when I want them later (as opposed to them being on paper […] →Read more
Last night I went to a lovely wedding on a boat (congrats to Tanya & Barry on their nuputals!). We had to leave at 5:30 p.m. to go to Granville Island to board the boat. But the first game of the Canucks second round playoff series started at 5 p.m. and as we all know, […] →Read more
Tomorrow, Alicia and I will be running the 8 km race at the BMO Vancouver International Marathon. We are training to run the Scotiabank half marathon in June ((why are banks such big fans of running??)) and figured that the 8 km would be a nice training run ((though our scheduled Sunday training run for […] →Read more
Kalev and I are about to see the new documentary on sleep disorders. It’s called A Nightmare On Elm Street and, as far as I can tell from the trailer, it’s about the correlation between being young and hot and experiencing disordered sleep. →Read more
In BC, we are experiencing an outbreak of measles, with 83 confirmed cases in the province as of May 10. It is believed that measles came into the province from people who were visiting during the Olympics ((although another case appears to have come from someone returning home to the Interior after visiting India)) and […] →Read more
Since I don’t seem capable of writing an entire cohrent blog posting of late, here are a bunch of random things that have been floating around in my brain lately: When I moved, I had my Internet service changed from my old apartment to my new apartment. The service was changed, but not the billing […] →Read more
Where is the iPhone app that reads my thoughts and records blog posting ideas that I have while I’m running, driving, or otherwise unable to record them? I always have lots of *brilliant* ideas in these situations, but by the time I get to a place where I could record them, they’re gone. Case in […] →Read more
Things I have done this evening: went grocery shopping made dinner made tomorrow’s lunch made tomorrow’s dinner unloaded the clean dishes from the dishwasher ((Have I mentioned that I *love* having a dishwasher?)) loaded the dirty dishes into the dishwasher ((Love it long time)) tidied the kitchen took out the garbage sanitized the garbage can […] →Read more
Ice cream. Looks like I need to go buy another box of those ice cream cones for Round 2. Also, when I was out for my run today, I was running on Kits Beach and saw the monument to George Alexander Burrows that, every time I run buy it, makes me think “He spells his […] →Read more