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I was at Office Depot the other day and came across this (below… I’m writing this on my phone and the WordPress app doesn’t seem to let you put photos in the middle of a posting – just puts it at the bottom). It’s in one of those fill-in-the-blank legal contract kits ((incidentally, it was […] →Read more
I was at the library the other day and I grabbed a bunch of books that I thought looked interesting. This was one of them: I generally like giving books a chance and even if a book isn’t very good, I have this irrational need need to finish it. But not this time. I actually […] →Read more
The other day I tweeted that I needed an Irish recipe for a St. Patrick’s Day potluck, as my office does a potluck for holidays. I wanted to do something Irish as we don’t have many people of Irish descent in my office ((in fact, I don’t know of anyone else but me, though, admittedly, […] →Read more
I was in a meeting today and one of the people was talking about the services provided by the organization they work for and when they mentioned a volunteer component and it hit me – I haven’t done any volunteering in a long, long time. Back in the day I used to be a candy […] →Read more
For the uninitiated ((where “uninitiated” = everyone except Kalev and I, who invented Pi Boxing Day last night)), Pi Boxing Day is the day when one traditionally boxes up all the uneaten pie from Pi Day. Except, of course, that you ate all the pie. Which makes Pi Boxing Day the best holiday because it […] →Read more
Many people celebrate Pi Day by eating pie. I prefer to celebrate it by being irrational. -Dr. Beth In honour of Pi Day, I have hounded demanded of nicely asked my Official Statistician & Tattoo Consultant for some wise words about pi to share with you, my lovely readers ((After all, it is his first […] →Read more
I’m sitting here watching Canada play Italy in Paralympic sledge hockey ((on TV, not live. I’ll be watching live sledge hockey on Wednesday night)) and it got me wondering how and when sledge hockey was created. So, thanks to the wonder of Wikipedia, I now know that: sledge hockey was created in the early 1960s […] →Read more
Today, my friend Jen defended her PhD! I didn’t get to attend the defence because The Man made me go to work all day, but I heard from people that were in attendance that Jen rocked it! Not that there was any doubt that she would! Here’s a poor quality photo I took of Jen […] →Read more
Between Monday and Wednesday, I drove ~600 km. I’m actually really looking forward to having a full day in my office tomorrow – sooo much to catch up on! Also, because it’s now mid-March, I will, like last year, be blaming everything on fiscal year end until the end of the month. Find a typo […] →Read more