You could not have written a better script if you tried. Canada loses to the USA in the preliminary round – needs to avenge this defeat. Beloved hometown goalie in net. The Americans tie up the game with only 30 seconds left to go in regulation! And then young superstar Crosby, who hadn’t done much […] →Read more
Public Health Achievement #2: Control of infectious diseases
Note: I’m not sure how, but I completely managed to miss writing about the February public health achievement during February. So I’m writing this in late March (because I suck) and back dating the post so it will show up in February in my blog archives. Because I’m not above back dating, apparently. One of […] →Read more
I cleared out the last of the stuff out of my old place today. Though I’d moved all the stuff I was keep to my new place a couple of weeks ago, I still had a pile of stuff to take to a thrift store and some old computer stuff to take to Free Geek. […] →Read more
Ok, so that was a close hockey game! Canada had a nice, comfortable 3-0 lead and then the Slovaks scored two and I nearly died of five heart attacks ((I totally stole this line from @enniscath. Because it perfectly sums it up)) . But thanks to Roberto Luuuuuuuongo ((as an aside, I love watching hockey […] →Read more
Hey, remember that Quatchi kid from Halloween? He’s back! Check out this adorable video! In related news, I have yet to see big Quatchi out and about during the Olympics. And I soooo want my picture with Quatchi! If anyone knows where I might find him, you be sure to let me know! OK, women’s […] →Read more
The internets gods have finally deemed me worthy enough to have my very own internets connection in my very own home. And what a great night for that to happen. Canada – and Canadian women in particular – kicked some ass at the Olympics tonight and I got to watch it all via the Internet […] →Read more
So this will be yet another micro blog posting as I am still without Internet connectivity and I’m pecking this blog posting out on my iPhone. The Telus guy was supposed to hook me up today but he said that the people at the office hooked me up to the wrong doohickey and he asked […] →Read more
I don’t know much about figure skating, but I had heard that Canada’s Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir were going into the last part of the ice dance competition, which was held tonight, in first place and so I watched because I wanted to see if they could pull off the gold. And pull it […] →Read more
When I bought the tickets for this afternoon’s women’s hockey game, I didn’t know who would be playing as it was a “classification” game, meaning that would would be playing was determined by the standings from the preliminary games. As it turns out, today’s matchup was Team China vs. Team Switzerland. Team China Team Switzerland […] →Read more