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One of the fancy pants things that my new car came with was a “Tire Pressure Monitoring System” – that is, an indicator light on the dashboard when the pressure in one of your tires is low ((someone, I believe it may have been Kalev, said that if my car was so “smart,” why doesn’t […] →Read more
So, my landlords sold the house I live in. When they first told me they were going to sell the house a few weeks ago, it sort of freaked me out as I have a pretty sweet deal on my basement suite and with new owners, anything could happen. In BC, if you live in […] →Read more
You may remember Shalu from such blog postings as her wedding two years ago. So why is she having a bachelorette party TWO YEARS after her wedding, I hear you ask? Well, Shalu never got a bachelorette because she had to go to India for a family emergency before her wedding, and her friend Andrea […] →Read more
My office is in a different building than the Director to whom I report. A little while ago he was in my office building for a meeting and dropped into say hello. Jokingly, he said that he was going to put on my performance report that I need more artwork on my walls – my […] →Read more
Yesterday was “phase 3” of Vancouver 2010 Olympic ticket sales ((Phase 3 was supposed to happen the previous Saturday, but there computer system was b0rked, so they made it yesterday instead.)). I hadn’t tried to buy tickets in phases 1 or 2 ((although my friend Rachel got a bunch of tickets in phase 2, so […] →Read more
Since getting my iPhone, I’ve become somewhat addicted to Scramble ((it’s Tod’s fault. He got me hooked on this game!)). It’s basically just a jumbled bunch of letters and you have to find as many words as possible in the jumble in 3 minutes. But I’ve noticed that a lot of the words it accepts […] →Read more
A few people brought this to my attention the other day: Apparently, in honour of the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street, Google made a bunch of Sesame Street Google logos. And since today is a numerically significant day – i.e., Friday the 13th (*thirteen!* *thirteen days in November!* ah ah ah ah ah!) and Google […] →Read more
Oh Thursday, you are a long, long day for me. In addition to my usual 1.5 hrs of commuting and 8 hours at my regular job, Thursdays this semester involve 3 hrs of night class ((an aside: some of my students told me tonight in class that they’d found my blog. So, if you are […] →Read more
I always have mixed feelings on Remembrance Day. Being somewhat of a pacifist and with the invasions that are referred to as “wars” these days, it does make me a bit uncomfortable. But on the flip side, I think of veterans who fought in wars like WWI ((such as my Great Grampa Snow, who fougtht […] →Read more
So apparently I spoke too soon. After being retired due to layoffs, then called back to work, then retired again due to layoffs, he’s been called back to work AGAIN! Apparently it’s just an 8 week call back, so he’s been given a “parole date” of Dec 31, 2009, but he’s not 65 until June, […] →Read more