The other day I Twittered “Why is no one emailing me when I’m desperately wanting a distraction from this work I’m doing?” Well, my friend Dan rose to the challenge, emailing me no fewer than FIVE distractions (thanks Dan! I knew I could count on you)! One of the said distractions was this article: “What […] →Read more
Earth Hour
Today at 8 p.m. local time, turn off your lights. The World Wildlife Fund is encouraging everyone to turn off their lights for one hour on March 29 at 8 p.m. local time as a statement about climate change. They call it Earth Hour and you can join up here to let them know you’ll […] →Read more
Welcome Gabriela Luongo
Word on the street is that Roberto Luongo and his wife Gina have had a baby girl, who they have named Gabriella. So congrats to them. And thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster that we will no longer have to hear the jackasses on the sports radio and TV shows saying: “Will Luongo miss a critical […] →Read more
Home From Yellowknife!
Home from Yellowknife. Too tired to blog much, beyond saying that Air Canada *sucks* and Canadian North rocks my world! Here, look at this pretty picture of an Inukshuk, I will tell you more about my trip to Yellowknife tomorrow. →Read more
Things You’ll Never Hear in Vancouver
“So, down south in Yellowknife…” “… and no one asked him why he stole the skidoo.” “I have an ice fishing sunburn.” →Read more
Yes, it really was.
I have bad hair dryer karma
I’m not making this up. I turned on the hair dryer in my hotel room and was thinking “Hotel hair dryers *always* break when I use them.” And then the hair dryer stopped working. Seriously. →Read more
Telus, Why Do You Have to Suck So Bad?
At 11:30 p.m. last night, I got ALL the text messages that were sent to me during the day yesterday. Apparently those texts couldn’t get through to me when I was sitting around Vancouver airport… or Edmonton airport. Or for the first 2.5 hrs I was in Yellowknife. Despite the fact that I was sending […] →Read more
Thoughts on a Flight From Edmonton to Yellowknife
Why, oh, why didn’t my travel agent tell me there would be a free meal on my flight? Because “chicken or pork” really doesn’t work for a vegetarian. It didn’t even occur to me to request a veggie meal, because it’s only a 1.5 hr flight and in the south, you don’t even get meals […] →Read more
Now I’m On The Plane!
I’m flying Air Canada to Edmonton and I have to say that the little individualized TV system they’ve got going on here suuuuuucks! With a capital SUCK. First, since it’s not a long enough flight to watch a movie, I decided to check the TV channels. But the TV channels are all named “Channel 1”, […] →Read more