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A blog posting over on Rick’s blog reminded me that it’s the end of Q1 for 2015 and this a good time to check in on how I’m progressing on my 2015 goals! My first 4 goals were running related: run 2 half marathons – I’ve registered for (and am actively training for) the BMO […] →Read more
I think someone forgot to tell Watson that he’s a cat, as he is strangely obsessed with eating green vegetables. Cucumber is his absolute favourite, but he also likes lettuce, spinach, green beans, and asparagus. One time I had a container of small tomatoes in a variety of colours and he reached in and grabbed […] →Read more
Yesterday afternoon at work my throat started to get a little bit sore. Being a “walk it off” type of person when it comes to illness ((A trait I inherited from my Dad, for sure.)), I had a cup of tea and figured that should fix me up. Went to a board meeting after work […] →Read more
Here are some things that are too long to tweet, but too short to make into whole blog postings on their own. I like to be annoying One of my favourite things to do when I play hockey is to screen the goalie. I like to get right in her way so she can’t see, […] →Read more
A colleague of mine was making a series of videos ((I posted this on Twitter the other day, but I figured I’d post it here so that I’ll be able to find it again when I want to. Twitter is like a black hole that all my various witty remarks disappear into, never to be […] →Read more
A friend of mine and I have taken up home brewing, because science. It’s a long story that I’ll blog about later, but suffice it to say that we recently finished our first batch and it was, shall we say, suboptimally carbonated. Tasted quite good for a first batch, if I do say so myself, […] →Read more
I was sure that I’d posted this blog posting back in mid-January, but I just discovered it sitting in my “Drafts” folder, so apparently I did not. At any rate, I’m posting it now! As of January 1st, it has been illegal to send any organic waste to the landfill in Metro Vancouver ((“Metro Vancouver” […] →Read more
Spent the weekend on the Island, as my friend Rachel invited me to give a guest lecture on stats in her research methods class ((I gave this same type of lecture 4 years ago, but haven’t been back to do it since then as I got busy with that whole MBA thing, so I couldn’t […] →Read more
When my dad was young, he was in the Sea Cadets ((Or were they called Navy Cadets?)). And when you got in trouble in Sea Cadets – which for my Dad was, apparently, quite frequently – they made you do chores. Now, my dad hated to do the dishes ((Clearly, I have inherited my loathing […] →Read more