Occasional musings from a Left-coast Canadian ExPat in Oxford.
Neil and I were planning on taking an impromptu vacation over the Christmas break, partly to try and avoid being home to see if we could postpone closing on our new place until after the GST goes down on January 1st, and partly because we’re sad we won’t be in our new home for Christmas … Continue reading Picture Pages
Heather (aka fubsy, aka nuttymuffin, aka “the hotness”) has put together a 2008 calendar of her beautiful photographs. This is the same woman who captured me licking my new TiVo at BestBuy waaaaay back in 2005. That’s right – I pioneered the technology licking movement that won Tod Maffin his Wii. But I digress – … Continue reading Pretty as a Picture
1. One Laptop Per Child. I’m so doing this. 2. Firebug. You don’t even understand how much easier this just made my life. 3. Movember. The month is half over – don’t forget to donate to your favourite Mo’ Bro! Continue reading Three Things
Do you (bloggers) ever get to that point where you realize you haven’t written for a while, and you want to, but because it’s been so long you have no idea where to start – you want to apologize for not writing because it has been so long, but you’re not actually sorry because you … Continue reading Catch-all
Sitting at my desk, drinking coffee, chatting with colleagues about the long weekend past, and getting my workflow in order. I feel proud that I managed to shake off a poor night’s sleep and get in to work without incident. I smile at myself, take another sip of coffee, and run my tongue over my … Continue reading Mondays on a Tuesday
Camping Gear Originally uploaded by peechie. In anticipation of our upcoming canoe/camping trip, Neil and I went out this past weekend to stock up on supplies. We’ve both done our fair-share of camping, though it’s all been car-camping – the backpacking thing is pretty new to us. Of course, that meant we have gotten away … Continue reading Ow, my aching wallet!
A collection of random things, because I am seriously all out of drama for this week. I’m typing up a fact sheet and for some reason, my brain thought “Monitoring” and my fingers output “Minotauring” – because it’s important you get all your half-man/half-bull needs taken care of. We were supposed to be moving this … Continue reading How do you shave a Minotaur?