I'm about six days into New Years and I've already failed some of my resolutions ( Read more... )

I walked downtown today and had a coffee with a girlfriend. After we were done she told me she'd give me a ride back so we sat and waited for her boyfriend to pick her up. She turned on her 'Where's my iPhone App' and punched in his ID. The GPS brought in his coordinates so she knew he was just a few minutes away ( Read more... )

If it's not too late, I'd like to be Tina Fey when I grow up.

So Calgary is an international sensation! The floods of 2013 have made the front cover of CNN. People from Korea knew about our catastrophe while many of us were still laying pants-less in our apartments. The province of Alberta had some major flooding, particularly in the South and a lot of damages in High River ( Read more... )

Eric and I haven't been to Scrabble club for the entire month of May due to vacation, work, family and board games and drinks nights with friends! So I haven't seen Calgary Scrabble folks for a while ( Read more... )

I'm not sure jet-lag works on me. I woke up at 8am this morning and couldn't get back to sleep. More on the Asia trip later. (Highlights include: Gab's nazi food tour -- he made us eat when we were all full to the bursting point; a gecko visiting us at night in Vietnam; taking a 10 minute cab ride for a distance we could have walked in about three ( Read more... )

I guess part of growing up is also dreaming about new house appliances. If only I were willing to shell out $400 for a hoover vacuum cleaner. Or a roomba.

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I was playing a friend on ISC. I would say that this person wins about 70% of the game. He has better wordknowledge and better strategy. Most of the wins that I do get are mainly due to drawing better -- or occasionally finding a random/obscure play ( Read more... )

I'm a huge fan of New Years Resolutions. Even though (when I still worked out at the gym) I always secretly loathed people that would take up gym space in January. I do think it's great -- getting your body into shape or whatever. I mean, even if you fail, you still had a good month/few weeks or whatever ( Read more... )

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