here’s a list of people whose passing in 2010 i noted *holds hand over heart* ..

~ Willie “Papa” Mitchell (january 5)
~ Arthur C. Farrington aka Art Clokey (january 8)
~ Aunt Chris (january 12 ( Read more... )

here’s a list of people whose passing in 2009 i noted *holds hand over heart~ William Devereux Zantzinger (january 3 ( Read more... )

gone for sixteen days ( Read more... )

here’s a list of people whose passing in 2008 i noted *holds hand over heart*~ Philip Agee (january 7 ( Read more... )

politics has been a bit more prominent than usual recently ~ here in canada we had a federal election on october 14, and then there was a by-election in my provincial riding on october 29 because the incumbent MLA stepped down in order to make a run for mayor, and that municipal vote was held on november 15th ~ all three layers of government, from ( Read more... )

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i was sitting here listening to the sens come back to beat the florida panthers 2-1, surfing the net .. and i visited wall flowers to find that as of february 2009 they are pulling the plug. O_O ( Read more... )

a couple years ago i inherited a sofabed and a couple of floor lamps .. i set one up behind the sofa and put the other in the opposite corner by my computer ~ the bulb burnt out about six months ago, and my lazy solution was just to swap in the other lamp ~ until it too died about a month ago. i took a look at the bulb, thinkin i’d head out n get ( Read more... )

i’m not sure if you’d call me a luddite, although that word has sort of followed me around ~ the classic definition is one who is opposed to technology, and that’s not entirely accurate. i am not against technology as such .. i reap many benefits from it personally, and besides, i wouldn’t want to live in the stone age ~ even twigs are technology ( Read more... )

the following article came up in a recent conversation with me brudda, and i couldn’t find it whilst i was on the phone but i did track it down eventually ..

as an aside ~ my first introduction to ann coulter was a clip from CNN wherein she said that we canadians should be grateful that the U.S. allows us to share this continent ~ adding that ( Read more... )