As thanks for working on the weekend, my boss is both giving me time of in lieu (which I was expecting), but also a free book from Amazon of any non-fiction book (ie, any kind of learning resource).

Hello The Canadian Dictionary of ASL, I have been eyeing you for quite some time.

As has happened with some friends of mine, my sweet tooth has changed. I never had a huge sweet tooth to begin with, but it's crazy how it can change. I tried a diet pepsi recently (which has always been sweeter than diet coke), I couldn't have more than about 10-15% of the bottle, I couldn't choke it down for the sweetness of it. While packing up ( Read more... )

Watching the clips of the Manitoba controlled flood is a bit of a surreal experience. First of all my imagination conjured a torrent of water coursing through an evacuated landscape. It's so much slower than that, just a gradual, lazy ooze across the countryside, following road culverts and so forth, with people in trucks driving around along the ( Read more... )

Happy naked gardening day ( Read more... )

Last night I went to see the filmed version of the Broadway show Memphis ( Read more... )

1 week away.

In a late-night appearance in the East Room of the Imperial Palace, Lord Vader declared that “justice has been done” as he disclosed that agents of the Imperial Army and stormtroopers of the 501st Legion had finally cornered Kenobi, one of the leaders of the Jedi rebellion, who had eluded the Empire for nearly two decades. Imperial officials said ( Read more... )

yegads...the winging ( Read more... )

Woooo ( Read more... )

On top of everything else, my car lease is up in June, so I also get to start going car shopping. I'll probably do that during the 2 weeks I have already taken off work ( Read more... )