Today is the day I introduced J to the Firefly tv 'verse.  It's winter here in the northern climes, albeit within an unusually mild climate pocket considering what is happening snow-wise just about anywhere else and in unusual places, too, like Britain.  Winter is as good a time as any to spend indoors engrossed in a Firefly dvd marathon.  At least ( Read more... )

Early this morning I met Bruce Willis. He's in town and participating in the screenings of the initial dailies of Red, including the hair and makeup tests. It is extremely unusual for an actor to be involved in the post production aspects of film making; in fact it is unusual at such an early stage of a film's proceedings for anyone on the ( Read more... )

So I'm all showered & shaved & dressed & packed up and halfway out the door when my daughter appears, bleary-eyed and pyjama clad. (Which considering nezoc has just endured an entire night of the auditory aspects of marital relations 'tween nezocdottir and son-in-law, at the very least demonstrates a certain belated respect for decorum, for which I ( Read more... )

In the way some lives go, this particular (part time) Livejournal blogger has ended up treating his ownself to a 50th birthday present.  I realise how pathetic that sounds, but fwiw I'm okay with it, having all my life generally been comfortable with alone time.  If that sounds like a rationalisation, so be it.  I've had a fair amount of difficulty ( Read more... )

Make of this what you want, good peeps.  Personally, my attitude toward these quickie personality assessments is... poor.  But I had a moment of boredom while plugged into the great wide interweebs, and this is one result of random clickage.

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THE ISSUES THAT LEAD TO MISUNDERSTANDING AND CONFLICT

• ACCOMPLISHMENT really boils down to social and ( Read more... )

Within 3 minutes of deplaning at YVR one notices a palpable difference 'tween Vanouver and Toronto:  one immediately has healthier food options.  During the walk from the tarmac to the baggage carousel there were 10 restaurant/fast-fooderies featuring veggies and fruits as their primary fare.  In Toronto, the count will rapidly not exceed that fine ( Read more... )

Who contracts a cold in August ( Read more... )

A quote which speaks to my current frame of mind.

“ 'I’ve always wanted to sail the South Seas, but I can’t afford it.' What these [people] can’t afford is not to go. They are enmeshed in the cancerous discipline of “security”. And in the worship of security we fling our lives beneath the wheels of routine - and before we know it, our lives are gone ( Read more... )

Damn. I used to have decent penmanship, and it's just flat-out become crap.

When did I start writing in nothing but block caps while filling out all these forms? Since then, what used to be legible cursive with a definitive style has disappeared. And in those many years since, my need to actually write anything has slowly disappeared, replaced by ( Read more... )

I work way too much.  During the week it's not so bad, just the normal 8 hours routine.  It's the fact that I'm going in every weekend ( Read more... )