My parents' cat Simba was just begging to be LOLed.  Vote for him if you like :)


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I have a new first cousin once removed!!!  Man, I wish there were an easy word for that relationship as succinct as "uncle" or "niece", but I guess "cousin" will have to do ("my father's brother's daughter's daughter" is a bit unwieldy too).

My wonderful cousin Rachel in New York gave birth this past evening to a baby girl - I am told she is ( Read more... )

I have a shorter and longer trip booked in the next two months:

Seattle long weekend:
Arrive in Seattle the night of Thursday, November 15
Depart Monday, November 19 mid-morning

I'm excited to see
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Andrew Van de Kamp (Shawn Pyfrom) appeared in drag as Cher tonight for Hallowe'en on Desperate Housewives.


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If Stephen Harper's going to be such an ass about creating a non-consensus Throne Speech to engineer his own defeat or otherwise take it as a mandate to rule as if he has a majority government...

Then I think Stéphane Dion should have a nice little heart-to-heart with Michaëlle Jean.  See, Dion could throw the House in a confidence vote, approach ( Read more... )

This was typed on my laptop en route to Vancouver.  The woman beside me looked over my shoulder and thought I was writing a complaint letter to Sunwing. She wished me good luck with that.  I'm glad she wasn't spying on something a bit more personal ;-)

There's something to be said for the "discount" concept.  I decided to try out Sunwing because ( Read more... )

There's something about sitting down and writing about an experience that makes it a bit more real.  This was one of the joys that first attracted me to blogging.  But what happens when life starts to take a turn for the irrational, the distressing, the surreal ( Read more... )

When something just isn't right and nobody is noticing... I kvetch.*

And sometimes I get published :)

Yay for noticing something perplexing before any local media outlet caught onto it.  It turns out that my concerns about Vancouver riding boundaries are temporarily a moot point while the BC government remakes the legislation that resulted in these ( Read more... )

The following is taken from my Tutor.com monthly newsletter:

Q: The Governor is having dinner with the Secretary of State. The Secretary of State asks if he has any children. The Governor said yes, three daughters. The Governor adds that the product of their ages is 36 and that the sum of their ages is his house number. The Secretary of State runs ( Read more... )

Oh man... only a couple weeks after my first anniversary of arriving in Vancouver, it occurs to me that I might like to get a Library card for those occasional moments when I want to get some reading material that doesn't typically populate a university library.

So I go to the VPL web site and.... oh yeah, that's right.  There is no website.  Cause ( Read more... )