Not a usual time for a trip to Las Vegas, so how did this come about? Well, I got an invitation in the mail for a slot tournament at the Gold Coast Hotel/Casino, a place I've visited only oncee. I've always wanted to play in a big tournament and the price was pretty good. $99 for the tournament entry and 3 nights hotel stay. The more I thought ( Read more... )

I have so much catching up to do and who knows where the time goes. There's a trip to Texas to talk about, I'm not sure I posted about our January vacation ( Read more... )

Yup, another adventure with Greyhound. Currently in Cincinatti, waiting to reboard in moments. New buses, supposed to have wifi but not all of them do. Still, more legroom on lots of them and that's a good thing.

Packing up the computer before they call our bus. Only 27 more hours to go. :)

Where has the beginning of the year gone? Some has been swallowed by hibernation during some extremely cold weather, some absorbed by the end of the hockey lockout and the many hockey games that must be watched, some taken up by just plain working and yet more consumed by a short Vegas vacation with Nyssa and the planning for me upcoming trip to ( Read more... )

1. The Iron Petticoat (1956)
2. Min and Bill (1930)
3. The First Grader
4. Treasure of the Sierra Madre
5. The Hobbit
6. Alice Adams (1935)
7. Joan of Arc (1948)
8. A Star is Born (1937)
9. X-Files: I Want to Believe
10. X-Files: Fight the Future
11. The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
12. Gigi (1958)
13. The Star Witness (1931)
14. Travels with My Aunt (

1. Soul Identity - Dennis Batchelor
2. Unbroken - Rachel Caine
3. Time of Death - J.D. Robb
4. Celebrity in Death - J.D. Robb
5. Delusion in Death - J.D. Robb
6. The Next Queen of Heaven: A Novel - Gregory Maguire
7. Haven - Justin Kemppainen
8. The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans and the Mississippe Gulf Coast - Douglas Brinkley

According to columnist Scott Feschuk at MacLean's magazine, the Canadian winter has 7 stages, most of which involve despair.

Stage 1 - Anticipation, where we look forward to an end to the heat of summer.

Stage 2 - Despair. "The first cruel winds of November cut through us and we yearn to fall down die right there. Three days of hostile muttering ( Read more... )

I've been contemplating a review of the year, partly wondering if there's anything worth reviewing and partly wondering what all to fit in. Yeah, you caught on, it's mostly been just procrastinating on my part ( Read more... )

23. Family Enforcer ( Read more... )

17. Heist Society - Ally Carter
18. Beyond Reach - Karin Slaughter
19. 48 Hours in Vegas - Lonely Planet
20. One of 16 - Helen Robitaille
21. Sisters Brothers - Patrick DeWitt
22. Killing Floor - Lee Child
23. Claire de Lune - Christine Johnson
24. Hard Landing - Stephen Leather
25. Blessed - Cynthia Leitich Smith
26. Grave Goods - Ariana Franklin ( Read more... )