First real sign of spring -- went to work without a coat for the first time.  It's going to be 18C today.  Mind you, it is about to thunderstorm, and it looks like dusk here in Toronto at 9 a.m., but the point is I didn't need to bundle up.  Yea ( Read more... )

I hate it when news sites have "join the conversation" or "share your views" sections at the bottom of news stories. Rather than containing interesting back-and-forth discussions among members of the public, these sections tend to attract rants and moronic comments by weirdos and nitwits. The comments are rarely (or poorly) moderated.

There is an ( Read more... )

Earth Hour was night was pretty cool.  I expected about half the neighbours to switch off their lights, but we wandered outside and it was closer to 85-90%.   The occasional house was light up, whose residents either didn't get the message or don't care, but most houses were dark (you could see candle light through some front windows).  Some houses ( Read more... )

But I'll live ( Read more... )

Crap it snowed a lot this weekend.

I have a bad case of shovel shoulder today.

 What has happened to my beloved Ottawa Senators?  WTF ( Read more... )

 What is it with some people ( Read more... )

We spent the weekend in Montreal, which was a lot of fun.  I'm surprised that we were back there so soon, after having been stranded there by a snowstorm in December, but friends of ours asked if we would like to join them on a weekend getaway, so off we went ( Read more... )

 Since a couple of people on my flist have done it so far, I thought I'd start the weekend doing this meme:

- list five habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
- tag five people to do the same.

1.  My first "celebrity" crush was Boxey on the 1970s-era Battlestar Galactica tv show

I was 8 years old, and all I knew was that I wanted to hang out with Boxey, ( Read more... )

 Jack and I were in Montreal this weekend,  to do a bit of Christmas shopping (hello, Maison Simons), but mostly to see the Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir perform at their annual Christmas concert.  They were fantastic!  So worth the trip ( Read more... )