So the Experimonth is over. How was it? Overwhelming is the best way to put it. Never did I think the grip of social media and current news would be so great on my psyche. I have given up other vices before (fast food, soda, alcohol, caffine) and none have been as hard (fyi, caffine was by far the hardest before this ( Read more... )

I've been a web designer for a long time now (15 years) and for some reason I still have issues trying to argue my design points to non-designers. This goes doubly for developers ( Read more... )

Also, I think we had one of the coolest logos:


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So during out house warming party this weekend the topic of the game column I wrote when I was a teenager came up. I then went to get the copy of all my columns from storage to show people. This has been sitting on my desk this week ( Read more... )

One thing I've noticed about social media, it's not particularly hard to give up when you're ignorant of what is going on around you. If I don't know who has what drama, or what the latest news is, there is definitely less of a thought about it at all. Doesn't usually cross my mind ( Read more... )

I suppose I haven't talked much about Jill since the funeral. Tom, her husband, gave a great eulogy and summed up her life well. The things that stick with me, and are very true, were that she was never a person to always give an answer right away. She would wait and think about things before she responded ( Read more... )

One thing Annette's uncle Tom is good at is telling stories. After the funeral we had a nice bonfire at their farm. Tom is a bit of an inventor, having come up with a device to easily show the level of grain bins which has has patented and now sells all over ( Read more... )

Just got back from a trip to Roseau to attend the funeral of Annette's aunt Jill. We knew this time would come soon, as Jill has been struggling with cancer. She was fairly young though (50 if I recall ( Read more... )

I've decided to make these posts for the month public, if only so I can refer back to them when the experiment is over. Perhaps that's an experiment in itself ( Read more... )

Piggybacking on my last post, I'm finding it easy to remember not to visit social media sites, but that then makes me go to my normal backup plan, that being watching TV or just reading the news ( Read more... )