Colleen and I have been married for NINE YEARS. Seems like forever. It’s not really forever, but really, if you factor in all the time we’ve been considered as “an item” by the casual outsider in addition to the whole married thing, we’re only two years off from being together longer than we’ve not been […]

…this is me. check out the link to the right (→) for more xkcd goodness. I filled it with playpen balls, -chuck wow, this isn’t a bathroom floor post! Huzzah!

When we last left the action in the saga of the bathroom floor, I’d gotten a call that the floor guys hadn’t received our materials from the supplier, so work wouldn’t be able to commence on Friday as planned. We were pencilled in for Tuesday. Frustrating, but, alas, par for this particular course. Saturday morning […]

“Under the “Commercial Radio Policy, 35 per cent of all music aired each week on all AM and FM stations must be Canadian. In addition, 35 per cent of music broadcast between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. Monday through Friday must consist of Canadian content.” In the MAPL spirit, my ipod presents this week’s random […]

The floor place called me this afternoon. Apparently, my materials haven’t arrived at the store yet, so I won’t be coming home from work tomorrow to a pretty new bathroom. damn. They’re going to call me tomorrow to reschedule. I don’t see it happening until next week. damn again. At least they had the decency […]

Assuming no more problems, tomorrow, the bathroom floor will be done (it better be, I’ve paid the up-front deposit already!). Tonight’s going to involve some heavy lifting, getting the washer and dryer out of the way (got a hand truck for that, shouldn’t be a problem), and getting all the stuff that’s fallen into the […]

So, the plans to hit the cheap movies at the new multiplex collapsed right about the time we saw the line snaking all the way around the attached mall. After lunch and  a quick trip to the bookstore, we headed home.  However, since Andrew’d been such a good kid for the morning, Mary hadn’t been, […]

I believe my house may be trying to drive us away. Of course, if it keeps breaking little bits of itself like this, I’m going to be unable to sell it to anyone. So, if the property is indeed sentient or haunted by a Spielbergian Poltergeist, it probably ought to have thought its cunning plan […]

It’s pretty ubiquitious, so I shouldn’t need to explain it, but I will: Grab your digital music player of choice, hit shuffle, take note of the first ten songs that play, post ’em to your blog. Angeline is Coming Home (live) – The Badlees Kings of Metal – Manowar Buddy Holly – Barenaked Ladies The […]

The floor measurement’s done; they have our requirements and can work up a good estimate. Of course, the floor place, perfectly reasonably, is stretching out their Independence Day weekend (I really should have done that…), and won’t be back in the office until Monday. “Share it fairly but don’t take a slice of my pie” […]