Last night, Shea and I ended up having a pitcher of beer at a gay bar down the street (our hostel is on the edge of the Gay Village and since we'd already gone the other direction during the daytime, we went into the village at night.) I'm a bit disappointed that I didn't get […]
Despite the ribbing I took from my much hipper, cooler acquaintances (who only listen to Franz Ferdinand and Sufjan Stevens), the Willie Nelson and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band concert was excellent last night. What can I say? Both are part of growing up in rural Saskatchewan and ironically, the opening act are probably more […]
You can play too! If anybody reading this wants to be listed here with a look-a-like, just send me a mug shot of yourself that's at least 150 pixels high and some idea of where I might get a similar looking image of your celebrity look-a-like online. Of if you trust me enough, just […]
The Central Broadcasting Company decided that appeasing the fans across the border in Detroit was more important than showing the playoff games of Canada's own 2004 Stanley Cup finalist, Calgary Flames. So every CBC station east of Calgary showed the Detroit-Edmonton playoff game and for those of us without digital cable (or any cable at […]
A friend who went to my high school lives in London and told me before I came that I would not believe what people throw out here. “At first, I was a bit embarrassed to grab the perfectly good furniture and electronics and other stuff people would leave on the curb. I got over that […]
The parents have left, Shea's at work and I'm just relaxing a bit, enjoying having the apartment completely to myself for the first time in ages. Took it easy on M&D's final day here – slept in a bit then drove around looking for a place to eat. All were busy or closed or being […]
I'm sitting in a hotel room in TO watching the Flames versus the Ducks in Game One of the Stanley Cup playoffs after another whirlwind trip – this time visiting relatives in Georgetown and Grand Valley north of Toronto yesterday and this morning with my parents. The three of us came into Toronto Friday at […]
…and then I'll shut up about it. In a blog post after I won, I said I'd put a “what I really wanted to say” acceptance speech online (as opposed to what I did say having not really prepared a speech and being half-drunk and trying to talk while standing on a chair in a […]
Spent the last couple days touring SW Ontario. Here's the brief itinerary… Thamesville – this is where Shea's mom spent a summer when she was a teenager and made a friend named…Shea who (obviously) became (my) Shea's namesake. Also saw the house that Shea's mom stayed in that summer. Chatham – we met “Uncle Barney” […]
Hard to believe I'm finished my first semester as of today! I got my course registration list for the summer a couple days ago: 506 Management 525 Managing Internet Information Services 566 Children's and Young Adult Literature 697 Individual Study 746 Special Topic: Introduction to Collection Development Practices in Academic Libraries I'm going to do […]
