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Category Archives: Family

Holiday Visits = Tech Support Time

Went out to my parents’ for New Year’s Eve/New Year’s Day. As the image above notes, going home often means doing tech support – whether for Shea’s folks, my folks or anybody else I’m visiting. Not that I mind – I always am happy to have something I can contribute and am somewhat decent at […]

¶ Posted 02 January 2014 § Humour § Technology § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday, parents

I Thought Last Night Was When We Were Supposed to Stay Up Until Midnight, Not Tonight!

So why are both kids still up (and apparently making a break for it???)

¶ Posted 01 January 2014 § Humour § Pace § Photo § Sasha ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, holiday

Christmas 2013: By The Numbers

I haven’t blogged for a few days as I got overwhelmed and busy with that “real life” thing as Shea’s folks and mine joined us from the 27th until the 29th to have a belated Christmas together. Here are a few numbers from the past week… 0 – number of times I’ve left the house […]

¶ Posted 29 December 2013 § List § MemoryLane § Pace § Sasha § Shea § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday, language, parents

The Best Christmas Ever?

Only partly tongue-in-cheek, I often think that the best Christmas I ever had was when we were living in Calgary and Shea had to work on a 7am to 3pm shift on Christmas Day, leaving me all alone for the day. It sounds sad but it turned out to be a wonderful, relaxing, enjoyable day. […]

¶ Posted 25 December 2013 § MemoryLane § Pace § Sad § Sasha § Shea § Xmas ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: alberta, holiday, parents

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 24 – Keep Christ in Christmas (aka Another Fictional Superhero On Our Van)

I had a few ideas of how to wrap up this series of Atheist Advent posts – a look at how politics and religion intersect, a review of my theories of why people (really) are religious, a disclaimer about the nature of offense in general. I will spend some time on that last point. My […]

¶ Posted 24 December 2013 § Censorship § Humour § PopCulture § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: atheism, language, music, parents, xmas

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 23 – Music Monday – “I really like Christmas/It’s sentimental I know/But I just really like it/I’m hardly religious/I’d rather break bread with Dawkins than Desmond Tutu to be honest”

There was a method to my madness in posting a Tim Minchin song as my Music Monday selection for each of the past few weeks during my “Atheist Advent” series. It was all to lead up to Minchin’s ultimate achievement and one of the best non-traditional Christmas songs I’ve ever heard – funny, insightful, wistful, […]

¶ Posted 23 December 2013 § Censorship § Humour § MusicMonday § PopCulture § UK § Video § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, language, music, xmas

An Analysis of My YouTube Channel

I’ve been uploading videos to YouTube since 2006. This was the year we got our first digital camera. It was also the year when I was doing my Masters degree so I was very interested in all kinds of online services including online broadcasting. We were also living far from home so it was […]

¶ Posted 27 November 2013 § Blog § Humour § LibrarySchool § List § Meme § MemoryLane § Pace § Sasha § Saskatchewan § Shea § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: allinclusive, economics, google, parents

Grey Cup – Will We Win or Lose? One Quarter To Go! #gc101 #riders #greycup #yqr

I couldn’t decide whether to write a blog post before or after the game. So I’m splitting the difference somewhat and writing this near the start of the fourth quarter with the Riders leading 31-16. The Riders dominated the first half but as we saw in 2009, you have to play 60 minutes or else […]