Jill has a really nice post about being a parent that resonated as Shea and I head towards our son's first month on this planet (and after dad's first week back in the office.)Michelle also admits to some amount of shame at her lack of blogosity in comparison to my almost-daily-posting track record, especially with […]
…I wonder if it'll be a boy or a girl?
When I am If I were to be King of the Universe, every new mother would receive eighteen months of paid maternity leave at their full salary with no cap (right now, I think it's something like $1600/month as the maximum you can collect no matter what you make as a salary). There would […]
This is a subject that's been on my mind as a possible topic for a post since probably before I started this blog and came back to the forefront of my thoughts after getting some very nice compliments about the eulogy I did for my grandfather last week. I'm not a presentation expert by any […]
Have you ever had the experience of going into an electronics store and having a salesperson try to hard sell you an extended warranty before you've even committed to actually buying a product? There's a mixed view on these warranties which are licenses to print money for the electronics retailers – some people say you […]
The Internet Library of Early Journals is a digitized collection of journals from the 18th and 19th centuries. (via MetaFilter)
Home from BC and lots of catching up to do in terms of e-mail as well as other domestic chores. Back to work next Tuesday and the two weeks I had off for Pace's birth have passed way too fast, especially with a three-day detour in the middle of it. It was fitting that I […]
I'm sitting at the Kelowna Public Library using a temporary barcode and password (do all public libraries have this option for visitors? They should!) to check e-mail after a very long day. (I start to shake if I don't check e-mail at least every second day.) The funeral was good – the Royal Canadian Legion did a […]
Mike T. sent this along and I'm reprinting it with his permission (though technically, I only asked if I could reprint the list – I hope he doesn't mind me reprinting the whole e-mail.) Enjoy. I know that you probably won't believe me, but the first month is actually really easy compared to months 2-18. […]
I don't do a lot of link dump posts but I've had a few things sitting open in tabs for the past couple weeks that had the potential to be full-fledged posts…except now, the baby has all but wrecked my ability to write anything for an extended length of time so this is what you […]
