the flying squirrel

Virgin mobile changed their pay-as-you-go plan a while ago. Used to be you could top up for any amount you wanted and it wouldn’t expire for 90 days. I don’t use the cell phone that much. I think I’ve only ever had to buy more than the minimum amount of credit to keep the account [...]

So I set out on my walk to work this morning and I got to a nice little path through the forest behind Cedarbrae school. I like that path. It’s nice. I saw blue jays there last week. I was listening to Red, which wasn’t off to the most promising start, and I was steadfastly [...]

I got a haircut yesterday. I went to my usual place. When it came to my turn the barber who was free happened to a rather attractive young woman with close-cropped shaved blonde hair. I’d gone in not really sure what I wanted done, except that I knew I needed a haircut. So what I’d [...]

My QuickPAD finally made its last trip to my door on Friday. Which meant I stood a chance of being able to pick it up yesterday. UPS has this interesting set-up for picking up packages. Even though they bought Mailboxes Etc. and have all these retail storefronts they could be using, if you want to [...]

The weather’s been too horrible to get out for lunch much lately. But I’ve been meaning to get back to Sayal Electronics up on Phillip to pick up some USB cables and look around for stuff. I love that store. It fills my heart with nerdy glee and makes me glad I live where I [...]

I’m typing this on a QuickPAD Pro that I’m borrowing from a friend at work. I have one on order, but I’m just trying his out. Mine’s currently doing a little dance with a UPS guy, futilely showing up at my door every day when it knows full well that I’m not home. It’s a [...]

I just noticed the other day that The Record wasn’t forcing you to buy their full newspaper subscription when you didn’t actually want any paper. (You could generously donate your unwanted newsprint to local schools, if you wanted). I was getting the Record in paper form for a while. The amount of paper they ship [...]

I’m back from Ad Astra. It was awesome. I am very tired. I’ll deal with that shortly. Before I do, though… I’d been pointing out the number of blog posts that Cory Doctorow, a guest at the con, was writing to Boing Boing as he was at the con. It was amazing. He whipped off [...]

The roads out there are stupid. There’s no way I’m going to risk trying to get to Ad Astra tonight. So I miss the party again this year. And I can’t deliver xio’s stuff. But this way both I and my car both survive to con another day. Seriously. I was crawling at 30kph all [...]

God, what a mess out there. Drove into work late this morning. We were just having a company meeting anyway, and I can do that just as easily at home. Of course, there’s no way I was gonna be out there walking. Thank god for snow tires. Called roof guy. I feel we’re making real [...]