the flying squirrel

I’m throwing my usual New Year’s party tonight. I still have to vaccuum the living room, but I think I’m mostly ready at this point. I’ve got three screens set up for video games or watching stuff, two tables set up for video games, and a couple more old Commodore monitors and an extra table [...]

From all of us, to all of you. Merry Christmas! :D Have a Christmas kitty.

One thing I sorely miss about Belleville when I’m living in Waterloo has to be municipal sidewalk clearning. 9:30am the morning after a spectacular snowstorm and the sidewalks are clear and easily walkable. All of them. Everywhere. I know that by the time I’ll have to walk to work in the morning, I’ll still have [...]

I haven’t taken the train in ages. There isn’t an easy train you can get straight from Kitchener to Belleville and back (unless you want to get up very early morning and wait a couple hours in Toronto). It takes about three times as long to get home, taking delays into account, and costs about [...]

As I’m writing this, I’m listening to a CD comprised entirely of bootleg Christmas remixes. Even under current copyright, this stuff shouldn’t exist. And while most of it’s kind of awful (but awful in a good way, I think), there are tiny bits of beautiful brilliance that should exist. Today, Canadian Industry minister Jim Prentice [...]

Apparently having not learned my lessons from last winter’s leaky roof adventure, I didn’t quite get around to cleaning the leaves out of the eaves troughs before the snow came. Over the last couple weeks, ice was starting to build up again. In my defense, there was only about a week between the leaves falling [...]

So the first time I go to the gym and do much of anything, I nearly pass out. This is not a good sign. And this is annoying, since one of the reasons I wanted to start going to the gym was because I figured this near-fainting thing was just due to me being incredibly [...]

Back during one of my co-op terms in Belleville, I got it into my head that I wanted to bike out to my grandparents’ place on Purdy St–way the hell the other side of town. Now Belleville’s not an incredibly big town, but that’s still a substantial bike ride. You’re going downtown towards the river, [...]

I’m on the lookout for local restaurants serving organic foods–meats especially. So I was impressed that the recent Networking column buried in the business section of the Record had two potential options. One was the Exhibit Cafe, located in the Children’s Museum in downtown Kitchener. By the sound of it, they deal in light lunch [...]

I was doing pretty well up until the last week too… Ah well, maybe next year. Actually, I kinda want to try WriMo again next year. We’ll see what’s going on with stuff, I guess. What it came down to, basically, was the stuff I was spending most of my time thinking about is stuff [...]