the flying squirrel

Today, I bought a sander. Actually, no, I shouldn’t start there. I should start last winter. Last winter, I moved out of my master bedroom. Yeah, last winter. I’m not the fastest when it comes to home improvement projects. Last winter, I was a little alarmed that my window kept frosting up all the time. [...]

Eric invited me to join him to go to BarCamp Waterloo. I’d always meant to go to one, but I kept missing them for one reason or another. I wouldn’t have known about this one if Eric hadn’t given me the heads-up. Eric did a demo of installing Debian in 6 minutes over the network. [...]

I was planning on going back to Belleville this weekend, since it looked like it could be the last weekend I had free before Christmas. Just a quick trip home to get my parents up to date on recent happenings, reconnect and maybe relax a little. When I mentioned this to my mom earlier in [...]

Book meme thing: Grab the nearest book. Open it to page 56. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST. Your customer says, “What will it cost to do the [...]

Ellen and I wrapped up the Stratford season this week with two plays back to back. Emilia Galotti Thursday we went to see Emilia Galotti. It’s a German play, and was presented in German with English surtitles. Apparently the acting troupe was brought in from Germany and the production was supposedly kind of a big [...]

Eight years ago today, back in 2000, I was sitting in a hotel room in Orlando, Florida watching the US election results. It was a pretty surreal experience. I was still working in QA. Our manager had managed to send a couple of us down for a conference just before the company clamped down on [...]

I’ve had some ideas for projects kicking around the back of my head for a while. Now that I have some free coding time, I’m planning on getting to them. Or, at the very least, I can document some of my thought processes around them so I can come back to them later, if painting [...]

I spent most of the afternoon out in the garden. I’ve had a pretty productive weekend. I cleaned up the remaining petunias, some of which were still flowering. I felt bad about pulling up flowering flowers, but they were pretty ragged-looking and we’ve been getting pretty consistent frost in the evenings. Once the petunias were [...]

It’s November, which makes it some sort of NaSomethingMo. I’m gonna do the blog post thing. I know there are some people who would really like me to join in the novel writing madness. I don’t think I have the wherewithal for it this year, though. My plan is to do something vaguely related to [...]