This weekend Dave and I visited the Tall Ships at HarborFest. I know, it’s no NBA championship but those ships are pretty cool! Dave and I were just in Toronto and they only had 2-3 of the ships that were at our festival.
If you need a championship, try this nugget on for size. [...]
Anyone who has spent even a bit of time with me knows that I quite like food. One of the many unique and wonderful things that I’ve discovered about our fair city the past few years is that there is a wonderful food community here. I’m not just talking about foodies who are interested in [...]
For some reason this idea of getting in touch with people from the past has been coming up in different forms lately. On the other hand, D and I recently discussed the challenge of spending time with our current friends/family along with the idea of making new friends. There are so many people that we [...]
We hardly ever update the blog anymore… I’m wondering if it’s not immediately gratifying enough for us. I can’t speak for DJ but I hate checking our blog and seeing that the only feedback we have is 5 spam messages about Viagra or some other drug.
For most of my life I kept journals chronicling everything [...]
Our sister Jessica was recently featured in an Associated Press article on the rise of communal home products. One result of the economic downturn is that people are looking to save money by sharing products, tools and appliances. Reducing consumption not only makes financial sense for individuals, but it also seems like a necessary step towards reducing global [...]
I naively believed that being unemployed would leave me plenty of time for email, blogs and facebook. Depending on how you look at it, I’ve fortunately/unfortunately had little to no time. We’ve been busy with all sorts of wonderful events. Here’s some photos of what we’ve been up to lately.
We got to meet [...]
Friday:
- Left the office around 1:30pm feeling relieved and a little excited.
- Came home and let Bernard out. Fortunately I knew that I did not need to leave at lunchtime.
- Sent a few emails out, mostly to friends and a couple of former co-workers
- Vacuumed- our vacuum does not work well
- Watched TV with the [...]
Here are my favorite quotes from this weekend:
“Oh sorry about that. We got some re-re’s here.”
“Take the donkey head off! <Person’s name>, take the donkey head off!”