I suppose it is good that I can't get on the internet for more than 7 minutes at a time this week. Maybe Sympatico considers this part of the service that I am buying. The "Make Sure You Smell The Roses" feature. I should really switch providers but I am too lazy even for that.

Were any of you aware that Gen X at 40 is being rated highly amongst Canada's top 25 political blogs?  •  Not me. I spend way more time giving attention to the beer blog these days - though I still beat the drum...or flog the horse, depending on your point of view. Nutty. I had no idea. Jay should …

That is basically the question every morning. What now? What can I write about to get me though this obligation, this promise to myself that I will write every morning? Yes, it's the periodic I have nothing to write about post. I should have more to say but I suspect about 21 months ago I wrote …

What joy! A stranded Tuesday off - even though I took Monday off, too, to smoke a chunk of pork for five hours. This morning I was asked what smells like bacon. Me, I replied. More great Canada Day photos here from three years ago when I was a much more clever blogger. We are off to be in a canoe …

I am renewed. Plenty of house repairs and family get togethers were missed over the weekend with the new toy to play with. There are a few new tricks to indenting and other XHTML still to learn but all in all it is a heck of a lot easier to play with and also to personalize. The photo above is but …

Some last minute IP work at my good pals the server masters has left me wondering what would happen if these blogs disappeared and I had 48 hours to save some stuff. What would I save? Would it be a relief to see much of it fall of the edge? In a way it would be. As it stands now, I am not sure if …

Huzzah! Huzzah!  •  That's what you need to say to your co-workers and employers today. Let them know what you have been doing on the fifth day, how you have idled away the hours, frittered productivity potential leaving the nation needing to borrow to replace the shortfall. I think that is my …

A taunt. All it takes is a taunt. Looking for meaning with a blog that is approaching five years of its troubled existence, a glimmer of hope and purpose shows up in a 27th comment:  •  “  •  Temujin [12:19 AM April 7, 2008]  •  http://hockey-madness.blogspot.com  •  How about a special Monday …

Yesterday, it was all Mike, Mike, Mike but that was before the dollar fell off the counter and rolled onto the floor:  •  “The Canadian dollar dropped more than 1 cent in pre-New Year's Day trading Monday on concerns about the U.S. economy and unrest in the Middle East. The loonie tumbled 1.37 …