Previous celebrations: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011. Even though it is snowing, it is again already too late to start sprouting your asparagus seeds for 2012 planting but baseball is close as is BBQ.

I was on a platform in a curling rink in Summerside, PEI after giving a presentation when I heard. I got home as soon as I could and six days later I started writing comments on a blog. For some reason, we had guests from Sweden, in-laws of in-laws who didn't speak English and for a time had a … read more »

Roaming around the 238 posts about Kingston, I found this image of the moon over Elevator Bay. I had forgotten I had taken it, let alone posted it back in 2005. This is the 5,334th post at Gen X at 40 as it turns out and there is no way I could recall all of them - on top of over 2,000 at the beer …

Ah, the old "Gen X 40" election logo. I came up with that over five years ago during the 2005/06 campaign. Remember that? Remember when people blogged about elections and even paid people to do it? That was nuts.  •  Well, break out the 8-track player and the wide leg jeans because we are going …

I have a few superstitions about this blog. Back when I could actually post the time of each piece, I always made sure it was an odd number of minutes in the hour. I have no idea why. I post in the morning, too. Once I posted almost four times a day when it seemed to matter. But recently I have …

Things are winding down. A beer seminar given last night. A lazy day off today and take the banjo to work tomorrow. It'll be two weeks before I gear up for anything, though if the phones are quiet next week I may actually be productive. Lights are up, tree is up and presents may actually start to …

So late. So very late. If I were to get in the car right now it would be too late.  •  You know the curse is upon Tiger when Swedes mock - ""We probably thought he was a better guy than he is. I would probably need to apologize to her."I had to de-Facebook someone who went on and on about how the …

Not Big Bird just a big bird.  •  I am having a little difficulty coming to terms with the fact that Jay... Jay who has commented on this blog for yoinks, actual yoinks... did not know I have a logo. Made it myself when I was 41. So this is it. Jay: 'Hello, Mr. Logo." Mr. Logo (with a deeper …

I really have no idea why the Grits chose this time - this one square on the calendar - to withdraw their support of the Harper government. But that is probably more about me than Iggy. Chantal Hebert, far far cleverer person that me who actually pays attention, wrote about the decision in the …