I was within a couple hundred yards of highway 400 and highway 7 for around 18 hours not counting the drive to and from Toronto. It was very much like spending 18 hours within a couple hundred yards of highway 400 and highway 7. The oddest thing was getting out of the hotel room to go to where I …

It ended up not being that idle. Taxes yesterday. Driver's license renewal Tuesday. I'm wiped. Must save up energy to pray for Morton tomorrow.  •  Here is the sound of someone singing in 1860. Here is what it means.  •  Funny how people have long memories.Interesting to note that baseball …

Having a week off is swell and all but I really have never taken one off without any plan to do some travel or big project. The only plan was to explore my idleness. Has this been wise? Let's review:  •  Until about 11:00 am yesterday, I was going to Syracuse to see the game between UMass and the …

A meme! I haven't seen one of these things since 2005. Remember: it's pronounced me-me. Anyway, Jay tagged me for a little pre-Facebook nostalgia on this one:  •  “The Meme: Share six non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself.”  •  So here they are:  •  one: I only posts blog posts on odd …

It's all about the new style. I need a little new style. Gotta get me some. See, universal replacement flappers won't work. It's that peg hole to flapper relationship that marks the new style. There's elevation. Gotta get me the new style.

Four years ago, all I thought of was snoozing. Three years ago I wrote about the joys of an extra day off through the good graces of the good folk who figure out what days off. I had a premonition that the western Canadian notion of "family" would move in on the space eventually and here we are. I …

...yet a work day, too. Consider the sound of snow being shoveled as the cogitations of this morning.  •  There. That makes 3,999.

I've been a big guy most of my life, though when I look back now at pictures of me from when I thought I was too heavy makes me shake my head. You do what you can, put down the seventh Ring-a-Ding Junior, do an insane number of sit-up yet still you get to wake up to news like this:  •  “While New …

First, I have to admit that the situation is no unlike that song by the Smiths, "Girlfriend in a Coma", in which I always took (perhaps wrongly) a guy who has just started dating a girl, kinda likes her but that's it, faces the fact that she is in a coma after an accident and is sort of a jerk. I …