This bug goes on. Sputter and wheeze was this week's treat. Got X-rays shot through my chest. Never speak of X-ray. X-rays. They are many. I am now off speaking. Hard to do with five kids in the house. Lots of arm motions required. But an 8 month old is not strong on responding to arm motions …

Just a residual cold now. Nine hours of over the counter cold medication induced sleep. Scooby-Doo is on for the four year old. The big kid is off playing sports. A Saturday where there is a reasonable prospect of maintaining consciousness and actually doing something lays before me. I will be in …

That cold I mentioned? Coughing for four weeks? Turned into pneumonia. Unlike Greece, however, there was a known accepted cure. Horse pills. Halfway through the great pharmaceutical experiment, I like big drug a little better. Even in my drugged haze, I found the choices for the best Canadian song …

The actual quote from The Toronto Star is actually this:  •  I think the international community, of which Canada is certainly a part, is very powerful, much more powerful than it understands. And we’re starting to see that today. Many of our (U.S.) Supreme Court justices are now looking at …

One of my favorite holidays of the year is the day I take a vacation day to go over to the US and help out with the NCPR membership drive. I have to deliver some prizes for draws given by helpful Kingstonians and these are received with great fanfare... or is it that they are received by exhausted …

Glad that's over. Summer? What was that all about? Reality is back baby and the stock market is falling along as the space hardware. [Remember. It's wrong to wish on space hardware... even when it's aimed at you.] Speaking of collapses, what about the Red Sox? For a fan like me, it's a taste of … read more »

God love the nerds who load information into the internet:  •  Saturday, Sept. 11, 1976 TV listings  •  CHSJ (CBAT) Channel 4 Saint John / Channel 7 Moncton (CBC)  •  12:30 Circle Square  •  1:00 Onedin Line  •  2:00 Space: 1999  •  3:00 Saturday Sports  •  5:00 Water Skiing  •  6:00 Klahanie …

I skipped last week. Did you notice? Things are so quiet and I was finishing up two weeks off work. Napping one evening this week to catch up, I woke up to Joy Division on the radio and was, in that place between the dream and not, confused what year it was. I wasn't sure for half a second if it …

Twenty years ago today I was in a pal's apartment in Ottawa, late afternoon, stinking hot day, watching the Expos as El Presidente got his perfect game. I was alone. I was watching a 10-12 inch black and white TV. I was listening to records, half paying attention. Then, when I realized what was …