Forgive me, I'm feeling a little Rushed.

  • July 19, 2007
One of the best things about my Lady-Love is that my Lady-Love will drag my sorry ass out to concerts. Not to work them. To go to them and enjoy the show. One of the really cool things about my Lady-Love is that my Lady-Love just happens to appreciate the best damned Canadian Progressive Rock band ever, Rush. I can only say that because I happen to know for a fact that the Rheostatics couldn’t make it 30 years. Read More

A Watery Weekend - Part II

  • June 25, 2007
Water. Giver of life. Salvation in a desert. Cleansing. Purifying. Requisite for all things living on earth. Roger Waters. One of the founding members of Pink Floyd. The coolest thing about a Roger Waters show, of course, is that it’s not simply a concert, it’s an event and to really grasp the event, it’s best to participate in the event. There is a band, and they play on stage, but the event itself is part of what happens both on the stage and off. Read More

A Watery Weekend

  • June 24, 2007
Water. Giver of life. Salvation in a desert. Cleansing. Purifying. Requisite for all things living on earth. A weekend revolving around water restores one to one’s own being. Yet another significantly overbooked weekend that on a bad week would have the lot of us running about like chickens with their heads cut off. And once you click that link you will know that even mere mortals can sometimes beat the odds. Read More

Waters Wash the Weary Wanderers

  • June 24, 2007
Holy photo, Batman. You’ve neglected the photo side so long you’ve forgotten how it works! Here’s a teaser. I’ll fill in the details tonight. Read More

Did you ever have one of those (nerdy) days?

  • May 28, 2007
So, I’m trying to log on to our ESX server using VNC and hopelessly failing. I know I can’t log in as root remotely, I have to have my personal account. Really, it only makes good sense. But I’m trying my username / password combination and it’s not letting me log on. Now, I hate to admit this, but I’m really not used to not having permission to log on. I’m Lord of my LAN, Nabob of my Network, BOFH and root and administrator all. Read More

Spending a little cash for a little cache.

  • May 27, 2007
A decent weekend with the kids - not quite according to plan, but when are they ever? Friday night we did a quick stop at home, fed the animals, fed the pets, then cracked open the piggy banks for a little practical lessons in the world of budgeting your money. Of course, it’s a lot easier when you’re basically budgeting to shop at a dollar store to get trinkets to scatter about the countryside. Read More

Depression and separation

  • May 23, 2007
**“Men and women whose marriage has broken up have a higher risk of being depressed than people who remained with their spouse, according to a new study. However, men appear to take the separation harder.“ ** Statistics Canada has gotten substantial coverage of one of the most important surveys I’ve taken notice in a long, long while. The title is “Marital Breakdown and Subsequent Depression” and it highlights a very significant trend I’ve noticed in my own life and others I’ve known through various forums. Read More

I'm ready for my holidays now....

  • May 22, 2007
“Honey, did you get the gardening done?“ “Nope.“ “Did you go shopping for the stuff you needed?” “Nope.” “Did you get the renovations completed?” “Nope.” “Did you do the laundry? Take out the garbage? Start the dishwasher?” “Nope, nope and nope.” “Did you do anything to lift a finger around this place?” “Not really..” So much for dream vacations. Although I haven’t much to complain about. My Lady-love was as wonderful as ever. Read More

Vacation - Day... HEY! I think I lost track!!

  • May 20, 2007
Oooooh, why do I do that to myself? WHY? So the Lady-love decides to go to the super-duper-mega-confabulous garage sale in Okotoky. That’s not the bad part. I, on the other hand, decide that I’m going to go down to the Babcia’s house and wire ‘em up with ethernet cable running hither and thither. That’s not the bad part. In order to do so, I have to taunt myself by going to work to get my spool o’ cable and my crimpers and risk that urge to read just one email even though I know very well it’s against the very nature of email to read just one, and in the event that you actually do stop at one, you usually stopped because the consequences were so brutally horrific that you sit in stunned disbelief staring at the monitor with eyes agape and a small trickle of drool running down your chin from the corner of your mouth where you teeth used to be before you swallowed them. Read More

Vacation - Day Three, Four, Five, Six

  • May 18, 2007
Same old, same old, don’t you think? A couple things I’m learning quickly. Shopping for crap is just about the worst thing I can do on a vacation. I buy junk I don’t need, then I worry about racking up too much on the credit card. Plus the annoyance that I’ve had to deal with queuing up for bad service to not find what I was looking for in the first place. Read More