Millions of peaches, peaches for me.

• August 14, 2006

Peaches come from a can They were put there by a man And his Lady-Love on Sunday…… Mom phoned Saturday morning. I missed the call. That’s okay, it happened just after Dad phoned Saturday morning and I missed THAT call too. Seems all is pretty good down in California. They’re still renovating the place and plan to officially move in sometime soon. Why did I miss the call? I was repairing the edging on our stairs again - SOMEBODY didn’t glue it well enough last time. Read More

Musical chairs in the morning.

• August 11, 2006

Bah! Calgary. It’s gotten huge, it’s lost a lot of it’s Western Charm, much of the ‘neighborly-ness’ seems to have gone. So I’m riding the bus to work this morning, and this woman sitting near the front of the bus impresses me. She offers to switch seats with a mother who’s child sits across the bus from her. She offers her seat to an older gentleman. She gives up her seat to an older woman who gets on the bus just shy of downtown. Read More

News from the battle-weary.

• August 11, 2006

And I quote: ‘Love your new site son, but I can’t quite figure out how to send “comments”…and what is a “blog”jQuery15206697855500970036_1309241234665jQuery15207813586527481675_1309241273699 I usually don’t have too much time on the library computer to figure out what to, so help!‘ Well, now you know where I get my technical bend from. I love you anyways, Mom. Okay, I better set some guidelines here, and a bit of an explanation for Mom. Read More

Journeys and travails

• August 1, 2006

I picked up the kids today in the new vehicle. They thought it was pretty cool too. This time, when I park Bitsy it’s a way different feeling. She’s parked to be restored, not parked to be forgotten. That’ll take a while, though, until I have cash to throw at Bitsy.. There is absolutely zero chance I could ever afford such a fabulous vehicle as the Murano, I’m truly blessed that I have such a wonderful Lady-love to stand beside me - and let me drive it. Read More

A whole week of Wows.

• July 29, 2006

“Are you ready? Let’s begin.“ Last week my Lady-love and I met with Barb, Financial Planner Extraordinaire and visitor to Europe. One of the things I know I’ve been looking towards is a new vehicle. Bitsy is the love of my life, and remains so, but even I know that when a car reaches the “Antique” category, it’s probably not the best of ideas to keep it as a daily driver. Read More

May I put a pinch of carnivore in your vegan?

• July 24, 2006

A weekend and then some. Today was a bit more laid back, I guess. A scorcher of a day once again, but at least we knew it was coming. It started off with Rebekk wanting her own Runescape account. I think she’s officially played more than I have this week. Great… I can feel my ranking slide by the minute. Kids and I made plans to head down to Prince’s Island Park, hit the pool and kick back a bit while we were down there. Read More

Summertime... And the living's easy.

• July 22, 2006

Porgy and Bess… How I’ve never seen thee.. Here’s a few scatterings of thought from a scatterbrain. Babcia and John are on their way right now to California. Safe trip, little hombres… Burn me a redwood when you get down there. (Well, not all at once.) Remind me to take up HAM radio as a hobby when I get some time put together… John’s got some really cool tubified electronics. Tubes are cool. Read More

A funny thing happened on the way to the compost..

• July 16, 2006

Sure enough, I’m mowing the lawn Friday and, as I’m known to do once in a while, I run out of gas in the lawn mower. So there I am, standing over the mower, refuelling it, and I look down and see the muffler more or less underneath the intake for the fuel tank. “Now there’s a school of engineering I wish I had attended.“ Call me just a little bit crazy, but when you have a component that generally gets labelled as “CAUTION: EXTREMELY HOT. Read More

Catching up with the past

• July 15, 2006

Okay, it’s been a long week. A server migration at work complete with all the strange and quirky problems that always seem to come out of it.. Working on the Win98 restoration in the evenings. Not getting enough done with the yard or the laundry or the paperwork or the other hundred thousand things nagging at the fringes of my brain. So today, an old friend from SPARC plings me (Hi Lacy! Read More

98 Farewells

• July 12, 2006

Windows 98 reached the end of it’s support yesterday. Big frickin’ deal, right? Everyone should move to a more modern operating system. The Windows 9x line (Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98SE and Windows ME) was rather long in the tooth, not overly secure, extremely hard to support, a pain in the butt to use, and generally a nuisance. Most people SHOULD have moved on to Windows XP. In fact, the majority of people have - or had been forced to - when they bought a new computer. Read More