HiR:tb Toots (@warwalker)

Announcements 101

Around 5:00 p.m the other day, building maintenance staff were preparing to conduct some sort of test of the emergency alarm system. First, there was a piercing beep that came out of the speakers installed in the ceiling throughout the building. Next came the voice of some poor bastard (note to Mike: not “rat bastard”), […]

Meme First!

I have been tagged with a meme by Mike.* For those of you unfamiliar with the concept – I’m looking in your direction, Geez – it’s definition time:

The Blog Meme A blog meme is a type of Internet meme that requires active participation by the blogger and rarely traces back to an originating source. […]

If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well it were done quickly

I was at the Leafs game last night in Toronto; they beat Columbus 3-1. All 4 goals were scored in the first period, which reinforced my belief that my buddy and I made the right choice – staying in our seats throughout the first frame and starving rather than going for a nine dollar hot […]

An Open Letter to the Television Program Lost

Dear Lost:

It is with no regret whatsoever that I must inform you that our relationship has come to an end. Now it is time for you to go.

We have been seeing each other – off and on – for about two and a half years now. Oh, I remember well the heady flush […]

Prediction Update

I took a bit of heat in the comments, mostly from loving family members, about my failure to accurately forecast the result of Super Bowl XLII. I was attempting to think of a witty and incisive comeback to silence my detractors but the Juniorbrain was not providing.

Instead, therefore, I took to surfing the ‘Net […]

The Wire Season 2

Spouse and I just finished watching the last two episodes of The Wire (Season 2).

Awesome.

Episode 10 has this one moment, a plot twist that neither of us saw coming in the least until it was happening, and the twist was so sudden and shocking, so enthralling (even though it concerns one of […]

How do I dig up?

Shovelling again tonight – just enough to make a path for the dog to get in and out of the house – and by the looks of things, again tomorrow morning if we’re going to get the car out of the driveway and make it to work. I feel the pressure starting to mount nowadays […]

Home again, home again jig-a-jig-jig.

It’s been a little busy around here this past week. Spouse and I were away the week before last attending a funeral in Northern Ontario. We got snowed in up there and missed an extra day of work as a result. When we got back to work, a couple of days went by and Spouse […]

Prediction Dept.

No time for reasoned analysis – there are still too many household chores and tasks to be completed before I can settle in front of the big screen and watch me some Super Bowl, but here’s my prediction, for what it’s worth:

Patriots 27 Giants 19.

Chicken wings consumed by me: 18

Pretzels (stick form): […]

True, so true.

Just got back into town on Thursday night after attending the funeral up north; it has been a bad weather week pretty much all over Ontario, so travel has not been easy.

Apparently, western Canada got some pretty hefty storms earlier this week too; Spouse and I were talking to one fellow after the […]