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It’s been a busy few days; Spouse and I are readying the Nation for the First Annual Founder’s Day Celebration and National Holiday, including Festivals of Sport and Competition and particularly the Juniorvanian Open Championship of Par 3 Golf, which takes place this weekend. We are expecting the whole family to gather to partake in […] Sunday was largely dedicated to some heavy slogging in Mission Control. The electronic nerve centre of Juniorvania has a sleek new look and – it is hoped – the technical capacity to produce some music. Now if we could only manage to reduce the temperatures therein to something less than “white hot blazing heat of […] One more day of Olympic fun, and then it’s a long wait until Vancouver. I have to admit that Spouse and I have been complete summer games junkies over the last few days. We have been camping out at night on the fold-out sofa bed in the living room so that we can fall asleep […] I wrote a little bit the other day about Canadian show-jumping phenomenon Eric Lamaze. Here is a great article about Lamaze from the Toronto Star; I don’t know how long it will remain online, but it gives some pretty good insight into the type of beginnings from which he arose. […] I don’t like to tell tales out of school, but (hypothetically) someone I know – someone whose nickname on this site rhymes with “mouse” – has a bit of a problem with the Olympics. The Olympics cause this person to become a complete puddle of tears. Hypothetically, you could put a nine year old child […] Usain Bolt: the guy nearly stumbles coming out of the blocks (dragging his left toe on the first stride), shuts the engine off at about 80m (foregoing a full-power effort for the last 8 strides of what is for him a 42 stride race) and STILL shatters the world record and lays down a 9.69. […] I have been away from the blogging for a while. It matters not what lame excuse I might offer. According to WordPress’ little numbering system, this is post number 200, so maybe I just had a little mental block about the double century. Whatever. The important point is that I have received a clear and […] It’s a done deal; my parents can breathe a sigh of relief, as their last remaining bachelor officially changed his status last night at around 4:30 p.m. It rained – and how – forcing the ceremony indoors rather than among the ripening grapes in the Cave Spring vineyard, but the service was lovely and […] |
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