Heroes in Rehab: the blog

Welcome, Little One

Last night, my brother Doug and his wife T. welcomed a little girl into their family. Six pounds, four ounces, everybody healthy, happy…and tired.
Welcome, little one: may you live a long, healthy and happy life. The odds are stacked in your favour, as far as that stuff goes, because you are surrounded by people who [...]

Keeping Watch on Manitoulin

Yesterday, Spouse and I drove from Sudbury back to the friendly confines of Juniorvania (nigh on to the ‘burg of Brantford) via Espanola and Manitoulin Island. I’ll have more about our trip, I hope, in a day or two but for now, I am scrambling to get packed because I leave at an ungodly hour [...]

Sand in My Shoes…

Vacation Day Four. After the Ensleepinating, and a leisurely lunch on a fashionable patio, it was time to go to the beach.
Here’s a Panorama photo created by Autostitch, an app on my iPhone. Check out the ghostly looking apparition in the centre of the photo!

With all those paranormal phenomena lurking about the public [...]

Vacation: And a One and a Two…

On Saturday afternoon, Spouse and I attended the Rick Smith Memorial Horse Show at Foothills Farm in Chelmsford, Ontario. I intended to practice a bit at taking pictures of horses jumping over stuff, but I had made the rookie mistake of failing to charge any and all batteries prior to vacation departure on Friday [...]

The G-20 Summit: A Lament for Sanity

A Saturday evening in June; this night, in the City of Toronto, there are black-clad “protesters”, faces obscured by balaclavas and masks, causing damage to the businesses and homes of regular working people. They are doing sensible, thoughtful and pro-social things like setting fire to police cars, smashing windows and throwing feces into clothing shops.
It [...]

Million Dollar Idea Number One

I’m going to invent a new social media site that invites users to post messages of up to 140 characters complaining about the fact that the Twitter API is down. Based on Twitter’s record over the last couple days, I have reason to believe that my service will be at least as popular as Twitter [...]

PLEASE STAND BY

VERY busy at work at the moment. Lots of other things going on around the homestead too. No time to spend with my online peeps, at the moment I’m afraid. Here’s a picture of the newest member of the Juniorvanian fleet for you all to see. I hope to have a few moments to do [...]

With Glowing Screens, We See Thee Words

Watched the beginning of the Kings/Canucks game from L.A. last night, and Twitter lit up like the goal light behind Jaroslav Halak when the anthem singer trotted out by the Kings apparently needed a little technical assistance in order to make his way through “O Canada.” In a fit of nationalist pique, I was [...]

Help Me, Jeebus

Please, please, please let it be the Columbus Blue Jackets, Florida Panthers, Tampa Lightning or New York Islanders whose ball falls first out of that stupid lottery machine tonight.
I do not want to hear about Phil Kessel for Taylor Hall or Tyler Seguin for the rest of my life, despite the fact that I support [...]

Lazy Sunday

Sunday afternoon, 15° Celsius outside and I’m enjoying some down time in the sun once again in the Big Yellow Chairs atop the hill out our back door. With the help of the Internet and pirate video streams, I’m keeping one eye on the Flyers/Rangers game (I think if the Flyers beat the Rangers, the [...]