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Juniorvanian Armada Augmented¹

With one of these.

Meet "George"

George is a hybrid. I am hoping that means “part car, part robot.”

Transaction closing on Wednesday evening.

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¹Juniorvanian coffers: significantly depleted.

To the G8: Boldly Go, Gentlemen!

Every year, the August long weekend is marked by a few of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet in the following fashion: they gather at a cabin on Lake Nipissing to tell lies about the fish they didn’t catch. As an incidental to this purpose, alcohol is consumed.

I have been fortunate enough to join […]

Definition: A Shit Day

It was no big deal; nobody got hurt, or sick, or died today, so it’s not like it was an awful day.

It was, however, a shit day. A day filled with shit. A day in which each and every thing that I did, from the moment I awoke to the thirty-eighth consecutive day of […]

A Big Nickel Weekend

Spouse and I are in Sudbury for a few days; I had a meeting to attend here in the Big Nickel on Thursday for work, and she and I have both taken today off to make a long weekend of our drive up so that we can attend a horse show at the barn where […]

Portrait of the Artist as a Wrung Man

I have been working all day on a writing project that is due shortly. The “writing process” (by which I mean “staring at the screen wondering what the hell I’ve gottem myself into”) was going painfully slow a bit earlier, so Spouse convinced me to take a break to go into town. We had dry […]

On Birthdays

When I was younger, birthdays were an event. As a child, there were parties to be held, loot bags to be distributed, toys to be acquired, opened, assembled and played with, not to mention occasionally repaired immediately thereafter. As a young man, there were social outings with friends to be organized; alcohol to be consumed; […]

Gone Fishin’

It’s 2:55 a.m. and I still have to get some sleep before rising at 7, loading up the car and heading out the door for a week of fishing with some friends.

My wife is the most awesome person in the world for allowing me to do this while she stays behind and heads to […]

Bushed.

It’s been a busy couple of days of gardening, and now I’m bushed.

A Panorama of the New Rear Garden

Yes, I waited three days to post THAT photographic pun. Sue me.

For an idea of what the newly landscaped area looks like, check out the “Before” picture. Well, you could if I remembered […]

This Space Occupied.

Actual reasons no writing got done yesterday:

schedule included one hour set aside to undertake “put up the birdfeeder” project; actual time elapsed to complete “put up the birdfeeder” project: four and a half hours, including two trips to three Canadian Tire stores in two different municipalities; the grass – it keeps growing, and I […]

Windsor Spitfires: Memorial Cup Champions!

This Goblet Will be taking a trip down the 401 to the Rose City

Congratulations to the Windsor Spitfires – and the City of Windsor – on the Spits’ first Memorial Cup victory. Windsor becomes the first team ever to win the Cup after going down 0-2 in the round robin portion of the […]