Monthly Archives: March 2006

Huh?

We watched Red Green tonight, the first new one I’ve seen in some time, and I have a ques­tion (likely rhetor­i­cal): Wheninthe­heck did Harold get engaged?

Scary

We all get them: credit-card appli­ca­tions in the mail.  I usu­ally rip ‘em in half and toss ‘em in the recy­cling. I may have to rethink that tech­nique. The Torn-Up Credit Card Appli­ca­tion Long story short: Good ol’ Rob Cock­er­ham, of cockeyed.com, tore up a credit card app, taped it back together, sent it off–and

Party party party

Sun­day School party last night (really). Well, sort of. One of the Sun­day School teach­ers (and her fam­ily) is buy­ing a house, and so this was the pre-housewarming party. It was an all-ages party, and all the party-goers just slept over at the hosts’ house (it made sense, logis­ti­cally, since the party was in Chater,

Everything That Never Happened — problem solved

Appar­ently my web­host doesn’t like the word c-u-r-l*. That’s what was hang­ing me up from post­ing my new story. But that’s solved, at least worked around, and so: Every­thing That Never Hap­pened. So far it’s ~5400 words spread across one and a half chap­ters, first draft. Enjoy, if you want to. * Pre­sum­ably because there’s a

Everything that never happened” update #1

So I’m at 5200 words so far, and here’s the ship that serves as inspi­ra­tion for the good ship Man­dalay in the story: It’s called the Non­such, and it’s in the Man­i­toba Museum. I’ve been aboard prob­a­bly a dozen times. IMHO, it’s the coolest exhibit in the museum. Later!

In like a lion

…even­tu­ally. They’ve been call­ing for heavy snow­fall all day. Warn­ing about it since last night. It finally started at about ten to one this after­noon, just as I was get­ting ready to go back to work. I snapped this shot from my office, through the win­dow, look­ing out on the park­ing lot and the entrance to