Monthly Archives: April 2006

hot hot hot

It’s pretty freakin’ hot in the office. It was 27°C* by the time I left today at lunch. I bor­rowed a friend’s desk fan, and I think I’ll be buyin’ one tonight. Man. Can’t wait for sum­mer! ________________________ * In the neigh­bour­hood of 80°F.

Not sure what happened…

…but my Word­Press had to be rein­stalled. I don’t have time to troll the logs right now, but I’ll have a look tomor­row and see if I can fig­ure out what’s up. Enjoy the new/old look; it’s prob­a­bly gonna change before too long.

So glad I found it

So I went to the judo club today, for a two-hour review of my blue belt and brown belt throws (at some point I’ll be grad­ing for my brown belt; I’m not sure if it’ll be this spring or next fall), and then after that I went and did some shop­ping. I bought a short-sleeve

Biking

I went for my first bike ride of the sea­son just now. I ped­alled till I ran out of dry land. Hon­est. More pho­tos here. And now I’m off to the Evans.

For your birthday lunch…

…try to avoid going to Montana’s. Why? Oh, no reason.

13 Techniques…

…of which I am espe­cially fond. Thir­teen Things about Patrick Johan­neson Tachi-waza, or stand­ing tech­niques Hane-goshi, or the “Spring­ing Hip Throw”. Fast, and effi­cient, and you don’t have to turn your back to your oppo­nent. De-ashi-barai, “Advanc­ing Foot Sweep”. There’s a sub­tle trick­ery to this one that appeals to me, a sub­vert­ing of expec­ta­tions when

Today…

…I saw a pair of horse-drawn car­riages com­ing down the street. They pulled off, into a park­ing lot, to let the traf­fic behind them go by. Inspired by Rob Cockerham’s motto (“Always bring your cam­era”), I snapped a cou­ple of pho­tos, pre­sented below for your edi­fi­ca­tion. No, I don’t know where the car­riages were going.

Crazy Ideas file, #1

This one came to me yes­ter­day on my way home at lunch. I’ve writ­ten the first 200ish words, but I don’t yet have a sat­is­fac­tory end­ing. Every­one in the entire world sleeps a deep, 24-hour sleep, and expe­ri­ences the same dream. When they awaken, night has been ban­ished for­ever. Some­one or some­thing has turned the

Research

So I’m going to have to put my cur­rent project on the back burner for the time being. I need to do a lot more research, it looks like, before I set a story aboard a 17th-century ketch. What with being a child of the land­locked prairie, grow­ing up in the late 20th-early 21st cen­turies,