Response to “Exit Interview” has so far been very positive. I’m happy.
So far so good
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Íslendingadagurinn
This weekend my wife and I went up to Gimli with my mother for the 122nd annual Icelandic Festival. I hadn’t been to the festival in many years — it’s on a long weekend in summertime, so it tends to attract weddings, family reunions, and other events — but this year Mom called us up about a week and a half before the weekend and said, “Hey, you want to go?”
We said “Sure!”
Coming Soon
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(If you don’t sign up, all is not lost; stories show up on their site about a week later, and I will for sure post a link to it here, and on Facebook, and on Twitter, and probably Google+ …)
Fireworks
Happy belated Canada Day, and also happy Fourth to the Americans.
Thunderstorms
Keycon 28 (1)
This past weekend I went to Keycon 28, the latest iteration of Winnipeg’s science fiction convention. I had been invited by Craig Russell, and since I’d never been to a con, I figured, Why not? Continue reading
Congratulations to Craig Russell
Craig Russell, local author, has been nominated for an Aurora Award for his novel Black Bottle Man (reviewed here). He’s in a category with Marie Bilodeau, Hayden Trenholm, Guy Gavriel Kay, and Robert J. Sawyer. Good company, in short.
Congratulations, Craig, and best of luck!
New aerial photos of the flood
The new development
I went for a bike ride last night. I did about 17km in just under an hour and a half. I don’t know if that’s a slow pace or a middlin’ one; I wasn’t completely spent at the end of it, but I was sweating throughout.
At about the midpoint of the ride, I came across an area of new development:
Which is all well and good, but I found the choice of location rather interesting. Here’s the view across the bike path:
Here I though that luxury condos with a view of the Superstore parking lot would be a tough sell.
Flood
For those of you that aren’t in Manitoba, or in Canada: my city is flooded. (Well, my city would be flooded if it weren’t for a cunning system of permanent dikes, temporary dikes, sandbags, super sandbags, and good fortune. The powers-that-be are apparently referring to this as a high water event, since the word flood is double-plus-ungood.) We are currently under a state of emergency, initially declared for the city by the mayor and then extended to include pretty much the Assiniboine River floodplain by the province. Continue reading