Archive for November, 2008

Winter Driving

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Tonight it took me over two, slippery hours to get home from work. We were averaging about 30km/h on the highway all the way. That said, some of the scariest driving was between my friend’s house (where I’d dropped him off; we carpool to work) and my place… a couple of good slips, not to [...]

Internet Meme: Page 56

Monday, November 17th, 2008

Sure, it seems like a cheap way out for tonight, but to keep things rolling around here, I stumbled across this internet meme in my RSS reader today (thanks Leah!) and thought I’d take part. I’ve never done one of these before, so here goes…
Rules:

Grab the nearest book.
Open it to page 56.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post [...]

Week of Silence

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

During this, NaBloPoMo, I certainly didn’t expect to go a week without posting! Unfortunately, that seems to have been the case. I never intended on commenting on a missed day here or there this month, but a week without posting is a bit too much to ignore.
These last two weeks have been great for me [...]

Paint and Tiles

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

Following the return last week to working on and around the house, My Girlfriend and I grabbed some paint this morning and tackled the large hallway in my place. I tell you, this ‘working with your hands’ and ‘home reno’ thing really gets addictive.

Way, way back in December 2005, a little more than a year [...]

Idioms and Curling

Friday, November 7th, 2008

The phrase “burning the candle at both ends” seems quite appropriate for me this week. You see, I’ve worked every day this week during a very busy time of the year, been out curling three nights, attended my night class the other night, fought some awful traffic to and from work each day… and sleep [...]

Final US Results

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Sure, back-dating a post during NaBloPoMo might be considered cheating, but for the sake of completion, here is the final voting results for the US election as of November 8th:

I realize that there were also senate and popular vote results that I could post about, or perhaps I could create some sweet popular/seat vote overlay [...]

No Surprise There

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

I didn’t follow the US election nearly as closely as I tried to do with the Canadian one. Now, that’s not to say that I’ve been living under a rock for the last two years, but I just never got around to figuring out the whole voting process, the deal with the Senate, etc.
However, tonight [...]