Circles
Following on the heels of my panic over search algorithms that exclude things from me, a friend was discussing how difficult it is to talk to people “outside our geek Continue Reading →
Category Archives: lifeingeneral
Screen by Screen on a Significant Sunday Night
It’s a Sunday evening, on the tail end of a pleasant weekend (which would have been much more pleasant had I been sans sinus cold) and the eve of yet-another-election Continue Reading →
Purpose Party Part One
Right about now you might be asking, “What the hell is a Purpose Party?” Luckily, I’m about to tell you. About 5 months ago (sometime in early December) a few Continue Reading →
GTHooD
A Freakonomics post this week introduced me to the concept of the Travel Time Budget, Perhaps a product of some primeval need to balance exploration and conquest with hanging around Continue Reading →
Rise of the Ukulele
Ah, the poor ukulele, relegated to the kid’s table at the musical reunion, along with the recorder and the tambourine. Still, it is capable of bringing focus to a song Continue Reading →
Disaster Planning
Last night, I was online when the quake hit Japan. I got the notice through Facebook and immediately switched to Twitter for real-time updates. We turned on TV for coverage Continue Reading →
Full of Potential
Sunday started with giggly, happy girls in the living room (awake early from Saturday evening’s “sleep-over”); outside we were greeted by an early morning rainbow. Later, the clouds cleared and Continue Reading →
If at first you don’t succeed
… make sure you have enough ingredients to try again! (Happily, I did.) As part of the preparation for Kiddo’s party, today was baking day. One of the things I Continue Reading →
Yarnbombed!
By the end of the day on Wednesday, there was over 20 cm of snow on the deck. Yesterday was cold but buses were running and aside from ice and Continue Reading →
Freedom to Snow Day
While I did make an effort to get to work, there was ongoing trouble with transit buses all over the region including 4 tangled at the foot of the next Continue Reading →