Category: life & stuff

Generally just words and thoughts on the progress of my day-to-day.

  • weekend wrap, fourteen

    weekend wrap, fourteen

    It’s September, and the last few days of August were a long weekend that was busy and activity-filled and definitely not wasted for the last day of summer holidays. Friday evening I got my board shorts on and sat in front of the computer for a a solid two hours attending the kick off board

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  • weekend wrap, thirteen

    weekend wrap, thirteen

    Oh, lucky.  Here we are on another Monday morning perched in front of a keyboard as summer wanes. The Kid was lamenting that her first post-grade-school summer flew by in a blur of summer job and a smattering of friend gatherings which seemed as tho it cheated her a little. Get used to it, I

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  • pool blues

    pool blues

    Fate has kicked me in the gut once again. At the risk of evoking a critical level of pity and having that backfire at me in the second paragraph of this essay, I’m going to mention a sad little easily-solved problem that unfortunately knocked me low again this week: they are closing the pool where

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  • weekend wrap, twelve

    weekend wrap, twelve

    I missed a weekend update last week, but mostly because it would have been more of a six day vacation update that spanned a weekend, and that whole trip was a bit of a blur of driving and eating and kayaking and by the time I sat down at a keyboard again it was nearly

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  • weekend wrap, eleven

    weekend wrap, eleven

    Last week was a busy week. Some work-related, professional stuff occupied my days (oddly enough) and my the time Friday rolled around my head was crammed full of half-baked frustrations with the state that summer has on the speed of business. It was always my least favourite time of year to try and get things

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