So yeah, my housemate recently added yet another degree to his “vanity wall”. He got his Master’s in science! w00t! He’s been working on his PhD for the last year or so so I think he actually finished his degree some time ago but got the piece of paper at a ceremony sometime in the [...]
This weekend my friend Dave and I worked on a gazebo in his mother’s back yard. When I say “worked” I actually mean “constructed”. His mother lives in a secluded area just north of Nanaimo.
He needed some help with what some of my friends dismiss as “man work” and I enjoy going to the Island [...]
I get a lot of newsletters in the mail from various charities that support youth in and from care. I still enjoy reading newsletters, but the other day I read something in a newsletter that really made me think.
It was a notice for a fancy wine, cheese and food event at a posh golf club. [...]
It’s my first time in a US government office. A burly old man in a security outfit keeps watch over the waiting room.
I scramble up to him, breathless, and before I can spit out some frantic words he asks me if I’ve taken a number. Before I can answer him he points to a computer [...]
Back in October I finally proved my claim to United States citizenship and received my passport the following month. Some day I might like to move to the States. So, if I ever find an opportunity down there I don’t want any government paperwork regarding my citizenship to stand in the way.
But being a citizen [...]
I had a wonderful dinner party on Saturday night.
There was no real occasion for it. But I guess I’m trying to do “normal” adult things.
I love having my friends over but never make a good enough excuse to bring them all together in Burnaby. But the prospect of a lovely British roast beef supper brought [...]
I was at the Harewood Arms Pub Liquor store in Nanaimo the other day when I saw this, the biggest anti-shoplifting sign I’ve ever encountered:
This is a liquor store in the neighbourhood of my youth. Harewood is an area of south Nanaimo that used to be a separate municipality. It’s got a very strong sense [...]
I don’t know if I should blame the gradual change in my diet or my recent illness, but over the last two weeks I’ve shed 10 lbs off my weight.
Over the last three months I’ve been eating better food and avoiding sugar as much as possible. I suppose that’s had a positive effect on my [...]
Many of you know I’m stuck in bed… sick.
I wouldn’t mind being in bed all day if I wasn’t in so much pain. Argh.
Anyways, just a little while ago I had a pretty intense experience that I thought I’d share - An out of body experience.
It happened just a little while ago, and I haven’t [...]
Tonight I cooked a wonderful roast for the first time.
Last weekend my friend Geordie cooked himself some roast beef. He made it sound easy. I always assumed that making a nice big roast was a long, drawn out affair taken on by ailing matriarchs in a last-ditch attempt to maintain family unity.
If he can do [...]
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