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Life has a tendency to provide ups and downs but one thing that's a constant is change. And change is hard (and I don't just mean the change that is given back after a financial transaction though that too is hard! 😉 ). 2014 has been a year of change for me, and that might… Continue reading Change and money, employment and education…

Yesterday I walked to London Drugs after work to pick up a parcel. And I wasn't disappointed when I received it! It was my Kickstarter reward from having backed Danielle Corsetto's Slingshots Across America tour celebrating 10 years of Girls with Slingshots (one of my favourite webcomics — I actually have gotten very behind on… Continue reading The mysterious Andrew!

So last night I finally saw One Man, Two Guvnors at The Citadel, and I did rather enjoy it in general. I particularly loved some of the comments made/revealed in the talk back afterward (one of the bonuses of having moved my ticket to a Tuesday evening, I guess!). It was very well performed, and… Continue reading On the play One Man, Two Guvnors or humor and my reactions to it

Or at least consider it if you like such exchanges. Registration opened yesterday (well officially, they tested it for a while on the day previous), and there are already over 65,000 registrants. Last year there were 85,000 successful exchanges which is pretty substantial (and resulted in yet another Guinness Book of World Records entry)… and… Continue reading Sign up for the World's Largest Secret Santa Gift Exchange!

This topic comes up every time we shift from Standard Time to Daylight Time or back to Standard Time. The reasons we chose to have a time change aren't necessarily all that relevant anymore. Saskatchewan and Arizona do pretty darn well without changing clocks, so why do we all have to deal with this change?… Continue reading We don't actually need to change time, do we?

Lately, most mail is junk or packages. And I adore receiving packages in the mail in the form of surprises from redditgifts or in the form of extra goodies in something I ordered, or even in the form of subscription boxes (yes, I currently subscribe to two: NerdBlock and BonjourJolie, though I'm very tempted by… Continue reading On Envelopes, Mail, Stationery, and the Art of Sending Mail

For Halloween this year, I dressed as a Geisha, or more appropriately I wore the kimono I had bought in Japan accompanied with my best approximation of traditional white facial makeup and put my hair up. Mostly I wanted an excuse to wear the kimono, and I wanted to do my very best at both… Continue reading On Halloween and Costume Choice

And it's not that I haven't wanted to: indeed there have been numerous topics that I've felt strongly enough to post to Facebook, to tweet, to have good honest conversations about in person, and yet I haven't been writing all that much. Not in the physical pen on paper world, not on my blog here.… Continue reading I haven't blogged in months

It has been a while since I've blogged. Instead, I've chosen to tweet a lot and try to post to Facebook regularly, but I figured tonight that it's been long enough since I blogged last (January) and really although I've been procrastinating putting together a 'real' website with a WordPress blog of sorts I'll stick… Continue reading Back to blogging

A lot of people have negative things to say about Canada Post. Generally, I don't. In fact, I think Canada Post is the most reliable, inexpensive way of shipping letter mail and parcels across Canada and from Canada around the world. I much prefer it as a shipping option for packages to UPS, FedEx etc.… Continue reading On my love/hate relationship with Canada Post