Natasha loves to come out and make fun of me while I play video games, because while I become completely immersed in jumping bandicoots over lava pits, my facial muscles go absolutely haywire. She claims I sit in front of the television with my tongue wagging and my nostrils flared, completely oblivious to the world [...]

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We’ve elected not to bother with cable service just yet in the apartment - neither of us are avid television watchers and most things we’d like to see are coming out on DVD eventually, so why pay to get tv shows you have to rush home to watch, only to have to sit through commercials [...]

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We’ve had some friends, Adrian and Sara, swing by from Winnipeg this week to do some touristing in Ottawa on their vacation, so Natasha and I have been doing our best to show them around. The only problem being that I feel very much like a tourist myself - I hardly know where anything is. [...]

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Yet another important lesson learned - when something needs fixing, don’t put it off, just DO it. I generally know ahead of time when something is going to come around and bite me in the rear end, and sometimes I just can’t get to it in time. We had a flimsy decorative Ikea box on [...]

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There are only 99 days left according to my original orthodontic treatment schedule - only that many days before I can munch on handfuls of popcorn, squish sweedish berries, or nibble the good stuff off of apple cores! Three months until I can floss without having a team of engineers planning out threading trajectories.
The move [...]

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I got my flu shot this morning! There was some “flu-proof club” fistbumping in the office earlier, but our zeal for secret handshakes diminished a bit as some of our arms got sore.
I didn’t get a cool band-aid, probably because I was off like a “shot” (haha!) as soon as the business end [...]

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Some of you may have noticed that my archives are a little sparse - it turns out some of the material from before the big outage (all of the material?) may be saved - meaning all the torrid details of the past 10 years of my life will be once again returned to an indexed, [...]

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Woke up to some more rolling fog, this time hugging the ground just enough that it picked up a little colour, and every so often a building over on Richmond would peek through. Really neat!

I think I’m going to set up my camera to do some time-lapse sequences overnight and see if I can catch [...]

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Somebody forgot to pay the scenery bill this month, and when we woke up, we were cut off.  I brushed my teeth this morning while admiring the pea-soup fog, with nothing visible out our windows but our balcony rail. I wondered to myself if I’d died over the course of the evening, but I reasoned [...]

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So I had a rhythm going of a few posts a week before I left Winnipeg, and I’ve been really quiet lately, leaving a lot of people wondering if I’ve been abducted by aliens or something. I’m still around, I just haven’t had a lot of time between settling in to have zany adventures. A [...]

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