Natasha resolved last week to try a fruit she’s never had before, so while we were out at Produce Depot I took a stroll down the “weird fruit” aisle. I passed over the Red Bananas and Casabas and went straight for the Canary Melons, which are nearly fluorescent yellow when ripe and looked exciting.
Not really [...]
Tags: Canary Melon·fruit
John, Ron and I ditched our wives the other night and went out to celebrate pre Comic-Con nerdiness at the Comic Book Shoppe. It’s been a while since I’ve really had the time to peruse around the store and get a sense of what’s new. It doesn’t seem to matter to Natasha that I’ll follow [...]
Tags: comic book shoppe·comics·surprise bag
Some mornings I put my bike helmet on a little earlier than I need to as I’m getting ready to leave the apartment. It’s probably only about two inches thick at it’s widest, but once it’s on I somehow can’t seem to help but bump into things. It’s made me very aware that I am [...]
Tags: Helmet
Wednesday of this week Playbrains released our first console game on XBox Live Arcade, “Madballs in… Babo:Invasion“. The game’s been steadily building a community since it launched, with thousands of players already headed into the first weekend. We’re hoping it really catches fire now that the reviews are pouring in – it seems like everyone [...]
Tags: Madballs in... Babo:Invasion·MiBI·Playbrains·XBLA
Natasha and I participated in this year’s HOPE beach volleyball challenge through my work team. It was convenient that our OSSC team had a volleyball game just a few days previous, so we were warmed up and ready to bump, set and spike.
The weather put a quick end to the day, though. After just 3 [...]
Tags: beach·HOPE·rainout·volleyball
My motivation to go hiking every weekend’s been a little diminished by bad weather and scheduling difficulties. Finally getting a break and looking for a good hiking spot the other day, John and Jen suggested we take a walk up King Mountain, one of the trails up around Champlain Lookout that doesn’t get as much [...]
Tags: Gatineau Hills·Hike·King Mountain
Our walking challenge at work is over! Collectively we’ve walked about twice the distance between Ottawa and Easter Island, where our mascots the Maori stone (bit)heads come from. I personally put in 1,500,000 steps over about 100 days, putting me in around 15,000 a day on average. It would have been higher except for a [...]