Got to spend a fantastic Christmas with Natasha’s family in Winnipeg – my favourite part of the night is rocking out with Ron and Uncle Jim on guitars while we all sing Christmas carols and eat cookies. Happy holidays!

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Caught some deer out by the airport as we drove out to pick up Mom from work – and got a great panorama of Winnipeg while I was at it. Sorry if I’m reinforcing stereotypes – it’s not all fields, airports and grain elevators.

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Natasha and I paid a visit to the new Ottawa Humane Society Building on Hunt Club to make some new friends, and the facility is tremendous! Big open hallways, a green exterior, and lots of communal play areas for the animals make it a huge improvement from the old building on Preston.

When we first pulled [...]

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In Winnipeg the Fringe Festival is a big deal – Natasha and I joined the throngs of people wandering the exchange looking for fun and interesting independent performances. That is until the awful day I gave into one of Natasha’s ‘audience participation’ picks, and got called up on stage and made to do dog tricks [...]

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I’ve been a bit overwhelmed lately and tend to dissappear off my blog for a bit when that happens, so I thought I should at least do a big bullet list of updates:

Saw Terminator 4 – really cool action, so-so storyline. The “Terminator Mythos” was really cleverly intertwined in the previous movies, but this one [...]

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Natasha and I are on our way! Our plans are already a little behind schedule because the movers had to come late, but once they showed up everything went really smoothly. It helped that we started packing 2 weeks ago – pretty much everything was boxed up and ready to go. (And we even had [...]

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Looking out from my 22nd story balcony, this is what I see. I’ve annotated the image to highlight a number of points of interest.

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