31st
March
2010
I’m not positive, but that bird that was “hippity-hoppity” on the street yesterday morning might have been a robin. Looking lost, given the snow still covering the local lawns, but a welcome harbinger of seasonal change. But there’s snow, you say? I can only take solace in knowing that my neighbours haven’t had to shovel the front yards, this time around. By the end of the weekend, the only sign of winter will be my snow tires.
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posted in technology, Wx |
30th
March
2010
The provincial government announced their budget this afternoon. As I like to call it, the prediction of pain. A voice, with a litany. Read the rest of this entry »
posted in economy, politics |
29th
March
2010
Sometimes an old story can’t be improved. Retelling the tale will not change the outcome, the moral. Instead, it affirms that the storyteller must have missed the ending, last time around. But, let me begin.
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posted in humour, politics |
28th
March
2010
My life will never serve as the back story for a Hollywood thriller. At least, not when the highlight of the afternoon includes helping someone do their tax return, before getting down to the serious business of cutting frozen slabs of pork into small pieces for a curry.
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posted in technology |
27th
March
2010
Locally, Earth Hour has ended. One whole hour without an excess of artificial light. Symbolic gestures are simple, but imagine if this event progressed. Rather than one hour per year, how about one per month, per week, per day. Maybe then we could move on to more substantial gestures.
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posted in environment |
26th
March
2010
And then we had the dreaded chickenpox. As kids, I mean. Back in those days, there was a checklist of diseases you were doomed to catch, just because you were a kid. I did catch most of them, and I was happy, because these were the “catch once and forget” category. As an adult, things were going to be smooth sailing.
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posted in health |
25th
March
2010
By one simple action, the noise went away.
Oddly enough, I was standing in the middle of our local Future Shop, where the ambient sound can approach the level of a small industrial shop. Surround sound, all the time. Ventilation fans, telephones, the kid in the car stereo section; all active simultaneously. And then, I placed the headphones on my head, and I heard music. Nothing else. Not loud, at the threshold of pain. Rather, at the level I’d use if I was sitting quietly, reading and feeding.
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posted in technology |
24th
March
2010
Ask kids; school isn’t the most exciting place to spend the day. Apart from the uncomfortable chairs, the industrial lighting, the water fountains that never seem to jet properly, there’s the elephant in the room. Curriculum. Well, at the risk of boring a captive audience even more, I suggest that we include a small dose of civics.
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posted in politics |
23rd
March
2010
No sense in rushing towards a change of seasons around here. I mean, even if this is the closest we’ve had to May in March since I moved to the city, and even if the law now permits changing the winter tires out for something less cumbersome, this is the great white North. By lunch time, the ground was covered; by quitting time, I wished for my mitts.
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posted in Idol |
22nd
March
2010
In Souris, if the CBC got their facts right (it does happen, from time to time), the lost stones have been found. Cached, if you will, under the stands at the local arena. No diamonds in the rough here, we’re talking granite. Meant to last for a long time. Stones with handles, no less.
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posted in sports |
