Fun with screens
While normally we find it exhausting to look at screens, yesterday they were the underpinnings of a pretty good day. Somehow yesterday I became aware that Bar Volo, and its […]
Comparing my discretionary spending pre- and post-COVID
[Cross-posted from LinkedIn, with some revisions] Prompted by my colleague Kat’s post “How COVID-19 changed my spending habits“, I decided to piggyback on her idea. Here’s what I found. [But first, the […]
Our thriving boy
Some visual examples of how well Kramer is doing in the house. .:. Cover photo by r d h, used under creative commons license
2020 Annual Report: Containment
After the pummeling that was 2019, I was really looking forward to a return to normalcy in 2020. Lindsay, it should be noted, was always skeptical: at a New Year’s […]
The best of everything from 2020
To the great surprise of no one on planet earth, this is a weird year in which to do a list like this. Or, anything else. When I started prepping […]
The switch to repose
Now, a week after I posted about starting vacation, it feels like we’re probably able to relax. On Sunday of this week we drove out to Oshawa to pick up […]
Let the final phase of this bullshit year begin
I’m on vacation now, more or less. While I might work a bit more between now and 2021, I’m pretty much shut down. We obviously couldn’t go home to NS […]
There’s just too much
The absolute dead zone of movie watching continues, but the tear through TV shows (to say nothing of the old shows we watch over and over and over and over […]
Still in the house
We’ve been in the new house for five weeks now, and it’s already hard to remember the loft. Space. Floors. Walls. We can have non-disruptive work meetings and/or private conversations […]
Blind birthday beers
Last night, for a friend’s birthday, we took part in a fun thing: a blind beer tasting (on Zoom, naturally) between people over five households. Each person bought five beers, […]
