Shot #1
On Tuesday, thanks to VaxHunters, I saw a tweet saying people in our postal code could get vaccinated. I quickly moved some meetings around, grabbed Lindsay, and walked over. From […]
Category Archives: Injuries & Illnesses
COVID toe
About a week ago I noticed an itch and some soreness on one of my toes. I didn’t know what it was; Lindsay said it looked like Athlete’s Foot, which […]
Transitioning out of quarantine
I ended my 10-day quarantine period yesterday. I seem to have followed a pretty standard track for symptoms — it got bad earlier this week, but I worked Tuesday morning, […]
Well, shit.
We were careful. We stayed inside. We masked up. But we still got COVID-19. Last Tuesday I started feeling sick, with a sore throat and a headache. By Tuesday afternoon […]
More Ketamine than a Montreal nightclub
The ol’ blog has been relatively quiet lately. That’s because our summer took an abrupt shift when Lindsay tumbled down our stairs and broke her ankle in three places. That […]
“Welcome, Point Break.”
It’s been a weird week. I was so sick that I didn’t go to work Monday. I probably shouldn’t have gone Tuesday either but I had a pile of meetings, […]
Food poisoning
Well, that was not my favourite week. First, the back injury. Then Chris Cornell died. Then, around 4 on Friday, I started feeling nauseous. Then really nauseous. By the time […]
“We are building the biggest weapon for oppression in the history of mankind.”
Hey, remember last week when I had the flu? I miss last week. Because this week I had goddamn pneumonia. Like I’m some sort of Arctic explorer or something. So […]
And I thought the other kind of calculus was bad
Last Sunday, after a late but enjoyable Saturday evening with friends, Nellie and I were enjoying a nice lazy lie-in, like any other Sunday morning. We didn’t have anywhere to […]
Note to self: buy "iPus" trademark
I should be on a plane right now. I should be flying home to my family’s farm, to join my parents and my two brothers (one of whom flew in […]
