“Money is an iron. Those creases all get smoothed out by money.”
After a tough work week (though, admittedly, my vacation day on Friday was super-relaxed) we decided to watch a movie after dinner. We could have gone with something light and […]
Category Archives: Movies
NAS
As I type this I’m waiting for my new Synology DS220+ Network Access Storage device to set itself up. Of course I named it Illmatic. I’m excited to get all […]
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 […]
Ausgang
This week saw more excursions, including our first visit to a patio — Chez Nous, to be specific. It was nice to finally sit outside, sip some cool wine, and…talk […]
Baby steps
Slowly, I am re-entering the world outside the loft. Last Saturday we walked into the east to meet a friend and drink Rorschach beers in a (very brown) Woodbine Park. […]
Fleabag
About a week ago I started binge-watching Fleabag (imdb | rotten tomatoes) again. I’d started watching it with Lindsay and then just fell off for some reason. She finished it […]
“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic.”
I can’t remember exactly what led us to start this, but over the past two weeks Lindsay and I watched all eight Harry Potter movies — me for the first […]
Madrid -> Cairo -> Madrid
Just before Christmas a plan came together. I had a work reason to be in Madrid in early January, and decided to skip just a little further on to Cairo, […]
“Tell me you did not just reference Home Alone.”
Yesterday, in the throes of whatever illness this is, we managed to do some useful things (like re-arranging all the books and filling the new bookcase) and some lazy things, […]
“They fly now?” “They fly now.”
I’m back in Nova Scotia right now. More to come on the whole trip, but first this: on Boxing Day my dad, my brother, my sister-in-law and I went to […]
