While I was visiting with my family, we got talking about something that always happened to us each year when we’d make the 6-hour drive from our house to grandma’s. It didn’t matter how hard we tried, we would always leave later than we planned. We would put on the radio, and tune in a …
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History Of The NORAD Santa Tracker
I always heard about the NORAD Santa tracker, it was a thing since I was a kid. But since it was always there, I never looked into its history. Now I’ve learned that its history is kind of cute. I guess a newspaper mistakenly printed a top secret military hotline as a talk to Santa …
Merry Christmas And All That Stuff
Since I’m’ posting this today, this song makes a good soundtrack. Yeah, it’s December 23 and I don’t know where the time has gone. Somehow, despite my battles with the captain, I still managed to get my Christmas shopping done, although it was a little closer to the wire than I would have liked…and the …
Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas Indeed
I wasn’t going to post this, but I keep giggling at it, so up it goes. The Christmas songs are playing through the mall, and I either tune them out or get annoyed by them. But I think if they played these tunes, they’d get my attention…and probably the attention of a few gazillion angry …
You Can Look A Lot Less Like An Old Bag, And All You Need Is…The Stuff In This Old Bag
So, imagine that you open your door, and find a small zip-lock bag full of a strange brown substance on your doorstep. The note taped to it with painter’s tape says it comes from a local spa, includes that spa’s logo, and claims it’s a new face cream that has been developed, and your neighbourhood …
You Can Call A Waterloo Taxi With An App, And It Works…sort of.
I really should be in bed, but for some reason I’m restless. So I thought I’d write this down. On Friday night, we tried out a new app that’s supposed to be designed to help you call a taxi easier…and…for the most part, it was a success. It’s kind of a neat idea, that’s for …
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Dice My Onions, Or I Might Go Snaky!
I was going to write about this on Monday, but my computer had other plans. If I wrote this post on Monday, I would have said that I think I’m winning the battle with Captain Nameless Illness, but I’m not completely sure anymore. At any rate, it’s still robbing me of creativity because when I …
Stella Young, Gone Way Too Young
Wow. We just linked to Stella Young’s Ted Talk, and now I hear that she has died. At 32, she has died unexpectedly. Damn. Life truly is unfair. It looks as though, from all the people remembering her, that she made a lot of impact in her short life. I hope she’s at peace, and …
Stop It With the Grabby Grabby!
Something happened to me yesterday that I’ve probably written about in components before, but it all happened to me in one 10-minute interaction yesterday, so I thought I’d write about it. I got off the bus and started to walk. I got to the first intersection, and something seemed a wee bit off about my …
I’ll Double Stuff You In A Hole If You Don’t Shut Up…
Soundtrack time! Bella should be very thankful she lived next to us and not Roger Pelletier. I guess he couldn’t take the dog’s incessant noise, so broke in and tried and failed to strangle the little shih tzu. He soon discovered that Orio had a bite to go along with its bark. Now, as far …
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