Where you will find my (documented) thoughts, worries, concerns, and issues
A personal archive of writing, stories, and notes
This has been my humble (virtual) home for over 20 years, posting events and musings and more than a few rants. It’s gone through so many evolutions over that time that it’s perchance a bit messy, and you might find some dead links or even a few bits of old code that included pictures. I’m slowly revamping this site to clean all that out, so please bear with me while you look around.
Recent writing
More weird dreams than I care to think about (I’m sure some of them would make interesting manga, but as a novel they’d be unworkable) kept me from decent sleep. Today was our last day in Ontario and we …
The bed was hard. The girls slept terribly on possibly the worst pull-out couch, ever. After failing to get the Krupp machine in our room to work, Monkey and let Alex and Choo Choo sleep a bit more and stole away to the …
The thunderstorm started at 5am. Cathy’s dog, Hennessey, got me up not long after. Dogs generally aren’t fans of loud noises and this dog isn’t a fan of thunderstorms. I knew then it was going to be a …
Well, Toronto got canned. I was woken by a text from Asinkwe saying she wasn’t able to make lunch. After some discussion, we opted to skip going back into downtown Toronto. After helping Cathy replace a lock on her …
One of the things I’m terrible at when coming to Oakville is visiting with friends. It’s not that I don’t want to visit with anyone else, it’s often that I don’t have enough time available …
It was a rainy day in Oakville when my cousin Raoul… Wait. I don’t have a cousin Raoul. We all slept in, even Cathy, who’s famously up early, and Tori, who didn’t have an 8:30 shift at the pool. …
GO Transit has a major problem: the prices. Actually, it’s a bigger problem than that, so let me start there: Too many people. In the last 15 years, the Greater Toronto Area has grown by at least 1.2 million …
From the outset, today’s plans were always going to be a big dodgy. Although we had a definitively hard schedule for 6pm, the rest was to be made up as we went. Obviously, we’ve been to Toronto before. Alex …