The Last First Day of School
And suddenly, it’s the first day of school. But it’s a landmark “first” – it’s Monkey’s last first day of school, today she enters Grade 12. I don’t really remember my …
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A Top Gun Anniversary
Alex has a thing for 80s movies. I mean, I do, too – some of my favourites are from the 80s – but she has a particular love for Top Gun. When its sequel, Top Gun: Maverick came out, we saw it in the theatre. …
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Happy Birthday, Monkey!
I find the end of August creeps up on us far too quickly and suddenly, it’s your birthday and I’m not even sure what happened to summer. Such as it is this year, and we’re in Banff. It wasn’t even …
Hiking in Radium for the Day
Somewhat out of the blue, Alex decided we should go for a hike. Now, to be fair, we’d been saying things like this for years, including some planning to go out into the Kananaskis and try some of the trails. I …
Blue Rodeo live ... finally!
Twenty years ago, when Alex and I were dating, I’d bought tickets for us to go see Blue Rodeo, a band I knew that she liked – and I liked quite a lot, too – thinking it would be an excellent date night …
Happy Birthday to Me
I hate my birthdays, sometimes. Because I end up planning them. A surprise would be nice. (My 50th had surprises, which I loved.) Today, I turned 52. And it was left to me to decide what we were doing. I chose to go Fort …
A Trip into Vancouver
Today, we went into Vancouver. Last year, I went in my own to visit with Scott (and ride in his time machine). This year, it was all of us to hang out with Jen. I wasn’t too keen on trying to drive into Vancouver. …
SUP, Take Two
In theory, I should be working. I say this because there are things that need to be done to keep the team moving at work while I’m away. I say “in theory” because when I checked the Jira board today, I …
Pretending to be a Tree Monkey
Today was my first real day of vacation in … I’m not going to count, it’s been too long. And I’ll be honest, I feel a bit guilty about it. That maybe why I agreed to go to WildPlay. WildPlay, if …
My First Time on a Standup Paddleboard
Alex is the Queen of Kijiji. If she’s not selling something there, she’s finding something. And she found paddleboards. For the record, until now, I thought of paddleboards as a fad. It seemed like someone …