Tidbits

  • Sleepover at Ikea - Maybe this is the only way to get to the $1 early enough…

  • A ramen bath - Japanese spa with special baths resembling instant noodles.  I wanna play!

  • Old age homes for dogs - 1) Old dogs don’t like to be abandoned at strange places.  2) Playing with young puppies will probably cause the older dogs to die faster due to exhaustion.

  • A remote-controlled pigeon - Oh the poor thing…

  • An article on a brilliant method of teaching grade schoolers about bats and rabies.  I smell a lawsuit.

  • Will trade beer for Crumpler bags.  Tempted by the beanbag and messenger bags…

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Fall Stories

October 22, 2008 | Waterloo |

We turned the heater on today in the house.  I think this means fall is over.  We didn’t end up getting out of town either.

I think the Thanksgiving weekend was the best time for viewing fall colours.  We did some driving to Woodstock, Stratford, and then…

Like an 8 day drinking party

October 20, 2008 | Waterloo |

So went to my second Oktoberfest last Friday, the second one anyways since legal drinking age anyways.  I recall my high school bringing us up one year and they had food and folk dancing and it was pretty fun even without booze.  The time after that was 2003, still…

Finally Feels Like Summer

July 07, 2008 | Waterloo |

The weather in June was such a mess, raining and storming all the time.  The weather network was always wrong, and it was just safe to assume that it will rain.  July, on the other hand, has been very nice.  Sunny, blue skies, not too hot.  Finally able to…

Waterloo for Happy Canucks Day

July 03, 2008 | Waterloo |

So finally, after oh, eight years in Waterloo, we finally went and saw fireworks at Columbia Lake this year.  And since Canada Day was on Tuesday this year and we technically had to work on Monday, we decided to head back to Waterloo early.  Mike then spontaneously decided to…

Back when I was an undergrad at UW…

May 10, 2008 | Waterloo |

...We had to print out our resumes and physically put them into boxes in the dank basement of Needles Hall

...We looked at job postings through a text-based terminal service called Access

...RCH was called the Submarine, and for good reason

...Mackenzie King…

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