Posted in Blather on November 15th, 2005 4 Comments »
Dear John Kerry,
Thank you for the several e-mails. However, you should know, I am a Canadian. I think you’re a swell fella, and good luck to your efforts, but while Canadians have more than their share of right-of-centre people, we do not have any Republicans to turf from office. Your e-mail reads, in part:
It’s time [...]
Posted in Blather on November 15th, 2005 No Comments »
I’ve been preoccupied the last day or so. My Powerbook arrived so I’m getting use to using an Apple product. And this is a laptop, recplacing my old Toshiba Wndows laptop (which actually replaced itself about a year ago). Excluding my work computer (an ancient, pre-WW II Dell), I’ve been using my desktop PC.
Isn’t this [...]
Posted in Blather on November 13th, 2005 1 Comment »
I realized that in telling the tale of The shit hat and the stool sample there was no helpful visual aid to help the wondering reader get a sense for what a shit hat looks like.
Audrey, here, is wearing a close approximation of the shit hat. Mind you, hers is not made of plastic, is [...]
Posted in Blather on November 12th, 2005 8 Comments »
For reasons I never understood, one of my father’s expressions was, inexplicably, “Ah, go take a shit in your hat!” I never knew what it meant. I suspect it was just his way of telling someone to piss off.
How was I to know there actually were such things as shit hats?
There are. I got one [...]
Posted in Blather on November 11th, 2005 1 Comment »
Friday is like the work week’s hangover. Especially this week. It’s been busy, it’s been irritating, annoying and buggered up.
Why do we have to work anyway? My favourite song this week is “The Big Rock Candy Mountain”:
I’m a-goin’ to stay Where you sleep all dayWhere they hung the jerkThat invented workIn the Big Rock [...]
Posted in Blather on November 8th, 2005 1 Comment »
It’s been busy and hectic and frustrating yesterday and today - at work. (I say “at work” but I work mostly from home these days.)
No one’s fault, just the kind of week it is. But … the days have been grim weatherwise and today, while I woke feeling like crap, the cat (Gonzo) was [...]
Posted in Blather on November 6th, 2005 4 Comments »
There was a meme Antonio had which he blackmailed Ubermilf into posting and now it is my turn. So here’s my take:
What is the best part about not being French? (If you are French, what is the best part about not being German?)
You don’t have to tell jokes about what is the best part about [...]
Posted in Blather on November 6th, 2005 1 Comment »
I was on the phone for a very long time today with Dan, my friend in Cornwall, Ontario. Dan and I have been friends since time began, which is a very long time indeed.
Anyway … you’ll be happy to know we solved all the world’s problems. Well, we’re still working on what to do about [...]
Posted in Blather on November 6th, 2005 1 Comment »
I’ve been reading the Marc Eliot biography of Cary Grant (titled, appropriately enough, Cary Grant) and it’s interesting to see how Cary (Archie Leach) was an odd fellow while at the same time, in his oddness, a lot like the rest of us.
There’s a great deal in the book about Grant’s sexuality – was he [...]
Posted in Blather on November 5th, 2005 3 Comments »
I’ve been spiritually bereft in recent years. But lately I’ve see Neil posting about a number of things Jewish. And that got me thinking, “Maybe I should convert?”
But before making such a leap I thought it best to take a quick gander at my Roman Catholic roots. Rather than converting to Judaism, perhaps I should [...]
