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Archive for April, 2007

T-t-t-talkin’ ’bout …

Posted in Blather on April 25th, 2007 4 Comments »

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C’est moi?

Posted in Blather on April 23rd, 2007 1 Comment »

Thanks to Brooke, I know this about me (apparently I’m kind of a tech geek):

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Cool renovations - really!

Posted in Fredericton, New Brunswick, home improvement, home reno, reno, renovations on April 22nd, 2007 No Comments »

The reno project is now well underway and, as is to be expected, there is the odd blip. I’m thinking here particularly of the one where the electrician guy somehow disconnected the power to my furnace.
Yes, I’m freezing my ass off.
Fortunately, the weather has been great - nice and warm, at least during the […]

Adieu, old kitchen - poof, it’s gone

Posted in Fredericton, New Brunswick, home improvement, home reno, reno on April 19th, 2007 No Comments »

And so the old kitchen is gone.
In it’s place, enough dust to make Hollywood destructo types envious. When I got home a thin white coating was on everything.
Some of the interesting and very confounding aspects of ripping up an older place are the oddities and problems hidden behind the walls. Like pipes where none were […]

Remember this kitchen

Posted in Fredericton, New Brunswick, home improvement, home reno, reno on April 16th, 2007 3 Comments »

Beginning tomorrow (or more probably, Wednesday) the deconstruction of my kitchen begins. They tear it up. They tear it down. They put in something new.
They also change all my windows.
So for the next little while I shall be living in dust and confusion. A state of discombobulation. An environment of muddle and mayhem. But they […]

Kurt Vonnegut is gone

Posted in Blather on April 12th, 2007 No Comments »

“Life is no way to treat an animal.”
At age 84, Kurt Vonnegut has died. I’ve been reading his books since God knows when. And I’ve read them over and over.
A friend and I use to quote Vonnegut lines back and forth and howl with laughter.
Actually, we still do. Over Skype.
Anyway … Kurt Vonnegut is gone. […]

Till there are no strangers anymore

Posted in Blather on April 10th, 2007 No Comments »

How could I resist? It’s Patty Griffin …

(By the way … the song is “No Bad News” and the studio version is on Children Running Through, very high on my most played list. Also available on iTunes but I’ve no idea how to link to those clowns.)
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Some days are useless

Posted in Blather on April 9th, 2007 No Comments »

There are certain days that come along when, some time after it begins, you inevitably think, “What’s the point? Why did this day even start?”
It’s not that they are “bad” days. It’s simply that they are without purpose or … or … anything. They just sit their like a useless relative.
Well, today is one […]

Man looking for pants

Posted in Blather on April 7th, 2007 No Comments »

You think you have troubles? How would you like to be this poor bugger?
Guy’s out camping with the family. Nature’s call comes upon him so he wanders off into the brush. Next thing he knows …
“Gosh! I seem to have mislaid my trousers.”
Well, it happens.
Of course, the truly puzzling thing about all this is […]

You know you have fallen among barbarians when …

Posted in Blather on April 3rd, 2007 No Comments »

They ask what you would like to drink.
You say, “Tea, please.”
They say, “Oh, we don’t have any. We don’t drink it.”
It happens. Really.
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