• Sneeze.

    Ugh. My allergies are kicking my ass. I don’t fully understand why. It’s fall, nothing is in bloom, but I get it every year. I finally went to an allergist a few months ago after battling allergies with OTC meds all my life and he gave me a new allergy test. Rather than take a…

  • Magical sleep depriving powers.

    So it’s 7:30 am on Saturday morning and I’m up as usual. I’m always up. Colin woke up at 6:30 and I gave him a bottle and rocked him for an hour in a desperate effort to get him to go to back to bed so I could get even just one more hour of…

  • My to-do list is consuming my soul.

    The sun was streaming in the window this morning warming the room and physically warming the surface of the desk as I sat down to check some emails and type a bit. The glow of this space belies the frost on the grass outside and the -2 C temperature. With a warm cup of coffee…

  • Lost time.

    So I’m sure some of you have been wondering where I’ve been and what’s up. Truth be told, I’m not sure myself. The last week or so has passed in a blur – fragmented chunks of sleep 45 – 50 mins long all nite will have that effect I guess. We had a baby. I…

  • 9 years.

    ….7% of 5.02 mb… I’m sitting here waiting for a 5 MB stock photo to download over a dial-up connection. Yeah. That’s 45 minutes. It’s not like I can do any other work on the project. I’m waiting for the damn stock photo. ‘Course I can’t surf the web either. That just grinds everything to…

  • An Open Letter to Stupid Politicians.

    Here in Canada the pundits and news heads are all abuzz with the promise of the news boon that would be a Federal Election. As such politicians are out beating the street, gladhanding with the common man, working for that vote. Apparently the Conservative Party of Canada* has decided to go with the old school…