Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Word Of The Day: Kvell

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\'kvel\ verb : to be extraordinarily proud : rejoice Attempting to use the word in a sentence: When Mark read all the wonderful comment...
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Monday, January 30, 2006

Thank You For Being A Friend

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Some time over the last few days, my counter for this site hit 10,000. Damn, wish I'd known who the 10,000th person was - I would have t...
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Saturday, January 28, 2006

Type A?

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I'm not the world's most patient person. When there's no choice but to wait I normally prepare for it by keeping either a book a...
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Friday, January 27, 2006

Literary Battle At Tim Hortons

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Lesley Simpson, one of my favourite Hamilton Spectator reporters, has begun an exciting venture today. She’ll be participating in a literar...
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Young Man

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I read in the newspaper this morning that the cop from the Village People (Victor Willis), is on the lam, skipping out on a bail hearing rel...
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Thursday, January 26, 2006

HNT - The Carb-Eater Strikes Back

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Continued from HNT - Darth Tater Unmasked When we last left off, Darth Tater had jumped to attack an unconscious Mark as revenge for his fa...
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Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Well I Didn't Vote For You!

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Last night my son threw up in a sudden explosive burst. This was at about the same time the news media was announcing the certainty that Ste...
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Monday, January 23, 2006

Library Boy

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This week, Francine suggested that I start taking Alexander to the library Saturday mornings as part of our "boys day out" -- we u...
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Thursday, January 19, 2006

HNT - Naked Death

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Many people have requested I continue with the storyline in which an unmasked (ie nekkid) Darth Tater has attacked me -- don't worry, I...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Allow Me To Be Blunt

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I was listening to James Blunt ’s “ You’re Beautiful ” the other day on the radio. When I first heard it I thought it was a sweet song with...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Book Tagged

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I was book-tagged by Virginia O'Dine , which means I get to answer the following questions and then tag 5 more victims . . . er, blogger...
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Monday, January 16, 2006

Stardust NOT Banned in Utah

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Yesterday, Stardust returned to Earth. It had been launched February 7, 1999 as the first NASA mission to return cometary particle samples ...
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Friday, January 13, 2006

Friday The 13th

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Several years ago, Francine and I started a tradition. It started when chatting with my neighbour Chad about the enjoyment of hot and spicy ...
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Thursday, January 12, 2006

HNT - Darth Tater Unmasked

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I thought I'd try something a bit different for this week's HNT, and start a bit of a story in pictures starring my newest little fr...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Epenthesis

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Francine bought me a great 365 Days of Beer calendar for Christmas which I love -- it's filled with information about beers from around...
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Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Self-Promotion For Authors

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I just finished listening to a 30 minute podcast interview that Tee Morris did with Robert J. Sawyer prior to Christmas. While I've l...
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Monday, January 09, 2006

Where's The Big Brother?

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Today in pop culture history was the day that Clara Peller first uttered the words “ Where’s the beef? ” in 1984 in the now classic Wendy’...
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Interesting Week

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I think that this is going to be an interesting week. Instead of taking the GO train into downtown Toronto from Hamilton, I'll be drivi...
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Saturday, January 07, 2006

In Solitude With Memories (& Snow, Lots of Snow)

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Yes, it's been snowing since early evening last night - nice big fluffy white flakes. Ahh. All is okay with the world again. Okay I'...
Friday, January 06, 2006

Seasonal Affective Disorder

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I received payment yesterday from Your Scrivener Press for my story "Being Needed" which will appear in the anthology Bluffs: Nor...
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