Thursday, July 31, 2008

HNT - A Really Useful Day Trip

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Last Friday we took a day trip out to St. Thomas (about half an hour outside of London, ON), to visit Thomas in the "Day Out with Thoma...
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Friday, July 25, 2008

Da Count - When in Baltimore, I Drank A Really Fine Beer

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Recently, on a trip to and from Storrs, Connecticut, my traveling companion Rick and I drove to Buffalo where we caught a flight to Baltimor...
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Thursday, July 24, 2008

HNT - I Only Regret That I Have But Five Bucks To Give This Casino

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This past week (and weekend) I traveled to Connecticut for the annual Ratex Users Group (or RUG) Conference, which was hosted by the good fo...
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Friday, July 18, 2008

Da Count - No Wings For You!

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Last night, after weeks of yearning to place an order from the newly established Five Alarm Wings in Hamilton, I was told that there were no...
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The Ultimate Book Chair

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I found this through one of the many "book lover" RSS feeds that I try desperately to keep up on daily (but fail miserably on). I...
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Thursday, July 17, 2008

HNT - Can't Blog, Sorting

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This week I'm back in the warehouse for a second round of sorting Hurt Penguins ( see last week's post for details) While fun, ther...
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Aunt Mary

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My Aunt Mary passed away on Monday. Well, in reality, Mary Emblin wasn't actually an aunt, but a dear friend of my family. And Mary and...
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Thursday, July 10, 2008

HNT - Da Count - Hurts So Good

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I spent the entire day in our warehouse sorting through 50+ skids of "Hurt Penguins" with ten other booksellers -- "Hurt Peng...
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Sovereign Summer

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Want to be part of something big, something cool and end up with a book that you're going to love? Be there on Sunday July 13th for the...
Monday, July 07, 2008

The Best Birthday Ever

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Four years ago today my life altered dramatically for the better. A tough thing too, because I've been very fortunate my entire life --...
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Thursday, July 03, 2008

HNT - Molson Canadian: Taste That'll Stop You Cold

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Given that this week included Canada's Birthday, I thought I'd do an HNT post with a bit of patriotism. I mean, beer IS a very Cana...
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Live Long And Prosper, Jim

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I'm still in shock, still can't believe it. Jim Turcott passed away Monday evening. He was 57. To say that Jim was my teacher would...
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Saturday, June 28, 2008

Just One More Beer With Dad

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Today was my Dad's birthday. He died in 2003, but he would have been 71 today. So this evening after supper, I cracked open one of the ...
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A Novel Idea

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Today's Hamilton Spectator features a full page splash of related articles that I produced for books editor Rob Howard. (Okay, I stretc...
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Thursday, June 26, 2008

HNT - CRAMing

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I spent three days this week with a group of other campus bookstores and student representatives from across Canada. We were meeting as a c...
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Monday, June 23, 2008

Seven Words I Don't Want To Say

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George Carlin died on Sunday June 22nd. Seven words I didn't want to say. Anyone who is even remotely familiar with Carlin's work ha...
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Thursday, June 19, 2008

HNT - Fire Station

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And here's another sign that when spring and summer comes, I get even busier doing fun family things and spend less time blogging. (It m...
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Thursday, June 12, 2008

HNT - Beginnings and Endings

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As I've said before, I'm a very lucky guy to work in the book industry. Every single day I am surrounded by something I am very pas...
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Friday, June 06, 2008

Da Count - Hamilton Wingfest

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Last weekend Francine and Alexander and I headed out of town for a few days -- we went up north to give my Mom a hand with some yard work th...
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Thursday, June 05, 2008

HNT - Daddio

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Last week while trying to get my attention, Alexander called me Daddio. I'd mentioned about a year ago that he stopped calling me Daddy ...
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