I’ve been singing Ruby to sleep lately. The repertoire so far has included some Red Hot Chili Peppers, Barenaked Ladies, Djordje Balašević (a post for another time) and one of my favourite songs from my childhood: Plow steering board has broken Here is a video of this particular song being performed by my mom’s cousin’s […]
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Playing “marbles for adults”
As Robin Williams so eloquently put it: In July, I went on a boys only golfing trip with my brother-in-law and father-in-law to Kimberley, BC. This was the first time that I’ve done anything like this. First off, I am NOT a golfer. I usually golf once, maybe twice a year. I consider it an […]
Go towards the light
Sometimes the 9-to-5 starts feeling stale. The project turns from a bright, scenic, exciting adventure into a dark narrow crawlspace with a small flash of light in the distance. You hit the vacation button, two weeks go by and the dank crawlspace now seems more like a poorly lit tunnel. Not great, but it seems […]
On passion…
Lately my day to day work has been tedious and quite unrewarding. Yet every morning I start the day and try to do the best that I can. Frequently, as of late, it seems like a waste. So, as Kim eloquently asked me, Why do I care? The best answer I could come up with […]
What is in your riding kit?
This post has been delayed due to an awesome date with my Wife. Previously I mentioned permanent gadgets attached to my bike, which got me thinking – what are all the upgrades I’ve done to my 2006 Giant FCR3? What exactly is in my ride kit, and should I change anything to make it better? […]
On T-rusty Metal Steeds
Today something miraculous happened. I had a choice of heading out of the house in our car, or I could take my quite neglected bike. Normally, I would rationalize my choice of the 1.5 ton dinosaur-juice fueled as time savings. Truth is, I’ve grown scared of my super light two wheeler. I’ve gotten tangled up […]
Chilling out, maxing, relaxing all cool…
Reading my friends blogs and thinking “more posts? That’s cool” Then I stop to think a minute and I paused right there I realized that I thought that summer blogging challenge started on the 11th!! (my apologies to Fresh Prince of Bel-Air) Aw, fucknuts. I guess I need to write something. For the past few […]
Ultimate ending…
Today was our last ultimate game. Kim and I played on a team called Nicely Stacked. Most of the teams have some play on words on some terminology. Our team was a ton of fun. I think we won one or two games, most of the games we lost were by quite a margin and […]
Tales of the Vacation–Part 5
Phone Call #8 RCMP Corporal: There are no laws about having to be nice or polite, how to behave or that you’re required to have manners. Me: That is true. … RCMP Corporal: Is "You’re going to regret it" a threat? Or "You’ll get it!"? By dictionary definition, yes it is. By legal definition it […]
I was on the radio once or twice…
Before we came to Canada, I used to be on a weekly radio program. The radio station was Radio Novi Sad, now called Radio Television of Vojvodina and the program I was on was called Radio Bajt (Radio Byte). The format of the show was simple. Do some computer topic or news bite, play a […]