The 79th Academy Awards

So, even though I despise these things (see here) I still watched this year’s event.  What a hypocrite I am.   Some observations: Ellen DeGeneres is equally as bad/good as Jon Stewart.  So we can assume she won’t be hosting next year (Seinfield anyone?). I didn’t see any of the movies up for any Oscar except… Read More »

Daycare decisions

We’ve been struggling this past month trying to decide where to relocate OG for daycare.  Our current arrangements have become a non-option for the time being as that family is preparing to increase its head count. The struggle we are having is whether we want to enroll her in a commercial daycare environment.  For the… Read More »

Snow!

We finally had what could be liberally called a snow storm last night.  From where I come from (and from where some people I know now live), it was more like a moderate flurry. Nonetheless, the blowing wind blew most of the snow into our driveway this morning.  Leaving it virtually impossible to ram the… Read More »

Introduction to Gourmet Cooking I

Last night I started a 4 week, 4hr a night cooking class with my pal Jason. It’s being offered by the Continuing Education faculty of Conestoga College. The location is at the Waterloo Campus which is on University across from the Taco Bell / Pizza Hut Cardiology Centre. It’s in the building where the old… Read More »

20 or so Words and Phrases

Each month, I’m going to list around 20 words or phrases about things, events, thoughts, etc. that reflect what’s happening in my life at the moment. Some items will be recognizable to family and friends. Some only relevant to me. Let’s see how it goes. Gourmet cooking class new skis, road skis Tremblant for 5… Read More »

Dick Butkiss Trophy acceptance email

Last night during the ‘real’ Super Bowl XLI in which Indianopolis finally won a title with Peyton Manning, there was supposed to be an award ceremony for the MMQB Football Fantasy Champion at one of the team owner’s place during half-time. Unfortunately I, the champion, was unable to attend due to late arrival home from… Read More »

The Transition of OG leads to the transition of me.

Olivia is in a transition. Now that she’s over 18 months I guess it’s time for her to start testing her boundaries and exerting her character a bit more. I’ve noticed this in her eating and how she is expressing her desire to not do something. OG used to be an indiscriminate eater. She would… Read More »

Psychic Poker

OK, this seems to me to be a no-brainer but I’ve got to pose it anyway.  An interesting friend of mine named ‘Dave L’ asked the following (I’ll be paraphrasing): Texas Hold’em:  If you were psychic and had the ability of either knowing 1 of your opponent’s 2 hole cards or knowing what the river… Read More »

Beverly Hills 90210

I didn’t want to make this public knowledge but I just had to. Besides, those who know me already suspected. I am a watcher of 90210 now that it has been revived on TV Tropolis. We recently upgraded our digital cable box with a PVR so now we (yes, someone else in the household also… Read More »

Found: money

I was looking through all my poker accounts over the weekend and found $1000 sitting in my Paradise account.  This windfall will be put to good use:  going towards a trip somewhere, someday soon (I can’t divulge any details at this time). While logged into Paradise I took a look-see around and discovered that there… Read More »