Category Archives: oh brother what next

Guh.

Sorry, everyone. The giveaway I promised has been temporarily put on hold due to technical difficulties and the fact that technical difficulties make me want to gauge out my eyeballs with broken shards of my old Backstreet Boys Millennium CD. … Continue reading

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Oops, I think I did it again.

Here’s a Project: Proxy update for you: (p.s. If you want to know more about the Project: Proxy feature of my blog, click here, and your wildest dreams will come true. {Or at least your somewhat-reasonable dream of wanting to … Continue reading

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Daylight Savings Trauma

Daylight Savings Time is for the birds. Image from here. In Arizona (a state that does not subscribe to Daylight Savings Time), where I lived for 21 glorious years, the concept of Daylight Savings Time was sort of like the … Continue reading

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I grade myself on a curve.

I’ve been succumbing to the seasonal glumness that I seem to contract regularly around this time in Canada. I think it’s the weather: it’s warming up and teasing me into thinking it’s spring, but nothing’s green and beautiful yet, and … Continue reading

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Good things come to those who wait to clip their toenails until after noon.

This morning I clipped my toenails, and as I was sitting there clip clip clipping, I had the strangest feeling that something was wrong. I couldn’t pinpoint it, not at first, but finally I figured it out: Who in this … Continue reading

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Scott Hamilton: Without You, I Am Nothing.

***This post is in conjunction with the sports-themed Spin Cycle over at Sprite’s Keeper. Click here to read more of the sportiest spins on the internet.*** It’s not often that I notice huge cultural differences between Canada and the United … Continue reading

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That would be a cool trick.

Imagine if you worked really hard to make good things happen in your life. Imagine if you set goals, and trudged away, day after day, through the tedium of hard, boring work, to finally accomplish those goals, and when all … Continue reading

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