Where the Walls are Soft…

This is what I’m hiding behind for the next several days My latest “secretive-ish” little project is underway. It’s all my mother’s fault. She started this. I have to be the one to finish it. And…. I’m afraid. What else is new? What am I afraid of? That’s the stupid part. [...]

Look what Ruby found… “And when I went out there, this thing was sittin’ on top of the paper…”I know, I know, Suzi – I told you she was letting me take her picture. Which she did. Sort of. It was the most I could talk her into; sorry. But isn’t that a [...]

What I was doing over the Labour Day weekend 8 bottles of Heineken, 4 litres of ginger ale, 14 bologna & cheese sandwiches, a box of Honey-Nut Cheerios, 3 litres of 2% milk, 1 pizza (thank you Food Fairy), 6 cans of V8, 12 chocolate meal supplement drinks, and FOUR AND A HALF packs of cigarettes [...]

Ruby’s nephew, Satch, is a lot like she is when it comes to being funny. Just like Ruby, he sometimes comes out with incredibly hilarious one-liners, and then wonders why everybody is laughing. The last time I saw him, we got talking about Sudoku, and how it both fascinates me and frustrates me [...]

1919-2007 Madeleine L’Engle, the author of “A Wrinkle in Time” and over 60 other books of fantasy, poetry and memoir, has died at the age of 88. She hated labels. My kinda gal.

Success The school deadline has passed. I have three exams left to write (I may want to consider studying for those at some point this week). My last assignment for the Flash Experience Design course was an interesting one, and I got a great mark of 94% – I was pleased with that one. The [...]

$5.99 I went shopping today, if you could call it that. I hate stores; I hate shopping in general. In particular, I hate shopping for clothes. Unfortunately, I have no suitable attire for job-hunting/interviews, so I was forced to go shopping. Ugh. I also have that “no income” thing going on, [...]

…but Necessary. I spent money I don’t have on something I don’t need. That doesn’t make having it now any less necessary, mind you. Now that I’ve got the damned thing, it’s as necessary as the Internet. Or air. I went out to the dreaded mall. I went out with the best of [...]

Dory and Daffy are at odds as to what I should do with the day… David McMahon has very generously offered his expertise to the Internet at large… “In view of the fact that all bloggers are writers (but not vice versa!) I was wondering if you could help me with one of my major aims. I [...]

He would have looked a lot like this, then… They were about to swarm – he knew they were. This picture was taken, obviously, just before my Dad went overseas during World War II. He was the youngest of the six boys, and the only kid younger than he was, was my Aunt [...]

Yes, just here to educate y’all, and have some fun in the process… I’m having fun playing with my camera again. And this is a really cool thing. The whole picture is at the bottom of the post. In other news, I applied to another School-Wasn’t-a-Waste job today. The money would be much better than [...]

“Half-Blown” Taken June 11, 2006 with HP PhotoSmart R607 I found this pic while digging through archives looking to fill up my new digital photography portfolio site. It’s been slow going, for several reasons: 1) There are huge numbers of photographs, on too many freaking discs, 2) None are categorized except [...]

My Un-Brother, Ken and his new wife Sylvia made the trip to visit us from Fort MacMurray to show off their new wheels – bought by the insurance company that covered the damage done from the freak hailstorm that hit ten minutes after they said “I Do.” Now, if that ain’t God talkin’, I [...]

I refuse to juggle anymore. It’s been one thing after another again lately. I dealt with the crowds of people all last week. I kind of thought I had it together there. I thought wrong. The shit continues to hit the fan. Most of the time it’s either not [...]

So far, no one’s actually been arrested, but it’s not been for lack of trying. Apparently, for my family, “close” counts, not only in horseshoes and hand grenades, but also in trespassing. For as long as I can remember, my family has had an odd fascination with the idea of being arrested, to [...]