Monthly Archives: November 2023
Writer’s Block?
It’s Monday and as I looked over a couple of dozen half-finished posts, I couldn’t decide what should be in this space today. I’m out of excuses I was going to say I have a bad case of writer’s block, but the fact that I can string these words together would seem to contradict that. There […]
Game On!
I’m typing this while watching the Grey Cup, Canada’s football championship, on television. No Roman numerals needed for this one. In the US, the Super Bowl is a big deal. Arguably more for the size of the television audience and the commercials aired during the broadcast than for the game. I may not be an […]
Defining Irony
According to Google – Irony: a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result. Hiring a consultant to tell you how to cut back on the use of consultants seems a bit funny to me. Or should I say it is ironic? […]
Modern Technology
It’s a grey day here – some humor seemed to be indicated.
I Surrender
Remembrance Day is past (though I have one more post to go). Thanksgiving is over too, at least in Canada. Which is why it seems in every store I enter I am hearing Christmas music. I’d complain, but I appear to be a Grinch-like minority. I guess I can live with it for the next […]
The New Thing
Made an early morning trip to Walmart on Tuesday and discovered all the U-scan cash registers were closed. This was surprising The store recently expanded the U-scan and cut back on traditional cash registers, the ones where a person processes your purchases. At the same time, it put in gates so that you have to […]
Three Years Later…
The true believers continue their crusade. It really does defy logic. I noticed on Twitter (the social media site that no-one calls X) that an author I used to respect was posting “data” showing how the 2020 US presidential election was stolen. In this case it was 17,000 dead people voting in Michigan. Maybe I […]
Some Days I Can’t Resist
I thought this was hilarious. Mind you, I come from a family where we discuss grammar. Do you think it is funny?
Definitely Not Disney
Today’s intended post seemed a little heavy for a Sunday, so I thought I’d repost this from 2017 instead I’m not a big fan of theme parks. Never have been. I’ve never traveled to the various Disney or Universal Studios offerings in Florida. I’m told they are a great experience, but they aren’t the experience […]
Remembering in 2023
I don’t remember when Remembrance Day (Veterans day in the US) first seeped into my consciousness. Probably around the time I started school, which makes it more than 60 years ago. My grandfather, I knew, had been a soldier, as had some of the other men from the church my family attended. They were veterans […]
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