We spent Christmas and a few days either side in Sakatchewan, land of -27 C days and even colder nights. But, as it turns out, little snow. Driving along Highway 1 you could see the stubble of plants sticking out of the slim white covering, giving the horizon a green-brown tinge. There was more snow [...]
Tagged snow, VancouverFreakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything was published a long time ago, way back in 2005, but it took my bookclub until this year to decide to read it. Hey, no point in being too fast, if a book is worthwhile it will still be worthwhile a couple of years later, [...]
Tagged book reviewIn the on-again, off-again discussions about bailing out three auto manufacturers who are in large part responsible for their own problems (which they admit), the major reason given for not letting them go the way of any other company in financial trouble is to create work and jobs for the people they employ. Surely better [...]
Bangkok 8: A Novel, by John Burdett (his site, Wikipedia) was the latest bookclub read (yes, I know I’ve skipped a few in the middle, I got this one out of the library and it’s due back next week, which does concentrate the mind wonderfully). It’s probably not a book many of us would have [...]
Having just updated my blog to the latest in the 2.6 series, it was time to go for the 2.7 series. Normally I wait a couple of days for other people to flush out the bugs, but I figured I’d be big and brave on this one, given it’s Friday afternoon.
As usual with WordPress, [...]
Figuring out how best to spend “spare” time (that not allocated to working, sleeping, eating, and the other necessary daily activities) is always a conundrum. Do I read blogs, or write my own entries? Do I knit, or surf Ravelry? Do I watch TV, or read books? The pendulum has recently been swinging too far [...]
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