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dish trip

I’ve had it trying to install my own satellite system. Never doing it again. I’m calling a professional installer today. I just don’t want to talk about it…

many, many hits.

Hey, I just noticed that a few weeks ago this page topped the 40,000 hit mark. Cool.

Oh, moving!

[Homer searches under the couch for a peanut] Homer: Hmm…ow, pointy! Eww, slimy. Oh, moving! Ah-ha! [looks, then says remorsefully] Oh, twenty dollars…I wanted a peanut! Homer’s brain: Twenty dollars can buy many peanuts! Homer: Explain how. Homer’s brain: Money can be exchanged for good and services. — The voice of reason, “Boy Scoutz ‘N […]

D-Day

Today we sign the papers for our new house. Tomorrow we take posession and start moving. I am so damn stoked. I know Sandy is too but she’s too tired from packing to show it 🙂

snap, crackle, pop!

Kellog’s Rice Krispies? No, the sound of me stepping on my glasses yesterday morning! Fun! Joy! I’d been putting off going to the optometrist for months now, and it was fast approaching three years since my last visit so it seemed as good a time as any. I worked from home and got into the […]

what’s going on? what’s happening? what’s all this?

What else has been happening? We are entering box hell – that time before we move when we try to do as much pre-packing as possible. You can tell it’s getting time to move because photos and pictures start to come off the walls, and then when we talk it sounds like we’re living in […]

WAHOOOO!

Sandy got into York! Sandy got into York! Sandy got into York! Sandy got into York! (for teacher’s college)

When someone inconveniences you, hit ’em right bacl

I feel great. I just had someone’s car towed. I tried to give them the benefit of the doubt, but I’m starting to realize that living in the city teaches you to be harsh and swift. Last night we got home from seeing Erin Smith Band, and there was someone else’s car parked in our […]

For those of you who are keeping track, yesterday Mike’s girlfriend gave birth to a healthy baby girl. Raven Rochelle Kamenka came into this world weighing 9 pounds and 15 ounces. We went to see them yesterday evening at the hospital: everyone was doing A-OK.

We did manage to watch Secret Window. It was… alright. Not excellent. Not garbage either though. Watched the first episode of season 8 of South Park last night. It was brutal to watch. Somehow they manage to keep pushing the envelope of taste. It was just painful, painful to watch. On the other hand, the […]