Allegra Rivett Sloman's blog

Young.  Energetic.  Talented.  Harmonic.  Tasty. Thrashy.  Gutsy.  Soulful.  Songcentric.  Just cleared the door from Headwater at Jericho, and they were AMAZING.  I WILL pay money to see them again.

STUPID FLYING TRICKS FOR HUMANS! 1. Bother to collect frequent flyer miles! They eventually add up even if you don’t fly a lot, and then you can fly places for free or at a heavy discount. I fly everywhere I can on Alaska, even if the fare is slightly higher than another airline (usually they’re [...]

It is so good to have a job!  I  appreciated the break, but I’m definitely glad to be going back.

All together now… aw…… Bonus track…. John Cleese talks about football/soccer.

I needed a mental health day, and by gar, I got one. Here’s an interesting comment about the HST coming to BC.  I hadn’t realized stamps will be taxed. An external report on the G20 riots. Chocolate…. is there anything it can’t do? Memory drugs that work… right around the corner? I can’t remember if [...]

Cross posted from Colin’s Facebook. Cat pee = perfume.  Now we haz prüf! Only one burning cop car?  Torontonians are so low-key.  If the facebook posts of eastern pals are anything to go by, Toronto’s a farking mess right now – apparently they shut down the transit system, which is questionable tactics. Bearsneezle! Watch for [...]

Cat has aplomb.

Work was good, the bill for the car came to less than a hundred bucks, and Jeff and I watched “What Just Happened?” This morning I mended a pair of pants and folded laundry, and now it’s time for a shower and to hit the road.  I am feeling much better – not the cold, [...]

A great parody.

First, a Lindy Hop Flashmob from Vancouver. Wasn’t that adorable?  Ziva’s off to the krankenhaus today to get her brakes looked at (they are working fine as far as I can tell but a panic stop or even a hard stop brings the brake light on). I didn’t post yesterday and I didn’t even notice… [...]

When Katie was under ten, the house had sparkles and glitter in it 24/7.

Other than that, it was a simple collation of Maui beef and leftover veg and so to bed… well, not exactly, as I watched Jeff play Red Dead Redemption – which is a visually gorgeous game.

Then I found out it isn’t true. Of such are the news chunks of the internet.

It was great to see mOm.  Just before I went to pick her up a great blue heron flew super close to me and then sat on the roof of the garage across the street and gave me the staredown.  Very odd.  Then another great blue heron flew over our heads as we dropped her [...]

1.  I didn’t want to be at church this am.  My mOm’s in town. 2.  Nobody else volunteered to open after two appeals by the board member who got a competing (good reason, though) event and so could not open.  So I did.  My training consisted of being told what to do, nothing in writing, [...]