Month: July 2010

Sundry and various part 243

Editorial on the Harper Gov and the long form census.

Ceegars are back.

Yet more evidence of the appalling lack of compatibility between men and women.

Turkey doesn’t help you sleep.  Fat keeps you awake.

I suppose if I told anybody I wish I had darker skin, they wouldn’t believe me.

I can’t improve on the headline, or the sentiment.  Squirrel, it’s what’s for dinner.

Paul Giamatti as Mr K?

I think Sherrod is doing the right thing.

The voices behind the games.

The Mind Meld.

I am a terrible parent

When one of my children says, “I was tripping ballz the other day,” – I am sorry, I CANNOT keep a straight face. I crack up.   The internet meme “tripping ballz” is not that old, but I have to say it’s one of my current faves.  (dates to about 2003 but came to favour recently).

Speaking of the mildly hallucinatory, Guillermo del Toro and James Cameron are going to make At the Mountains of Madness in Three Effing Dee.  So there.

misplaced my phone

My phone is now sitting at the customer service desk in the Kerrisdale London Thugs.  Sigh.  My stoopid was overactive so far this week.

Battery loved his “Battery’s Man Cave” sign whot I got him for a housewarming prezzie.

Kevin and Rebecca are coming for Jeff’s b-day! This is why it’s good that mOm and pOp aren’t coming, because we’d have no place to put them.

SO STOKED for party.

LOTS and nothing

Yesterday I cleaned up under the deck – mostly pulling weeds and garbage removal – with Margot carefully supervising.  She madly loves to supervise humans working, I think, besides chasing flies, it’s her fave thing to do.

Pulled the first pea pod out of the garden for Jeff.

My mint got so sunburned it almost died; I have to find a better place for it  out of the direct sun.  I watered the cedar hedge at the back of the yard as I promised the landpeer I’d do.  She laboured mightily to put them in and the first year she planted them she was coming by every week to water them during the dry of the summer.

Margot has taken to sitting under my car before I fire it up in the morning.  I could wish she wouldn’t do that.

Had a lovely time at Mike’s birthday party last night.  It was good to see Heather and Margaret and Rozo and Tom U., and Jerome briefly dropped by as well. Paul and Keith and Jeff rounded out the gathering.

The quinoa is getting big.  I don’t imagine the corn will actually get tall enough to set ears and ripen, but they are fine looking plants.  The rest of the yard is looking very brown, but we don’t water the lawn, and the roots on this lawn are very very deep, so it always greens up nicely after a rain.  The pine trees I got from work are still doing fine, but I’m going to have to consider where to plant them.  I’m almost inclined to transplant them into a park – but in the meantime all I have to do is keep them alive.

and now – a pit bull doing back flips

yup

I went to strip my bed and when I got interrupted I was not surprised to find Margot kipped out on it.  Never fails.

Yesterday I practiced guitar and mandolin for a couple of hours with Paul, and Jeff and I got an awning, and IT ROCKS!!!!  BEST 140 bucks I’ve spent in a while.  It makes the deck useable in bad weather, which is even more awesome.

Then I made pork chomps for the boys.

I made minced prime rib chile today.  I know, isn’t that an evil notion? Jeff’s comment.  “Yum.”