Today, I skated for the first time in a long time (over 10 years!) at the outdoor skating rink at Nathan Phillips Square, right next to City Hall. It was free to skate around in, and skate rentals were only $9 for 2 hours. For the record, I had about 7 knee-downs but only 1 genuine fall.
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From a very young age, mainly thanks to Jim Henson, I wanted to build and operate puppets. This puppet was a presents from the folks when I was 8 maybe? can’t quite remember. She has a unique talent of getting tangled up rather easily and was not the type of puppet I actually wanted. I [...]
An old friend of mine from my days at the UN came through Prague and I got a chance to spend some time with her and her husband. She lives in Rwanda and has been missing chicken curry (they don’t get chicken there), so I made a Sezin Specialty of chicken curry with rice and [...]
Earlier this year, I took a trip to Temiskaming Shores in Northern Ontario for a two-week field school. In week-two, we studied rocks and rock-formations around the town of Cobalt – famous for its Silver Mines in the early part of the 20th century.
Cobalt retains many of its historical buildings from that era and this [...]
I am working at home today and I spent half the morning wrestling with a new system that apparently nobody knew had changed. Was a morning of “What do you see when you go here?” and “Ohhhh that’s what you are trying to do.” At least the system ops had a great tech on staff today and we got it all straightened out. At about 1:00pm I realized that my annoyance with all this may have to do with hunger.
Heather and I went to La Esperanza restaurant last night. La Esperanza means “hope”. More literally, it means “grasshopper”, which is traditionally a sign of future prosperity or hope in latin culture.
The food at La Esperanza is delicious (especially the flan!) and they have a broad selection of tequilas. Every bottle that [...]
I went to lunch with my co-workers today. We recently found out that Nicole, second from the left in this shot, would no longer be working with us in the new year. We decided to take her out for one last lunch.
