Archive for August, 2004
Sunday, August 29th, 2004
Where Have all the Medals Gone?
So, I watched some CBC news this evening, and it turns out Canada’s Olympic medal count constitutes a crisis for Canadian sport. It surprised me not one bit to find out that the major culprit was, according to the Canadian Olympic Committee and others, insufficient government funding. Now, let’s be clear: we’re not talking big […]
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Saturday, August 28th, 2004
Saturday
Not much to say this evening. The wine yeast has been busily doing its part, and we’ll soon see if I have something like wine, or something like vinegar. Keith sent us a postcard from Singapore with a “spiky” theme. I think I’ll have to scan it in. Did a nice, hard 90+ km with […]
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Thursday, August 26th, 2004
Weather; Underground
Well, rainorama! Fall has arrived early if only temporarily. And it’s hardly fair to fully damn the days: I was wandering around downtown in short sleeves this evening. The Lovely One and I went to the Storeyeum today, lured primarily by the irresistible-for-strange-personal-reasons advertising slogan, “it’s story time” (to put this in perspective, one of […]
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Monday, August 23rd, 2004
Weakened Update
Wine. Wine wine wine. This was the weekend I did my darndest to be a terrible son-in-law, only to have my in-laws feed me dinner twice. The impetus was the crab apple wine project. It all seemed so simple: throw crab apples in crusher. Throw resulting pulpy mess into press. Throw resulting pulpy juice into […]
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Thursday, August 19th, 2004
Hot hot hot
People keep telling me the heat is a little less this week. I’m not sure. I’m just sure it’s time to cut my hair. The race on Tuesday night went as usual: finished with the pack, but held on until the end. Oh, except for the part where on the last lap two guys started […]
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Tuesday, August 17th, 2004
Tired Cola
Even I am sometimes scared by what I am interested in. Monday was an odd evening: came home from work, microwaved some perogies, rushed downtown (a little late…) to pick up The Lovely One at her new job, and then rushed back to Belcarra to pick up my mother-in-law from a wedding shower. We stayed […]
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Friday, August 13th, 2004
Random science-gawking
My former boss Joe Kissell runs the Interesting Thing of the Day site, a wonderful little concept. Today’s article just happens to be on the Kepler Mission, yet another big-science space-shot that barely registers in the popular culture except among nerds and geeks. Even I get pretty ho-hum about this sort of thing, but Joe’s […]
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Thursday, August 12th, 2004
C
One hundred posts. And I thought I would have nothing to write about tonight. So far, the week has been the usual: chasing down computer problems at work and at home, 80 km of riding on Tuesday just for fun (did okay in the race, merely finishing with the pack), and The Lovely One got […]
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Tuesday, August 10th, 2004
Ahhh
Gregg Easterbrook’s “Tuesday Morning Quarterback”, the football column so good that it started me watching NFL games, is back for another season. I don’t know yet if my crab apple wine project (tentatively titled Project Cana, since these are St. Joseph’s Parish crab apples, and I plan to turn them from nasty crab apple juice […]
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Sunday, August 8th, 2004
Jelly Belly
Jelly jelly jelly jelly. Three more batches of it today, making about 15 jars of jelly in various fairly large sizes. And that hasn’t even used up all of the juice, and has hardly touched the stock of ripe apples still available on Fr. Joseph’s tree. And today he begged me to pick the pear […]