Author: cmkl

So we beetled home today, anticipating much caterwauling on the part of Mallory who made it abundantly clear she did not want to leave. More specifically, “I hate camping. There’s bugs. I want to stay here.” But alas it was time.

It’s amazing how long I can spend sitting on a dock staring out at a lake. I suspect Irene will find this a bit disconcerting, but I could almost get used to this. Except I know there’s another reality to this business of cottage life.

Mallory entered her first race ever yesterday. The girl’s under six flutterboard race. If not for the swimmer’s ear I think she could have done the swimming race. But we’re still trying to keep her head above water. Difficult at a cottage in hot, sunny…

We’re here at my uncle and aunt’s cottage in the Muskokas. We don’t see each other all that often but the scene is always amazing to me. What tends to happen is that Mallory – who’s normally quite shy – folds immiscibly into the mobile blur that is “th…

Upgrading to PHP 5.3 has only netted me one significant problem that I am about to investigate. Of course by typing these words I am inviting the discovery of a major life or death problem.

As I type, OS X is installing on the new hard disk in Irene’s Macbook Air. As it happens, I managed to install it. There was a time when the little ribbons used to connect hard disks to motherboards could only fit one way. There was a little plastic nu…

Back in the days when my server was in my basement, upgrading the OS was a bit of an adventure, but it never felt terribly scary. I mean, the backup machine, with all the data and more or less a mirrored operating system was sitting right beside the pr…

Well that was a drag. I ordered a hard disk to replace the defunct one in Irene’s Macbook Air several weeks ago. It finally arrived and I spent much of the evening trying to install it. I must say I was very impressed with the innards of the thing and …

I figured out a problem with a site I’m meant to be supporting as part of my freelance business. It was a Drupal White Screen of Death which was not covered off by any of the possibilities listed in the documentation. It was pretty silly actually. The …

Things are looking good. There is, however the small matter of getting the house ready. Putting away the pizza boxes, hiding the cases of empties, taking down the posters of stock car racing, Bud girls etc.

And other things too. Really. My evening out with former comrades more than made up for the fact that I was at work nosing the grindstone right up to when I left for the restaurant. Summertime and the living is easy? Hah.

When I lived on my own, it was pretty much a certainty that if I was home, there’d be music playing. Not necessarily loud but it was playing. When first I moved in with my then-significant other, the constant stream of music ceased. She wasn’t a big mu…

So you need to wash all your bedding if someone in your family gets pinworms and you want to have a chance at getting rid of them. And that’s everyone. Not just the person who presents with symptoms.

Having a beer in front of the computer. Who hoo! And the tupperware? Out of which I ate leftovers for dinner? Isn’t even washed up yet! Double whoo! Bachelor week begins in style.

My dad rents the back 10 to a farmer – one of the last on concession. Don’t think there’s much money in it, but when it’s canola being farmed, you at least get the flowers.