It was frigging awesome. First, they gave me something “to put air in my belly”. “It’s a solid gas,” she said. “It will dissolve in your mouth,” she said (it didn’t. I was hoping for Pop Rocks, but it was … Continue reading →
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centre of the universe: Even if they don’t hear you on the ice
They usually hear you in the stands. I accidentally hollered “THE NEUTRAL ZONE IS NOT A HOT TUB!” because our players were a little dawdly in today’s game (which started out as 4-1 for, and ended up as 11-10 against … Continue reading →
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Truism
For every what if?, there is an equal, and opposite and then.
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Pride
Hotel rooms make me think weird. Never mind the bloody *crippling* anxiety/panic attack I had yesterday for absolutely no reason (I was absolutely convinced that I was dying and ought to have called 911 so that His Nibs, returning from … Continue…
Continue readingcentre of the universe: What the hell am I thinking?
So. Um. I may have accidentally signed up for National Novel Writing Month again. I’m pretty sure that if I manage to complete anything this month, it will be the thing I started in October, which is blatant cheatery. That … Continue readin…
Continue readingcentre of the universe: It is decided
I will vote for whoever is going to fix the goddamned family medical practice system in this province. Seriously. I thought there were some *rules* here. Such as: if your doctor moves his/her practice, oughtn’t they TELL THEIR PATIENTS? FFS. R…
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Something Ends and Something Goes On
Tonight, I was at the rink for the first time since April. It made me incredibly sad, and I don’t know why, really. Partly because while I love doing stuff with the kids, and while their interests interest me, hockey is … Continue reading …
Continue readingcentre of the universe: I am the worst bournaller ever
The truth of it is that I am writing. Granted, I’m writing gaming stuff, but I’m writing. Which is cool, because I haven’t been able to write very much, and certainly not very well, for the past several months. The … Continue re…
Continue readingcentre of the universe: I had a Very Witty Title and Forboutagot it
For a while this morning, everything was normal. The sandy-haired gentleman sat at his kitchen table with a coffee and a bagel and seven or eight daily newspapers from all over the world. His house was silent; not even the … Continue reading →
Continue readingcentre of the universe: 10th August fast approaches
Yours Truly has been invited to be one of the “Writers Reading” in Victoria Partk at Noon, I think, on Wednesday, 10th August. Which reminds me, I have to get a bio in to the folks what promote it. Hrm. … Continue reading →
Continue readingcentre of the universe: What are you working on?
I’m trying to invent a LARP system.
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Signals
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about signals. About how signals are more often than not ambiguous and/or prone to interpretation. Signals are everywhere; everything that commutes meaning or conveys messages is a signal, whether or not that signa…
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Crowns and Kings
We have a cat. I have had cats since I was wee – my grandmother left food out for the neighbourhood cats because they kept the mice and snakes away from her house. Once, she booted a cat in the head when it scratched me. That cat was much nicer a…
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Patriotic
The word ‘patriotism’ comes from the Latin ‘pater’, which means “father”, through the Greek ‘patris’ (fatherland) -> ‘patrios’ (of one’s fathers) -> ‘patriotes’ (fell…
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Vilify Me
Eventually the only source of humour that will be socially and politically correct will be bodily functions, spoonerisms and puns, and the sort of humour where people inadvertently slip on banana peels. And then the Cruelty to Foods that Used to be A…
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Almost a week without rain
And the big news in health care today is that even though I waited very, very patiently for a very, very long time to see the new doctor (who seems to be a very, very nice man), when I told him that I have been having the reverse of good luck in trying…
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Insidious
Insidious, or: How Nutella(TM) Roont My Children For some reason, The Captain thought it would be a Good Idea to take the *entire jar* of Nutella to school today, and then he thought it would be an *even better* idea to lie about it. Bloody ridiculous …
Continue readingcentre of the universe: My Grandmother is still alive!
The Saga has continued. Well, in the sense that it’s ended. Apparently, SaskTel fixed my grandmother’s phone on Sunday. I don’t know yet if she’s going to be charged for the “service” (but if they do charge her, I th…
Continue readingcentre of the universe: We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming
Everything seems to be in order. I have now, single-handedly proven the SCIENTIFIC HYPOTHESIS that if you bitch, moan, and kvetch about something hard enough and long enough, that thing will either fix itself or the problem will be addressed by people …
Continue readingcentre of the universe: The Road Less Travelled
When Wassisname Frost…ol’ Frosty…ol’ Chilly Britches himself wrote that famous poem, I’m pretty sure he wasn’t talking in *metaphors* and *allegories* and *imagery* and all that poetical crud. And really, the poem wa…
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