Phewf! I finally got a good night's sleep. I just played with the cats and some dangly toys for about 40min before bed :( But they didn't raise a peep all night or morning. Every other night for the last while they have rampaged around all night ( Read more... )

Wow this is interesting! From Talk:Manitoba

This seems a bit of a gloss

Negotiations between the provisional government and the Canadian government resulted in the creation of the province of Manitoba and its entry into Confederation in 1870. Originally the province was only 1/18 of its current size and square in shape - it was known as the " ( Read more... )

12 hour shift today working at a call centre for the municipal elections! god damn! moi qui est habitiué à des shifts de 4 heures..

reviewing the e-mail about it to see I don't do anything wrong..
you can gain entrance using your electronic passcardDamn it! haven't seen the little turd in weeks! But thankfully after some frantic and ( Read more... )

Fellas,
One of the saddest things I can ever think of in film is the short film by Michel Brault on the compilation "Montréal, Vu Par"..
An older woman is finally confronting her husband outside a hockey game after he has basically stopped listening to or seeing her personality for decades now. She says "No, but things have changed, remember how ( Read more... )

I guess this is a pretty disappointing thought of the day, but I found out that two words I never really liked are actually "wrong".

Cater-corner eventually became kitty-corner or catty-corner when the original meaning of cater ("four") had become obsolete ( Read more... )

What a night!

I finally worked up the nerve to write a long article about my home-hamlet of Ormond on Wikipedia! Everyone should read it and "Get smart". Although, I must admit that all this talk of the highland clearances is making me kind of bummed out. I mean, the people who founded Ormond were colonizers and that's wrong, but they were ( Read more... )