There was quite a downpour this morning. I was hanging out with my parents at their hotel just as they were on their way back home; I stuck around a bit longer so I wouldn't be caught in the worst of it getting back to the car. It turned out to be a very warm rain, but also a lot of water ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I woke up a bit early, determined that Snowpocalypse had not closed our university, got ready for work and spent some time with d., who was leaving for a conference [1], hiked through the snow to the nearest express bus, with a quick detour to pick up a chunk of smoked salmon for my breakfast bagels, just caught the bus, and made it to ( Read more... )

This morning, I woke from a dream that I had been lying in bed unable to sleep for hours and it was 5am and I was exhausted. Then I woke up at 8am, convinced it had been a dream, with no basis for assuming so, especially since I still felt exhausted. Bleh ( Read more... )

My last 24 hours, in three acts ( Read more... )

In Pinochet's Chile, a poet held and tortured in the dictator's jails named Raúl Zurita imagined "writing poems in the sky, on the faces of cliffs, in the desert."

In 1993, this poem was etched into a mountain-base: Ni Pena Ni Miedo.

No shame nor fear.

It is three kilometers long. If you zoom in on the google map in that link, you can the ( Read more... )

- home-made pizza for dinner: pineapple, anchovy, and onion
- coming home at 2 when the University semi-closed
- a much-needed 90-minute nap
- neighbour stopping by with her snowblower, saving me 20 minutes' shoveling (which had been taking more out of me than I realized at the time...)
- instead of seeing melted_snowball's concert tonight, I called and ( Read more... )

It was a good weekend.

Not too social, not to solitary.

I did some doing, did some thinking.

Plusses and minuses:

+ getting some human-interface issues thought out.
+ following a long chain of "what-if..." to come up with a good idea for an addition to software I use ( Read more... )

On my Thanksgiving day off, while dan's still traveling ( Read more... )

So I heard we had rain warnings this weekend for 5-10cm/2-3.9" total. The first storm is due today; the second, tomorrow, the remnants of hurricane Ike.

That seems like a lot of weather activity, but Google Maps makes it seem more immediate with their Fall Hurricanes map.

( Hello there. )

Yesterday's storms hit me coming and going. My day started in Toronto, where I spent the night with melted_snowball; he's there through this afternoon for a conference. I found it a good visit as one-day vacations go. But then was the getting home.

I parked our car at the Yorkdale mall, and by early afternoon, I was already on the road back home, when bam the ( Read more... )