My brother and I were out at the Carleton last night, for a show by Calgary folksinger James Keelaghan. The tickets were a birthday present from a friend who works at the venue, which was extremely sweet of her. I'd seen him once before, at the Lunenburg Folk Festival in the mid-1990s with my sister, who is a huge fan of his. He's got a lovely deep ( Read more... )

( Catching up here... )

Just got back from the airport, having delivered sagitare for her flight home. She was in the region for a week, spent the first day with me and then we went up home for Thanksgiving and she stayed with her folks for the rest of the week. The plan was for her to come back to Halifax yesterday afternoon and we'd have more Turkish food and get ( Read more... )

I've been out every night this week, between uke gang and a late reference shift (and another tonight.) Last night I went to a sales party for a fair-trade company called Jolica, at a friend's house. I did a certain amount of Christmas shopping and also ordered a brown leather messenger bag which is something I have been idly looking for for quite ( Read more... )

Okay, so last night my phone (whose name may or may not be Babycakes--ask your Flashpoint junkie friends about that one) had some sort of existential crisis--I was getting an error message every time I tried to access the browser, something to do with a Java exception. Checking the Internet, it seems most people have this problem with their address ( Read more... )